{dr. arsonist}, PhD

Maker of symphonic computer music. Computational neuroscience researcher w/ Intel Neuromorphic. Formerly Doiron Lab & Carnegie Mellon Neuro Inst. 1/2 @csmcsnd

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

https://t.co/q73kO3B8sY I'm in an @arstechnica programmatic music piece speaking about @tidalcycles ! Also featuring @yaxu @kindohm @williamfieldsy @MariawHorn & !pioneer @carlstone! + Peep the linked preview of DXGPVWZ (me & @Spednar ) A/V. Thx @ConceptualCamel for the interview

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

Just logging in here after many months to take solace in the death of “conceptronica”

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

@RichardDevine 👀👀👀

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

Excited to continue algorithmic development f/ this system, esp using its on-chip learning engine. With this, we can not only make AI workloads run more efficiently at inference time, but learn continuously, w/o batching, to minimize/avoid the costly re-training of deep networks

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

Very proud that today our Intel Neuromorphic Computing Lab announces Hala Point, the world's largest and fastest deployed neuromorphic system w/ 1.15 billion neurons, the capacity of an owl brain, packed into a 6 rack-unit chassis https://t.co/AXDLP0JfhD

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

Capable of 20 quadrillion dense-equivalent 8-bit integer ops per second and 15 TOPS/W efficiency, it operates at only 2600 watts max (a few GPUs worth) and paves the way for more sustainable AI acceleration.

[David Sussillo @SussilloDavid]

Thrilled to share that my PhD advisor, Larry Abbott, and pioneers Terry Sejnowski @sejnowski & Haim Sompolinsky @HSompolinsky clinched the prestigious Brain Prize for their groundbreaking work in computational and theoretical neuroscience.
🤘🤓🤘

This honor is a watershed moment in the history of neuroscience. Once viewed as irrelevant, computational/theoretical neuroscience is now viewed as essential, especially in systems neuroscience (how we understand e.g. vision, motor control, cognition, etc).

Thanks to pioneers like Larry, Terry & Haim, cutting-edge tech and AI we're inching closer to decoding the brain's computational mysteries.

[Jérôme Lecoq @LecoqJerome]

BREAKING: You can actually get the @AllenInstitute to perform cutting-edge neuroscience experiments to test your ideas on how the brain work for free. Deadline is September 12th to submit your experiments. Please wake up to how amazing that is. https://t.co/9NPZNbI1lJ

[Sven Dorkenwald @sdorkenw]

We are releasing a whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly, including ~130k annotated neurons and tens of millions of typed synapses!

Explore the connectome: https://t.co/EWcwRiO0Oz

Reconstruction paper: https://t.co/wCI3hASUfD
Annotation paper: https://t.co/3bPTNK9hRk
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[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

Genot Centre was influential in my music tastes when {arsonist} was just coming to fruition. They embodied a particular post-club + computer music crossover that will always be sentimental for me. Ondřej and Wim supported my own music early on. Thanks for everything friends🙏🌹

[Genot Centre @genotcentre]

🪦 RIP GENOT CENTRE (2015-2023) 🪦
"Music is about discovery”, as one brave & wise man once said (Bryce Helm, 2023). We have recently discovered that this is the perfect time to conclude all things Genot. ⬇️

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

@babykaho1 Exactly but also lately I’m like…what if…I had lounge clothes…that I wanted to wear…not begrudgingly 🤪🥸

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

Does everyone else have 2-5 storage bins containing every t-shirt that you’ve ever been given as part of any past academic/professional/athletic/musical/organizational affiliation that you wear once each per year max out of nostalgia and guilt or is that just me?

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

New mix of proper mutant dance music for the Tarantella series now up on SC. Heavy on electro and acid ear tinglers. Ft ⁦@Client_03⁩ ⁦@splashpattern⁩ ⁦@duswunder⁩ ⁦@rhywmusic⁩ ⁦@disektor_⁩ & more https://t.co/BxrB0fl4H9

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

Have to agree with Blake here and it’s interesting to me that I’m also seeing agreement from many prominent researchers who lean “computational neuroscience” vs more general DL/AI (if we can draw such a crude distinction)

[Blake Richards @tyrell_turing]

1/4) Several people I admire immensely have signed this, but respectfully, I'm afraid I just don't agree with the claim that "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority".

I think this statement is naive and a mistake.

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

A lesson that I continually relearn — the things that are pedestrian to you are not necessarily that way for others. If you’ve invested deeply in a(n) artistic/musical/algorithmic/academic niche, what seems obvious/overplayed to you can be deeply valuable to a different audience

[Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown]

Today we're kicking off the third Summer of Math Exposition, SoME3. It's an event to encourage more people to create online math explanations, with prizes and a chance to have your work surfaced to a larger audience.

Learn more at https://t.co/QAnSlTT1fw

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

It’s our collective moral duty to get the new @eprombeats live set into the largest US stadium. An absolutely unreal production feat

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

@ArtHasNoSeason This is the beginning of the next great American novel

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

@govlinkxl Right now I’m into the tree peonies (pic 1) b/c I’m excited for them to eventually bloom and in the meantime they look like red Dr Seuss plants. Also intrigued by what I think are some kind of spurge (pic 2) b/c can’t quite ID and also spurge sap can blind you???

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

Officially entered the era where I’m really into IDing landscaping plants

[{dr. arsonist}, PhD @setofarsonist]

PDX: My next live set is tomorrow Sun 4/2 at @holocene supporting @crueldiagonals amazing new album release! Come thru if u love ambient experiments 🔊🎛️