Emer Jones

Machine learning & cognitive neuroscience | PhD student at @mrccbu & @CaiusCollege, @Cambridge_Uni

[Helen Czerski @helenczerski]

A friend has just shown me this book "Calculus made easy", published in 1914, and I think it's got one of the best prologues I've ever seen. This is *exactly* what textbooks should be doing. And they should all be honest about how terrifying the topic names are too.

[Tim Kietzmann @TimKietzmann]

New preprint alert! We show that predictive coding is an emergent property of input-driven RNNs trained to be energy efficient. No hierarchical hard-wiring required. A thread: 1/
https://t.co/MCJFSPb49E

[Emer Jones @emercjones]

@tom_hartley Thanks Tom, missed this the first time. Loved the book!

[Emer Jones @emercjones]

@alexhdezgcia @Mila_Quebec Congratulations Alex, exciting! I hope the quarantine passes by quickly, and all the best settling in over the next while :)

[Emer Jones @emercjones]

@alexbellos Thank you! New one for me: achieve a New Year's resolution before 1st Jan. I hadn't come across these before and am now hooked, have been doing them all evening.

[Tim Kietzmann @TimKietzmann]

What makes a good scientific reviewer?

We discussed this topic in today's lab meeting, slides here: https://t.co/UJmY479xh4

Comments and RTs appreciated.

#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Science #AcademicPublishing @AcademicChatter @YourPaperSucks @thirdreviewer

[Dan Goodman @neuralreckoning]

I collected some free resources for learning computational neuroscience on my website. Please feel free to share with others and to send me suggestions.

https://t.co/Mki3brB1az

[Emer Jones @emercjones]

The CBU is a great place to do a PhD, such a lovely atmosphere. Happy to chat with anyone who'd like to know more about what it's like!

[MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit @mrccbu]

Fantastic opportunities to study here at the @mrccbu! 👇

https://t.co/Ed2kvmKRvn

#studentships #cambridgestudentships

[Emer Jones @emercjones]

@markhymers No complaints thanks, plenty of pythoning!

[Emer Jones @emercjones]

@markhymers All the best for what comes next! You were a big part of why I enjoyed the MSc at York so much!

[Emer Jones @emercjones]

@Bryonymckean93 @CadeMcCall @RolfReber @YorkPsychology Huge congrats Dr Bryony!!

[Allison Horst @allison_horst]

As a warm-up exercise to teach PCA I ask students to pretend they're a whale shark then ask them what angle they'd tilt their shark face if they were approaching a delicious krill swarm...

[Lei Zhang | 张磊 (@lei-zhang.bsky.social) @lei_zhang_lz]

1/13) This semester's teaching on Bayesian stats and cognitive modeling is over! Thanks to COVID (ironically!), I recorded all my teaching sessions w/ @zoom_us, and they are available on #Youtube.

Wondered what have we covered to the cog-neuro audience? A thread.

[Daniel Yamins @dyamins]

1/7 A big problem with deepnet models of the brain is that they require training on huge supervised datasets. So even if they are approximations of neural responses in the "adult animal", the training process is a totally implausible model of learning in real visual development.

[Emer Jones @emercjones]

@AnneEUrai @eloiseastark @AcademicChatter These tips and code snippets are really useful, thanks for documenting and sharing Anne!

[hardmaru @hardmaru]

“First Order Motion Model for Image Animation” hooked up to a live camera:

https://t.co/9xXKMC06SP

Original NeurIPS2019 paper / code: https://t.co/yaOyMis5i6

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

For students and others interested in expanding their knowledge of AI during this period, we thought it might be helpful to ask our researchers what they consider to be the most impactful and insightful resources available to use #AtHomeWithAI (1/9)

[International Summer School on Deep Learning @ISSonDL]

To accommodate for this situation we are organizing one-day, virtual & free of charge Conference on AI inference in Practice in the first half of September 2020. The Conference will be accompanied by virtual workshops in topics of Deep Learning. More details will be posted soon!

[Kording Lab 🦖 @KordingLab]

How to run big (neuro)science conferences online  — https://t.co/sIiqmr90Cl https://t.co/pzODe3yaOn what we learned. Let us make online conferences awesome.

[Emer Jones @emercjones]

@8erberg @KordingLab @neuralreckoning @titipat_a @J_A_Quent Jealous! Where did this erg come from? You have remote working nailed 👌