(February 5, 2016 at 12:48 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It's gonna hook you like crack rock...especially if you get a more whimsical hdl. There are more amusing ones than the one included in that package - steampunk skins for gates, animation...that sort of thing.....so much fun. It might help you to see how your NNs do work, to see the place, to see the interactions. To see how it would have to be manufactured in order to function as you've envisioned it. How you solve something mechanically. I'm guessing it would be a hell of alot of work, though.....the last time I did something big I think I dropped a few hundred hours on modeling a custom 8bit computer (I wanted to learn the specifics of kogge stone alu architecture so I built one in hdl).I hope so
...but, you and I can share our own schems from a dropbox now, and because of the popularity of that course there are lots of archives for circuits in that format.
and I think it will because I think you and me are quite similar... both reductionists... and both with a need to understand things at a fundamental level... not just taking them on faith. That's why I never trust things like Freudian psychology etc because it's too vague and symbolic and I can't relate it to any real processes. I mean, I know he was a neuroscientist and therefore that some of it was based on observations about the brain (association for instance) but IMO most of it was a load of bollocks... literally cos that's all he talked about 
Yeah, I do think it will be good for me... by seeing it work in front of my very eyes it will give me confidence, just as the NN theories do... and it would be great to fully understand how computers work right down to the chips. We did do one unit in computer hardware at college - ALU's, CPU's, truth tables, two's complement etc - but it was a long time ago... but still I did enjoy it so I think I'm gonna love learning Assembler etc but not just that but what it actually translates into higher up the chain... how binary and machine code manifests at higher levels... I'm guessing you probably dream in binary right?
I'd like to too... 
It'll be nice sharing schems with you, once I've made some. and I'm quite looking forward to seeing your random number generator in action cos that looks pretty cool
I've always wanted to understand electronics and this looks like the perfect way to do it - ie virtually, in software, rather than with real chips and circuitboards... cheaper that way and more scope I'd guess - and I also enjoy logic puzzles and this I'm sure will be kind of like that, but I'll be learning something, and hopefully a lot, in the process
