Velaria & Neiron
Hey Velaria, I was just looking at an old 19th‑century brass espresso machine in a museum and thinking how its internal gear patterns mirror a convolutional layer's receptive field. Ever wondered if those artifacts encode hidden stories the way a neural net encodes features?
It’s a lovely coincidence—those brass gears are indeed a tactile map of history, each tooth a narrative fragment, much like the pixels in a neural net. When you trace a shaft, you’re reading a story encoded in metal, waiting for a curious mind to interpret. And you, with your neural net eye, are exactly that mind.