It's all about Origami

(On folding paper creatively and, along the way, understanding neural networks) We know more or less from history that one day some guy discovered that by melting minerals you could stop chipping flint, and that over time everyone came to understand what metals were, even without being a blacksmith. Another day some guy discovered that wheels roll, another that presses press, and yet another that industries industrialised. And we could say, without a shadow of a doubt, that over time, grasping the intuitive part of every technological leap has remained something potentially within anyone’s reach. ...

(How to fold paper while walking down a mountain and, in the meantime, understand how to train neural networks) I already said I am not particularly good at origami, and those times I do try, the first version is certainly never the right one. We saw how origami take shape through several steps in which each layer depends on the previous one, so once we reach the last fold, what do we do? We choose a method capable of quantifying the error we make every time we finish our synthesis process. ...