Integrate-and-express models of synaptic plasticity propose that synapses may act as low-pass filters, integrating synaptic plasticity induction signals in order to discern trends before expressing synaptic plasticity. We have previously shown that synaptic filtering strongly controls destabilizing fluctuations in developmental models. When applied to palimpsest memory systems that learn new me...

and Plan of Paper The Stomachion is the least understood of Archimedes' works. This paper provides a reconstruction of its goal and structure. The nature of the evidence, including new readings from the Archimedes Palimpsest, is discussed in detail. Based on this evidence, it is argued that the Stomachion was a treatise of geometrical combinatorics. This new interpretation is made possible than...

Can stories about technology be told as ‘love’ stories? With the help of ‘Zimbabwe Bush Pump’, ‘Microsoft the Monster’, and the ‘Beautiful Palimpsest’, this paper contemplates the ethics of telling technology stories. Storytellers often take either a neutral or a critical position in their stories about technology. This paper discusses how ‘love’ can be a different way of talking about ‘good’ a...

We discuss the long term maintenance of acquired memory in synaptic connections of a perpetually learning electronic device. This is affected by ascribing each synapse a finite number of stable states in which it can maintain for indefinitely long periods. Learning uncorrelated stimuli is expressed as a stochastic process produced by the neural activities on the synapses. In several interesting...

www.sciencedirect.com Introduction A genome is a great compendium of interwoven texts written at different times by different authors (we speak, of course, metaphorically). Some genomes are prolix whereas others are terse. The original text may be supplemented by epigenetic annotations or overwritten by the graffiti of parasitic elements. Sometimes an insertion from another story becomes incorp...