Ziad Shihab

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Read Weird Dreams Train Our Brains to Be Better Learners Online

Weird Dreams Train Our Brains to Be Better Learners by Jim Davies Oct 13, 2021 6 minutes Neural networks need to "dream" of weird, senseless examples to learn well. Maybe we do, too.Photo Illustration by MDV Edwards / ShutterstockFor many of us over the last year and more, our waking experience has, you might say, lost a bit of its variety. We spend more time with the same people, in our homes, and go to fewer places. Our stimuli these days,...

Brain Waves Transcendental Fields and Techniques of Thought

Brain Waves Transcendental Fields and Techniques of Thought https://brewminate.com/brain-waves-transcendental-fields-and-techniques-of-thought/ Created July 15 2021 at 03:44AM Photo by Bryan Jones Creative Commons Exploring the half-second delay between the reception of sensory material and conscious interpretation of it. By Dr. William E. ConnollyKrieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political TheoryJohns Hopkins University Introduction Now I say that mind and anima are held in union wit...

Chess in the Movies - Checkpoint

It's time to take a checkpoint on a subject introduced in Chess Obsessed(May 2019). I wrote, Back to that 'Chess in the Movies' page, I created it sometime around 2005. It might be worthwhile to survey images I've collected since then and, if I have enough examples, add another sub-page on the same topic. The referenced page is Chess in the Movies, and so far, without any real effort, I found 152 photos to work through. The following composite shows the first eight (ordered a...