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		WanderPanda on Nov 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A step by step backpropagation example (2015) Backprop is a different story but I believe brains kind of do dot products

29athrowaway on Nov 7, 2022 [–]

The math going on in the brain is very different to all this stuff. They're dynamical systems.

Stochastic gradient descent is trivial compared to what the brain is doing.

Plus, there are thousands of different types of neurons, with very distinct behaviors.

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