Neural Networks

I don't think I've ever really thought about how neural networks work before.  Certainly not about how the ones with actual neurons in an actual brain does.  The fact that they seem to learn everything based on the coordination of inputs without any sort of real feedback is incredible, but it makes sense given how much better we remember something like touching a hot stove versus abstractly learning that stoves are hot.  Even within the project of phishing we've found both in papers and in practice that people are far more likely to learn through exercises where they fall for phishing while reading their actual mail and are told what went wrong immediately rather than some classroom or paper about it.