#efficientcoding — Public Fediverse posts

💻🤣 Ah, the age-old quest for efficient coding, now thwarted by the mighty gatekeeper: the 403 Forbidden error! Because nothing screams "cutting-edge programming" like being denied access to the past. 🙄🔒
https://blog.jafma.net/2020/02/24/efficient-basic-coding-for-the-zx-spectrum/ #efficientcoding #403forbidden #programminghumor #techstruggles #accessdenied #HackerNews #ngated

When memory was measured in kilobytes: The art of efficient vision

https://www.softwareheritage.org/2025/06/04/history_computer_vision/

#HackerNews #memoryhistory #efficientcoding #computervision #technostalgia #kilobytes

Performance optimization guide: Learn tips on profiling, efficient coding, SQL query tuning, and scalable architecture to enhance app performance and reliability. #PerformanceOptimization #EfficientCoding #SQLTuning #ProfilingTools

https://teguhteja.id/performance-optimization-guide-for-developers/

@elduvelle_neuro I agree with @beneuroscience @kofanchen and @alicia_izquierdo here. One very broad way to look at it could be the classic nature (genes, evolution --> #neuroethology) vs nurture (environment, epigenetics --> behavioral #neuroscience)?

To slightly rephrase what others have stated - #neurothology studies the mechanisms that the brain has evolved to function in its natural conditions. If I were to draw a venn diagram for this, there could be/is an intersection between the 2 sets (behavioral neuroscience and neuroethology) but they are 2 different sets. There's #EfficientCoding based on response to natural statistics of the animal's environment that I think lies at the intersection. While there may be a behavioral response to a stimulus in the lab, it doesn't mean that the stimulus even exists in the statistics of the animal's natural environment.

In a lab, you can rewire the auditory cortex of a ferret's brain and they can start "seeing" with their auditory cortex but it doesn't mean that in a "normal" animal's brain that's what happens.

https://www.nature.com/articles/35009043
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/25/science/rewired-ferrets-overturn-theories-of-brain-growth.html
https://web.mit.edu/surlab/publications/Newton_Sur04.pdf

I think of it this way -- there could be several mechanisms to achieve the same output (behavior) in a lab setting but that doesn't mean that the brain actually uses any or all of those mechanisms in its natural environment. Heck, even in the natural environment the brain could (and very likely does) exhibit #degeneracy where distinct structural units could give rise to the same function (behavior) under different circumstances.

Also, given the diversity of responses to the OP, adding #neurobuzz @neurobuzz 🙂​