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Igneous, our Python software for managing Neuroglancer 3D images, meshes, and skeletons, is now published open access in Frontiers in Neural Circuits!
Aleksandar Zlateski @jalex_bae @tartavull @nkemnitz1 @jingpeng_wu @SebastianSeung
frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
crackle-codec 0.47.1
- Fixes for downsample
- Fix for renumber
github.com/seung-lab/crackle
fastremap 1.21.0
- Adds is_sorted
github.com/seung-lab/fastrem…
In developmental economics, a more advanced country, say America, might dump huge quantities of manufactured goods on an underdeveloped country. This is a method of promoting dependence and forestalling the development of indigenous capability.
Afterwards, the targeted underdeveloped country is called backwards and the developed country calls itself their saviors. Meanwhile, the raw materials of the underdeveloped country are extracted at a low cost and often sold back at a value added higher cost.
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Get up close with brain cells with the browser-based MICrONS Explorer: bit.ly/3Jh0fnC
This OpenScience data portal contains connectivity and functional imaging data including #ElectronMicroscopy based reconstructions of cortical circuitry from the mouse visual cortex.
Quantity has a quality all it's own. Imagine a single AI had learned from the art world and could make amazing art, but at a rate similar to a human. This would be a marvelous and non-threatening curiosity.
AI companies scale this industrially with the aim of replacing humans.
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Unpopular opinion: AI companies are pushing society to accept an unacceptable level of risk for a non-essential technology.
When I first heard the words "software factory" I assumed it meant automation producing a lot of software using rented supercomputers.
Now I understand "software factory" to mean large numbers of deskilled laborers working without thinking and with little negotiating power.
The shining promise of maximalist AI is a worse Plato's Republic where the philosopher-kings have no moral agency because they are not sentient. Also, there are no artists or intellectuals.
A box of rocks is telling you what to do, and you have no thoughts.
TESCREALists, nerds, and technocrats may think "but the decisions are better!" which is a questionable premise even assuming they are "better" (usually the decisions are better for the people making the decision).
Despite the lip service, there is faint understanding of democracy
"better" is a pretty high bar to clear too, especially given actual existential threats posed by AI/Human interactions that apparently don't count for some (obvious) reasons
theintercept.com/2026/09/28/…
Rich people who write like this have invented an imaginary world where we live in socialism and not capitalism.
This is because they are the leisure class and will in fact get their time back while demanding everyone else surrender their brain and their time.
If AI gave you back 2 hours a day, that's 730 hours a year. What would you do with them? Spend more time with your kids? Get healthy? Start the business you've been putting off? That's the conversation about the future of tech I want to have.
What becomes possible when people get part of their lives back?
gaara 0.11.0
- Avoids redundant computation during chunked processing
github.com/seung-lab/gaara/
my guess is ai will keep improving until nvidia runs out of tricks AND us models become as efficient as chinese models. its a brute force algorithm on hardware that is just amazing.
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two things change the game: (a) a move away from silicon to a different computational substrate (b) an algorithmic breakthrough that is more efficient than transformers