Aadam
@aadam.dev
Ph.D. student @ IUI. Studying #MachineLearning, #NeuroSymbolicAI
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RL Debates 2: Fritz "learning for the sake of learning" Sommer
Fritz introduced an information-theoretic, first-principles approach to modeling exploration through the maximization of "predicted information gain."
📽️ Watch the full presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlF-...
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Fritz introduced an information-theoretic, first-principles approach to modeling exploration through the maximization of "predicted information gain."
📽️ Watch the full presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlF-...
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RL Debates 2: Fritz "learning for the sake of learning" Sommer
YouTube video by Sensorimotor AI
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October 18, 2025 at 6:26 AM
RL Debates 2: Fritz "learning for the sake of learning" Sommer
Fritz introduced an information-theoretic, first-principles approach to modeling exploration through the maximization of "predicted information gain."
📽️ Watch the full presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlF-...
🧠🤖🧠📈
Fritz introduced an information-theoretic, first-principles approach to modeling exploration through the maximization of "predicted information gain."
📽️ Watch the full presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlF-...
🧠🤖🧠📈
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Neuromatch Academy 2026 is coming!
✅ Hands-on projects
✅ Global community
✅ Affordable fees
Applications open Feb 2026.
Learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
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#ComputationalNeuroscience #DeepLearning #ClimateScience #NeuroAI #Neuroscience #AI
✅ Hands-on projects
✅ Global community
✅ Affordable fees
Applications open Feb 2026.
Learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
Sign up for updates: neuromatch.io/mailing-list/
#ComputationalNeuroscience #DeepLearning #ClimateScience #NeuroAI #Neuroscience #AI
October 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Neuromatch Academy 2026 is coming!
✅ Hands-on projects
✅ Global community
✅ Affordable fees
Applications open Feb 2026.
Learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
Sign up for updates: neuromatch.io/mailing-list/
#ComputationalNeuroscience #DeepLearning #ClimateScience #NeuroAI #Neuroscience #AI
✅ Hands-on projects
✅ Global community
✅ Affordable fees
Applications open Feb 2026.
Learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
Sign up for updates: neuromatch.io/mailing-list/
#ComputationalNeuroscience #DeepLearning #ClimateScience #NeuroAI #Neuroscience #AI
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🚨 @vivianeclay.bsky.social and @cortical-canonical.bsky.social respond to “What's the Most Surprising Capability Monty Gains Through Sensorimotor Learning?”
youtube.com/shorts/lUQkb...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
youtube.com/shorts/lUQkb...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
✅ What's the Most Surprising Capability Monty Gains Through Sensorimotor Learning #sensorimotorai
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
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October 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🚨 @vivianeclay.bsky.social and @cortical-canonical.bsky.social respond to “What's the Most Surprising Capability Monty Gains Through Sensorimotor Learning?”
youtube.com/shorts/lUQkb...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
youtube.com/shorts/lUQkb...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
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I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
September 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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“Perception as Inference” is a century-old idea that has inspired all major theories in neuroscience 🧠, including:
✅ Sparse Coding
✅ Predictive Coding
✅ Free Energy Principle
& more!
In my new blog post, I build the intuition behind this idea from ground up 👉[1/6]🧵
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✅ Sparse Coding
✅ Predictive Coding
✅ Free Energy Principle
& more!
In my new blog post, I build the intuition behind this idea from ground up 👉[1/6]🧵
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June 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
“Perception as Inference” is a century-old idea that has inspired all major theories in neuroscience 🧠, including:
✅ Sparse Coding
✅ Predictive Coding
✅ Free Energy Principle
& more!
In my new blog post, I build the intuition behind this idea from ground up 👉[1/6]🧵
🧠🤖🧠📈
✅ Sparse Coding
✅ Predictive Coding
✅ Free Energy Principle
& more!
In my new blog post, I build the intuition behind this idea from ground up 👉[1/6]🧵
🧠🤖🧠📈
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Google Glass walked so Meta Ray Ban Glasses could also walk
September 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Google Glass walked so Meta Ray Ban Glasses could also walk
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What drives behavior in living organisms? And how can we design artificial agents that learn interactively?
