Mastodawn

🚲🧠 Procedural memory allows #humans to retain complex skills like #cycling or #swimming for decades without practice. These motor activities rely on the basal ganglia and cerebellum, which are more resistant to change than parts of the #brain that store facts.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/why-never-forget-how-ride-bike/

#neuroscience #science #biology #learning #psychology #physiology #education #physics #health

Why you never forget how to ride a bike

The brain stores skills differently than facts, making them harder to forget.

Popular Science

Pierre-Yves 8h ago

[On the blog] Epiphanies

Despite all my claims, I can say I'm correctly using Generative AI tools for a few weeks only. I've been tinkering with it really since last september, especially for administrative stuff and automating my workflows. Nothing special as we have many MCP servers internally, which should cover all our ...

#agentic #learning #programming

Epiphanies

Since 2026 started, I got stuck by no less than two epiphanies.

Pierre-Yves Gillier

Pierre-Yves 8h ago

[On the blog] Epiphanies

#agentic #learning #programming

Epiphanies

Since 2026 started, I got stuck by no less than two epiphanies.

Pierre-Yves Gillier

Human Trafficking Institute 10h ago

William Lloyd Garrison history:

His unwavering stance against slavery made him one of the most influential voices of his time. He encouraged others to challenge injustice and fight for equality. His leadership played a crucial role in shaping reform movements. Exploring his journey offers valuable lessons in courage and persistence. His contributions remain significant in history.

https://traffickinginstitute.org/incontext-william-lloyd-garrison-2/

#FreedomFighter #AbolitionMovement #HistoricLeaders #Awareness #Learning

Hacker News 11h ago

AI Will Never Be Ethical or Safe

https://meiert.com/blog/ai-ethics-and-safety/

#HackerNews #AI #Ethics #AI #Safety #Tech #Debate #Machine #Learning #Future #of #AI

AI Will Never Be Ethical or Safe · Jens Oliver Meiert

On the importance, unknowability, and unignorability of context and intent.

Nikolas Kozloff 13h ago

Way ahead of you, #NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/opinion/trump-protest-ai-phones-social-media.html My take here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/06/11/anti-trump-protests-where-is-gen-z/
& here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/06/11/anti-trump-protests-where-is-gen-z/ #genz #protests #apathy #tech #ai #cognition #nokings #trump #fascism #donaldtrump #chatbots #learning #academia

Opinion | Why Is No Kings So Old?

The lack of a thriving youth movement in opposition to Trump is a canary-in-the-coal-mine warning of the deterioration of American exceptionalism.

The New York Times

Fabrizio Musacchio 13h ago

When synaptic #plasticity depends on more than spike timing alone, the #ClopathRule offers a biologically plausible model incorporating postsynaptic voltage dynamics. This voltage based #STDP model captures #synaptic change features such as frequency dependence and homeostatic stabilization making it useful for simulating #learning and #memory in #NeuralNetworks. Here's a brief introduction to that rule and its applications in #CompNeuro:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/2026-04-14-clopath_rule/

That sounds like an excellent "rule of thumb". I didn't know if you were referring to 1,000, 10,000 or 50,00. Now I have a very good clue. I am very interested in working with #Moodle on low powered devices such as #MoodleBox, i.e. on the #RaspberryPi so that might give me a good platform to experiment.

I am not going to build that AI Visualisaion thing but I am very interesed in general performance issues.

#EdTech #teaching #learning