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Re:Jeff Hawkins talk on modeling neocortex and its impact on... by Dn_Ab on Sunday November 28, 2010 @02:15AM (#1946907)
I would remove one maybe both muches. I agree that in general SVMs are better but they are also every bit as black box. Deep belief networks though, are on another level. literally, svms are depth 2, dbn's are depth unbounded, i think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIURAu1-aU

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Re:Jeff Hawkins talk on modeling neocortex and its impact on... by StavrosK on Sunday November 28, 2010 @07:08PM (#1948816)
That was just an example of my original point, though. These sorts of things perform better than "natural" processes, even though they aren't as easy to understand.
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