📢 To address these, the Sensorimotor AI Journal Club is launching the "RL Debate Series"👇
w/ @elisennesh.bsky.social, @noreward4u.bsky.social, @tommasosalvatori.bsky.social
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📢 To address these, the Sensorimotor AI Journal Club is launching the "RL Debate Series"👇
w/ @elisennesh.bsky.social, @noreward4u.bsky.social, @tommasosalvatori.bsky.social
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September 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
What drives behavior in living organisms? And how can we design artificial agents that learn interactively?
📢 To address these, the Sensorimotor AI Journal Club is launching the "RL Debate Series"👇
w/ @elisennesh.bsky.social, @noreward4u.bsky.social, @tommasosalvatori.bsky.social
🧵[1/5]
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📢 To address these, the Sensorimotor AI Journal Club is launching the "RL Debate Series"👇
w/ @elisennesh.bsky.social, @noreward4u.bsky.social, @tommasosalvatori.bsky.social
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An overview of @logseq DB Task Management youtu.be/ITCcMFNSSmw?... with the new Schema and improved UX #logseq #TaskManagement #pkm #Productivity
Logseq DB - Task Management - Unfiltered and Unedited
YouTube video by H D
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September 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
An overview of @logseq DB Task Management youtu.be/ITCcMFNSSmw?... with the new Schema and improved UX #logseq #TaskManagement #pkm #Productivity
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It is almost time to welcome you all in Santa Cruz! 🦕
We will start with an exciting and timely keynote by
@guyvdb.bsky.social
on "Symbolic Reasoning in the Age of Large Language Models" 👀
📆 Full conference schedule: 2025.nesyconf.org/schedule/
We will start with an exciting and timely keynote by
@guyvdb.bsky.social
on "Symbolic Reasoning in the Age of Large Language Models" 👀
📆 Full conference schedule: 2025.nesyconf.org/schedule/
September 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
It is almost time to welcome you all in Santa Cruz! 🦕
We will start with an exciting and timely keynote by
@guyvdb.bsky.social
on "Symbolic Reasoning in the Age of Large Language Models" 👀
📆 Full conference schedule: 2025.nesyconf.org/schedule/
We will start with an exciting and timely keynote by
@guyvdb.bsky.social
on "Symbolic Reasoning in the Age of Large Language Models" 👀
📆 Full conference schedule: 2025.nesyconf.org/schedule/
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Is anarchist science possible? As an experiment, we got together a large group of computational neuroscientists from around the world to work on a single project without top down direction. Read on to find out what happened. 🤖🧠🧪
September 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Is anarchist science possible? As an experiment, we got together a large group of computational neuroscientists from around the world to work on a single project without top down direction. Read on to find out what happened. 🤖🧠🧪
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Looking for more engagement on Bluesky?
I've compiled tips with t he help of others in the community: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl...
#BlueSkyTips
I've compiled tips with t he help of others in the community: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl...
#BlueSkyTips
August 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Looking for more engagement on Bluesky?
I've compiled tips with t he help of others in the community: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl...
#BlueSkyTips
I've compiled tips with t he help of others in the community: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl...
#BlueSkyTips
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1/ What if we make robots that process touch the way our brains do?
We found that Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (ConvRNNs) pass the NeuroAI Turing Test in currently available mouse somatosensory cortex data.
New paper by @Yuchen @Nathan @anayebi.bsky.social and me!
We found that Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (ConvRNNs) pass the NeuroAI Turing Test in currently available mouse somatosensory cortex data.
New paper by @Yuchen @Nathan @anayebi.bsky.social and me!
May 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
1/ What if we make robots that process touch the way our brains do?
We found that Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (ConvRNNs) pass the NeuroAI Turing Test in currently available mouse somatosensory cortex data.
New paper by @Yuchen @Nathan @anayebi.bsky.social and me!
We found that Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (ConvRNNs) pass the NeuroAI Turing Test in currently available mouse somatosensory cortex data.
New paper by @Yuchen @Nathan @anayebi.bsky.social and me!
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Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database.
Now available to everyone with Obsidian 1.9!
