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Study urges caution when comparing neural networks to the brain

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Re: Study urges caution when comparing neural networks to the brain

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I sometimes wonder how much further along these initiatives might be if the economy was focused on them instead of My Pillow sales, cheap crap from Walmart, and simply handing personally wealthy elites stacks of cash to create pointless jobs and the money was put into net new technology, not Twitter 2.0 and VR 4.0

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The meme of fusion being "5 years from now ... for past 40 years" is so frustrating. This is because the investment into it went down to abysmal -- not even "maintenance" level of when it was just getting started.

If the government spent money on it, we would likely have more progress.

And today isn't like it was before -- we have ReBCO ;)

Re: Study urges caution when comparing neural networks to the brain

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I sometimes wonder how much further along these initiatives might be if the economy was focused on them instead of My Pillow sales, cheap crap from Walmart, and simply handing personally wealthy elites stacks of cash to create pointless jobs and the money was put into net new technology, not Twitter 2.0 and VR 4.0

Move to China or North Korea I guess? Still seems to have problems with graft though.

Re: Study urges caution when comparing neural networks to the brain

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I sometimes wonder how much further along these initiatives might be if the economy was focused on them instead of My Pillow sales, cheap crap from Walmart, and simply handing personally wealthy elites stacks of cash to create pointless jobs and the money was put into net new technology, not Twitter 2.0 and VR 4.0

Who needs to eat or sleep, it just hurts productivity.

Re: Study urges caution when comparing neural networks to the brain

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I sometimes wonder how much further along these initiatives might be if the economy was focused on them instead of My Pillow sales, cheap crap from Walmart, and simply handing personally wealthy elites stacks of cash to create pointless jobs and the money was put into net new technology, not Twitter 2.0 and VR 4.0

Who needs to eat or sleep, it just hurts productivity.

The parent didn't suggest cutting off food, housing, or other essentials.

Re: Study urges caution when comparing neural networks to the brain

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this article makes me sad ... a neural network can be also a network of biological neurons, the author means artificial neural network https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network the Wikipedia article even goes into the differences, so why did we need a study for that?

A study urges caution comparing Jellyfish to Jelley ... tasters found they are not the same (even though I hear that fried jellyfish taste nice...)

study urges caution comparing the model to the real thing, as the model has some generalizations the real thing does not ...

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