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Sadly, old school, thank you notes are a dying thing.
The wife received a rather large gift, and she wanted to write a note to the person. With her stroke, she has issues writing, so she composed a rough note on a pad for me. I transcribed the note and added wording to reflect her gratitude and thanks. My wife loved the draft, and I then used my good fountain pen and parchment paper to write the note.
It takes only a few minutes and is more meaningful than a quick text messag…

Introduction to Predictive Coding Networks for Machine Learning
Mikko Stenlund
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06332 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Introduction to Predictive Coding Networks for Machine Learning
Predictive coding networks (PCNs) constitute a biologically inspired framework for understanding hierarchical computation in the brain, and offer an alternative to traditional feedforward neural networks in ML. This note serves as a quick, onboarding introduction to PCNs for machine learning practitioners. We cover the foundational network architecture, inference and learning update rules, and algorithmic implementation. A concrete image-classification task (CIFAR-10) is provided as a benchmark…

I have for very many years used #NearlyFreeSpeech #NFSN #Queer #LGBT

And a quick update on the big project.
The main pond is drying out! I'll let it dry today and then put the liner over tomorrow morning and start working on the plumbing asap so I can get the pebble in there to weigh it all down!
Note little dig marks in the filter pebble where I stole some for the pandemic pond.
#pandemicpond #poolpond #backyardproject #diy #ponds #gardening #watergarden #bloomscrolling #goldfish