[philipkglass]

I was disagreeing with someone who wrote that we understand how neurons work and that perceptrons model them "quite well." They do not model biological neurons well at all. I agree that biological fidelity is not important for building useful ANNs.

[robotresearcher]

I presented (a vulgar summary of) McCulloch's hypothesis, not my own. And since I didn't use the words "quite well", you are not entitled to put them in quotes.

[yorwba]

philipkglass was referring to curiousgal's comment upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14790965

[robotresearcher]

OK, thanks. Too late to edit. Adjust flames accordingly. Of course a perceptron is not an accurate model of a biological neuron. But as a reduction to a minimal model it's still pretty darn interesting.