Real neurons are very slow but the brain is fast. Other interesting properties of the nervous system.
Neurons come in many shapes but share many common features.
Mon Aug 28 Notes , thanks to Ben Jones. Gradient descent for single-layer sigmoidal network. The method of backward propagation of errors. What Entropy means to me. Mon Oct 2 Maximum likelihood density estimation, squared error, estimation of Gaussians from data, mixture models, and the EM algorithm.