“I floated out of my body” and “It was like watching myself in a movie” are common ways of describing the feelings of disconnection and unreality that diminish the threat of death by allowing the person facing it to view the scene as a detached observer. Survivors of life-threatening trauma convey these phenomena in images that are familiar to anyone who has looked death in the eye. If you’re that person, until the root cause of your problem is detected and treated appropriately, full and long-lasting recovery simply won’t happen. Without being tested for dissociative symptoms, the person whose problem has an undetected dissociative basis can be in therapy for a long time without making any real progress. People go to a therapists office describing symptoms they can recognize as such: “I have wild mood swings,” or “I feel sad,” or “I have panic attacks,” or “I’m easily distracted,” or “I keep washing my hands over and over again.” If the therapist doesn’t ask any questions about dissociative symptoms, the presenting problem-manic-depression, depression, panic attacks, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder-becomes the diagnosis. Besides all the people who have an undetected dissociative illness, there are countless others who’ve been diagnosed with the wrong illness. The public’s unfamiliarity with dissociative symptoms and inability to identify them has caused dissociation to become the silent epidemic of our time.
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Specifically, layers extract representations out of the data fed into them-hopefully, representations that are more meaningful for the problem at hand. Some data goes in, and it comes out in a more useful form. The core building block of neural networks is the layer, a data-processing module that you can think of as a filter for data. Once again, it’s a simple mechanism that, once scaled, ends up looking like magic. A network with a minimal loss is one for which the outputs are as close as they can be to the targets: a trained network. This is the training loop, which, repeated a sufficient number of times (typically tens of iterations over thousands of examples), yields weight values that minimize the loss function. This adjustment is the job of the optimizer, which implements what’s called the Backpropagation algorithm: the central algorithm in deep learning. The loss function takes the predictions of the network and the true target (what you wanted the network to output) and computes a distance score, capturing how well the network has done To control something, first you need to be able to observe it. Could a computer surprise us? Rather than programmers crafting data-processing rules by hand, could a computer automatically learn these rules by looking at data? Carol Berkin (moderator) is Presidential Professor of History Emerita at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.Sponsored byLOCATIONThe Robert H. Preeminent Founding-era scholars shed light on one of America’s most divisive figures, from his meteoric rise to his scandalous final years.Joanne Freeman is Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University and the editor of The Essential Hamilton: Letters & Other Writings. As intelligent as he was controversial, Hamilton played a key role in shaping the America we know today. 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