Dimitra Maoutsa

Post-doc in Theor. & Comp. neuro - stochastic & nonlinear dynamics |
prev @TUBerlin @MPIDS @TUM |

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

highly recommend owning a cat because it makes dealing with every negative emotion a little bit easier. it's difficult to feel the full weight of crushing reality when a little freak is doing olympic laps around your home after taking a loud shit

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

maybe your cat is meowing bc you're not working on your paper

[Yuma Osako @OsakoYuma]

Excited to share our new paper on parallel computation and zero-shot composition in the recurrent network!

This was an amazing collaboration with @TAsabuki and Aineias!

https://t.co/AWi2GRLD9A

[Simon Coste ꙮ @__SimonCoste__]

Apparently, physicists are now discussing when it’s valid to approximate a cow with a sphere

Are they ok?

https://t.co/fsUrZ37gFA

[Yu Su @ysu_nlp]

Memory is about compression, not just storage.

https://t.co/wZmEemvmB0

[TNia @Dr_Tnia]

Mammalian Brains Seen through the Lens of Evolution https://t.co/dsJPn7WDtX

[Decision Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics Papers @decisionneurop]

How the zebrafish brain weaves recent experiences into future decisions https://t.co/a9SsjiPEge

[Anne Churchland @anne_churchland]

Excited to share this from my lab. Aging brains are an untapped resource for the AI community: biology has been stress-testing neural circuits since time began. What breaks, what holds & why? The answers could reshape how we build robust AI. 🧠

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

Don't let anyone talk you out of getting your 1st cat. Those 2 cats will be the most amazing 3 cats you'll ever have.

[Arjen Dijksman @materion]

Born June 18, 1962: Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall. "I think the weird thing about being a scientist, or an academic in general, is you have to believe really strongly in what you do, while questioning it all the time and that's a hard balance to have"
https://t.co/4tAvgJhcIA

[Dean Geckt @deangeckt]

What is the difference between excitatory and inhibitory neurons?
Beyond the obvious difference of neurotransmitter effect on postsynaptic cell, another remarkable difference is the fact that excitatory neurons have lots of spines, while inhibitory neurons have less spines. 1/13

[Jennifer Lee Rossman @JenLRossman]

Apparently June is scoliosis awareness month as well as pride month, so it's just a great month for people like me who are not straight in any way, shape, or form

[Grigory Sapunov @che_shr_cat]

1/
Backprop is the engine of deep learning, but neuroscientists have insisted for decades that the brain can't do it. There are no dedicated "error" neurons or backward wiring.

What if the brain doesn't compute error in space, but in time? 🧵

[Simons Foundation @SimonsFdn]

In a new @NeuroCellPress article, members of the Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) outline their plans to investigate how the brain links perception, cognition and action by encoding environmental affordances: https://t.co/jgcGTqW4rj #science #neuroscience

[Badr AlKhamissi @bkhmsi]

🚨 New Preprint!

🧠 We gave an AI model one simple rule: rearrange your neurons so that nearby ones respond alike. We never told it what a face, a voice, or a sentence was.

It grew brain-like maps for all three anyway. 🧵👇

🌐 Website: https://t.co/1A4gccTbK2

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

"please include names of possible reviewers" sure, which other parts of your job do you want me to do for you

[Anne Churchland @anne_churchland]

The idea that prosocial behavior repurposes parenting circuits has been around for a while & was deeply explored in @pschurchland (my mum!)'s book Conscience. Now @TheHongLab has the mechanistic proof in a stunning new Nature paper. The right idea finally meets the right tools.🧠

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The hardest problems are rarely solved by adding more complexity to the solution -- they are solved by reframing the question until a simpler, clearer answer reveals itself.

[Adam Shuaib @adamshuaib]

A strong predictor of who does extraordinary work is being terrible with everyday life; they get people’s names wrong, forget meetings, constantly lose things or don’t remember to eat because all their mental bandwidth is going elsewhere.

We met a researcher with 87000+ unread emails and a passport that expired the day before an AI conference he was speaking at, and a founder who had worn pretty much the same outfit every day for 10yrs because choosing took up way too much mental effort.

Maintaining a well run life is a part-time job hours-wise. For someone who is juggling a hard problem in their head 24-7, there is no spare capacity to run these background processes. Society treats this as a flaw to coach out (the command is “be more present”), but this level of absorption is necessary to solve a problem nobody else has.

[SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems @DynamicsSIAM]

"Learning the Geometry of Data: A Mathematical Review of Shape Space Analysis" (by Gary P. T. Choi, Khanh Dao Duc, Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Karen Habermann, Emmanuel Hartman, Christoph von Tycowicz, Chi Zhang, Wenjun Zhao, Felix Zhou): https://t.co/KcgBxisyqR