Samuel W. Failor

Data Scientist and AI/ML Engineer - focused on AI for internet safety

[Samuel W. Failor @sfailor]

@garrytan This has been my experience as well. Plan with Opus, execute and code review with GPT-5.4.

[Saloni @salonium]

Over a year ago, I made several criticisms of a viral article that claimed that microplastics had now accumulated to roughly 7g of our brains. For example I pointed out they gave very little detail on how they checked for contamination.

How has the study held up?

Not very well!

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

1 Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2 Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3 Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4 Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim
Russian policy 2025

[Lida Derevnina @lderevnina]

🔬 PhD opportunity alert! Join us at the @CropSciCentre @camplantsci to decode sensor–helper NLR communication mechanisms in plant immunity. Apply by 14th November! 🔍 More info 👉 https://t.co/RwM3TMiWaR #PhD #PlantScience #Biology Please RT

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

#Syria's SW province of #Suwayda has seen 5 days of chaotic, complex conflict now -- but as with previous bouts of hostilities in recent months, the information space has been plagued by disinformation, conflicting information & fast-changing developments.

What's happened, a 🧵:

[ARC Prize @arcprize]

We tested every major AI reasoning system. There is no clear winner.

Accuracy goes up as you stack modern CoT techniques, but efficiency goes way down.

This gives rise to a Pareto frontier on accuracy vs. cost using ARC-AGI as a consistent measuring stick.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

MAGA is making the claim that if you watch the entire 50 minute video, Zelensky is the antagonist.

This isn't true. At all. I was with Zelensky before this meeting and it's important to know his mindset heading in.

1/ A short 🧵on how the entire ambush went down.

[Ukraine / Україна @Ukraine]

Believe in Ukraine. Stand with Ukraine. Glory to Ukraine!

[Steven Brunton @eigensteve]

New 20hr bootcamp on Probability & Statistics!!!

Videos released weekly but full playlist already posted:
https://t.co/3LnVCaeYGv

Probability & Statistics are cornerstones of data science and machine learning. This course rapidly covers the basics and gets into advanced topics.

[Carsen Stringer @[email protected] @computingnature]

Spike sorting with #Kilosort in #python w/ #pytorch + @pyqtgraph !
>>> pip install kilosort[gui]

To learn more, check out the docs (https://t.co/7xz5DoB1sS by Jacob Pennington), or watch the talk (https://t.co/hpoCdrqYbr by @marius10p
)

[TReND in Africa @TReNDinAfrica]

🚨Awesome news alert🚨

Our Computational Neuroscience & Machine Learning Course is back!!
When: 8-24th July 2024
Where: CMU-Africa campus, Kigali, Rwanda
Applications open: 15th January 2024
Applications close: 15th February 2024

For news on the course follow @trend_camina

[Lida Derevnina @lderevnina]

🌱 Exciting Opportunity Alert! 🌱

We're searching for a passionate #ResearchAssistant to join our dynamic team! 🧪

Find out more below ⬇️ Only 6 days left to apply!!

https://t.co/xRezjbpc8L

@CropSciCentre @plantsci

[Lida Derevnina @lderevnina]

I am delighted to advertise a 2-year postdoctoral research associate position in my lab @CropSciCentre to study plant immune receptor networks. Pls RT. https://t.co/zX0oau0x5y @plantsci @niabgroup

[Kenneth D Harris @kennethd_harris]

1. New work combining 2-photon with in situ transcriptomics. With @BugeonS, @MarioDipoppa, Izzie Prankerd, Anne Ritoux, Dimitris Nicoloutsopoulos, @davidorme16, Max Shinn, Han Peng, @hamishforrest, Aiste Viduolyte, @charureddy, @yohisogai, @MatteoCarandini https://t.co/ZnvmiUK9GF

[Lida Derevnina @lderevnina]

Front cover! Beautiful image by @mpcontreras4 @PLOSBiology @kamounlab @AdamWu9527 @HiroakiAdachi3 https://t.co/ySAxmmrW6g

Featuring our work on NRC suppressors! #Teamwork #TeamNRC

[Lida Derevnina @lderevnina]

Sad to be moving on from @KamounLab but very excited to start a new chapter at @CropSciCentre @plantsci @niabgroup with some amazing colleagues @Seb_EvdA Natasha @gilesedoldroyd Uta @harryinashed.

[Alex Naka @gottapatchemall]

Learning orthogonalizes visual cortical population codes
https://t.co/bXRPGfRxEw

[Samuel W. Failor @sfailor]

@byronprecio @MatteoCarandini @kennethd_harris Good question! I think it is unlikely since we found more sparsening for the task-informative orientations, 45 and 90, than for the 68 distractor. With that said, we plan to look at the effect of passive task session replays on stimulus responses soon.

[Samuel W. Failor @sfailor]

Fascinated by learning, vision, and/or neural population codes? See our new paper, which shows that training on a 2AFC visual task sparsens and orthogonalizes the representations of task-informative stimuli in V1. w/ @MatteoCarandini and @kennethd_harris

https://t.co/eIKOhMu0Gq

[Kenneth D Harris @kennethd_harris]

1. How does learning affect population codes in visual cortex? We asked this in a new study with @sfailor and @MatteoCarandini. Looking at single cells, the results are perplexing. Looking at populations, they make sense. Now on bioRxiv: https://t.co/BCOzA5NMU0