Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)hikari@noyu.me

Jul 17, 2023, 8:57 PM

hi there.

on 2016-11-07 i was inspired to create this pair of diagrams, and posted them to my then twitter account. the tweet is long gone, but they must have struck a chord with some people, because the diagrams have long outlived it! i guess they're as relevant today as they were then.

so let me repost them here, in never-before-published high resolution.

if you care about copyright, you can attribute these with:

© 2016 hikari_no_yume, CC BY 4.0 (International)

and ideally, please link to this post's canonical url (begins with social.noyu.me), but i don't care that much

A diagram entitled “neutral networks”. The start point of the diagram is a red diamond labelled “untrustworthy data”. The middle of the diagram is a large black box labelled only with question marks. The end point of the diagram is a green diamond labelled “infallible results”. There are connecting arrows implying the flow of data from the start, to the middle, to the end.

A diagram entitled “deep neutral networks”. The start point of the diagram is a red diamond labelled “untrustworthy data”. The middle of the diagram is a series of interconnected black boxes and other black shapes, all labelled only with question marks in varying orientations. The end point of the diagram is a green diamond labelled “infallible results”. There are connecting arrows implying the flow of data from the start, through some of the nodes in the middle, to the end. The diagram also shows that some of the nodes are submerged in water, up to 1km at the deepest.