Using 19th-century math, a team of engineers revealed what happens inside neural networks they've created. The calculations are familiar.

The new program exploits one of the major advantages of neural networks: They develop their own implicit rules. As a result, “there’s no separation between the rules and the exceptions,” said Jay ...

For neural networks and humans alike, one of the difficulties with advanced mathematical expressions is the shorthand they rely on. For example, the expression x 3 is a shorthand way of writing x ...

Two Facebook researchers based in Paris have built a new neural network for Facebook capable of solving complex mathematical equations, even those dealing with calculus.; Their work is outlined in ...

Still, Kendall said that the equilibrium propagation approach applies the mathematical techniques of electronics directly to neural network problems, simplifying both programming and circuit design.

As such, a neural network doesn't need to understand every possible function (like a conventional computer would) to generate an answer -- it just needs to know some fundamentals.

But the neural networks didn't fare too well. In addition to incorrectly guessing six as the answer to the above question, the neural networks got just 14 of 40 questions correct on a standard test.

Neural networks are made up of layers. The first layer of neurons represents each pixel in an image. Each of these neurons holds a number between zero and one, representing how light or dark that ...

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The strength of certain neural connections can predict how well someone can learn math, and mild electrically stimulating these networks can boost learning, according to a study published on July 1 st ...