Matt R. Cole - Deep Learning with C#, .Net and Kelp.Net

The chances are high that many of us have. How could it be that the chances of all of us picking the same two words without thinking about it are so very high? I am sure we can all recall hearing this phrase somewhere in the past (and maybe one or two of us said it), but is the pattern recognition in our brains so good that these two words immediately were the ones that came to mind when we saw a partial implementation of that sentence? And how could so many of us, seemingly unconnected from each other, arrive at the same two words and complete the sentence in the same way in probably close to the same amount of time? Did we just witness a marvelous example of unsupervised deep learning at its finest or was it something else? How can such advanced pattern recognition ability happen so fast and be so predictable among a huge population of people? Or maybe it was reinforcement learning that brought this to the mind (Lord knows I have received negative reinforcement for saying it!). Regardless of how, something marvelous surely has just happened. Let us think about this for a second, shall we? We have an area in our brains called the hippocampus and this area stores episodic memories (stuff that happened to you and me). Within the hippocampus, many neurons just fired when we saw that sentence, and the exciting neurons which they were connected to and so on, which made them fire until the pattern was complete. And all this happened in the blink of an eye.

But did any of us have to give any thought into having to complete that sentence, or did it seem to pop up from our subconscious mind with the greatest of ease? The truth is that we may never know, at least not fully, but theories are abounded. So how many of you work in the real world as developers? For those who do, you know more often than not we walk through the doors, put our firemans hat on, and off we go. How we long for some pure R & D time where we can work on our code, create better algorithms, enhance the UI we have been putting off for what seems like forever. Ah! To be like the academic world for even the smallest amount of time! But alas, we are in the real world! We have products to deliver and timelines to meet. Some of us work around an agile approach to development, some do not. Everyone seems to be doing the same things, albeit a little bit differently.