Michael Nielsen

Overview of IBM's brain simulation efforts. - Michael Nielsen

"a student came to a meeting with pretty bad translation results when correctly using Bayes’ rule. But when they used the “wrong” likelihood function, the results improved dramatically. The lesson one of the senior researchers gave: “hacking works”. The whole thing is one big hack; formulating it in terms of likelihoods and Bayes’ rule is really less of a formalism and more of a framework that provides some constraints that are useful for limiting the search space. But those constraints may also cut off useful lines of inquiry, and we only find out when we’re willing to violate them." - Michael Nielsen

"Large Scale Distributed Deep Networks" - Michael Nielsen

Cybenko's paper on his universality theorem - Michael Nielsen

Josh Tenenbaum - Michael Nielsen

Nice short account of just how hard AI really is. - Michael Nielsen

Nature News piece on the ability to rewire brains. - Michael Nielsen

NYT on experiments showing that ferret brains can be rewired so that optical output goes to the auditory cortex, yet the ferret still learned to see. - Michael Nielsen

Boolean algebra wasn't. - Michael Nielsen

Good account of the current status of the idea that neurons are the basic units of thought. - Michael Nielsen

Good survey of Aristotle's reasoning in identifying the heart as the seat of thought. - Michael Nielsen

The latest Android release uses neural networks to do speech recognition. This paper describes the ideas behind how it works. - Michael Nielsen

Google's deep belief network outperforms humans when it comes to finding house numbers in images from Google's Street View car. - Michael Nielsen

Excellent overview of deep learning, by Andrew Ng - Michael Nielsen

Claims that unexpected departures from general equilibrium theory have been found in Valve's online games. - Michael Nielsen

reminiscent of doctorow's book "for the win" - feraye

Nice interview with Josh Vogelstein. - Michael Nielsen

Schadt lays out a data-driven vision for the future of medicine. - Michael Nielsen

Jeff Dean on Google's recent work on neural nets to do deep learning. - Michael Nielsen

Hoelze and Barroso's text on Data Centers. - Michael Nielsen

"Google crawls 20B web pages a day, out of 30 trillion URLs on the web. The company now serves 100B searches every month." - Michael Nielsen

On the challenges of numbering "pages" for ebooks. The more I think about it, the more challenging the problem seems to get right. - Michael Nielsen

I wonder how often the idea about software ecosystems has ever been implemented? It's hard to think of many examples: basically a big ecosystem of programs that can talk to each other; then select out a core of jewels that work beautifully. And slowly grow that commons. - Michael Nielsen