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[uiux]

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.08726

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This is the paper I linked in my previous post, co-authored by Lars Niedermeier, a Zurich-based IT consultant, and the above-mentioned Jeff Krichmar from UC Irvine.


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The two of them co-authored three papers in recent years, including one in 2022 with another UC Irvine professor and member of the CARL team, Nikil Dutt (https://ics.uci.edu/~dutt/) as well as Anup Das from Drexel University, whose endorsement of Akida is quoted on the BrainChip website:

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Lars Niedermeier’s and Jeff Krichmar’s April 2024 publication on CARLsim++ (which does not mention Akida) ends with the following conclusion and the acknowledgement that their work was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research - the funding has been going on at least since 2022 -

UCI-led team uses robots to study brain’s ability to switch between first-person experience and global map

and a UCI Beall Applied Innovation Proof of Product Award (https://innovation.uci.edu/pop/)

and they also thank the regional NSF I-Corps (= Innovation Corps) for valuable insights.

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Their use of an E-Puck robot (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-puck_mobile_robot) for their work reminded me of our CTO’s address at the AGM in May, during which he envisioned the following object (from 22:44 min):

“Imagine a compact device similar in size to a hockey puck that combines speech recognition, LLMs and an intelligent agent capable of controlling your home’s lighting, assisting with home repairs and much more. All without needing constant connectivity or having to worry about privacy and security concerns, a major barrier to adaptation, particularly in industrial settings.”

Possibly something in the works here?

The version the two authors were envisioning in their April 2024 paper is, however, conceptualised as being available as a cloud service:

“We plan a hybrid approach to large language models available as cloud service for processing of voice and text to speech.”


The authors gave a tutorial on CARLsim++ at NICE 2024, where our CTO Tony Lewis was also presenting. Maybe they had a fruitful discussion at that conference in La Jolla, which resulted in UC Irvine’s Cognitive Anteater Robotics Laboratory (CARL) team experimenting with AKD1000, as evidenced in the video uploaded a couple of hours ago that I shared in my previous post?

NICE 2024 - Agenda

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GCtronic

www.gctronic.com

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I remember researching this guy nearly 8 years ago:


https://patents.google.com/patent/GB2556314A/en

Financial data encoder for spiking neural networks​

A computer implemented method for structuring and converting financial data into spike streams for a spiking neural network (SNN) 7 comprises structuring a continuous financial data stream 4 so that it scales over a data provider, securities, their components and derived meta data; generating multidimensional spike streams utilizing spiking neurons according to the structure of the financial data feed; configuring artificial neurons so they support the specific properties of the financial data; and synchronizing real time and historical financial data streams with the internal time of the SNN by supporting custom time lines such as real time, slow motion, and time lapse. The method is executed on a hybrid many core computing architecture such as von-Neumann combined with a GP-GPU or field programming gate array, or directly by a custom build microchip. The method may identify irregularities in a financial market data feed, and in response may send a control signal 8 to a cash vault 13 of an ATM to lock the vault.

 

[Kozikan]

Let SSMs be ConvNets: State-space Modeling with Optimal Tensor...

We introduce Centaurus, a class of networks composed of generalized state-space model (SSM) blocks, where the SSM operations can be treated as tensor contractions during training. The optimal order...

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Rudy Pei on LinkedIn: Happy to share that a work I did at BrainChip has been accepted to ICLR…

Happy to share that a work I did at BrainChip has been accepted to ICLR 2025. Introducing Centaurus, a companion to our previous Pleiades network, in the TENNs…

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lloveLamp, WOW, that seems like an excellent find.
I’m definitely not technically qualified to judge on the “ Centaurus layer “ …..but , I’m surprised at the lack of acclaim from others that may be technically adept.
Can anyone plain English this.
Thou Rudy does seem to say enough if you reread his final paragraph

Cheers

 

[BrainShit]

CES 2025 Podcast - A Chat with Ramkishor Korada, Founder & CEO of Vedya.ai

CES 2025 Podcast - A Chat with Ramkishor Korada, Founder & CEO of Vedya.ai Join us for this episode of BrainChip's CES 2025 Podcast series as we welcome, Ramkishor Korada, Founder & CEO of Vedya.ai. Ramkishor and CMO Steve Brightfield chat about handing high-volume datastreams, 2025...

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I'm not quite sure if the 0.49% shorts will be released...