DeepExcel – Deep learning in Excel
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By the way: It works, try it ;)
This though: hearty chuckles were produced. (The paper was was even type-set in LaTeX!)
If I may, let me suggest you add a note about your future plans to add backpropagation using Excel/Libreoffice macros, which "might allow users to train large-scale models from scratch within their lifetime."
Not sure how academic papers are written normally, but do such papers normally refer to open source licenses as "Commie"? And does anyone know what the paper/project was created for?
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2. http://oneweirdkerneltrick.com
3. A sort of analog neural net using a biological substrate to perform communication and learning. Basically, I've trained some wild dogs I found in the alley behind my apartment for function approximation. Originally I had intended to use a pretty standard hill-climbing approach, but they kept wandering away when I ran out of treats. My new method arranges them in a series of layers for PAC (provably all canine) learning, with the gradients transmitted by bark-propagation. I've not figured out how to implement convolutional operations in this framework yet, so I might hold off on publishing anything this year.
It's kind of funny, I guess.
But I didn't assume it was a farce. I was genuinely excited to see the implementation, because there is something unique about the transparency and interaction you can have with an excel workbook. It's almost like a GUI for a lisp REPL. Even if I am too dumb to understand the actual c code, I can see the relevant numbers being crunched, how they relate, and more.
So... "good one. you got me."
But even as I sit here as the butt of the joke, I find myself wishing your link had been sincere.
'Excel is a trademark of Microsoft, we believe'
Every time I've used Excel for a complex problem I've regretted it. Even simple things like joins using VLOOKUPs are incredibly clunky and error prone.
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