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Artificial neurons as activation units

The building blocks of neural networks are simplified versions of biological neurons called activation units. These units have a set of input connections and a set of output connections. These connections model the job performed by axons.

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#connectionism #brain #model

Beyond simple assertions and their provenance

The micropublication approach goes beyond statements and their provenance, proposing a richer model in order to account for a more complete and broadly useful…

Micropublications: A Semantic Model For Claims, Evidence, Arguments And Annotations In Biomedical Communications #assertion #statements #model #view

Correlation and causation

Scientists are trained to recognize that correlation is not causation, that no conclusions should be drawn simply on the basis of correlation between X and Y…

He End Of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes The Scientific Method Obsolete #model #theory #noise #data-sets

Hallucination as an unchecked model

Visual awareness is not simply a translation of what our eyes see. Our subjective reality is an internal model that our brain must check against the input…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #hallucinations #perception #model #drugs

Mathematical models are not reality

Edge magazine: Many mathematicians are Platonists. They think that the Universe is made of mathematical stuff, and that the job of mathematicians is merely to…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #mathematics #model #reality #science

Open access vs publication access

So we made it: the greatest bastions of traditional scientific publishing are clearly signaling support for open access. Can we pop the champagne already?…

Nature-branded Journal Goes Open Access-only: Can We Celebrate Already? | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog #open-access #access #researchers #model #users

RDF doesn't look inside URIrefs

Using common URI prefixes provides a convenient way to organize the URIrefs for a related set of terms. However, this is just a convention. The RDF model only…

Rdf Primer #knowledge #model #terms