John W. Krakauer
@blamlab
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Brain, Learning, Animation, & Movement Lab: studying motor control, motor recovery, aesthetics of action, the cognitive-motor interface, & philosophy of science
Johns Hopkins; Santa Fe Inst.
Joined February 2013
SFI President David Krakauer joins The Generalist Podcast to talk about intelligence, the influence of AI on human thinking, and how to preserve creativity and understanding in a rapidly changing information landscape. Watch the full interview:
This week on The Generalist Podcast, I’m interviewing David Krakauer, President of the Santa Fe Institute. Maintaining Human Intelligence in the AI Era David Krakauer is a leading complex systems researcher and the president of the @sfiscience, a unique institution dedicated to
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"Moderate-high intensity aerobic or low-intensity flexibility exercise for 12 months in participants with aMCI may provide protection against decline relative to usual care"
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
INTRODUCTION EXERT was a multisite randomized controlled trial (RCT) examining the effects of moderate-high intensity aerobic training (AX) versus lower-intensity stretching/balance/range of motion...
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In the cerebellum, neurons are placed in competition with one another, nulling the downstream effects of each other's spikes, in a well-organized subtractive process that produces a fast changing, precise output from a collection of slow, noisy neurons.
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Some of my thoughts on OpenAI's o3 and the ARC-AGI benchmark: ⬇️
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Very concerning
The internet has been progressively diluted with AI-generated slop. Are medical records headed for the same fate? 🧵 I just published a perspective in @NEJM with @AdamRodmanMD and Arjun Manrai on why rushing AI into medical documentation could be a mistake.
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Very useful indeed
So many people confuse LLMs (or genAI, in general) for models of human cognition, language, learning, etc., so I thought it may be useful to share once more my brief comment, titled "Psychological models and their distractors". (open access link: https://t.co/U2T6Vsgl8H) 🧵
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Excited to be part of this
“The knowledge from this project could lead to new treatment approaches down the road for improving stroke recovery.” Neuroscience research led by @UNC_SOM faculty @AdamHantman and @ShihYYI, along with @blamlab John W. Krakauer at @HopkinsMedicine, has the potential to improve
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Virtual reality to be used in UK trial to help people beat cocaine addiction
theguardian.com
Research is one of 11 projects part of a £12m government plan to reduce drug overdoses with new technology
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Integrating brainstem and cortical functional architectures | https://t.co/hmGC40nJq2 led by @JustineYHansen in @NatureNeuro 400 cortical regions + 58 brainstem nuclei. Lesgo 🤘🕶️⤵️
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Propelled by tech money, the menace of race science is back – and it’s just as nonsensical as ever | Adam Rutherford | The Guardian
theguardian.com
Once thought extinct after the fall of empire, this debunked practice has re-emerged with support from rogue experts and rich backers, says geneticist Adam Rutherford
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Mouse models of autism say almost nothing about autistic people | Vox
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Animal models of autism haven’t helped autistic people enough. So why do scientists still use them?
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A recent study examining the kinematics of 3D arm movements in individuals in the sub-acute phase after #stroke found that both weakness and synergy intrusion contribute to motor deficits during the sub-acute period. https://t.co/UWVfaSi4aQ
#neurotwitter #neurorehabilitation
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Our paper - Chronic stroke survivors underestimate their upper limb motor ability in a simple 2D motor task - out now from @SebastianSporn @MCollOmana @NeurorehabUCLP
https://t.co/BRj8tWzvIP
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@BioMedCentral
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Our results demonstrate that chronic stroke survivors can underestimate the actual motor abilities of their affected upper limb, independent of impairment level. Low confidence in affected upper limb...
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Was fun to provide a commentary on @ProfLaurenRoss and @DaniSBassett piece on mechanism.
Lauren Ross @ProfLaurenRoss and @DaniSBassett outline the different ways neuroscientists use the term mechanism, and they gather insight from nine scientists on how this variety makes it difficult to clarify standards in the field. https://t.co/3acg6cX5YM
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Do bumblebees prefer continuous over interrupted strings to get to an artificial flower with nectar? Yes ... but does this mean that they understand the physics of a continuous string...? Find out in our latest paper in eLife: https://t.co/BBLqCsAuBU
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Fascinating - yet again pointing towards the separation between language and thought with the latter in the driving seat.
Curious about the origins of structured thought? In the latest @CurrentBiology I share some thoughts on @ljuba_pi @JR_Hochmann & colleagues' new study showing that infants grasp complex social relations, w/ implications for language & thought. Take a look! https://t.co/hVIQ79qb5n
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