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I strongly recommend his next book, "The Brain From Inside Out". While Rhythms of the Brain is indeed aimed at neuroscientists, and is pretty heavy reading, Ins
by GlenTheMachine 4y ago
I strongly recommend his next book, "The Brain From Inside Out". While Rhythms of the Brain is indeed aimed at neuroscientists, and is pretty heavy reading, Inside Out seems to be from more of a hacker's perspective.
They're good compliments to each other, but I found Inside Out to be a bit more actionable.
- recuter 4y agoCould you share some actionable advice from Inside Out?
- GlenTheMachine 4y agoI'm not completely though it yet, but I find the graph theory aspects of the brain to be really interesting. It turns out that the vast majority of neurons are connected to their immediate neighbors (unsurprising), but the minimum path length between any two neurons is significantly shortened by a very small number of "distant" connections. Which leads me to wonder about variations on Conway's Game of Life, where specific random cells have "neighbors" that are spatially distant, and what the dynamics of that sort of system would look like.
- inwit 4y agoThis is a small world network. I'm sure GoL on small world networks has been done to death
- martopix 4y agoActually I found Inside out a bit hard even though I'm a computational neuroscientist like Buzsaki. Or maybe not really hard, but a bit repetitive and not so engaging.