Yes genetic algorithms are something different. Though they are used sometimes in training or architecting NNs, but not at the scale of modern LLMs.

Fyi you can have all or nothing outputs from a perceptron or other network. It all depends on the activation function. Most LLMs don’t use that kind of activation function, but it is possible. Have you heard of bitnet? They use only one of three states for the neuron output in an LLM. It’s interesting stuff.

Kinda but also no. That’s specifically a dense neural network or MLP. It gets a lot more complicated than that in some cases.

It’s only one type of neural network. A dense MLP. You have sparse neural networks, recurrent neural networks, convolutional neural networks and more!

Not all machine learning is AI. There are plenty of Machine Learning algorithms like Random Forests that are not neural networks. Deep learning would be big neural networks.

To be more specific this is an MLP (Multi-Layer Perceptron). Neural Network is a catch all term that includes other things such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Diffusion models and of course Transformers.

What you are arguing online is some variant of a Generative Pre-trained Transformer, which do have MLP or MoE layers but that’s only one part of what they are. They also have multi-headed attention mechanisms and embedding + unembedding vectors.

I know all this and wouldn’t call myself a machine learning expert. I just use the things. Though I did once train a simple MLP like the one in the picture. I think it’s quite bad calling yourself a machine learning expert and not knowing all of this stuff and more.

I mean sure, but you can’t deny it’s misused sometimes. I never said it didn’t happen at all. Stop reading what I didn’t write.

You can do that without calling someone sexist.

They do provide vaccines. Just not for flu specifically.

They actually make some planes from composites now. You should see the 787! Then again American made Boeing planes tend to crash or have other safety issues so maybe don’t go and see one.

Exactly

That’s another one I don’t understand. In my country at least when I grew up (born 2001) most kids didn’t get chickenpox vaccines. I didn’t have one and actually caught the virus. I think I even had a scar from it. I know someone about 4 years younger than me who also is scarred from it. Not sure if they started giving it out now. I certainly hope so.

Most people don’t have insurance. I certainly don’t. Why would you have health insurance in a country with free healthcare?

I never said they were a bad thing. Just never heard of people getting them who aren’t elderly. Generally because it’s something you have to pay for and nobody likes needles anyway.

What are you talking about? What’s a clot shot?

You guys have flu vaccines? In the UK only old people get them.

Edit: Not sure why I am getting downvoted for pointing out that things work differently in different countries. Jeez.