Neural Networks Are a Form of Adaptive Hash Function?
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The post suggests that neural networks can be viewed as a form of adaptive hash function, with the commenter agreeing due to their ability to learn any function.
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PaulHoule
about 2 months ago
They can learn any function f(x) -> y so why not?
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