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Cool, with caveats. Although this is interesting for people who know how neural network structures are built and generally how backpropagation and its successor
by saintx 14y ago
Cool, with caveats. Although this is interesting for people who know how neural network structures are built and generally how backpropagation and its successor training algorithms work, it isn't particularly _informative_ as a visualization. It does show how easy it is to encode information visually, compared with how difficult it can be for the viewer to _decode_ that same information. This is a common problem with "information", as opposed to "scientific data" (such as volumetric scan data or vector maps) visualizations, where there's no obvious physical correlative that we can use to help us decode the information as viewers.
- invalidOrTaken 14y agoThis is a distinction worth making (informative visualizations vs...well, other ones), but there is a corner case for whom this is a very helpful viz---the newbie playing around with NN's who could use a visual aid beyond clojure's pprint. As a member of said corner case, this would be very helpful to me. All the same, thank you for reminding me of the filter all new viz projects must pass---"does this communicate meaning?"