Right, binary gates are discrete elements but neural networks operate on a continuous domain.
I'm reminded of the Feynman anecdote when he went to work for Thinking Machines and they gave him some task related to figuring out routing in the CPU network of the machine, which is a discrete problem. He came back with a solution that used partial differential equations, which surprised everyone.
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Right, binary gates are discrete elements but neural networks operate on a continuous domain.
I'm reminded of the Feynman anecdote when he went to work for Thinking Machines and they gave him some task related to figuring out routing in the CPU network of the machine, which is a discrete problem. He came back with a solution that used partial differential equations, which surprised everyone.