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Les ganglions de la base et les neurones dopaminergiques du mésencéphale semblent jouer un rôle majeur dans l’apprentissage par renforcement, l’apprentissage de séquence et les phénomènes de dépendance (drogue, jeux pathologiques, etc.). Ils sont au coeur d’une famille de modèles informatiques basés sur l’apprentissage par renforcement où la réponse phasique des neurones dopaminergiques semble corréler […]

Anyone working with ODBC databases and Vista 64 must be careful with this issue.
There are two ODBC Data Source Administrator panel on Vista 64.
The default one, the 64 bits version, connects to 64 bits ODBC drivers only and is used by 64 bits applications only.
A second one, in syswow64 directory, is the 32 bits version […]

I just read Teaching Natural Computation by Johnson [1], a very interesting paper about the Computer Scientist B.Sc. curriculum. Is computer science just about what computers can compute, or is about computation in general (a bit like mathematic)? I think he is raising a very good question. The issue about natural computation is two folds.
First, […]

What’s hard?

One of the hardest things to do is to decide what to ignore, so that you can get stuff done. (Coding Horror)