Nic Becker

[G Jones @gjonesbass]

every time i see a new "create a song from a single prompt" kind of product being rolled out i think about these comments from @David_Rudnick

[neilson @neilsonks]

oakwood studio is evolving

[Nic Becker @caenopy]

@tobyshooters neogeocities

[cristóbal @tobyshooters]

I work on a tool for working with the information in videos called https://t.co/Z1hWUTrkqL

We just released "Videoboard," a 2d canvas for storyboarding + clustering. It lets you edit video on an infinite canvas—a “really non-linear” editor.

Some background...

[Nic Becker @caenopy]

new paper up on arxiv!

[Surya Ganguli @SuryaGanguli]

1/ Our new work: "How many degrees of freedom do we need to train deep networks: a loss landscape perspective." https://t.co/O7UKkSOO63 We present a geometric theory that connects to lottery tickets and a new method: lottery subspaces. w/ @_BrettLarsen @caenopy @stanislavfort

[Luiz Pessoa @PessoaBrain]

What does a leading 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 think about *causation*? Summary of some positions by Buzsaki in The Brain From Inside Out (ch 2).
Plenty of discussions about causation but here we have someone at the very “center of the action” in neuroscience.
🧶

[Nic Becker @caenopy]

@_fernando_rosas Great list, here's another one: Projections by @KarlDeisseroth in June

https://t.co/PTlVFQRBtH

[Karl Deisseroth @KarlDeisseroth]

Some rare personal news…
My first calling, as many of you know, was writing. I’ve always found (unreasonable levels of) joy in working with words.
Now I’ve somehow written a book: Projections.
@randomhouse https://t.co/pVzT3E6SFT 1/12

[Nic Becker @caenopy]

@fchollet i imagine this will also upset what is deemed mainstream vs. alternative history. future historians will be inundated by the multiplicities of explanations at their disposal.