Thread: Artificial Neural Networks

This is interesting... I'm checking it out

haha, only like 1 or 2 of those programs run on 64bit vista...

What's neural forecasting?

The only result for it on Google is that site, and that site doesn't explain it.

Originally Posted by Xei

What's neural forecasting?

The only result for it on Google is that site, and that site doesn't explain it.

Basically using a neural network to predict something like stock market behavior.

Bleh, I'm not particularly interested in that.

I'm more interested in how actual cognitive functions work, which nobody has figured out yet.

It's certainly an interesting area of research. There are some who think that theories of cognition are increasingly going to based on computational models. I'm somewhat skeptical, however, as developing these models requires a large amount of training in mathematics and, to a lesser degree, computer programming, and the people who have traditionally addressed these research questions (i.e., cognitive psychologists) tend to receive their mathematical training in statistics and quantitative measurement.

The emerging, interdisciplinary field of "cognitive science" seems promising. It will be interesting to see how they approach these questions.

I don't see how else we can figure out how the mind works properly if we don't even know how neural networks work.

To be frank, the current knowledge about neuroscience is unimpressive. We know that the brain's made of neurons. That's about it.

'Cognitive psychology' or whatever are never going to get us anywhere. The only way forwards is a brute force cracking of how the brain actually works.

Otherwise it's like trying to design a computer or figure out how one works with only the knowledge that 'it's made of transistors'.