Predictive coding posits that the brain continuously generates hierarchical models to anticipate sensory events and minimises the discrepancy between expectation and ...

InfoNCE: L_N = −E[log f_k(x_{t+k},c_t) / Σ_j f_k(x_j,c_t)]; minimizing this lower-bounds MI: I(x_{t+k};c_t) ≥ log(N) − L_N. Critic f_k(x,c) = exp(z^T W_k c) is density-ratio-proportional at optimum: f ...

Summary: In a creative shift for psychiatric research, a study suggests that songwriting and group music-making can help people with psychosis re-connect with reality. The research explores the ...

Summary: For decades, scientists believed the brain worked like a computer: it sees an object, compares it to a stored file, and then decides how to act. A provocative new review argues this is ...

In President Trump’s executive order on foster youth, issued in November of 2025, he instructed the Department of Health and Human Services to take actions that would: “Expand states’ use of ...

Dark Zero Point Genesis: PPO Latent World Models Under Thermodynamic Scarcity 256 agents. 128D Latent Manifolds. Zero supervision. Agents utilize PPO-clipped ...

A portion of Point Predictive’s latest Fraud Intelligence Brief examined how much fraud is happening at dealerships and why lenders are watching the issue even more. Point Predictive said its ...

Instructure's Mastery Predictive Assessments, currently used in 14 states, will expand to 27 additional states in the 2026–2027 school year. The assessments measure understanding of previously taught ...

ABSTRACT: This essay argues that individual and collective perceptions of threat—and their neurocognitive correlate, dread—are key drivers of instability, volatility, and violence, and thus must be ...

Abstract: Predictive coding is a theory developed to explain how the brain predicts statistical regularities present in nature and eliminates redundant stimuli ...