My generation of aging baby boomers does its brain styling, by and large, with antidepressants: Prozac, Wellbutrin, Celexa, Paxil, Zoloft.
We know we're messing up when we find ourselves dragging our heels to do anything that's challenging for our right-brain style.
Associative memories are brain-style devices designed to store a set of patterns as stable equilibria such that the stored patterns can be reliably retrieved with the initial probes containing sufficient information about the patterns.
Compared to a classical computer program, this is somewhat more like the way the human brain works, and you will often see deep learning associated with neural networks, which refers to a combination of hardware and software that can perform brain-style calculation.
In addition, many algorithms in machine learning and other brain-style computations aim at reward maximization or, somewhat more generally, optimization of a given cost function.
But complaining about the downturn in the economy -- or anything else, for that matter -- would not be Mr. Brain's style.
The external media on which we rely as cognitive scaffolding are, as Clark argues, "best seen as alien but complementary to the brain's style of storage and computation.
But its critical, psychological and historical insights -- along with an ardor steeled by judgment and prose that is all brains and style -- will stretch those purposes remarkably.
Martin's Minotaur, $22.95), Ken Bruen, whose bullet-in-the-brain prose style is the envy of many a noir scribbler, dispatches his psycho, Matthew Patrick O'Shea, to the New York Police Department on an exchange program with the Irish Garda.
In short, he decided this rather primitive business could do with an infusion of brains and style.
