Hi, all :-) I'm the author. First of all, thank you, everyone, for your comments and interests: they are really appreciated and I think everyone touched somehow different things I thought as well before publishing it.
Excluding the fact that it could be written differently, more concise, more clear, etc - by the way, thank you for links and suggestions as well - the overall idea behind this post was to provide a 50-50 footprint (both funny and serious) around the human behavior in a complex organization. I think the first sentence that gives the reader an idea of the context in which the post will be placed is in the "[..], because today if you don’t speak about data and models, nobody hears you." But... I didn't think a lot about this sentence, I think it was just for laziness, and I don't wanna give my opinion over this topic.
Back to the Prim behavior, I think this is all human and, by the way, shared across all people in every kind of organization, not only inside companies. I mean, not the algorithm, but - bringing it to the extremes - the human nature of being selfish. The idea of providing a high-level formalism to imagine a common scenario we all live every day came spontaneously to my mind, without being so convinced in the beginning. So I tried to figure out if the metaphor would have been a good fit for this idea I had in my mind. And this is it.
When I finished, I read it many times, and I know the feeling like "what the hell is saying? I'm confused" because I felt the same reading my old posts in the past... I'm not 100% sure, but I think I learned from myself that sometimes I feel good in thinking something simply are weird or difficult to understand. I think it has been, as many other times in the past, an unconscious part of my writing process: I like the idea of being a bit wrong, confused, misleading, just a bit, to give more freedom and let the people change their mind while reading. Being distracted, somehow, arise doubts.
I don't know if I could be able to formalize it in a better way like suggested by iciac, definitely, it wasn't my intention to provide scientific proof or anything mathematically correct as suggested by dvt - and I hoped that incompleteness feeling had explained this better than how much it actually had done - but... again, this is it :-)
And I hope you at least enjoyed this flight of fancy. For any questions, feel free to reach me here, by email, twitter, linkedin, etc.
Hi All, I dev the multi layer perceptron with back propagation algorithm. If you want to have a look, please go to: https://github.com/made2591/go-perceptron-go
Have a nice day!
Yes, is exactly as simple as you imagined. I'm working on multilayer + backprop, while re-studying theory XD I used som and gsom in recent years. I think the idea of an ML library in Go is a good idea: I shared my repo just to, you know...share the idea, find co-workers, open to some source in Go. I'm honest, I'm really happy in finding such an interest from web... and other coders ^^
Hi! I'm just doing it right now, I'm in the middle of sigmoid testing :D I'm agree with you about terms, for my master thesis I wrote a neuro-computational model to analyze taxonomic responses in early childhood, so I think in term of stimulus because of my background in AN (if interested, you can find the work in my Github page https://made2591.github.com in About section)...I will port my private repo on Github soon :) (but is written in MATLAB)
Thank you for your supports guys!!! I hope I will attract some others Go guru to work with!! I truly appreciate your interest, it's a little step, but I promise I will Go (haha) through it!
Excluding the fact that it could be written differently, more concise, more clear, etc - by the way, thank you for links and suggestions as well - the overall idea behind this post was to provide a 50-50 footprint (both funny and serious) around the human behavior in a complex organization. I think the first sentence that gives the reader an idea of the context in which the post will be placed is in the "[..], because today if you don’t speak about data and models, nobody hears you." But... I didn't think a lot about this sentence, I think it was just for laziness, and I don't wanna give my opinion over this topic.
Back to the Prim behavior, I think this is all human and, by the way, shared across all people in every kind of organization, not only inside companies. I mean, not the algorithm, but - bringing it to the extremes - the human nature of being selfish. The idea of providing a high-level formalism to imagine a common scenario we all live every day came spontaneously to my mind, without being so convinced in the beginning. So I tried to figure out if the metaphor would have been a good fit for this idea I had in my mind. And this is it.
When I finished, I read it many times, and I know the feeling like "what the hell is saying? I'm confused" because I felt the same reading my old posts in the past... I'm not 100% sure, but I think I learned from myself that sometimes I feel good in thinking something simply are weird or difficult to understand. I think it has been, as many other times in the past, an unconscious part of my writing process: I like the idea of being a bit wrong, confused, misleading, just a bit, to give more freedom and let the people change their mind while reading. Being distracted, somehow, arise doubts.
I don't know if I could be able to formalize it in a better way like suggested by iciac, definitely, it wasn't my intention to provide scientific proof or anything mathematically correct as suggested by dvt - and I hoped that incompleteness feeling had explained this better than how much it actually had done - but... again, this is it :-)
And I hope you at least enjoyed this flight of fancy. For any questions, feel free to reach me here, by email, twitter, linkedin, etc.
Have a nice day :-)