Here's my conversation with John Hopfield. Hopfield networks were one of the early ideas that catalyzed the development of deep learning. His truly original work has explored the messy world of biology through the piercing eyes of a physicist. https://t.co/Vqo7DsizMw
I ve been recently obsessed with how memory is stored and how our consciousness navigates through gamma/alpha/zeta pathways to find the right feeling or answer. Brilliant minds I admire have laid the foundation for this, shaping the path of machine learning and beyond!
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
The fly has a full #connectome, basically a directed + weighted graph. But what are its connection ‘signs’, excitatory/inhibitory?
We move towards this answer, predicting transmitters from EM! w/@BobQubit, vid @amyneurons, 1/n
Published @CellCellPress: https://t.co/yuWZEVWZkx
Another pore bites the dust! This one features an extra ring 🤯and is particularly stiff, which might aid in tackling challenging environments. By @aobarska@Beck_Laboratory@HummerLab & co, with a bit of bioinformatics assistance from @lenka_cernik
And then last, proof that they're JUST GOING FOR IT, it's SMACS 0723. We started quite close, just 1000 light years away, now we are going to look, oh, y'know, 13 or 14 BILLION light years away. And the way we are doing it is MADNESS.
“Precipitating her way toward the sweet ’crete of the creek bottom like a black angel who has just had the shroud lines of her celestial parachute severed by the Almighty.” - N. Stephenson
Shout-out to my former colleague @Filipe_RFRS and my fantastic PhD supervisor @LabFaso (and all others involved) - what a wonderful insight into Giardia's #endocytosis! Congratulations!
I met postdocs doing superb science from both institutes - thank you for the wonderful discussions! I saw them giving fantastic talks, writing impressive proposals, and more. Last but not least, we had an inspiring talk from Alba Diz-Muñoz @diz_lab.
What a fantastic joint talk about superb science, collaboration and friendship! Thank you @MercerLab and @HenriquesLab, that was inspiring and beautiful!