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Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...

Human hearing is critical to everyday communication and the perception of natural auditory scenes. For individuals with misophonia, sounds commonly ex…

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains. However, their potential to generate harmful responses has raised significant societal and regulatory con...

Detecting synaptic connections using large-scale extracellular spike recordings presents a statistical challenge. Although previous methods often treat the detection of each putative connection as a s...

Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

But neurons don’t take averages. This ubiquitous practice hides from us how the brain really works.

By Ian H. Stevenson. The paper asks how we may be able to obtain information about causal interactions between neurons using spike recordings.

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The best short fiction, handpicked by the best voice in podcasting and presented in 3D immersive audio. In every episode, host LeVar Burton (Roots, Reading Rainbow, Star Trek) invites you to take a br...

Susan Rogers worked with the legendary singer-songwriter before earning a PhD in her 50s on auditory memory and how we listen to music throughout life. Susan Rogers worked with the legendary singer-so...

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