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Totally aware that this isn't a fully formal definition of deep learning, but one interesting takeaway for me is realizing that in a way, corporations with thei
by clarle 3y ago
Totally aware that this isn't a fully formal definition of deep learning, but one interesting takeaway for me is realizing that in a way, corporations with their formal and informal reporting structures are structured in a way similar to neural networks too.
It seems like these sort of structures just regularly arise to help regulate the flow of information through a system.
- 0xBABAD00C 3y agoThere is research claiming the entire universe is a neural network: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7712105/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7712105/
- __loam 3y agoFrankly, stuff like this makes me more skeptical of the ML community. Remember when people thought Brains were just really complicated hydraulic systems?
- 0xBABAD00C 3y agoVanchurin is a physics professor, but ok https://twitter.com/vanchurin?lang=en https://twitter.com/vanchurin?lang=en I actually think that interdisciplinary work like this can shed light into common structures across physics, biology, neuroscience, CS, etc. If anything, I wish there were more attempts to explore the connections between these disciplines.
- opportune 3y agoThe author is basically a crank, it looks like they held some teaching positions in an unrelated subject at various universities yielding the “professor” title, and originally studied/published actual research in cosmology decades back. Might as well be skeptical of the math community because of circle squarers
- 0xBABAD00C 3y ago> The author is basically a crank Really not sure why do you say this. Is it something personal against him? Are you against people exploring weird interdisciplinary topics? He has tons of publications [1], including co-authorship with people like this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Koonin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Koonin Koonin is certainly not a crank, and is a rather well-known interdisciplinary researcher at the intersection of biology and physics. [1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nEEFLp0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nEEFLp0AAAAJ...
- mxkopy 3y agoIndra's Net is, in fact, a neural network
- mcbuilder 3y agoThat's the sort of blue sky research I'm glad exists.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoYou can find theoretical physics research claiming a lot of bonkers things that almost certainly are not true, that's sort of the nature of the field.
- joe_the_user 3y agoUh, The similarity of corporations and neural nets is pretty much only that both are information processing systems. An operating system or missile guidance system is far more like a corporation than a neural network. Neural networks have no memory and generally don't seek particular goals, they simply recognize, predict and generate similar instances.
- Retric 3y agoPlenty of ways to think about this stuff. IMO neural networks don’t inherently do anything, it’s just a data structure. Different ways you can interact with that data structure can however provide meaning and store information in the weights etc.
- d0gsg0w00f 3y ago> Neural networks have no memory and generally don't seek particular goals, they simply recognize, predict and generate similar instances. Sounds exactly like every corporation I've ever worked in.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoNeural networks do have a memory of sorts, that’s why they improve with node size. A mathematician proved something along these lines recently. The memory isn’t digital bits like we think of now though, but abstractions in higher dimensions.