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Choosing the right data from the environment

The key to human intelligence is that our brain chooses the right data out of the environment, and then runs the right algorithms on that data. I say algorithms for lack of a better word, because I do not believe that our brains run algorithms at all.

Saved 27 January 2018 / www.amazon.com ↗

#intelligence #brain #algorithm

Einstein had a fairly average brain

What did they discover? The most surprising finding was that there was nothing surprising. Einstein had a fairly average brain. The organ had a standard…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #brain #intelligence #neuroscience

No two brains solve problems alike

When you examine living geniuses solving some tough problem, you do not find reassuring similarities; you find disconcerting individualities. Problem solving…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #brain #intelligence #differences

A library, not a graveyard, for research

With this massive catalogue stored in its servers, the PLOS staff has to be very careful that it’s running a library and not a graveyard for scientific…

100,000 Articles - And The Data Scientists Who Mine Them - Bio-it World #server #metadata #algorithm

A program is not its code, process or algorithm

we agree with Irmak that we cannot identify a program either with a code, a process, or an algorithm. The reason is that this view conflicts with common…

Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective #code #algorithm #same-algorithm #program

Centrality doesn't mean the same in every network

The newcomer to network analysis loads the author-publisher network into Gephi, finds the centrality of every node, and then makes the nodes bigger that have…

Demystifying Networks #network #algorithm #nodes

Collaborative topic modeling applied to the new york times

It turns out that straddling both techniques can give us the best of both worlds. We built an algorithm inspired by a technique, Collaborative Topic Modeling…

Building The Next New York Times Recommendation Engine - The New York Times #words #readers #algorithm