Of personal musings and interests.
That’s not photoshop; that’s an actual cloud hovering inside an actual room. Artist Berndnaut Smilde merges art and science to create small man-made clouds that exist — albeit for just a moment — indoors.
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Badass.
Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies.
As you move through the world or you watch a movie, a dynamic, ever-changing pattern of activity is evoked in the brain. The goal of movie reconstruction is to use the evoked activity to recreate the movie you observed. To do this, we create encoding models that describe how movies are transformed into brain activity, and then we use those models to decode brain activity and reconstruct the stimulus.
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“Milky Way above the Himalayas” by Anton Jankovoy
Might I reiterate … this is a photograph. Holy bejeezus.
Unbelievable. —Sarah
Armstrong to NASA: “You’re Embarrassing”
The first man on the moon has a few choice words for the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
