Capsule networks are possibly the biggest advance in neural network design in the last decade. They appear to mimic the human brain far more than convolutional neural networks and move us significantly closer to artificial general intelligence. As a step towards demystifying these new algorithms I’ve built one on-sheet in...
Continue ReadingIn the second half of 2018, I gave several lectures in the areas of Capsule Networks, AI and Finance. I’ve not really spoken much in public since the ‘80s, when I was a keen debater and my self-aggrandizing urges got me reasonably high rankings in the World Debating Championship and...
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I’ve been building Neural Networks in Excel for a few months and have been looking for a data set that would capture something too hard for humans to explain but easy for us to identify. Basically, a classification that we can recognize instantly but can’t easily explain. I also wanted...
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This blog relates to work I’ve done in Excel to build a handwritten digit classifier; basically, a spreadsheet that can read handwriting up to human levels of accuracy. This required a convolutional neural network - the engine behind just about all machine learning related to images. I’m unaware of anyone...
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I’m currently re-tooling as a data scientist and am halfway through Andrew Ng’s brilliant course on Deep learning in Coursera. I’m a spreadsheet jockey and have been working with Excel for years, but this course is in Python, the lingua franca for deep learning. Hence, I found myself struggling not...
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