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by dnautics 2002 days ago
> Have you tried to do any physical task before, and not gotten it right the first time, tried again, and got closer? Hello, backprop.

Backprop is a very specific mathematical operation using derivatives, not a general concept. IIRC there is counterevidence against that neurons train by taking stored inbound activations and updating their weights with a backwards propagating set of gradients.