This monumental work by Vernon B. Mountcastle provides a detailed survey of the intrinsic operations of the cerebral cortex, including phylogenetic, comparative, and neuroanatomical studies of the neocortex. It covers topics such as the large-scale organization of the neocortex, neuronal histogenesis, synaptic transmission, and the binding problem in perception. The book is a landmark in the literature of neuroscience, offering insights into the thinking of one of the most distinguished neuroscientists and providing a quantitative approach to understanding the cerebral cortex.
In this book, Jeff Hawkins presents a revolutionary theory of intelligence that explains how the brain creates intelligence through the use of maplike structures to build tens of thousands of models of the world. The book delves into how these models enable us to perceive the world, understand our sense of self, and originate high-level thought. It also discusses the implications of this theory for machine intelligence and the future of humanity, highlighting potential threats and opportunities[1][4][5].
This book delves into the algorithms and architectures driving AI research, comparing them with biological brains to address deep conceptual issues in perception, memory, and control systems. It aims to bridge the gap between theories of biological brains and the practice of building artificial ones, grappling with longstanding controversies about intelligence and its biological inspiration.
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Michael Oliver is the Chief Scientist at Numerai, a hedge fund that crowdsources machine learning models from data scientists. He has a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from UC Berkeley and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Allen Institute for Brain Science before joining Numerai in 2020. He is also the host of Numerai Quant Club, a YouTube series where he discusses Numerai’s research, data and challenges.
YT version: https://youtu.be/61s8lLU7sFg
TOC:
[00:00:00] Introduction to Michael and Numerai
[00:02:03] Understanding / new Bing
[00:22:47] Quant vs Neuroscience
[00:36:43] Role of language in cognition and planning, and subjective...
[00:45:47] Boundaries in finance modelling
[00:48:00] Numerai
[00:57:37] Aggregation systems
[01:00:52] Getting started on Numeral
[01:03:21] What models are people using
[01:04:23] Numerai Problem Setup
[01:05:49] Regimes in financial data and quant talk
[01:11:18] Esoteric approaches used on Numeral?
[01:13:59] Curse of dimensionality
[01:16:32] Metrics
[01:19:10] Outro
References:
Growing Neural Cellular Automata (Alexander Mordvintsev)
https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (Jeff Hawkins)
https://www.amazon.fr/Thousand-Brains-New-Theory-Intelligence/dp/1541675819
Perceptual Neuroscience: The Cerebral Cortex (Vernon B. Mountcastle)
https://www.amazon.ca/Perceptual-Neuroscience-Cerebral-Vernon-Mountcastle/dp/0674661885
Numerai Quant Club with Michael Oliver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLIxarbDXuQ&list=PLz3D6SeXhT3tTu8rhZmjwDZpkKi-UPO1F
Numerai YT channel
https://www.youtube.com/@Numerai/featured
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