Randomness!

Evolution as a philosophy of usefulness has a blind spot!

  • Critical junction & path dependency

    ← Which factors determine these?

  • Convergent evolution

    • Different mechanisms for same purpose make the system alike but essentially different

⇒ Same idea for neuroscience!

  • e.g. A Morphological Basis for Path-Dependent Evolution …

    • Eye vs eyespot → (same output) spatial vision
      • The tendency doesn’t follow the phylogenetic tree!
      • Then what determines the branching?
        • The number of shell!
        • Less slit (⇒ constraint of the slit number) makes retina, More slit makes eyespot
        • Intermediate structure cannot make visual sensation system
    • Neural visual map
      • Columnar vs salt-and-pepper
        • What makes the difference? (No tree again)
          • Retina & V1 size!
            • Nyquist frequency determines. (Is V1 larger than retina? ⇒ (yes) columnar)
  • Number neurons emerge also in randomly initialized networks!

  • Ratio and differences also!

  • Zero-shot Counting with a Dual-Stream Neural Network Model

  • Confidence miscalibration

    • Manifold 상에서 decision boundary 양옆으로 ‘불확실한’ 데이터를 일부러 만들어서 예를 들어 0.8 이렇게 대답하도록 학습하는 논문을 봤던 것 같은데

    더닝크루거 효과?ㅋㅋㅋ