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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Build a brain in a supercomputer
Henry Markram’s TED talk shows how high-performance computing (including many excellent visualizations) are being used to understand the human brain. Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved — soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they’re made of neurons and electric signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models [...]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
The Visual Miscellaneum
The Visual Miscellaneum is a coffee table book of visualizations. The author, David McCandless, has a post on his site showing some photos of the book. McCandless writes about the book: Overall though, I think it’s pretty good. Ultimately, I wanted to explore a whole range of subjects as visually and beautifully as possible, with [...]
