at the intersection of neuroscience and AI
Over time, distribution of shot lengths in movies has moved closer to pink noise
by Bayle2 Mar 2010 at 1:12 am
The statistics of shot durations in 150 films from 1935 to 2005 were analyzed. From about 1970 to the present, the power spectrum of shot durations in individual films has tended to become more like pink noise (power ~= 1/f). Also, autocorrelation shows that the lengths of nearby shots has become more and more correlated.
The authors, Cutting, DeLong, and Nothelfer, speculate that the pink noise
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Foldit the useful protein folding game
by Bayle22 Feb 2010 at 9:50 pm
You can help with protein folding research!
http://fold.it/
According to the website, currently they are collecting data from the game to see if humans can actually contribute anything beyond what the computers can already do.
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Penguin-inspired water and air robots video
by Bayle20 Feb 2010 at 12:09 am
Festo A.G. bionic learning network 2009 video:
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STAToolkit
by Bayle18 Feb 2010 at 7:48 pm
http://neuroanalysis.org/
Octave/MATLAB toolkit for analysis of spike train data. Open source. Information theory-y.
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Network design algorithm of a slime mold
by Bayle28 Jan 2010 at 9:26 pm
[The slime mold Physarum polycephalum] “can find the shortest path through a maze (15–17) or connect different arrays of food sources in an efficient manner with low total length… yet short average minimum distance… between pairs of food sources… with a high degree of fault tolerance… to accidental disconnection (11, 18, 19)”
This paper provide a model of
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Sixth Sense technology
by Stephen13 Dec 2009 at 11:14 pm
The brilliant next-generation technology for wearable computing from the MIT media lab. If you haven’t seen this yet, I highly recommend watching this video.
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Its alive! Soft morphing blob robot!
by Stephen13 Dec 2009 at 11:08 pm
You’ve got to see this to believe it…!
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Bayesian truth serum
by Bayle8 Dec 2009 at 4:51 am
Neville told me about this neat article from ‘04. It presents a way to offer rewards to people taking a poll in such a way so as to motivate them to be honest, with no prior information about what the distribution of correct answers is. Apparently, previous such techniques are based on the idea of rewarding people for agreeing with other people’s answers. This new thing about this tech
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IBM Cat Brain Simulation Scuffle: Symbolic?
by Stephen4 Dec 2009 at 4:48 pm
You’ve probably read by now about the announcement by IBM’s Cognitive Computing group that they had created a “computer system that simulates and emulates the brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition” at the “scale of a cat cortex”. For their work, the IBM team led by Dharmendra Modha was awarded the ACM Gordon Bell
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Penn Neuroscience Bootcamp 2010
by Bayle5 Nov 2009 at 7:31 pm
“….a chance for individuals
without a neuroscience background to quickly gain a working knowledge of [neuroscience]”
….thought I might have something of interest to
your readers, especially those who were trained in robotics. This summer,
Penn is hosting our second Neuroscience Boot Camp, a chance for individuals
without a neuroscience background to quickly gain a working