It seems that the most recent posts – outside of the handful I’ve made – are from 2023. And the Discord forum seems to have past to the Great Beyond shortly after Matt did – may he rest in peace. If there is a new venue I don’t know about, pray tell!
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I’m still here, but I think our discussions have mostly run their course. What’s left to say?
Personally, I learned a lot from this forum. I enjoyed posting neuroscience articles and discussing them. Writing a few sentances summarizing an article and explaining its relevance really demonstrates my comprehension of the material and helps me remember it. I suppose that’s why they make you write book-reports in school.
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Oh, my. Book reports. I have done thousands of posts on Quora and other venues that would blow away the few book reports that I have done as a kid! I think that is true of all of us.
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The company isn’t pushing out papers and new ideas like it used to. I would suggest it switch to the low level internals of artificial neural networks where there is a ton of work that has been left unfinished. The vast bulk of neural network researchers have rushed to high level applications.
Or the company could specialize in using locality sensitive hashing with neural networks.
I know some effort was put into winner-takes-all sparsity.
I would say it needs to find some direction where it can keep pushing forward. The question is finding a very good direction to go.
Anyway some content: https://youtu.be/KC8s30clJSY?si=U9ddM8-6oCNEU4ht
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That minimalist camera is awesome.
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This forum has always been very fruitful. It has educated me in many areas and directed my interest to look deeper into many more. I believe it is the most important contribution from the broader community and toward it as well. I would also like to see more research sessions with special topics, as we used to, but can also understand the need to focus on some commercial viable products. It would nevertheless be good for the community and company to keep the theoretical framework discovery process open and continue to build upon the already established. Computational theory of the brain is a very tall order. The cortex is a key element, but we have so much yet to elaborate and confirm about the integral parts, like the hypocampus, the thalamus and the paths from the cerebellum. The interdisciplinary aspects of such forums is very valuable in my opinion.
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