Now available to everyone with Obsidian 1.9!
August 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database.
Now available to everyone with Obsidian 1.9!
Now available to everyone with Obsidian 1.9!
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Join us on a (mathematical) journey to a shire - oops, HIGHER - standard and principled evaluation schema for our benchmark datasets. This is the reward of the RINGS framework.
📒 Blog: aidos.group/blog/rings/
📃 Paper: doi.org/10.48550/arX...
👩💻 Code: github.com/aidos-lab/ri...
📒 Blog: aidos.group/blog/rings/
📃 Paper: doi.org/10.48550/arX...
👩💻 Code: github.com/aidos-lab/ri...
a horse drawn carriage going through a grassy area
ALT: a horse drawn carriage going through a grassy area
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July 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Join us on a (mathematical) journey to a shire - oops, HIGHER - standard and principled evaluation schema for our benchmark datasets. This is the reward of the RINGS framework.
📒 Blog: aidos.group/blog/rings/
📃 Paper: doi.org/10.48550/arX...
👩💻 Code: github.com/aidos-lab/ri...
📒 Blog: aidos.group/blog/rings/
📃 Paper: doi.org/10.48550/arX...
👩💻 Code: github.com/aidos-lab/ri...
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1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.
But...
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.
But...
🧠📈 🧪
Sensory responses of visual cortical neurons are not prediction errors
Predictive coding is theorized to be a ubiquitous cortical process to explain sensory responses. It asserts that the brain continuously predicts sensory information and imposes those predictions on lo...
www.biorxiv.org
July 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.
But...
🧠📈 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.
But...
🧠📈 🧪
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🚨Another New Paper Drop! 🚨 “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain”
👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
🚨Another New Paper Drop! 🚨 “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain”
👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
July 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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🚨Another New Paper Drop! 🚨 “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain”
👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
🚨Another New Paper Drop! 🚨 “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain”
👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
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🔥 Want to understand how the neocortex builds intelligence?
Artem Kirsanov made a great video on the Thousand Brains Theory, the foundation of everything we’re building at here Thousand Brains Project!
🎥 youtu.be/Dykkubb-Qus
#Neuroscience #AI #ThousandBrains #Neocortex
Artem Kirsanov made a great video on the Thousand Brains Theory, the foundation of everything we’re building at here Thousand Brains Project!
🎥 youtu.be/Dykkubb-Qus
#Neuroscience #AI #ThousandBrains #Neocortex
A Fundamental Unit Of Intelligence
YouTube video by Artem Kirsanov
youtu.be
July 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
🔥 Want to understand how the neocortex builds intelligence?
Artem Kirsanov made a great video on the Thousand Brains Theory, the foundation of everything we’re building at here Thousand Brains Project!
🎥 youtu.be/Dykkubb-Qus
#Neuroscience #AI #ThousandBrains #Neocortex
Artem Kirsanov made a great video on the Thousand Brains Theory, the foundation of everything we’re building at here Thousand Brains Project!
🎥 youtu.be/Dykkubb-Qus
#Neuroscience #AI #ThousandBrains #Neocortex
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Hello world! This is the RL & Agents Reading Group
We organise regular meetings to discuss recent papers in Reinforcement Learning (RL), Multi-Agent RL and related areas (open-ended learning, LLM agents, robotics, etc).
Meetings take place online and are open to everyone 😊
We organise regular meetings to discuss recent papers in Reinforcement Learning (RL), Multi-Agent RL and related areas (open-ended learning, LLM agents, robotics, etc).
Meetings take place online and are open to everyone 😊
July 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Hello world! This is the RL & Agents Reading Group
We organise regular meetings to discuss recent papers in Reinforcement Learning (RL), Multi-Agent RL and related areas (open-ended learning, LLM agents, robotics, etc).
Meetings take place online and are open to everyone 😊
We organise regular meetings to discuss recent papers in Reinforcement Learning (RL), Multi-Agent RL and related areas (open-ended learning, LLM agents, robotics, etc).
