It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle

(fermatslibrary.com)

24 points | by malshe 4 days ago ago

4 comments

  • shomp a few seconds ago ago

    The instability ink-lines look like a flower blooming.

    Observation: 2 neurons, 2 wheels. One for each?

  • ebhn 25 minutes ago ago

    Nice article, but the methods they used seem more like they just hand wrote a function for the task and called the function neurons based on how it was implemented. It is encouraging though that a simple network can be found for a complicated task like this, kind of like the Tiny Recursive Model that came out last year.

  • fintler 38 minutes ago ago

    I had fun reading this. Thanks for sharing.

    With dendritic compartments, this seems like a waste of a perfectly good neuron that we could productively use elsewhere. ;)

    Note that a SINGLE neuron can compute nonlinear functions like XOR.

    Shameless plug: If anyone is interested, I did a post a while back on how neurons can act as logic gates:

    https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2025-neural-logic-gates/

    This article builds on the first and creates a half adder out of neurons:

    https://blog.typeobject.com/posts/2026-timing-is-the-bit/

  • hyperhello 20 minutes ago ago

    So can we have self-driving bicycles?