Anthropic's new "J-lens" reveals a silent workspace inside Claude that mirrors a leading theory of consciousness

Anthropic’s new Claude research reveals a hidden internal “global workspace” that resembles human conscious processing, ...
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Programmable metasurface generates dozens of holograms at once

Over the past few decades, engineers have developed various devices that can create holograms, three-dimensional (3D) or ...
eLife

Distinct involvements of the subthalamic nucleus subpopulations in reward-biased decision-making in monkeys

The subthalamic nucleus contains subpopulations with different contributions to deliberative decision-making based on noisy evidence and reward-driven preferences.
IEEE

Multiple serial and parallel concatenated single parity-check codes

Abstract: Single parity-check (SPC) codes are applied in both parallel and serial concatenated structures to produce high-performance coding schemes. The number of concatenations or stages, M, is ...
IEEE

Amplitude-Phase-Sphere Block Modulation and Demodulation for Resisting Phase Noise in Millimeter-Wave Single-Carrier Wireless Communications

Abstract: Phase noise (PN) significantly degrades the performance of millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless communication systems. To mitigate this challenge, we propose the amplitude-phase-sphere block ...
PNAS

Robust parallel decision-making in neural circuits with nonlinear inhibition

Edited by Terrence J. Sejnowski, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, and approved August 19, 2020 (received for review October 9, 2019) The second regime is encountered in explicit ...
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New strategy enhances oxygen reduction in zinc-air batteries

Batteries are undergoing rapid advances. For example, modern zinc-air batteries have the remarkable ability to use oxygen as energy—but that oxygen isn't stored in the battery itself. Zinc-air ...