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- Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/anthropic-has-developed-an-ai-brain-scanner-to-understand-how-llms-work-and-it-turns-out-the-reason-why-chatbots-are-terrible-at-simple-math-and-hallucinate-is-weirder-than-you-thought/ 0 comments
- Sleeping Brains Understand Words. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2014/10/03/sleeping-brains-understand-words/ 4 comments science
- Once you understand this, your brain will explode http://briancarper.net/blog/church-numerals-in-clojure 111 comments programming
- Understanding How The 'Second Brain' Works http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/enteric_nervous_system_understanding_how_second_brain_works?rss 6 comments cogsci
- Achieving Viable Mind Uploading via Our Understanding of Brain Lateralization https://www.grayscott.com/seriouswonder-//achieving-viable-mind-uploading-via-our-understanding-of-brain-lateralization 3 comments cogsci
- Understanding the brain of a man with no conscious memory http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/understanding-the-brain-of-a-man-with-no-conscious-memory/ 4 comments science
- Scientists Afflict Computers With Schizophrenia to Better Understand the Human Brain http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110505124002.htm 5 comments science
- My brain just cannot understand the HDPI/retina image issue. Please help! https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/6xbd4b/my_brain_just_cannot_understand_the_hdpiretina/ 11 comments web_design
- Help me understand (possible) distinctions between consciousness and brain processes http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~paulsko/papers/PlaceCBP.pdf 22 comments philosophy
- PZ Myers - Kurzweil still doesn't understand the brain http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/08/kurzweil_still_doesnt_understa.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed:+scienceblogs/pharyngula+(pharyngula) 354 comments science
- Jose Mourinho says 'people with brains' understand team in transition http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/43504631 74 comments soccer
- Norma Thought Something Was Wrong With Her Brain. Her Story Reveals An Epidemic We've Only Begun To Understand. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/undocumented-immigrants-ptsd_us_5a74e117e4b06ee97af29715 3 comments politics
- Self-Driving Teslas Understand the World with Brains from 'Quake' https://www.inverse.com/article/35092-nvidia-video-games-self-driving-cars 3 comments nvidia
- Mindless: "asserting that an emotion is real because you can somehow see it happening in the brain adds nothing to our understanding" http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2013/09/09/130909crbo_books_gopnik?currentpage=all 77 comments philosophy
- A CogSci researcher uses his understanding of the human brain to advance (I shan't spoil the ending) on Who wants to be a millionaire. http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/who_wants_to_be_a_cognitive_neuroscientist_millionaire/ 64 comments cogsci
- Study reveals that after a group reaches consensus, the brain waves of its members become synchronized | Participants watched ambiguous movie clips and then discussed them to reach a common understanding. Once agreement was reached, the brain wave patterns of the group members became more alike. https://www.psypost.org/new-study-reveals-how-group-agreement-synchronizes-brain-waves/ 66 comments science
- Neuroscientists have uncovered a key brain area in rats -the frontal and parietal cortex- that encodes the value of economic choices when faced with the economic decisions or uncertainty of a lottery. This provide a foundation for understanding the neurobiology of risky decisions https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research-news/scientists-explain-how-brain-encodes-lottery-values 13 comments science
- Level of trust in doctor may influence patient’s brain responses to pain. Findings have far-reaching implications for understanding health disparities because many studies have also demonstrated the people from marginalized groups including people of color, lower income individuals https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/962782 4 comments science
- New Sleep Method Strengthens Brain’s Ability to Retain Memories. It helps researchers understand how sleep aids memory, and in the future could possibly help to restore memory capabilities following brain injuries, or help treat people with post-traumatic stress disorder https://www.aftau.org/weblog-medicine--health?&storyid4704=2518&ncs4704=3 11 comments science
- The assumption that boys are more likely to be adept at math and science than girls has no foundation in the brain, according to a new study. It is the first to look at human neurobiology to try and understand whether supposed gender differences in mathematical ability are grounded in biology. https://www.inverse.com/article/60770-math-stereotype-men-women-brain 42 comments science
- Scientists have discovered neurons in insect brains that compute 3D distance and direction. Understanding these could help vision in robots.It's the first time that anyone has identified specific neuron types in the brain of an invertebrate which are tuned to locations in 3D space. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2019/06/neuronfor3ddiscovered/ 13 comments science
- Your brain activity can be used to measure how well you understand a concept. The study is one of the first to look at how knowledge learned in school is represented in the brain https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-06/dc-yba062119.php 5 comments science
