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“Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the mind, combining multiple different levels of analysis.”

— Ian Goodfellow

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“While neuroscience is an important source of inspiration, it need not be taken as a rigid guide.”

“A probability distribution over discrete variables may be described using a probability mass function (PMF).”

“The central idea in connectionism is that a large number of simple computational units can achieve intelligent behavior when networked together.”

“We assume familiarity with programming, a basic understanding of computational performance issues, complexity theory, introductory level calculus and some of the terminology of graph theory.”

“A representation learning algorithm can discover a good set of features for a simple task in minutes, or for a complex task in hours to months.”

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