Meetings take place online and are open to everyone 😊
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Announcing the new "Sensorimotor AI" Journal Club — please share/repost!
w/ Kaylene Stocking, Tommaso Salvatori, and @elisennesh.bsky.social
Sign up link: forms.gle/o5DXD4WMdhTg...
More details below 🧵[1/5]
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w/ Kaylene Stocking, Tommaso Salvatori, and @elisennesh.bsky.social
Sign up link: forms.gle/o5DXD4WMdhTg...
More details below 🧵[1/5]
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July 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Announcing the new "Sensorimotor AI" Journal Club — please share/repost!
w/ Kaylene Stocking, Tommaso Salvatori, and @elisennesh.bsky.social
Sign up link: forms.gle/o5DXD4WMdhTg...
More details below 🧵[1/5]
🧠🤖🧠📈
w/ Kaylene Stocking, Tommaso Salvatori, and @elisennesh.bsky.social
Sign up link: forms.gle/o5DXD4WMdhTg...
More details below 🧵[1/5]
🧠🤖🧠📈
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Super excited to share our new paper! We spent the past years building an alternative AI approach, and now we demonstrate a whole range of advantages. Robust object & pose detection, generalization, data and compute efficient training, continual learning, shape bias, intelligent policies, and more!🦾
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The first paper: “Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning & Inference”, is out now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494. It showcases our first working system, codename Monty.
The first paper: “Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning & Inference”, is out now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494. It showcases our first working system, codename Monty.
July 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Super excited to share our new paper! We spent the past years building an alternative AI approach, and now we demonstrate a whole range of advantages. Robust object & pose detection, generalization, data and compute efficient training, continual learning, shape bias, intelligent policies, and more!🦾
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Nice paper arxiv.org/abs/2506.01622
General agents need world models
Are world models a necessary ingredient for flexible, goal-directed behaviour, or is model-free learning sufficient? We provide a formal answer to this question, showing that any agent capable of gene...
arxiv.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Nice paper arxiv.org/abs/2506.01622
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Together with @repromancer.bsky.social, I have been musing for a while that the exponentiated gradient algorithm we've advocated for comp neuro would work well with low-precision ANNs.
This group got it working!
arxiv.org/abs/2506.17768
May be a great way to reduce AI energy use!!!
#MLSky 🧪
This group got it working!
arxiv.org/abs/2506.17768
May be a great way to reduce AI energy use!!!
#MLSky 🧪
Log-Normal Multiplicative Dynamics for Stable Low-Precision Training of Large Networks
Studies in neuroscience have shown that biological synapses follow a log-normal distribution whose transitioning can be explained by noisy multiplicative dynamics. Biological networks can function sta...
arxiv.org
July 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Together with @repromancer.bsky.social, I have been musing for a while that the exponentiated gradient algorithm we've advocated for comp neuro would work well with low-precision ANNs.
This group got it working!
arxiv.org/abs/2506.17768
May be a great way to reduce AI energy use!!!
#MLSky 🧪
This group got it working!
arxiv.org/abs/2506.17768
May be a great way to reduce AI energy use!!!
#MLSky 🧪
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New paper dropped! “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain” The Thousand Brains Theory explains the cortex’s non-hierarchical connections, and why they matter for building machine intelligence.
Read it now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
Read it now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
July 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New paper dropped! “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain” The Thousand Brains Theory explains the cortex’s non-hierarchical connections, and why they matter for building machine intelligence.
Read it now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
Read it now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
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This week, we’re releasing two milestone papers: one shows the amazing capabilities of thousand-brains systems and their benefits over deep learning, the other proposes a new theory of long-range connections in the neocortex. Years of work led to this.
This week, we’re releasing two milestone papers: one shows the amazing capabilities of thousand-brains systems and their benefits over deep learning, the other proposes a new theory of long-range connections in the neocortex. Years of work led to this.
July 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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This week, we’re releasing two milestone papers: one shows the amazing capabilities of thousand-brains systems and their benefits over deep learning, the other proposes a new theory of long-range connections in the neocortex. Years of work led to this.
This week, we’re releasing two milestone papers: one shows the amazing capabilities of thousand-brains systems and their benefits over deep learning, the other proposes a new theory of long-range connections in the neocortex. Years of work led to this.