Memex merge between two knowledge domains

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It means adequate knowledge, making its usage by its possessor:

  • neither efficient
    • giving thorough explanations
  • nor performant
    • giving quick replies
  • but safe
    • giving accurate answers

You know decently a language:

  • neither when you have a rich vocabulary
    • like an automatic translator
  • nor when you sound fluent
    • like an LLM
  • but when you can be confident that you don’t communicate nonsense
    • where both automatic translators and LLMs fail
      • As of today, using a decent learning book is more reliable.

To put things in scale:

  • reaching decent knowledge:
    • as human
    • starting from “zero”
  • is estimated that it requires either:
    • 2 years half-time effort
    • 3 months full-time effort

The differences between Artificial and Biological Neural Networks is a random article that:

  • despite being:
    • somewhat biased
    • somewhat outdated (inevitably)
  • introduces a fair percentage of the differences
    • without even touching the rest
  • rightly says: “biological neurons have only provided an inspiration to their artificial counterparts”

The thing is that:

  • we don’t have an adequate knowledge of how our brain works
    • Even what we thought that we knew about how neurons work
      • the many different types of them
      • the inspiration behind artificial neural networks
    • turns out increasingly inaccurate
  • we can safely say that artificial neural networks:
    • being statistical inference engines
    • don’t approximate any biological mechanism

Sharing journals is not the same with sharing knowledge:

  • Input can be served by journals.
  • Output needs dedicated pages.

The need is:

  • not to reinvent the tool
  • but to develop its application in your particular conditions
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