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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Consistent resting-state networks across healthy subjects

   Damoiseaux, Rombouts, Barkhof et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006

   Using a statistical method on resting fMRI scans, the study found brain activity patterns that were consistent across subjects and sessions, with signal changes comparable to those seen in task experiments.

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   1. UncheckedResting-state fMRI analysis found 10 brain patterns, linked to regions for movement, vision, memory and others, with signal changes up to 3%.“The analysis found 10 patterns with potential functional relevance, consisting of regions known to be involved in motor function, visual processing, executive functioning, auditory processing, memory, and the so-called default-mode network, each with BOLD signal changes up to 3%.”
   2. UncheckedIn this resting-state fMRI study, brain areas with a higher mean percentage BOLD signal were generally more consistent and varied least around the mean.“In general, areas with a high mean percentage BOLD signal are consistent and show the least variation around the mean.”

2. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Bootstrapping a Data-Set and Model for Question-Answering in Portuguese (Short Paper)

   Zihang, Zhilin, Yiming, Carbonell, Le and Salakhutdinov · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

   The paper proposes Transformer-XL, a language-modelling architecture that learns longer-term dependency beyond a fixed context length and reports improved results on several benchmarks.

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   1. UncheckedTransformer-XL is reported to learn dependencies 80% longer than RNNs and 450% longer than vanilla Transformers, and to evaluate up to 1,800+ times faster.“As a result, Transformer-XL learns dependency that is 80% longer than RNNs and 450% longer than vanilla Transformers, achieves better performance on both short and long sequences, and is up to 1,800+ times faster than vanilla Transformers during evaluation.”