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Re: If you are bored with Deep Networks

May 28th, 2025, 2:47 pm

where do we stand with KAN (and t-kan), please??
 
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Re: If you are bored with Deep Networks

September 29th, 2025, 8:43 pm

Stochastic activations

This strategy performs reasonably well
 
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Re: If you are bored with Deep Networks

September 29th, 2025, 8:50 pm

Stochastic activations

This strategy performs reasonably well
Oh that's timely, thanks Tags. I was doing a load of research on various activation functions for a talk in November. 
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Re: If you are bored with Deep Networks

September 30th, 2025, 10:23 am

Stochastic activations

This strategy performs reasonably well
I'll bite.
Too much text, cute symbols, little hard mathematical analysis.
Maybe I'm missing something. But they may have discovered a nugget.
 
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Re: If you are bored with Deep Networks

September 30th, 2025, 1:36 pm

I genuinely don't mean to be too harsh but the paper is not really convincing. Too many co-authors is a flag the saying goes.
 
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Re: If you are bored with Deep Networks

September 30th, 2025, 3:44 pm

Too many co-authors is a flag the saying goes.
Is that a thing? 
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Re: If you are bored with Deep Networks

September 30th, 2025, 6:44 pm

Too many co-authors is a flag the saying goes.
Is that a thing? 
Cargo cult maths?
https://dev.to/the_greatbonnie/how-to-w ... ticle-22fo
 
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Re: If you are bored with Deep Networks

October 2nd, 2025, 8:35 am

Too many co-authors is a flag the saying goes.
Is that a thing? 
Cargo cult maths?
https://dev.to/the_greatbonnie/how-to-w ... ticle-22fo
Oh plenty of that going on out there. Cargo culting propped up many a startup over the last 30 years :) 
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Re: If you are bored with Deep Networks

October 2nd, 2025, 11:02 am



Is that a thing? 
Cargo cult maths?
https://dev.to/the_greatbonnie/how-to-w ... ticle-22fo
Oh plenty of that going on out there. Cargo culting propped up many a startup over the last 30 years :) 
Will datacentres become the new West Virginia coal mines. From asset to liability?
 
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Re: If you are bored with Deep Networks

October 2nd, 2025, 12:39 pm

Will datacentres become the new West Virginia coal mines. From asset to liability?
In the US I think they will be. If anything the data center play is a good capex opening for more power generation. 
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