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Dendrites: Why Biological Neurons Are Deep Neural Networks

Artem Kirsanov via YouTube

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This course examines how dendrites process information through passive and active electrical properties, including dendritic spikes and nonlinear operations such as XOR. It relates these mechanisms to the computational power of deep neural networks.

Syllabus

Introduction
- Perceptrons
- Electrical excitability and action potential
- Cable theory: passive dendrites
- Active dendritic properties
- Human neurons as XOR gates
- Single neurons as deep neural networks
- Brilliant
- Recap and outro

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Artem Kirsanov

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