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Abstract visualization of biological neural network

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Re: Abstract visualization of biological neural network

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Really Impressive. I wonder if you could use this to visualize a neural net that's solving actual problems.

This doesn't look like a neural network that's solving any actual problems beyond visualizing firing patterns. Most ANNs don't have any concept of time built into the model. When you're in feed-forward mode, the underlying computation is simply a bunch of dot products.

However, you might be able to make some cool visualizations if your ANN was a Spiking Neural Network.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiking_neural_network

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