Asanka Sayakkara reviewed Synaptic Self by Joseph LeDoux
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5 stars
Deep Learning and its use of artificial neural networks is so mainstream nowadays. Everybody in Computer Science know and use them in one way or another. However, it's funny how little we know about how its biological counterpart - the biological neural network. The fault is on us. We were too much into Mathematics since A/L that we thought Biology is a lesser science. We were mistaken.
If you are learning or using artificial neural networks and always wondered how exactly the same things are already implemented in the natural world, here's a good book to read. Things such as 'activation functions' are actually out there and they are entirely built on chemical building blocks. And they work perfectly and far more better than our artificial stuff.
