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2 days ago2 Commonly Overlooked Signs of Intelligence
Speaking target words aloud can improve working-memory performance on tasks requiring holding information in mind.
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4 days agoA critical initialization for biological neural networks - Nature
Intrinsically generated neuronal activity contains macroscopic modes of coordination between neurons that extend across the entire mouse brain2,3,4,5. More activity variance is concentrated into the top dimensions of neural activity than would be expected for independently firing neurons. At the same time, there is no low-dimensional cutoff of variance concentration, and variance scales as a power-law of the eigenmode number2. As yet, there are no mechanistic models that can explain this scaling of variance, but macroscopic variability in general has been hypothesized to arise from neural network dynamics operating in either a critical or chaotic regime6,7,8,9,10,11.
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2 weeks agoSharper brains switch to a 'not what you know, but who you know' mindset online and on social media, study shows
Online social connections reduce engagement with and learning from shared content while improving networking performance, especially for people with higher working memory capacity.
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2 months agoPsychology says the loneliest part of high intelligence isn't being misunderstood - it's watching people you care about make decisions you can see will hurt them and knowing that explaining why won't help because the gap isn't in information, it's in how you process consequences six moves ahead while they're still on move one - Silicon Canals
Intelligence involves not just knowledge but the ability to foresee consequences, creating a gap that can lead to loneliness.
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5 months ago6 AI breakthroughs that will define 2026
While new models with more parameters and better reasoning are valuable, models are still limited by their lack of working memory. Context windows and improved memory will drive the most innovation in agentic AI next year, by giving agents the persistent memory they need to learn from past actions and operate autonomously on complex, long-term goals. With these improvements, agents will move beyond the limitations of single interactions and provide continuous support.
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5 months agoJust one session of weight training boosts brain power, study finds
In the study, they tracked 121 adults aged between 18 and 50 and split them into two groups. All underwent cardiovascular fitness tests and were quizzed about their lifestyle. Two days later, all participants then gave blood samples and had an electroencephalographic (EEG) scan to record the electrical activity of the brain. The first group then did sets of weight exercises of moderate difficulty, while the other was asked to watch a video of adults performing resistance exercises. The resistance exercises lasted for 42 minutes.
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