Both humans and other animals are good at learning by inference, using information we do have to figure out things we cannot observe directly. New research shows how our brains achieve this by ...

There are four levels of comprehension or understanding: literal (stated facts), interpretive (implied facts), critical (making judgments), and creative (evoking an emotional response or forming new ...

Another Hot Chips conference has ended with yet another deep learning architecture to consider. This one is actually quite a bit different in that it relies on analog computation inside flash memory ...