I’m not claiming that biological systems “do” linear algebra, I’m claiming that their behaviour can be partially modelled using linear algebra. If I gave the i

I’m not claiming that biological systems “do” linear algebra, I’m claiming that their behaviour can be partially modelled using linear algebra. If I gave the impression that I thought they were actually computing linear algebra I apologise for my unclear writing. But AFAIK modeling neural network nodes with linear algebra is a foundational principle and has been for quite some time, since I first started messing with neural networks 30 years ago. But hey, maybe you’re right and computational neural networks aren’t roughly modelled after their biological counterparts and I’ve just misunderstood the field all this time. I guess the good thing about neural networks is you don’t really have to understand them completely to use them lol. That said, if you’ve got information that refutes the notion that they are roughly modelled after their biological counterparts, or that somehow linear algebra is not the right tool for modelling them, I’d sure be interested to see it. Just because I’ve ben doing something for decades doesn’t mean I haven’t been doing it -wrong- for decades lol. Wouldn’t be the first thing.