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The McCulloch-Pitts Artificial Neuron Model - Theory and Implementation
History and definition Alan Turing’s formalization of computation as Turing Machines provided the theoretical and mathematical foundations for modern computer science1. Turing Machines are an abstraction of a general computation device. Turing (1937) described these machines as composed by an “infinite tape” made of “cells” (divided into squares), a “tape...
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How to Create a Jupyter-Book Website From Scratch
So, you want to build a website? I recently used the jupyter-book package to build an on-line book version of one of my projects. This package simplifies the creation of websites hosting interactive Jupyter Notebooks, by providing a series of scripts that will transform your Notebooks into Jekyll pages. Jekyll...
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About the nature and utility of computational models of cognition
What are computational models of cognition? To explain what computational models of cognition are, It is useful to state first what they are not: computational models of cognition are not exact replicas of the human mind, in the same manner, that city-maps are not exact replicas of real cities. The...