Learning in Brains and Machines (2): The Dogma of Sparsity

· Read in · 1700 words · collected posts · [dropcap]The[/dropcap] functioning of our brains, much like the intrigue of a political drama, is a neuronal house-of-cards. The halls of cognitive power are run by recurring alliances of neurons that deliberately conspire to control information processing and decision … Continue reading Learning in Brains and Machines (2): The Dogma of Sparsity

Marr's Levels of Analysis

Marr's 3 levels of analysis.
Marr's three levels of analysis.

Marr's three levels of analysis [cite key="marr1982"] promotes the idea that complex systems such as the brain, a computer or human behaviour should be understood at different levels. Marr's framework proved to be an elegant and popular way of reasoning about complex systems, and in the context of machine learning and statistics,  remains an intuitive framework that is often used when describing probabilistic models of cognition and perceptual systems.

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