Look at this cool neuroscience work that my wife is part of!!!!!!! <\/p>
In the words of one of the authors Brad Voytek: \"We show that reducing action potentials to binary {0,1} events throws away meaningful variation in each spike\u2019s waveform. \"<\/p>
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AI engineers gave up on the (presumed) biology and now modern artificial neurons use (presumably non-biological) smooth, non-linear activation functions. But our work suggests that spikes were never binary to begin with (which is funny because every neurophysiologist is like: yeah, we know!)\"<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-28:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/grimalkina\/statuses\/117320949298536073","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/grimalkina\/statuses\/117320949298536073","objectType":"note","content":" \"\"What\u2019s wild is when people started building ANNs in the 1940s they copied the binary {0,1} template. But essentially all modern AI has abandoned binary neurons because they just don\u2019t learn as well. 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