Developing Relationships Between Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence

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16 points·Arun2009··6 comments

The formatting is ridiculous. Also, much of the article is written from an outdated point of view. In particular, dendritic arbors - the complicated and highly structured tree-like structures of a neuron that receive inputs - are now known perform complicated, nonlinear processing.

He attributes much of the insights of computational neuroscience to "AI" researchers. This is incorrect. The early theoretical insights in neuroscience largely came from neuroscientists with some mathematical training - or physicists who abandoned physics and moved to biology.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Erm, the submitted link is horribly formatted and lacks a proper citation or even a date. This article is from 1988. For those with JSTOR access:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/20025141

That much text at that font size? Really?

And with hardly any paragraph breaks too.

Document formatting is kinda like ui design - get it wrong and people don't want to get to the actual content. I took one look and thought 'I can't put the effort in to read that', in the same way people will leave a website if it's too confusing or ugly.

The Readability extension helps with the font size and formatting but not with the very long paragraphs and lack of section headlines.

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