[HN Gopher] The human brain builds structures in 11 dimensions, ...
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The human brain builds structures in 11 dimensions, discover
scientists
Author : hdivider
Score : 35 points
Date : 2023-11-19 16:53 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| westurner wrote:
| Which NN architectures could be sufficient to simulate the entire
| human brain with spreading activation in 11 dimensions?
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| - citing the same paper:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18218504
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| NetworkX does clique identification [1] in memory, and it looks
| like CuGraph does not yet have a parallel implementation [2]
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| [1]
| https://networkx.org/documentation/stable/reference/algorith...
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| [2] CuGraph docs > List of Supported and Planned Algorithms:
| https://docs.rapids.ai/api/cugraph/stable/graph_support/algo...
| seeknotfind wrote:
| > They found that groups of neurons connect into 'cliques', and
| that the number of neurons in a clique would lead to its size as
| a high-dimensional geometric object.
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| So cliques of 11 neurons have been found in the brain? I'd hardly
| call this 11 dimensional.
| lebean wrote:
| Does that mean this "4D chess" I keep hearing about is just
| playing chess with a clique of four neurons?
| radiojosh wrote:
| I am guessing that they can't actually mean 11 spacial
| dimensions. Are they saying something analogous to multi-
| dimensional data structures? Like these things exist in 3D space
| but they are akin to arrays of arrays?
| kazinator wrote:
| > _multi-dimensional data structures_
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| The lowly byte is 8 dimensional in the Boolean domain.
| akomtu wrote:
| This article is gpt-generated rubbish. Better to read the paper:
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| https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2017.0004...
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