RE: [agi] Flies Neural Networks

2008-03-16 Thread Ed Porter
I am not an expert on neural nets, but from my limited understanding it is far from clear exactly what the new insight into neural nets referred to in this article is, other than that timing neuron firings is important in the brain, which is something multiple people have been saying for years.

Re: [agi] Flies Neural Networks

2008-03-16 Thread William Pearson
On 16/03/2008, Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not an expert on neural nets, but from my limited understanding it is far from clear exactly what the new insight into neural nets referred to in this article is, other than that timing neuron firings is important in the brain, which

Re: [agi] Flies Neural Networks

2008-03-16 Thread Mike Tintner
William, This is v. helpful. It sounds like you're saying that neural networks have treated what could actually be different kinds of music, with many of the features of music, such as length of note and rhythm, purely quantitatively for just, say, the number of beats. In which case we could

Re: [agi] Flies Neural Networks

2008-03-15 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Someone please explain this to me]: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/danl-loa030708.php Here is the paper. http://www.menem.com/%7Eilya/wiki/images/1/16/Nemenman-etal-08.pdf An artificial neural network normally models the average rate