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From: ambati@acf5.nyu.edu (FJLevM{n[]Balamurali Ambati)
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Subject: Why memory is N/ln N ?
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Date: 28 Mar 91 18:38:50 GMT
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Although the information storage capacity of a discrete Hopfield neural 
network is 2^N, the "memory" capacity is O(N/ln N)?  Is there any biological
or physical explanation, evidence, correlate, etc. for why the memory 
increases sub-linearly with neuronal network complexity?

Balamurali K. Ambati