Selvedges

Notes for a Connectionist Manifesto

What the neuron knows

How to listen, to mull the rumors in its thousand ears
and what size grain of salt to take with each.
How to speak its one word or keep mum. Given time,
how to change its little mind about the weight it gives its sources.

What the net is is
gangs of such neurons and weighted connections.
What the net knows it salts away in blind trust at the nodes,
its wealth spread out in unnumbered accounts.

Mapping inputs in n dimensions

Edge extraction in real time

The role of the dark in motion pictures

The signature of time ablaze in the tissues

Selvage

Solving systems of simultaneous constraints


Copyright 1998 by Greg Keith