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Newtonian mechanics treats states of rest and of uniform motion as equivalent, but physics engines do not. Because simulations of object motion are computationally costly, physics engines recompute object positions over successive times when objects move but not when they are at rest.
— Jan 13, 2023 05:11AM
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Has human evolution given infants, alone among the animals, a way to build on the two blessings of abstraction, while reversing the curse of a compositional mind?
— Jan 27, 2023 01:53AM
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Education in mathematics enhances the precision of non-symbolic number representations. Variations in the precision and functioning of non-symbolic number representations predict children's mastery of new material in symbolic mathematics.
— Jan 26, 2023 07:54AM
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Physics engines, like human observers, economize on physical reasoning by assuming that resting objects will remain unchanged unless some moving object hits them.
— Jan 13, 2023 05:11AM
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Recent research provides suggestive evidence that alternating cycles of synthesis, implemented in a symbolic, probabilistic computer program like a graphics engine, and of analysis, implemented in an artificial neural network, can account for the response properties of the three primary cortical areas that represent faces in monkey brains (Yildirim et al., 2020).
— Jan 10, 2023 01:29AM
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Although the sources and functions of their prenatal activity are not know, the existence of such activity suggests that fetal brains could, in principle, be furnished with ancient, generative systems like graphic engines.
— Jan 10, 2023 01:06AM
