A.I. That Predicted Kentucky Derby Superfecta Reveals 2017 Bets The betting world has spent the past several weeks obsessing over its predictions for this Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, but those who pay attention to artificial intelligence held back their money until … Continue reading Swarm intelligence
Bayes’ Theorem: the maths tool we probably use every day, but what is it? Our world view and resultant actions are often driven by a simple theorem, devised in secret more than 150 years ago by a quiet English mathematician … Continue reading The Bayesian approach in life
10 Ways That Running Changes Your Mind and Brain “One 60-minute run can add 7 hours to your life” claimed The Times last week. The story was based on a new review in Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases that concluded that … Continue reading Running in the brain
How artificial intelligence learns to be racist Open up the photo app on your phone and search “dog,” and all the pictures you have of dogs will come up. This was no easy feat. Your phone knows what a dog … Continue reading The dark side of machine learning
The Big Ideas in Cognitive Neuroscience, Explained Are emergent properties really for losers? Why are architectures important? What are “mirror neuron ensembles” anyway? My last post presented an idiosyncratic distillation of the Big Ideas in Cognitive Neuroscience symposium, presented by … Continue reading Understanding brain-behavior relations
Supportive text messaging to encourage student success Today, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has announced that they are funding three interventions to help improve outcomes for 16-18-year-old students who are resitting their GCSEs. We are excited that the social support … Continue reading Nudging students
Does Zapping Your Brain Actually Help You Learn Faster? A cognitive neuroscientist and his team at HRL Laboratories in Malibu, California, seem to have achieved the impossible. According to a press release, the team “measured the brain activity patterns of … Continue reading Magnetic fields to enhance learning
