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bioneural.net
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Who is Bruce?
I’m the site owner. Welcome to my home in cyberspace, where I’ve been a frequent visitor since 1992. I’ve had a website up continuouly since 1994 (see History) and have published a blog since 2003. I hail from God’s Own but currently live in the UK (Derbyshire) where I work as a general medical practitioner and dabble in healthcare informatics (including 3 books). I particularly enjoy exploring photography, the world, Macs, and various gadgets. This site is partly hobby, partly memory aid, and partly because some stuff is worth sharing (the tagline of my blog). Thanks for visiting!
The avatar above is a modified “zealot” icon by Cian Walsh of Afterglow; the beard is mine (rollover the icon to compare!) and I have been known to sit at the computer for long hours in my hooded dressing gown!
Why bioneural.net?
Long answer: Neural networks owe their origins as a topic of study to work at Stanford University in the 1950s. A neural network is a crude type of artificial intelligence in which multiple connections link to the processing units (nodes or artificial neurons) in parallel. The number and arrangement of these inter-neural connections weights the output of a decision made at a unit/ neurone so that it can vary from being simply true or false (0 or 1). The biological inspiration for neural networks is readily apparent. Neural networks are strictly-speaking non-digital because they are not limited to manipulating zeros and ones. They can, however, be simulated on computers—which are of course digital. These digital simulations are properly referred to as artificial neural networks or ANNs. Non-digital, biological neural networks (bioneural nets) are considerably more complicated than ANNs. Existing examples (e.g. the neurons and dendritic connections of the brain) can be studied to supply inspiration, but thus far cannot be duplicated (Star Trek aside!).
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English
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- Bruce McKenzie
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