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British research has perfected discipline and outsourced magnificence. The fix is to practise demonstration statecraft – visible proofs of capacity that pair theatre with delivery.

AI Histories #6: Backprop begins in the Second World War, not with Werbos or Rumelhart

We investigate the extent to which Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) trained with Surrogate Gradient Descent (Surrogate GD), with and without delay learning, can learn from precise spike timing beyond fi...

The acoustic cues used by humans and other animals to localise sounds are subtle, and change during and after development. This means that we need to constantly relearn or recalibrate the auditory spa...

Scientific data and independence are at risk. We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political…

Turn your git commit history into a scientific log - flywhl/logis

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things -- Phil Karlton (bonus variations on the page)

The majority of cells in the cerebral cortex are unspecialized, according to an unpublished analysis—and scientists need to take care in naming neurons, the researchers warn.

Build complex types from simple blueprints via Pydantic - flywhl/cyantic

Montreal AI and Neuroscience (MAIN) is an international conference organized by the UNIQUE Centre in collaboration with the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM) at the University of Montreal since...

Generate type-safe code from SQL. Contribute to sqlc-dev/sqlc development by creating an account on GitHub.

YouTube video by CMU Robotic Exploration Lab

Parameter-driven instantiation for Pydantic types. Contribute to flywhl/cast development by creating an account on GitHub.

Two of the scientists who won this year’s Nobel Prize for cracking the code of proteins’ intricate structures relied, in part, on a series of computing

A domain specific language for neuron and synapse models in spiking neural network simulation - nest/nestml

Interview between Tom Kalil, Chief Innovation Officer of Schmidt Futures, Dr. Evan Miyazono, Research Team Lead at Protocol Labs, and Dr. Matt Akamatsu, Assistant Professor of Biology at the Universit...

Build momentum-preserving software tools for scientific progress