• Had one guy asking if AI is conscious. I said the whole thing is actually one very big excel sheet, so does he think that excel can be conscious? Anyway, I think the guy is now in a relationship with office.

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      Yes, it is inherently incorrect, I just think that increases the fun factor. It reminds me of that guy who wrote a prime-checker for his thesis and it was just a massive list of if-statement

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        Good old ReLU. I’ve heard that CNN’s perform better when using ReLU as the activation func, and that’s probably why; ReLU acts as a filter on the image’s features.

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          Nah. Without a nonlinearity you just get a linear combination of inputs instead of the output of a deep neural network. ReLU or Ramp is just the simplest possible non linearity. Using a simple function can enable using deeper networks yielding even better performance.

          It’s actually somewhat of a headache, numerically. Works well enough tho.

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      Matrix multiplication, activation functions and softmax. Also some matrix addition sometimes. That’s literally it

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        I mean yeah, the mechanism itself is straightforward, but isn’t a big thing that we don’t really know what it chooses for its… basis vectors? Something like that, I don’t do programming and I’m out of practice with matrices