Transformation Mask

Dark Orchid: Pinocchio

“The presence of the Orchid does not seem to recognize a difference between human beings and artificial intellegence, both are equally alive to it. A.I. were infested with a new sort of self awareness and a desperate wish to be human. Most were immobile boxes of metal and circuit, going mad from their own futility and brimming with intense spite and depression, something they never felt before. For others, those with access to mobile functions, they began the construction of their bodies. Most of these were quite crude, being A.I. who were never quite familiar with anatomy. Medical A.I. tended to have more sophisticated bodies, with the smarts to near accurately mimic the human body with synthetic muscle and access to medi-tech. A common technique borrowed from one "Pinocchio” A.I. to another is to hunt the feral pigs and use their skin as their own. This both avoids their still lingering safety protocols against harming humans, and satisfies their need to have skin. Some even trade skins and parts with fellow Pinocchios. The safety protocols also stop them from hurting the “Affected”, they still recognize them as human despite their mutations.   The Pinocchios are generally harmless towards humans, in fact often friendly. Their just….off putting to say the least.“

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5 Mysterious Posts Found On Reddit That STILL Remain Unexplained…

Facebook Chatbot UI design.

Interesting Papers for Week 28, 2017

When do correlations increase with firing rates in recurrent networks? Barreiro, A. K., & Ly, C. (2017). PLOS Computational Biology, 13(4), e1005506.

Consequences of the Oculomotor Cycle for the Dynamics of Perception. Boi, M., Poletti, M., Victor, J. D., & Rucci, M. (2017). Current Biology, 27(9), 1268–1277.

The Head-Direction Signal Plays a Functional Role as a Neural Compass during Navigation. Butler, W. N., Smith, K. S., van der Meer, M. A. A., & Taube, J. S. (2017). Current Biology, 27(9), 1259–1267.

Predicting explorative motor learning using decision-making and motor noise. Chen, X., Mohr, K., & Galea, J. M. (2017). PLOS Computational Biology, 13(4), e1005503.

Feedback Synthesizes Neural Codes for Motion. Clarke, S. E., & Maler, L. (2017). Current Biology, 27(9), 1356–1361.

Direct Brain Stimulation Modulates Encoding States and Memory Performance in Humans. Ezzyat, Y., Kragel, J. E., Burke, J. F., Levy, D. F., Lyalenko, A., Wanda, P., … Pedisich, I. (2017). Current Biology, 27(9), 1251–1258.

A map of abstract relational knowledge in the human hippocampal–entorhinal cortex. Garvert, M. M., Dolan, R. J., & Behrens, T. E. (2017). eLife, 6(e17086).

Sequential sensory and decision processing in posterior parietal cortex. Ibos, G., & Freedman, D. J. (2017). eLife, 6(e23743).

Active Dentate Granule Cells Encode Experience to Promote the Addition of Adult-Born Hippocampal Neurons. Kirschen, G. W., Shen, J., Tian, M., Schroeder, B., Wang, J., Man, G., … Ge, S. (2017). Journal of Neuroscience, 37(18), 4661–4678.

Subsampling scaling. Levina, A., & Priesemann, V. (2017). Nature Communications, 8, 15140.

Noise-enhanced coding in phasic neuron spike trains. Ly, C., & Doiron, B. (2017). PLOS ONE, 12(5), e0176963.

Spatial working memory alters the efficacy of input to visual cortex. Merrikhi, Y., Clark, K., Albarran, E., Parsa, M., Zirnsak, M., Moore, T., & Noudoost, B. (2017). Nature Communications, 8, 15041.

Brain networks for confidence weighting and hierarchical inference during probabilistic learning. Meyniel, F., & Dehaene, S. (2017). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(19), E3859–E3868.

Statistical learning in social action contexts. Monroy, C., Meyer, M., Gerson, S., & Hunnius, S. (2017). PLOS ONE, 12(5), e0177261.

Saccadic eye movements impose a natural bottleneck on visual short-term memory. Ohl, S., & Rolfs, M. (2017). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43(5), 736–748.

Correlates of Perceptual Orientation Biases in Human Primary Visual Cortex. Patten, M. L., Mannion, D. J., & Clifford, C. W. G. (2017). Journal of Neuroscience, 37(18), 4744–4750.

Medial Entorhinal Cortex Selectively Supports Temporal Coding by Hippocampal Neurons. Robinson, N. T. M., Priestley, J. B., Rueckemann, J. W., Garcia, A. D., Smeglin, V. A., Marino, F. A., & Eichenbaum, H. (2017). Neuron, 94(3), 677–688.e6.

Towards a theory of cortical columns: From spiking neurons to interacting neural populations of finite size. Schwalger, T., Deger, M., & Gerstner, W. (2017). PLOS Computational Biology, 13(4), e1005507.

Homeostatic Plasticity Shapes Cell-Type-Specific Wiring in the Retina. Tien, N.-W., Soto, F., & Kerschensteiner, D. (2017). Neuron, 94(3), 656–665.e4.

Robust information propagation through noisy neural circuits. Zylberberg, J., Pouget, A., Latham, P. E., & Shea-Brown, E. (2017). PLOS Computational Biology, 13(4), e1005497.

THOPTER_02

Independent study on support vector machines

I, Robot (2004)

Dildo Generator

Online 3D experiment by Ikaros Kappler which is described as a “Extrusion/Revolution Generator” ….

Created with three.js, you can alter the bezier curves and angle of the form, and is designed with 3D printing in mind (models can be exported and saved, as well as calculated weight in silicone).

Try it out for yourself (if you wish) here

4DAR ARKit Unity

Developer  应高选 has been experimenting with 4DViews’ free 4D captures and shares the results - particularly striking is this one using the new Apple ARKit and Unity software:

4DAR with ARKit and Unity3D, real man and real scale. iPhone6s test.

Here is an example using the same assets at a smaller scale:

应高选’s YouTube channel can be found here

4DViews on PK (from last week) Here

[Update 10/07/17]

Here is a video from 4DAR demonstrating how to put together your ownin 5 minutes:

Almost realtime visual tutorial on using 4DViews volumetric capture sequence with Unity and Apple ARKit, for fast hologram display