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Re:What does a neural network actually do? on Sunday May 25, 2014 @06:54PM (#7797909)
Hinton's DropOut [1] and Wan's DropConnect [2] have ameliorated some of the overfitting issues present in traditional NN's. In fact, DropConnect in conjunction with deep learning are responsible for new records being set on classical datasets such as MNIST.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.0580.pdf [2] http://cs.nyu.edu/~wanli/dropc/

Re:135 new currencies at Stripe on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @02:09PM (#7219638)
It's too bad the conversion between currencies adds an additional 2% fee.
Re:Amazon Net Income Plunges 96%, Shares Follow on Thursday July 26, 2012 @10:12PM (#4299671)
Agreed, looks like techcrunch fishing for a headline.