Re: neural nets

From: Russell Wallace (russell.wallace@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 06:43:36 MST


On 1/24/06, Rok Sibanc <rok.sibanc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 1 million neurons/second... beacause every neuron has to do multiplication
> of every incoming input and sumation of all weighted inputs and finally
> sigmoid function which is expressed with taylor's polynomial.

Well, CyTG compared the 1 million with (a very conservative estimate of)
1E14 for the brain, which suggests he was referring to updates of individual
synapses. If he meant 1 million neurons of 1000 synapses each, then that
would make sense, but the comparison is then not valid, and the computer
comes out looking better than had been suggested.

- Russell



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