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There’s a good chance you’ve gotten a message from a “wrong number” at least once. These follow a familiar pattern: a random number asks a question addressed to a name that’s not yours, so you politely respond and say they have the wrong number. Instead of acknowledging this and moving on, they thank you for…

Renato Duarte’s analysis of citation patterns in neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) offers a fascinating lens through which to view the interaction between these fields! The observation that AI has primarily been loosely inspired by established, abstract concepts from neuroscience, rather than by using specific findings about neural mechanisms to motivate design choices, matches my own…

It’s not a stretch to say that the modern smartphone is one of humanity’s greatest inventions; there’s so much packed into that pocket-friendly supercomputer. But even the greatest of inventions has its cons. For smartphones, one of those bitter cons is unwanted calls.