Questions tagged [cybernetics]
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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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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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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 ...
