Ideas & society2018 · shared on Hacker News

plos.org · article?id=10.1371%2Fjo

Explore plos.org · article?id=10.1371%2Fjo, its original source and Hacker News discussions. Discover community perspectives and save it to your reading list.

The conversation around the idea.

Links found in the discussion

Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents

We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it

Monkey MindPong

Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?

Show HN: Automatically synchronize subtitles with video

Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database

Does DNA have the equivalent of IF-statements, WHILE loops, or function calls?

Continuous Thought Machines

Predictive coding has been unified with backpropagation

How to seriously read a scientific paper

Simulation of a 2B-atom cell that metabolizes and grows like a living cell

Neuralink Progress Update [video]

Neurons unexpectedly encode information in the timing of their firing

Ask HN: Getting started in biology with a software background

The counterintuitive rise of Python in scientific computing (2020)

Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning

Data Version Control

A new proposal for how mind emerges from matter

It's time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life

How to create a dashboard in Python with Jupyter Notebook

An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience

Mental phenomena don’t map into the brain as expected

Neuroscientists discover molecular mechanism that allows memories to form (2020)

Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019)

How to read research paper, textbook, long text content?

WHO Changes 'Social Distancing' to 'Physical Distancing'

What happens in the brain to cause depression?

Visualize Latent Spaces

Glutamate buildup may be key factor in mental exhaustion

Our Brain Uses a Not-So-Instant Replay to Make Decisions

The brain's 7D sandcastles could be the key to consciousness (2017)

Superconductivity Theory Under Attack

Insect Has Gears in Its Legs (2013)

Computational Model Reveals How the Brain Manages Short-Term Memories

Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything

In birdsong, scientists find some parallels with human speech

Can a biologist fix a radio? What I learned while studying apoptosis (2002) [pdf]

Can a biologist fix a radio?–Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis (2002) [pdf]

Can a biologist fix a radio? Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis (2002)

"We'll call it AI to sell it, Machine Learning to Build it"

Ask HN: Is anyone working on “downloading” knowledge to the brain?

Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

Language models can explain neurons in language models

'Obviously ChatGPT' – how reviewers accused me of scientific fraud

Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model

High dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry(2017) [pdf]

Ask HN: What extent can LLMs be used to simulate the operation of silicon chips?

Your job as a leader is to make decisions

Critique of the mind/body problem: it's not solvable

New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes

"They're made out of weights"

A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert Sapolsky

A few simple rules govern self-organizing fire ant rafts

New mathematical model shows how the body regulates potassium

The fundamental thermodynamic costs of communication

One idea leads to another.