Author: robert.adlington

We were able to measure a kind of “distance” between features based on which neurons appeared in their activation patterns. This allowed us to look for features that are “close” to each other. Looking near a “Golden Gate Bridge” feature, we found features for Alcatraz Island, Ghirardelli Square, the Golden State Warriors, California Governor Gavin…

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Then you start to ask yourself, ‘Is there even any meaning to it?’ And then you’re like, is there any meaning to anything? Some people would say that’s demoralising and horrible. But there is another side that says, well, actually now we’re really free. Because once you’re free of meaning and old-school narrative logic, then…

Nice video with useful information about providing context to ChatGPT when asking questions and how to get expert perspectives in its answers

We know that even small amounts of physical separation can radically change behaviour: road rage, an incident of which went viral last week, boils up in the isolated container of a car. Experimenters note, too, that empathy drops off a cliff when people are separated by a glass window. — Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/grinding-our-bums-flashing-our-boobs-the-internet-is-making-juveniles-of-us-all

The human brain is perhaps the most computationally complex machine in existence, consisting of networks of billions of cells. Researchers currently don’t understand the full picture of how glitches in its network machinery contribute to mental illnesses and other diseases, such as dementia. However, the emerging connectomics field, which aims to precisely map the connections between every…

By combining brain imaging with AI-based image processing and analysis, our teams have reconstructed nearly every cell and all of its connections within a small volume of human brain tissue about half the size of a grain of rice. Though it’s of a small region of brain, this 3D mapping – which we’ve made freely…

L’Europe est encore le meilleur endroit où vivre. Un pessimisme excessif serait donc aussi contre-productif que l’optimisme excessif d’il y a vingt ans. Le vrai risque, c’est que les Européens se mettent à agir sans discernement, tel celui qui se suicide parce qu’il a peur de la mort. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/05/13/ivan-krastev-les-europeens-ne-sont-pas-menaces-par-l-echec-de-leur-modele-mais-par-ses-succes_6232899_3232.html

Dans son ouvrage qui vient d’être traduit en français, la psychiatre américaine Anna Lembke, spécialiste des addictions, montre la diversité des individus concernés, tout autant que celle des substances ou comportements en cause. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2024/05/09/un-monde-sous-dopamine-une-addiction-nommee-desir-instantane_6232348_1650684.html