Michael Nielsen

"Large Scale Distributed Deep Networks" - Michael Nielsen

Cybenko's paper on his universality theorem - Michael Nielsen

Josh Tenenbaum - Michael Nielsen

Nice short account of just how hard AI really is. - Michael Nielsen

Nature News piece on the ability to rewire brains. - Michael Nielsen

NYT on experiments showing that ferret brains can be rewired so that optical output goes to the auditory cortex, yet the ferret still learned to see. - Michael Nielsen

Boolean algebra wasn't. - Michael Nielsen

Good account of the current status of the idea that neurons are the basic units of thought. - Michael Nielsen

Good survey of Aristotle's reasoning in identifying the heart as the seat of thought. - Michael Nielsen

The latest Android release uses neural networks to do speech recognition. This paper describes the ideas behind how it works. - Michael Nielsen

Google's deep belief network outperforms humans when it comes to finding house numbers in images from Google's Street View car. - Michael Nielsen

Excellent overview of deep learning, by Andrew Ng - Michael Nielsen

Claims that unexpected departures from general equilibrium theory have been found in Valve's online games. - Michael Nielsen

reminiscent of doctorow's book "for the win" - feraye

Nice interview with Josh Vogelstein. - Michael Nielsen

"Google crawls 20B web pages a day, out of 30 trillion URLs on the web. The company now serves 100B searches every month." - Michael Nielsen

Jeff Dean on Google's recent work on neural nets to do deep learning. - Michael Nielsen

Schadt lays out a data-driven vision for the future of medicine. - Michael Nielsen

Hoelze and Barroso's text on Data Centers. - Michael Nielsen

On the challenges of numbering "pages" for ebooks. The more I think about it, the more challenging the problem seems to get right. - Michael Nielsen

I wonder how often the idea about software ecosystems has ever been implemented? It's hard to think of many examples: basically a big ecosystem of programs that can talk to each other; then select out a core of jewels that work beautifully. And slowly grow that commons. - Michael Nielsen

Superb essay on leadership by Jeff Atwood. What leadership is: "If you ever want to effect change, in your work, in your life, you must learn to persuade others." So at least three pillars are to _enable_ others, to _persuade_ others, and to _amplify_ the best ideas of others. In this way you become the voice of the team, no longer of yourself. - Michael Nielsen