Mindful Neural Networks?!

Hey Everyone,

This time I thought we'd do something a little bit crazy. Let's try and build some kind of "mindful" or "buddhist" neural network. What does it even mean?! Who knows. But maybe we can try some ideas.

Some thoughts from the top of my mind:

• Use it as an excuse to look into attention models,
• Think about how "focus" can be incorporated into models?,
• Think about weird forms of classification?!
• Is there any sense of "awareness" we can build in?
• What about the paramitas?! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81ramit%C4%81 Can they factor into the loss functions somehow?!

The aim here is simply to interpret this idea in a way that seems fun to you! Maybe use it as an excuse to learn TensorFlow or PyTorch!

Special thanks to Sheda - https://sheda.ltd - for hosting this meetup at Neighbourhood - https://neighbourhood.work/ - in Fitzroy!

Looking forward to seeing you there!