🧠 Interested in local temporal learning in the brain? ✨ Come tomorrow to our spotlight talk at Neuromonster 🇮🇹! @thought_channel@AliceDauphin4 and I will present recent follow-up work on Hamiltonian Echo Learning (Pourcel & Ernoult 2025) addressing key neuro questions...
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"We only use 10% of our brains" is a myth.
"We only use 10% at any given moment" is closer to true. Most neurons stay quiet most of the time. That's how brains stay cheap to run. 💡
AI labs are now trying to copy this. Great read by
@thought_channel.
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The essay explores the idea of sparseness across neuroscience and artificial intelligence, tracing its influence from early theories of sensory coding through to modern deep learning systems and mixture-of-experts models.
Drawing on work by researchers including Horace Barlow,
✦ Sunday Reads | The Reading Room
From the Thinking About Thinking Fellowship Reading Room. This week’s Sunday Read is What Sparseness Means for Brains, AI, and Learning by Daniel J. Graham.
Dan Nicolau Jr is a Reader at King's College London whose work sits at the intersection of mathematics, engineering, medicine, immunology, and artificial intelligence.
He completed his DPhil in Mathematics at University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Philip Maini
Have you joined our fellowship yet? Meet our star ambassadors and fellows who joined us at our Venture Café London event.
What began as a small intimate group has now grown past 1,300+ global ambassadors and fellows, creating spaces to connect, network and grow.
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Alongside his research, Idea serves as Head of Technical at King’s AI Society, where he leads workshops and events designed to make frontier AI more accessible to students. He also co-founded a recruitment technology startup applying LLM pipelines to improve job matching. Join
Each month inside the Thinking About Thinking Fellowship private members area, we will highlight one Fellow and one Ambassador who has contributed to the community in meaningful ways.
Our first honouree Ambassador is Idea MH Khan.
Idea has been a thoughtful and generous member