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ynonym00s··on Einstein's travel diaries reveal attitudes towards people he met in Asia
I am not sure why this has been downvoted. Will somebody care to explain?
ynonym00s··on How Many Genes Do Cells Need? Maybe Almost All of Them
Would you mind explaining what you mean by 'commented sections' in DNA? I have a very basic understanding of DNA.
ynonym00s··on In Praise of ADHD
Hello, I'm interested in your taskmanager app. Is your email [redacted]?
ynonym00s··on A.I. And Big Data Could Power a New War on Poverty?
hmm, it is a war on poverty, not on the poor.
ynonym00s··on Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
A friend of mine who has ADHD takes Vyvanse instead. Does it have similar risks?
ynonym00s··on Big Tech Is Going After Health Care
Would love to get some insight into the work at Verily or DeepMind Health for a software developer interested in working in healthcare.
ynonym00s··on Walter Pitts pioneered neural networks. Then he lit his entire PhD on fire
So, w.r.t to Pitt's research, proving that the brain could compute anything (like a Turing machine) does not help in understanding how it does one particular thing, for e.g. language?
ynonym00s··on Walter Pitts pioneered neural networks. Then he lit his entire PhD on fire
"There was a catch, though: This symbolic abstraction made the world transparent but the brain opaque. Once everything had been reduced to information governed by logic, the actual mechanics ceased to matter—the tradeoff for universal computation was ontology. ... anything and everything … can be done by an appropriate mechanism, and specifically by a neural mechanism—and that even one, definite mechanism can be ‘universal.’ Inverting the argument: Nothing that we may know or learn about the functioning of the organism can give, without ‘microscopic,’ cytological work any clues regarding the further details of the neural mechanism.”

- Would anyone mind to ELI5 this for me?