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Shivon Zilis

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"Deep learning inspired by neuroscience in same way that airplanes inspired by birds" - weak link, mostly inspiration

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1:10 AM · Dec 17, 2014·Twitter for iPhone

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Robert Young

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Dec 17, 2014

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Very weak, but yes... very inspirational :)

David J Klein

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Dec 17, 2014

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the fields of neuroscience and deep learning are both quite vast. may be a fair generalization, but a generalization

Joshua Bloom

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Dec 17, 2014

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& DL impact on neuroscience? I'd say building better F16s unlikely to improve our understanding of hummingbirds.

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Shivon Zilis

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Dec 17, 2014

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True, but tough analogy bc hummingbirds are clearly made of magic (couldn't help myself, my favorite animal) ;)

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Prof. Diego Kuonen

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Dec 21, 2014

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:-) My take on #Deeplearning at

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Prof. Diego Kuonen

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· Dec 8, 2014

#DeepLearning = multi-layer ('deep') #NeuralNets ('nonlinear statistical models') w/ computational tricks 4 param. estimation ('learning').

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