Tag: thresholds
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Floor 1 — Boole & Frege: When Truth Became Binary
The 19th century mathematicians who decided that reasoning was a matter of 1s and 0s — and the continuous logic they walked right past.
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Floor 3 — McCulloch & Pitts: The Neuron Made Into a Gate
In 1943, two men wrote down a mathematics of the neuron. They chose the threshold. The biology was already shouting that the neuron was continuous — and they heard it, and chose the threshold anyway.
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Floor 6 — The Perceptron and the Winter That Didn't Have To Happen
In 1958, Frank Rosenblatt built a machine that could learn. In 1969, two men wrote a book that froze the field for a decade. The mathematics was never the problem.
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Floor 7 — Expert Systems: The Civilisation Built Out of If-Else
For about twenty years, the serious research programme in AI was to build intelligence out of rules — written by hand, in bulk, forever. It ran out of rules before it ran out of world.