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[Thread] Mental Math (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A lot of it is less math and more just approximations using old data, just fitting a complex statistical model neural nets suck ass at math

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, your brain is not doing projectile motion equations in real time, it's the same process as teaching a neutral network to approximate a parabola.

Don't get me wrong, it's incredibly impressive that this prediction in our brain requires the visual processing of data from eyes to identify an object flying through the air, moving our hand in a perfect intercept course to catch it. All without having to have a ton of data points to 'train' on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah there is a lot of neural networks, but i don't think that is the only thing in brain. There could be calculators and integrator circuits