Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming

Christopher Olah · 3 Sept 2015

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Deep learning will be understood very differently in thirty years than it is today.

Their wordsI think it is very likely that, reflecting back in 30 years, we will see deep learning very differently.
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The connection between representations and types may be fundamentally significant, akin to links among geometry, logic, topology and functional programming.

Their wordsThe known connection between geometry, logic, topology, and functional programming suggests that the connections between representations and types may be of fundamental significance.

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