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Entropy and inference, revisited
Ilya Nemenman, Fariel Shafee, William Bialek
We study properties of popular near-uniform (Dirichlet) priors for learning undersampled probability distributions on discrete nonmetric spaces and show that they lead to disastrou…
Neural coding of naturalistic motion stimuli
G. D. Lewen, W. Bialek, R. R. de Ruyter van Steveninck
We study a wide field motion sensitive neuron in the visual system of the blowfly {\em Calliphora vicina}. By rotating the fly on a stepper motor outside in a wooded area, and alon…
Complexity Through Nonextensivity
William Bialek, Ilya Nemenman, Naftali Tishby
The problem of defining and studying complexity of a time series has interested people for years. In the context of dynamical systems, Grassberger has suggested that a slow approac…