Author: tonykelly
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Mental Health & COVID
Mental health The WHO has tracked mental illness globally since 1990 [using data synthesized from national surveys and epidemiological studies, compiled notably by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study] and typically 1 in 8 people (or roughly 13% of the global population) have reported some form of mental illness. That means you or someone…
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Dendritic Compartmentalisation Supercharges Computational Power
The human brain, performs computations of incredible complexity with astonishing energy efficiency – a mere ~20 watts (see Boahen 2022 ). Our current advances in AI based on deep learning of artificial neuronal networks directly stem from inspiration of biological neuronal networks. However, even the most powerful AI guzzle megawatts while still struggling to match…
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Noisy Bonn!
Noise is a nuisance. I know this as we live on a main street and although it is fantastic to be 30s from the shops, bakeries, restraunts, cafes – life basically, the traffic noise is annonying. What is great is that Bonn provides data on traffic noise and so I though to explore this data…