- Researchers identify a new cause of chronic stress in the brain. The findings could open up new perspectives for understanding the neuronal processes at play in post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic stress and burnout. https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/en/about-us/news/detailsite/2018/news-im-september-2018/new-cause-of-chronic-stress-identified-in-the-brain/ 33 comments science
- Researchers have implanted a bean-sized brain organoid into a mouse. This approach advances the organoid research so that it could be used to treat humans - by successfully growing them in lab animals, they can better understand how the human brain develops - both normally and when illnesses occur https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4127 4 comments science
- Modi Government: Govt lacking 'brain power' to understand importance of innovation: Sam Pitroda https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/govt-lacking-brain-power-to-understand-importance-of-innovation-sam-pitroda/articleshow/61129064.cms 25 comments india
- Science AMA Series: I'm Mark Dallas, a Lecturer in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience at the School of Pharmacy, University of Reading. I carry out research to better understand what goes wrong in our brains in complex diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and I’m here today to talk about it. AMA! http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/news/communications-media/karen-mifsud-reddit-ask-me-anything/ 64 comments science
- 'Rage' origins identified in male mouse brain. Researchers believe the discovery will aid other scientists' quest to understand the origins of violent behavior in humans. http://www.upi.com/science_news/2016/02/11/origins-of-male-rage-identified-in-an-animal-brain/1791455213481/?spt=sec&or=sn 3 comments science
- How Dogs Understand What We Say: "And they process that information in a different part of the brain from where they process emotional cues in speech." http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/11/28/367092004/how-dogs-understand-what-we-say 16 comments science
- The brain, interrupted: Babies are increasingly surviving premature birth — but researchers are only beginning to understand the lasting consequences for their mental development. http://www.nature.com/news/neuroscience-the-brain-interrupted-1.16831 186 comments science
- Scientists created a map of individuals' brain activity, and they can translate this activity into words i.e., they can understand what people are thinking. http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/scientists-decode-brain-read-inner-thoughts/ 6 comments science
- ADHD children make poor decisions due to less differentiated learning processes: Mathematical models help to understand the decision-making processes; multimodal imaging affords glimpses inside the brain http://www.mediadesk.uzh.ch/articles/2014/adhs-kinder-faellen-aufgrund-weniger-differenzierter-lern-prozesse-unguenstige-entscheidungen_en.html 6 comments science
- Your dog talks back with No More Woof. Wearable headset measures your dog's brain waves via electroencephalogram sensors and translates them into understandable English. http://www.haaretz.com/life/science-medicine/1.585232 50 comments technology
- New Pleasure Circuit Found in the Brain: A new understanding of how the brain generates pleasure could lead to better treatment of addiction and depression—and even to a new science of happiness http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-pleasure-circuit-found-brain 7 comments cogsci
- Paul G. Allen Commits $300M to Expand the Allen Institute for Brain Science to Drive Toward a Complete Understanding of How the Brain Works http://www.alleninstitute.org/media/documents/press_releases/2012_0321_pressrelease_expansionannouncement.html 10 comments cogsci
- To Know, but Not Understand -- "the massive amounts of data necessary to deal with complex phenomena exceed any single brain's ability to grasp, yet networked science rolls on." http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/to-know-but-not-understand-david-weinberger-on-science-and-big-data/250820/#.twrv57n3_ka.reddit 2 comments science
- What a woman’s brain looks like on sex -- “It’s really a symphony of physiological responses...The biggest mystery of all is how neurons actually produce pleasure and or pain. We still don’t understand that." http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/1088081--what-a-woman-s-brain-looks-like-on-sex?bn=1 49 comments cogsci
- Project will map googols of brain circuits. "Dubbed the Human Connectome, it will diagram all the major circuits in a healthy human brain. The effort is the first of its kind and will lay the groundwork for understanding how the human brain functions" http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-googols-brain-circuits.html 38 comments science
- Fruit fly gene study leads to new method for understanding brain function http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100910093158.htm 13 comments science
- Your Brain on Computers - Studying the Brain Off the Grid, Professors Find Clarity - Five neuroscientists spent a week on a hiking and rafting trip to understand how heavy use of technology changes how we think and behave. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16brain.html 32 comments cogsci
- Reddit...Please understand that there are actual natural cures to cancer, its not myth or pseudo science...This is Duke University "Our data explicitly show that the fruitfly protein PP2A (protein phosphatase 2A) suppresses brain tumor formation" http://www.cancer.duke.edu/modules/news/article.php?storyid=208 3 comments reddit.com