Conventional, von Neumann style computation is focused on arithmetic, logic, and Boolean algebra. Switches / transistors are the relevant building blocks for those systems even at the conceptual level,…
Having a rough day?
Just keep moving,
embrace the chaos,
stare into the void,
and make the void blink first.
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Mistakes happen. Sometimes we work in incorrect or unfruitful directions. We do not try to justify it or minimize it. We own it, make ourselves better, and…
Source https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1980.0020
Jonathan Pillow and Màtè Lengyel had a debate on the value of Marr’s Three Levels of Analysis (computation, algorithm, implementation). Here’s Jonathan’s part. Here’s Màtè’s…
Impactful, landmark work is the product of perseverance and focused toil over months or years. There is no shortcut. Graduate studies are an opportunity to learn to be effective in…
Found in some old notes of mine. Presented here without references or elaboration.
Brain — vs. — half-and-half (mix of cream and milk)
78%…
Shorter pulses have greater bandwidth.
This topic came up on social media and I’ll jot a few notes here in case it might be useful for others.
I posted about this a year ago, but it was about when you need a prechirper. I’ll elaborate on…
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If you didn’t record it, it doesn’t count.
It turns out that we can’t say this enough to students.
A portion of Edmund Optics’ discussion on ultrafast lasers.
Fourteen years ago, I wrote a blog post that celebrated catalogs as useful educational materials. It was brief, and…
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony…
PART 1. Our tools are imperfect. When I first got into neuroscience, I started deep down into neural circuitry: individual neurons and synapses. It was exciting to…
Last summer I asked Bing’s Chat AI to write advertising copy for a microscope objective. I just came across it again and maybe it’s worth sharing.
Do…
In May 2022, I asked for an “LLM to automatically write code to port arbitrary data sets to NWB format”.
This is an ad for Michael Beyeler. He’s awesome. Together with Michael Goard and Cris Niell, we have formed a supergroup that is funded…
source: https://alchetron.com/Dust-Brothers
OpenAI — and LLMs in general that train by scraping data from the web and ignoring copyrights — are in legal jeopardy. There are multiple lawsuits filed and many of us…
