← Back to context Comment by kragen 3 months ago I'd be surprised. 4 comments kragen Reply mountainreason 3 months ago Yeah thanks, me too. So I'm wondering what point 22 is getting at. How could that even be possible? kragen 3 months ago Biology can use discrete methods; we have discrete neurons (and other cells), discrete chemical species like ATP, discrete amino acids, discrete genes made of discrete nucleotides, etc. mountainreason 2 months ago Fur sure. But I don't get how that leads to an expectation that our biology is computing and utilizing derivatives in a computational graph.Point 22 seems to imply that the other finds it notable that that isn't happening. 1 reply →
mountainreason 3 months ago Yeah thanks, me too. So I'm wondering what point 22 is getting at. How could that even be possible? kragen 3 months ago Biology can use discrete methods; we have discrete neurons (and other cells), discrete chemical species like ATP, discrete amino acids, discrete genes made of discrete nucleotides, etc. mountainreason 2 months ago Fur sure. But I don't get how that leads to an expectation that our biology is computing and utilizing derivatives in a computational graph.Point 22 seems to imply that the other finds it notable that that isn't happening. 1 reply →
kragen 3 months ago Biology can use discrete methods; we have discrete neurons (and other cells), discrete chemical species like ATP, discrete amino acids, discrete genes made of discrete nucleotides, etc. mountainreason 2 months ago Fur sure. But I don't get how that leads to an expectation that our biology is computing and utilizing derivatives in a computational graph.Point 22 seems to imply that the other finds it notable that that isn't happening. 1 reply →
mountainreason 2 months ago Fur sure. But I don't get how that leads to an expectation that our biology is computing and utilizing derivatives in a computational graph.Point 22 seems to imply that the other finds it notable that that isn't happening. 1 reply →
Yeah thanks, me too. So I'm wondering what point 22 is getting at. How could that even be possible?
Biology can use discrete methods; we have discrete neurons (and other cells), discrete chemical species like ATP, discrete amino acids, discrete genes made of discrete nucleotides, etc.
Fur sure. But I don't get how that leads to an expectation that our biology is computing and utilizing derivatives in a computational graph.
Point 22 seems to imply that the other finds it notable that that isn't happening.
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