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Brains, Sex, and Machine Learning
Google TechTalks
Geoffrey Hinton's Google Tech Talk linking machine learning to biology, explaining dropout as a form of model averaging and why sexual reproduction and stochastic spiking neurons may prevent overfitting.
Recommended as a simple, elegant explanation of dropout and its connection to how the brain works.
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