What is the basic cell of the nervous system?
AnswerNeuron
Neurons carry electrical and chemical signals.
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7 fact-checked facts about neural networks, neuroscience and machine learning basics, each with the reason behind it. 5 more are in today's round and join this page after it closes.
The basics
Artificial neural networks were loosely inspired by what?
AnswerThe brain
They borrow the idea of connected neurons from biology.
Going deeper
What does ReLU stand for?
AnswerRectified Linear Unit
ReLU outputs zero for negatives and the input for positives.
Which 2017 paper introduced the Transformer architecture?
AnswerAttention Is All You Need
Attention Is All You Need introduced the Transformer.
The human brain has roughly how many neurons?
Answer86 billion
Estimates put the human brain at about 86 billion neurons.
Expert level
Who invented the perceptron in the late 1950s?
AnswerFrank Rosenblatt
Frank Rosenblatt introduced the perceptron in 1958.
Which trio shared the 2018 Turing Award for deep learning?
AnswerHinton, LeCun and Bengio
Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio received the 2018 award.
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