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Stanford Neuroscientist: Can’t Remember Your Dreams? Your Brain May Be Warning You!
The Diary Of A CEO· 2026-04-23 07:00
After many many decades of people debating this, you might have figured out the reason why we dream. Yes. And it's a simple answer. So if you go blind, the visual cortex in the back of the brain gets taken over by hearing and by touch and by other things. In fact, our colleagues at Harvard did an experiment where they blindfolded normally cighted people. And you could start seeing that takeover happening after 60 minutes. And that's when we realized, wow, the purpose of dreaming is to defend the visual terr ...
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Avi Chawla· 2026-01-22 06:51
The efficacy of mixed precision scaling over traditional training is evident from the image below.Mixed precision training is over 2.5x faster than conventional training in a mini neural network.Typical speeds are 4-6x in bigger neural networks.Check this 👇 https://t.co/RRGQZ3bYLI ...
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Avi Chawla· 2025-09-07 06:31
Performance Improvement - Mixed precision training is over 250% faster than conventional training in a mini neural network [1] - Typical speed improvements of 400%-600% are observed in larger neural networks using mixed precision training [1]