Accelerating progress in brain recording tech – xcorr: comp neuro
In Stevenson and Kording (2011), the authors estimated that every 7.4 years, the number of neurons we can record with doubles. Think of it as Moore’s law for brain recordings. Since then, Ste…
In Stevenson and Kording (2011), the authors estimated that every 7.4 years, the number of neurons we can record with doubles. Think of it as Moore’s law for brain recordings. Since then, Stevenson has updated the estimate, which now stands at 6 years. Could it be that progress itself is accelerating? Matteo Carandini raised a question: why should progress be log-linear anyway? Technological phenomena have been argued to follow a double-exponential curve: the pace of progress itself accelerates over time. This is only noticeable when we look over a very long time horizon, for instance, when…
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