Category: Journal club
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Enhanced spatial resolution during locomotion
Seeing is expensive – how does the brain optimize neural coding so it can see clearly when it matters? [Image courtesy LadyDragonFlyCC CC BY 2.0]
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5 easy pieces: How Deepmind mastered Go
Deepmind built an AI that masters Go. How did they do it? A technical introduction.
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Exercise, be smarter, save time
“I don’t have time” – That’s probably the most common excuse for not exercising. But what if your mind was clearer, more efficient after you hit the gym?
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New feature: recently read papers
A little known feature of Zotero is that the online version can generate an RSS feed from a collection. The feed is served via https, which is fine for e.g. feedly. However, WordPress.com doesn’t like https RSS feeds, so I forwarded my feed using feedcat – a pretty terrible service, but it was the first…
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NIPS 2013 papers
Fresh off the presses, NIPS 2013 conference papers are here. Here’s a nice visualization complete with PDF preview, keyword analysis and categorization – via LDA, appropriately enough. Topic 6 appears to be neuroscience. Via Nuit Blanche.
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Category information in the brain
The Gallant lab have a new paper out in Neuron using fMRI to study the brain’s representation of visual scene categories. It’s a slick little paper, using some fun machine learning algorithms (Latent Dirichlet allocation) that shows that there’s a substantial amount of latent semantic information available at the fMRI macroscale – raising the question…
xcorr: AI & neuro 