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> Supervised learning may be how it looks from the outside, but consider that out of the >6,570,0000 waking seconds of a child's life up to age 5, there maybe only a few dozen instances of supervised adult instruction per day. Besides those, what do neurons do the remaining 99.99% of the time?

This seems like a really facile analysis. For example, if I read a child a storybook, I'm deliberately providing several signals every second. That's a "single instance" but I've effectively provided a lot of training information. At least enough to keep a child's mind busy for 3600 seconds.




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