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dmmThis is the last (and somewhat unfinished) short book by John von Neumann.
It's a short book, the PDF file is only 97 pages, the download link is visible from here: scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22The+computer+and+the+brain%22"
I've read this very interesting book during the last few days, and I'll record my impressions in the comments to this post.
It's a short book, the PDF file is only 97 pages, the download link is visible from here: scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22The+computer+and+the+brain%22"
I've read this very interesting book during the last few days, and I'll record my impressions in the comments to this post.
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Date: 2020-08-25 06:49 pm (UTC)We were taught analog electronic computers a bit in college and trained to work with them a bit, but, somehow, we were never taught this material (and it is probably almost unknown these days).
The efficient set of basic operation is different from the standard one: "UNUSUAL BASIC OPERATIONS" subsection (x plus/minus y, and the "integrator"). Also "the feedback tricks" or "the feedback principle" (unfortunately, he does not discuss it here, but it is like recurrent connections in neural nets, see e.g. http://www.encyclopedia69.com/eng/d/feedback-principle/feedback-principle.htm and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback etc.)
I think this is an extremely interesting material, and that these basic operations should be imported more frequently into the realm of neural machines.