Physicists have devised an algorithm that provides a mathematical framework for how learning works in lattices called mechanical neural networks. It's easy to think that machine learning is a ...

When you push or pull with a simple machine, you are applying a force and doing work. And, if you get more force out of a machine than you put into it, then that machine has a mechanical advantage.

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