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What happens if you inhale a piece of food into your lungs?

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Once a neural network is trained for a task, is there any way to examine the network to give insight into how to traditionally think up and write an equation to do the same task, or is it fairly black-box?

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Why do beginning weight-lifters experience "beginner gains" (make huge advances that later taper off into slow steady gains)?

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For every neural network trained to do a task, must there be a possible conventional equation that accepts the same inputs, produces the same outputs?

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Does 'snapping' a punch or 'following through' deal more damage?

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Is there a branch of science that studies innovation?

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Do mathematicians ever use different bases, or is this something that only ever comes about because of practical applications (e.g. computing)?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What happens if you inhale a piece of food into your lungs?	65
Once a neural network is trained for a task, is there any way to examine the network to give insight into how to traditionally think up and write an equation to do the same task, or is it fairly black-box?	18
Why do beginning weight-lifters experience "beginner gains" (make huge advances that later taper off into slow steady gains)?	15
For every neural network trained to do a task, must there be a possible conventional equation that accepts the same inputs, produces the same outputs?	1
Does 'snapping' a punch or 'following through' deal more damage?	1
Is there a branch of science that studies innovation?	1
Do mathematicians ever use different bases, or is this something that only ever comes about because of practical applications (e.g. computing)?	1