If you have some free time, watch this great lecture by @INemenman on learning without learning , using random networks with constraints to reproduce many of the basic results reported in many neuro experiments. Worth checking out.
https://t.co/IH2DRoLDcX
I’m two episodes into “For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music” from the Cosmic Shambles. It’s a sprawling, joyful, smart and generous tour, from the baryonic acoustic oscillations of the early universe to the Pythagorean comma, the Indian Tala system, Arabic quarter-notes