Vision
by David Marr · first published 1982
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on “Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?” ↗…huge books that cover a bit of everything, and you should know that they exist, but I wouldn't necessarily start there. If you're specifically interested in computation, I would start with David Marr's Vision. It's quite old, but worth reading for the general approach he takes to problem-solving. He proposes attacking a problem along three lines: at the computational level ("what operations are performed?"),…
on “Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction” ↗David Marr is amazing. I remember being completely awed by Vision. I think more than any other author, Marr showed that cognition could be made computationally tractable (focus on vision, but before him it was just a mess). I don't know that there's much here to discuss…
on “David Marr (father of the field of computational neuroscience)” ↗- David Marr: "Vision" The foundations of computational neroscience - and lots of practial demonstrations of how your eyes and brain work. - Daniel Dennett "Consciousness Explained" How the mind works? - J.E Gordon: "The…
on “Ask HN: Interesting (Non software) books?” ↗…released in 1986 It even has an accompanying manual on how to implement artificial neural networks. http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~plaut/IntroPDP/index.html More along this line is found in David Marr's Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WcIiSCDqhE There is a spiritual successor to the PDP books called "Rethinking…
on “The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind” ↗…also weird - check out the signal processing that occurs between the retina and the various parts of the visual cortex before any decent information can emerge from the signal - David Marr's 1980s book Vision is a mathematically chewy treatise on this. This leads me to start thinking that human intuition may well caused by different neural network subsystems feeding processed data into other subsystems where…
on “Does current AI represent a dead end?” ↗