McCulloch's one question: 'What is a number that a man may know it?'
forestmars · x · 2026-11-10
Sharing a favorite quote, the author highlights Warren McCulloch's reflection: "I have never had but one question in the whole of my scientific life. I've only wanted to know what is a number that a man may know it and a man that he may know a number." McCulloch and Pitts worked out the math behind a single neuron in 1943, laying the conceptual groundwork for neural networks.
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