The role of the fast weights, δwi, is to transiently adjust neuronal output to suppress immediate errors – errors that can be predicted if y * changes slowly. The role of the slow weights, wi, is to ...

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Resettlement agencies in western Massachusetts are feeling the effects of the Trump administration's clawback of federal funding for nonprofits. Rabbi James Greene, of Jewish Family Service, said the ...

By Joshua BaroneCorinna da Fonseca-WollheimSeth Colter WallsZachary Woolfe and Oussama Zahr The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review.

In the first lecture he says: What I’m going to be discussing this week is classical liberalism. I might slip and just call it liberalism from time to time, but you’ll understand what I’m saying.

This type of learning involves associating different stimuli via a process called classical conditioning. A famous example is Pavlov’s dog experiments, which showed that dogs repeatedly fed at the ...