I’d like to know where “accuracy ranging from 75 percent to 95 percent” in the press release came from.
Looking at the paper, I’m guessing it’s the histogram intersection (HI) measurement, which actually ranged from 50% to 95% with an average of 75%, so that’s one glaring error I could find in the first few minutes of looking at a paper in a field that I know next to nothing about. (A further guess is that the journalist thought 75% accuracy didn’t sound all that impressive, and so went on a hunt for a grander number, hitting on the 95%.)
Maybe I’m all wet, but what I’m taking from the paper is that it’s actually a null result? As in, some other researchers had theorized that the fine structure of synaptic connections was somehow “guided” by chemical signals, but the simulation in fact suggests that “randomly bumping into each other” is closer to the truth. This does seem to (maybe decisively) settle a debate which the authors say has gone on for decades; I’m wondering if the term “breakthrough” is warranted though.
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I’d like to know where “accuracy ranging from 75 percent to 95 percent” in the press release came from.
Looking at the paper, I’m guessing it’s the histogram intersection (HI) measurement, which actually ranged from 50% to 95% with an average of 75%, so that’s one glaring error I could find in the first few minutes of looking at a paper in a field that I know next to nothing about. (A further guess is that the journalist thought 75% accuracy didn’t sound all that impressive, and so went on a hunt for a grander number, hitting on the 95%.)
Maybe I’m all wet, but what I’m taking from the paper is that it’s actually a null result? As in, some other researchers had theorized that the fine structure of synaptic connections was somehow “guided” by chemical signals, but the simulation in fact suggests that “randomly bumping into each other” is closer to the truth. This does seem to (maybe decisively) settle a debate which the authors say has gone on for decades; I’m wondering if the term “breakthrough” is warranted though.