Ritwik Niyogi

Helping Customers Realize a Better Future with GenAI. AI scientist + Neural circuit + Mental health + Economics.

[Ritwik Niyogi @ritwikniyogi]

So 😀 Happy 😀 to see the launch of the HappyCompass ! I've seen this extraordinary team of passionate but compassionate, brilliant people do amazing things right from the start ! Huge congratulations to @myhappycompass .
#RiseAndThrive #MyHappyCompass #WorldMentalHealthDay

[HappyCompass @myhappycompass]

🎉We’re excited to announce the Launch of HappyCompass! 🎉

⭐Join our Waitlist at https://t.co/cCxVgV7vyl to earn exclusive privileges and early access.🎁

Learn more about HappyCompass through our blog https://t.co/NhzyhgYPHH, and follow us for updates, sneak peeks, and more!

[Ritwik Niyogi @ritwikniyogi]

@_TomLeland @yixin_lin_ @LNuzhna IMHO : start a company to fill a gap in demand and supply for a burning user need.
If your demand = thesis committee then sell to the thesis committee and move on

[Ritwik Niyogi @ritwikniyogi]

@mohebial So sorry for your loss Ali. Please take care

[Ritwik Niyogi @ritwikniyogi]

@Raamana_ @SuryaGanguli @NandoDF @Raamana_ lol, I doubt all of us see Twitter as a place for hate! I am (very passionately) arguing against @SuryaGanguli ‘s point, not against @SuryaGanguli or @NandoDF or yourself ! And no I haven’t healed, why should I ? 🧐

[Ritwik Niyogi @ritwikniyogi]

@Raamana_ @SuryaGanguli The UK/EU doesn’t have the same innovative drive and risk taking — or money to lose @NandoDF — but atleast the immigration system doesn’t tell me “go back to where you came from” after most of my life abroad. 🤷‍♂️

[Ritwik Niyogi @ritwikniyogi]

@Raamana_ @SuryaGanguli Your whitewashed slavery comprising an exploitative immigration system with your exploitative academic system (postdocs as J1s is just that) ultimately led me to leave the US midway through my postdoc. It got a lot worse under Trump 45. Can get worse under Lame DuckTrump 47.

[Ritwik Niyogi @ritwikniyogi]

Now this, is insanely amazingly. Excited to try it

[Brenden Lake @LakeBrenden]

Looks awesome! looking forward to giving it a try

[John Hopfield @HopfieldJohn]

This award is very hard to respond to. I have received many hundred congratulatory notes, from former students, post-docs, Princeton University juniors and seniors, funding agencies and foundations, authors, signature collectors, amateurs, elementary school neural network followers, and on and on. An astonishing fraction of them has found their way into useful and interesting Neural Network careers by a casual interaction in class, at a meeting, hearing what I had to say about their ideas, learning from thinking about how I worked with a class, or from being my teaching assistants... There are some whom I remember well, and others for whom my reaction is “are they certain that our interaction sparked a single usable thought?” Yet they go on and comment “you changed my life” and follow on to explain that they heard me lecture when they were 15, and have been a member of the Neural Network brigade of the research army ever afterward.

I cannot make detailed comments to most of my letter writers. In sum I can only say that I tremendously enjoyed the interactions that the Neural Network community provided me with; that the mutual interactions have given me much pleasure over the years; that the community interested both in brain and in artificial brain has proved a good way for science to develop even if institutions have not always been sympathetic. Often these institutions found the enthusiasm infectious, after a period of doubt. In short, we often have won--. No, perhaps all we know is that we have not yet lost. I still believe that finding mind lodged in biological matter is the most profound question that physics can pose. And that the breadth of physics is a good base from which to begin.

[Ritwik Niyogi @ritwikniyogi]

@KordingLab One of the best pieces of advice I took was : “OMG. Stop using Matlab”.

After deliver results worth multi millions of dollars, I think that was one of the best pieces of advice !

With python you can do anything. Yes anything.

[Ritwik Niyogi @ritwikniyogi]

@eeevgen @wellingmax Poor Europeans

[Ritwik Niyogi @ritwikniyogi]

@mohebial 2.

[Toby Wise @toby_wise]

Bit of a last minute announcement, but I have a project in the @KCL_MRCDTP catalogue - deadline is next week!

See the link for more info, and get in touch if you want to know more

https://t.co/twUgcniBuc

[HappyCompass @myhappycompass]

It’s Friday, and we (almost) made it to the weekend! ⭐ Celebrate if you had a great week. Celebrate even if has not been a great week for you. Celebrate these small acts of courage going into the weekend, and remember don’t give up on yourself! 🎉

[Ritwik Niyogi @ritwikniyogi]

@behrenstimb Both his postdoc supervisor and postdoc supervisee have won the Nobel Prize. The first time Peter D has let us all down. So disappointing indeed.

[Ritwik Niyogi @ritwikniyogi]

@behrenstimb @behrenstimb : the Economics prize has not been announced yet ... 🤞

[Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit @GatsbyUCL]

Many congratulations to David Baker, Gatsby Unit alumnus Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis), and John Jumper!

[Wellcome @wellcometrust]

“We want to help create a world where no one is held back by mental health problems.”

Wellcome's Director of Mental Health, Miranda Wolpert explains how ⤵️ #WorldMentalHealthDay
https://t.co/FzA51v8YSs

[Ritwik Niyogi @ritwikniyogi]

@matildevaghi @BirkbeckUoL Many congratulations!!! this is great news.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

In 2009, Stanford business professor Tina Seelig split her class into groups and issued a challenge:

Each group had $5 and 2 hours to make the highest return on the money.

At the end, they'd give a short presentation on their strategy.

What happened next was fascinating:

[MQ Mental Health Research @MQmentalhealth]

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of MQ’s CEO Lea Milligan who passed away following a sudden illness on Monday the 15th of April.

Our thoughts are with Lea, his children and family as well as his many friends and colleagues.
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