[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?
       | 
       | - 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_
         | 
         | 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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