Foundations of Natural and Stochastic Computing

Twitter account of the Foundations of Natural and Stochastic Computing group at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour.

[Johan Kwisthout - @johankwisthout.bsky.social @JohanKwisthout]

Job alert!📢 I have a vacancy for a fully funded 4 year PhD position on New Approximate Bayesian Inference Techniques at the @DondersInst in our Foundations of Natural and Stochastic Computing lab:
https://t.co/Lcu0ODq0sJ 1/6

[DanajaRutar @DanajaRutar]

Happy to share our paper Structure Learning in Predictive Processing Needs Revision (https://t.co/3gyRj9LLu1), which is finally published. Shout out to amazing collaborators @Erwin_de_Wolff, @IrisVanRooij and @JohanKwisthout!
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[Foundations of Natural and Stochastic Computing @DBicgroup]

Ready to start our day-long group (hybrid) retreat at conference center (and former monastry) Soeterbeeck in Ravenstein! Feels good to be back after more than two years!

[Foundations of Natural and Stochastic Computing @DBicgroup]

Find us online at https://t.co/lojG9QhGuL

[Foundations of Natural and Stochastic Computing @DBicgroup]

Happy to announce a change in the group's name! From now on we are officially the Foundations of Natural and Stochastic Computing group at @DondersInst! This group hosts (among others) @Max_Hinne @DanajaRutar @Erwin_de_Wolff and @JohanKwisthout

[Foundations of Natural and Stochastic Computing @DBicgroup]

2) includes neuromorphic engineering, structural complexity theory, brain-inspired computing, and philosophy of neuromorphic computing

[Rineke Verbrugge @RinekeV]

@DBicgroup @paulwgoldberg A double exponent just takes some supporting hand gestures :-)

[Foundations of Natural and Stochastic Computing @DBicgroup]

@RinekeV @paulwgoldberg When Y is something like P with an oracle for (PP with an oracle for PP) or P^{PP^{PP}} (like finding the k-th most probable explanation in Bayesian networks) I prefer not to pronounce it at all 😀

[Johan Kwisthout - @johankwisthout.bsky.social @JohanKwisthout]

@AI_Radboud is very proud to host (with @tudelft) AI-student Akke Toeter in the @DBicgroup for his thesis project on the intersection of Space Flight and Neuromorphic Computing! Congrats Akke on this huge achievement!

[Foundations of Natural and Stochastic Computing @DBicgroup]

We're growing! Per October 1st, Dr Leila Bagheriye will join our group as Postdoc in Neuromorphic Computing!

[Foundations of Natural and Stochastic Computing @DBicgroup]

Happy to announce a new group member per September 1st: Erwin de Wolff will join as a PhD candidate supervised by @IrisVanRooij and @JohanKwisthout !

[Johan Kwisthout - @johankwisthout.bsky.social @JohanKwisthout]

Come work with @IrisVanRooij and me on this (fully funded) PhD project 'How to Grow an Internal Model: A Toolbox for the Computational Modeller' at the @DondersInst !

https://t.co/2P4Zk7O4iz

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[Foundations of Natural and Stochastic Computing @DBicgroup]

Our ultimate goal is to understand which problems can be solved energy-efficiently on such systems and which problems are inherently energy-greedy, in order to allow for an optimal utilization of the potential of neuromorphic architectures. 6/6

[Foundations of Natural and Stochastic Computing @DBicgroup]

Paper "On the computational power and complexity of Spiking Neural Networks" by Nils Donselaar and @JohanKwisthout accepted for NICE2020 (https://t.co/MQGQwTOQwc) and to appear in ACM ICPS. Preprint available here: https://t.co/VjIsZYlggg -- summary in this thread: 1/6

[Foundations of Natural and Stochastic Computing @DBicgroup]

Within the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community we augment our fundamental complexity work and algorithm design with implementation and simulation on the Loihi system to validate and inform our theoretical work. 5/6