Questions tagged [cybernetics]
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Research about Stafford Beer's claim about a method for solving simultaneous equations unknowingly via a game by kids?
I found this claim in the book "How many grapes went into the wine", in the Artorga section:
In 1956 I devised a game for solving simultaneous linear equations in two variables. The theory ...
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What happened to cybernetics?
Recently, I've been looking into the life of the brilliant Norbert Wiener and the field he spawned, cybernetics. Before reading into it, I thought "cybernetics" was a pseudo-science-new-wave-...
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history of backpropagation
Has anybody read or have access to
Alex Andrew
Significance Feedback in Neural Nets
Report of Biological Computer Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
GM-10718-03
TR No 5
September ...
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Did Walter Pitts refuse to allow his name to be made publicly available?
I read on the Wikipedia page on Walter Pitts that :
Pitts was also described as an eccentric, refusing to allow his name
to be made publicly available. He refused all offers of advanced
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Why did Norbert Wiener break off relations with Walter Pitts?
I read on the Wikipedia page on Walter Pitts that Norbert Wiener broke off relations with Walter Pitts, which "sent Walter Pitts into 'cognitive suicide'".
Why did Norbert Wiener break off relations ...
