Dreaming about flying might help you balance yourself better while running. A new study hypothesizes that dreams are created to introduce corrupted or stochastic data into our brains to sharpen our generalization skills and to prevent overfitting. Overfitting is the overspecialization of a neural network (biological or artificial) towards one dataset, and it makes it more difficult for neural networks to handle different data sets, making them perform worse at other tasks. Read full article here
Research
Researcher uses AI to make texts that are thousands of years old readable
The Gilgamesh Epic, the oldest work of world literature, has been brought back to life by LMU researchers in the Electronic Babylonian Literature project. Using their new Fragmentarium tool, they have discovered hundreds of manuscripts, including the most recent tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic which dates from 130 BC – thousands of years after the earliest known version. This shows how highly valued the Epic was, even at a late period. With the public release of the Fragmentarium, anyone can now explore the thousands of cuneiform fragments and explore the ancient Babylonian literature. Read full article here
Merv
March 12, 2023
