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This is a terminological question which has nothing to do with whether a textbook in the 80s was right or not in calling neural networks a crockpot theory. The
by canjobear 5y ago
This is a terminological question which has nothing to do with whether a textbook in the 80s was right or not in calling neural networks a crockpot theory.
The terminology is now fixed and anyone who has more than a passing acquaintance with these things knows that neural networks have almost nothing to do with biological neurons.
- mjburgess 5y agoIt's a 1997, I've just skim read the chapeter -- and it seems entirely correct. Its views here are consistent with my own, NN is just a name for a technique -- baring little relation to the claims made about it in a hysterical press.
- rmatt2000 5y agoIf it's a crockpot theory, it probably just hasn't simmered long enough.
- aaron695 5y ago