👁️ Very glad to present our Art/Perception collaboration with Etienne Rey today!
🔗 https://laurentperrinet.github.io/talk/2026-01-19-art-and-science
What happens today:
We will discuss with Etienne about the emergence of our collaboration, discover th…

A New Look for Convolutional Deep Networks | Next-generation neural computations
By construction, deep convolutional networks treat all pixels equally. Result: they are energy-hungry, fragile to rotations or zooms, and poor at object localization. This contrasts sharply with biological vision, which demonstrates remarkable efficiency. Think of an eagle spotting prey from kilometers away or a human recognizing a face within an eye blink time. We propose that by using a mechanism concentrating processing at the center of gaze, biological vision is optimally suited for object …

Hehehehe. I sense a story behind this accidental discovery. 😂
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/116259701700541563

In honour of IWD:
Q: What did Crick & Watson discover?
A: Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.
and, *unlike* those dicks, I shall credit my source:
https://bsky.app/profile/loreandordure.com

@… off-topic, a GitHub hint. Note the blank line in this screenshot.
I learnt the hard way. Today I discovered some online hints:
GitHub spoiler markdown – <https://gist.…

A rogue AI enrolls in your online class, then publicly shames you when you remove it. This just happened in a dev forum. Are we ready if it happens to our courses?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_a-rogue…

A mass hacking campaign targeting iPhone users in Ukraine and China
used tools that were likely designed by U.S. military contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned.
The tools, which were intended for Western spies, wound up in the hands of various hacking groups,
including Russian government spooks and Chinese cybercriminals.
Last week, Google revealed that over the course of 2025, it discovered that a sophisticated iPhone-hacking toolkit had been used in a series …

A suite of government hacking tools targeting iPhones is now being used by cybercriminals | TechCrunch
Security researchers say exploits used by governments to hack into iPhones have been found to be used by cybercriminals. They warned of an emerging market for "secondhand" exploits.

Discovery of the Day

Discovery of the Day : Angelique Arvanitaki (1901–1983), a Greek neurophysiologist born in Cairo, was a little-known pioneer in neurology.
Major Contribution:
Demonstrated ephaptic transmission, a mode of communication between neurons without synapses, still poorly understood today—and c…

Back from a very wet (local weather history says 1.76 inches or 45 mm of rain yesterday) SAR training weekend.
Lots of good land navigation drills both on trail and bushwhacking through heavy brush. Everyone's rain gear got a good workout and there were definitely a few hard lessons learned about underperforming gear.
Wrapped the weekend up with a mock search, finding our "missing person" with a "head injury", plus her friend who had gone for help but &quo…

On March 9th I’m helping launch AI Foundations for Educators, a 5-week online course that goes beyond workshop-level knowledge to guide teachers and school staff in developing a personalized framework for adapting classrooms to AI.
It’s a pilot module for a planned online certificate on generative AI; would count as credit toward that graduate credential. Open to anyone with a BA.

Just discovered the work done at the Hengen lab:
#science and