Review of Sokal & Bricmonts' _FASHIONABLE NONSENSE_ in NY Times Book Review

Les Schaffer godzilla at netmeg.net
Tue Nov 17 05:43:53 PST 1998


Doyle sez:


> Neuro science actually is showing some things about the relativistic
> nature of neural networks that is quite interesting and materially
> grounded.

i don't follow what you mean when you say that neural networks have a 'relativistic' nature. what does that mean?

incidentally, i just read a paper yesterday by a group at CERN looking at violations of time-reversal symmetry (the T in CPT) in neutral-kaon experiments. because they had to look at large numbers of particle track data (over 1 million) they used a neural network trained to search for particular sub-atomic reactions in the data.

But i dont think thats what you mean by relativistic neural nets....

les schaffer



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