"The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of problems concerned with relations between the "structure" and the "function" of such nets. The "structure" of a random net is not a clearly defined topological manifold such as could be used to describe a circuit with explicitly given connections. In a random neural net, one does not speak of "this" neuron synapsing on "that" one, but rather in terms of tendencies and probabilities associated with points or regions in the net."

Source : "The bulletin of mathematical biophysics" by Anatol Rapoport, (pp. 145-157), 1948.

Anatol Rapoport

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“I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.”
“When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.”
“By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could - like running the track after a two-hour practice - you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.”

Source : Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.151, Crown Business
“The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.”
“We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.”

Source : "Elementary Principles in Statististical Mechanics". Book by J. Willard Gibbs (Preface, p. 9), 1902.
“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.”
“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”
“Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.”

Source : Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.16, Profile Books

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