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wuliwong on Sept 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Abstract visualization of biological neural networ...

I'm confused by you guys saying NN's today completely ignore time? If I have a network of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons and I integrate the equations, I'm integrating over time. I'm not sure how that is ignoring it? Disclaimer: it has been about 4 years since I've written any code to integrate H-H neurons, so I might be forgetting something really obvious. :) But I can't imagine EVERYONE is ignoring time when they simulate networks of neurons.

delluminatus on Sept 22, 2014 [–]

They are talking about NNs used in machine learning, which are atemporal, unlike H-H or other models of human cognition.

In a machine learning neural network there is no integration; they are basically just nonlinear data transformations that can (usually...) be trained.

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