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Lightweight spiking neural networks for human activity recognition on resource-constrained edge wearable devices
An evidence-bounded PSYTECH brief on the human implications of a verified technology signal.
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Deep Chamber
Short features — one crystalline insight each. Edited for readers who want signal, not noise. For longer essays, open Essays.
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An explainable multi-modal graph learning framework with attention-based GCN-GAT for EEG-based depression detection
An evidence-bounded PSYTECH brief on the human implications of a verified technology signal.
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The inner voice that is no longer only yours
After enough fluent completions, some people notice a stranger’s cadence in thought. That report is phenomenological. Inner-speech science is older, and it does not yet include this residue as a finding.
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Motivation is not a mood — it is a circuit people will sell
Animal work on orexin and persistence is real. The leap from rat breakpoint to a human product is not.
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Notification debt: the invisible cognitive tax
Every unread badge is a half-open loop. The cost is not the glance. It is the residue in working memory.
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Empathy at scale: what chatbots cannot borrow
Language models can produce caring sentences. Empathy, in the human literature, is not only sentences.
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When seeing is no longer enough
As synthetic audio and video fool casual viewers, trust becomes a practised skill — not a default of perception.
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When AI drafts the hard parts, judgment goes quiet
Delegation to models can free expertise — or erode the practice that made expertise possible. Rehearsal is how competence stays alive.
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What you click becomes what you seem to want
Personalisation is not only convenience. Over time it shapes what feels familiar — often without a reflective decision.
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Attention is not a UX metric — it is public health
If attention is the substrate of learning and self-control, design that harvests it is not only a taste. It is an exposure. The size of the effect is still argued; the frame is not empty.