Category: Simple questions
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AI jokes. Easy to tell…
Engineer Janelle Shane took to Twitter to lay out some of the telltale giveaways that the script was written by a person pretending to be an AI algorithm for kicks. You may recognize Shane as the person who trains neural nets to create jokes that devolve into nonsense or paint colors that almost sound real […]
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Insects. Man. Road-map to life… Through silence.
Whether a worm, a human or a blue whale, all multicellular life begins as a single-celled egg. From this solitary cell emerges the galaxy of others needed to build an organism, with each new cell developing in the right place at the right time to carry out a precise function in coordination with its neighbors. […]
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Too many questions…
How do our personalities develop? What do we come with and what is built from our experiences? Once developed, how does personality work? These questions have been steeped in controversy for almost as long as psychology has existed. In an article in Psychological Review, Carol Dweck tackles these issues. She proposes that our personalities develop […]
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Attention. Memory. Brain. The important things.
A study in eNeuro shows that, when remembering a sequence of events, the brain focuses on the event paid the least attention, rather than replaying the events in the order they occurred. This finding suggests that attention during the initial encoding of a memory influences how information is manipulated in working memory. Researchers presented adults […]
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