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Concurrent measurements of neural activity at multiple scales, sometimes performed with multimodal techniques, become increasingly important for studying brain function. However, statistical methods for their concurrent analysis are currently lacking. Here we introduce such techniques in a framework based on vine copulas with mixed margins to construct multivariate stochastic models. These models can describe detailed mixed interactions between discrete variables such as neural spike counts, and continuous variables such as local field potentials. We propose efficient methods for likelihood calculation, inference, sampling and mutual information estimation within this framework. We test our methods on simulated data and demonstrate applicability on mixed data generated by a biologically realistic neural network. Our methods hold the promise to considerably improve statistical analysis of neural data recorded simultaneously at different scales.

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Scotland Yard is understood to be moving quickly towards embracing AI automation in its intelligence units. Scotland Yard is understood to be moving quickly towards embracing AI automation in its intelligence units. The Metropolitan police has held talks with Palantir that could lead to the London force buying the US spy-tech company's AI technology to automate intelligence analysis for criminal investigations, the Guardian has learned. Palantir, whose software is used by Donald Trump's ICE immigration enforcement programme and the Israeli military, demonstrated its systems to senior officers in the intelligence division at the UK's largest police force last month. Intelligence staff have been tasked with finding intelligence systems that AI could automate to increase productivity.

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'She had big googly eyes and was wearing a red hat knitted by one of the careworkers' Emma the Social Robot by Paula Hornickel. 'She had big googly eyes and was wearing a red hat knitted by one of the careworkers' Emma the Social Robot by Paula Hornickel. 'The first resident that Emma - a social robot - was introduced to was called Peter. After that, Emma assumed they were all called Peter, which everyone found hilarious. O ne morning in July 2025, I arrived in the small, quiet town of Albershausen in south-west Germany.

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Previous studies have proposed image-based clutter measures that correlate with human search times and/or eye movements. However, most models do not take into account the fact that the effects of clutter interact with the foveated nature of the human visual system: visual clutter further from the fovea has an increasing detrimental influence on perception. Here, we introduce a new foveated clutter model to predict the detrimental effects in target search utilizing a forced fixation search task. We use Feature Congestion (Rosenholtz et al.) as our non foveated clutter model, and we stack a peripheral architecture on top of Feature Congestion for our foveated model. We introduce the Peripheral Integration Feature Congestion (PIFC) coefficient, as a fundamental ingredient of our model that modulates clutter as a non-linear gain contingent on eccentricity. We show that Foveated Feature Congestion (FFC) clutter scores (r(44) = 0.82 0.04,p < 0.0001) correlate better with target detection (hit rate) than regular Feature Congestion (r(44) = 0.19 0.13,p= 0.0774) in forced fixation search; and we extend foveation to other clutter models showing stronger correlations in all cases. Thus, our model allows us to enrich clutter perception research by computing fixation specific clutter maps. Code for building peripheral representations is available1.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos' attorney acknowledges he resigned from El Paso Police Department in 1982 to avoid suspension, defending his sworn deposition testimony.

Hey Meta workers, are you getting paid for those keystrokes? It's a very simple question that your bosses aren't inclined to answer. No longer content to subsume recognizable intellectual properties, the majority of the i ndexed internet and books ( basically all of them), AI will apparently now begin devouring its own workforce. A report in alleged that the keystrokes, mouse movements and clicks of Meta's workforce are to be captured for the purposes of training AI -- something the company's communications department was happy to confirmed as accurate! In a cheery missive, a company spokesperson told Engadget that If we're building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, our models need real examples of how people use them [...] we're launching an internal tool that will capture these kinds of inputs on certain applications to help us train our models.