Freewire: An Experiment with Freely Wired Neural Networks

Re:Freewire: An Experiment with Freely Wired Neural Networks by nerdponx on Friday March 19, 2021 @07:36PM (#26519248)

I know there's real development and innovation here, but any time I hear about randomly or freely-wired neural networks, I can't help but be reminded of the "hacker koan":

In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe", Sussman replied. "Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky. "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said. Minsky then shut his eyes. "Why do you close your eyes?" Sussman asked his teacher. "So that the room will be empty." At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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Re:Freewire: An Experiment with Freely Wired Neural Networks by stainforth on Saturday March 20, 2021 @01:10AM (#26520926)

I wonder if this gets at the Chomsky theory about an ingrained language or approach, and if so then it would be useful to pattern the initial arrangement of a neural network intentionally to match what biology has already laid out.

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Re:Freewire: An Experiment with Freely Wired Neural Networks by dnautics on Friday March 19, 2021 @07:49PM (#26519313)

I had the identical thought.

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