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Makes me wonder how much better these systems would be at online learning as opposed to systems that require separate training and inference. This is especially relevant in a dynam…

Yeah, I don't think it's mentioned in the paper however in the New Scientist podcast it was alluded to by the lead author that there is currently work being done to compare. I'd re…

That's fascinating. It reminds me of this clip from Adam Curtis's All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace where they got lots of random people to play Pong in a theatre in the…

So it looks in the paper they're using a theoretical framework called the Free Energy Principle developed by Prof Karl Friston at UCL which postulates that brains have evolved to m…

Yeah but there are lots of companies doing this already including Intel that has poured millions into their Loihi neuromorphic chips.

They're already doing it with mice! - https://www.pymnts.com/cryptocurrency/2021/crypto-trading-ro...

Found the visualizer they used for the videos here - https://spikestream.corticallabs.com Very cool WebGL implementation. I hope they release the dataset so that we can visualize a…

The real MVP. Thanks!

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.02.471005v1

Don't be surprised in the coming months to read 6 out of your 11 Onion headlines coming out as real scientific work.

Really? I haven't found it an issue to get friends or family to sign up for Element. In fact it's even better because you don't need to use your mobile number for that.

Some people can't fathom how people in China can live under perceived authoritarianism are also those who use iPhones and support Apple's decision to lock down the AppStore and iOS…

Monopsony is also deemed to be anti-competitive and illegal. Technically as an app developer or service provider, when you're selling an app or service on iOS, you're not selling i…

Apple go down the Samsung route and license RDNA tech for their ARM GPUs - https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-rdna-exynos-samsung-so...

How did you get Looking Glass to work with macOS? I don't think it's supported as host OS.

Are you tuning hyperparameters when learning a task?

I guess if the stem-cells are taken from you as a donor then they would be genetically identical to you as much as twins are genetically identical individuals?

Ditto for Australia too where there was a hard swing towards the right.

It's funny how Fortnite which is owned by Epic which is owned by Tencent is turning out to be the 21st Century's new Opium Den.

The cost blowout in healthcare isn't due to diagnosis or care but administrative costs. All these diagnostic AIs won't significantly reduce the cost of healthcare nor improve quali…

Exactly the reason why unbridled capitalism is terrible. I'd imagine that if we had a genocide going on today, a company like Bayer would be rewarded by its shareholders for manufa…

So much for Silicon Valley corporations and their "culture" and founding myths. I guess people don't even remember that Google once you used to have an informal mantra of "Don't be…

It does but not where it matters. You want places that are willing to fork out big money for flagship phones. An example of this would be China vs India. China is a better market t…

I've never really understood the US-centricity of most tech companies. Sure the US will always be the single biggest market but times are changing. With the rise of the middle clas…