You guys see these? 1) Video: Sleep as a way to restore/maintain neural plasticity; a lesson here about the potential value of adjusting pegged permanence values back toward threshold from time to time?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=sleep-brains-way-staying-balance-video-giulio-tononi 2) Video: Researchers publish papers in Nature on "connectome" of portions of rat and fruit fly retinas and another describing decoding motion detection specialization of fruit fly neurons. Jeff has blogged about sparse lessons to be learned from merely mapping connections. Makes for pretty pictures, but perhaps better illustrates daunting complexity arising from a paucity of theory. The motion detection paper seems to offer more, but I don't have a Nature subscription. http://www.nature.com/news/visual-neurons-mapped-in-action-1.13520 3) Video: IBM researchers brainstormed applications of low-power, high-density neuromorphic silicon, funded by DARPA SyNAPSE program. (I found myself trying to read the displays in the background that the presenter *wasn't* describing…) http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/08/ibm-research-reveals-new-silicon-chip-foundation -Steve O. _______________________________________________ nupic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org
