xaq

Brains, Math, and Art (he/him).

[xaq @xaqlab]

@HHMINEWS Congratulations and best of luck @nspruston! That's a big job... looking forward to your next initiatives!

[xaq @xaqlab]

@JJitsev @KordingLab We invented this task to satisfy many constraints: feasible in monkeys, partial observability, continuous control, naturalistic, relevant for collaborator-recorded brain areas. Monkeys learn it quickly. My kids catch fireflies outside. But we can't do everything!

[xaq @xaqlab]

@o_guest @KordingLab @PhilCorlett1 Ooops, should have included "may have" in this sentence, as in the very first sentence of the abstract. But we do have plenty of useful and interesting theories about modularity. I find Paul Cisek's work compelling on this: https://t.co/JSZSasEQ0D, https://t.co/ZXkbvvQfk5

[Katrin Franke @kfrankelab]

New preprint @biorxiv_neursci w/ @AToliasLab & more

Our data-driven deep learning approach in🐭🐒identifies a new rule of contextual modulation in visual cortex

Pattern completion/disruption wrt natural image stats = surround facilitation/suppression🧵👇
https://t.co/95tctr9kBa

[Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault]

🚨We're looking for PIs and industry researchers to mentor our amazing students! You can do a lot of good by meeting with students from diverse backgrounds and guide them on their professional journey. A few hours can make a big difference!

[xaq @xaqlab]

@ComedoErgoSum Indeed, people have no idea where to go with our name. Fun guessing game though.

[xaq @xaqlab]

Congratulations to Jay and to BCM Neuro! Very excited to see the awesome work that will be coming out of this lab.

[Jay Hennig @jehosafet]

Big news, I just accepted an offer to join Baylor College of Medicine's Dept of Neuroscience as an asst professor!

I start Fall 2024, and I'm looking for phd students, postdocs, and research scientists to join me studying learning in neural populations.

https://t.co/kf1lEPrfJE

[xaq @xaqlab]

@AfrazArash Love this work! Congratulations.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Places on Earth that don't look real - thread 🧵

1. Namibia, where the desert meets the ocean

[SueYeon Chung @s_y_chung]

Excited to announce this summer school on analytical approaches (eg statistical physics and probability theory) for understanding deep learning models and higher-level cognition in NYC!

Analytical Connectionism Summer School (Aug 12-23, '24)

Speakers:
Jonathan Cohen
@CPehlevan
Linda Smith
@kchonyc
André Fenton
@adelegoldberg1
@EeroSimoncelli
@EngelTatiana
@chklovskii

@FlatironCCN @FlatironInst @NYUDataScience @NYU_CNS @GatsbyUCL

[Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault]

Students, there is still a bit of time to sign up for our NeuroAI course! We've got an awesome curriculum for you, courtesy of folks like @xaqlab , @evadyer , @KriegeskorteLab , @SuryaGanguli , @meganakpeters , @tyrell_turing , @neurograce , @introspection . Join us!

[cubosh @cubosh]

as a longtime fan of Conway's "Game of Life" algorithm i never once considered visualizing the time axis physically -- this is breathtaking and elegant to me

credit:
https://t.co/qdPZiEAEPq

[Neuromatch @neuromatch]

Applications for students and TAs are now open for all Neuromatch Academy courses - #CompNeuro, #DeepLearning, & #NeuroAI! You don't want to miss this!

➡️ Student apps close March 24
➡️ TA apps close March 17

🌟 Apply here: https://t.co/2aGOKQ86Dq 🌟

[Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault]

Excited to launch the new @neuromatch NeuroAI course this summer! This is our first advanced course on the shared principles of intelligence in artificial and natural systems. Applications are open until March 17th (for TAs) and March 24th (for students). https://t.co/h8ghh43JNb

[Dmitri "Mitya" @chklovskii]

Postdoc positions available in theoretical neuroscience - understanding neural computation from the data-driven control theory perspective. For more details about the group, please see: …https://t.co/PGi74gODHI If you are at Cosyne, dm me

[xaq @xaqlab]

Congratulations! And win for big data.

[David Sussillo @SussilloDavid]

7/7
As far as we know, this is the first high-bandwidth neuromotor interface that utilizes biosignals with effective out-of-the-box generalization across individuals. This achievement, led by Patrick Kaifosh and @TRReardon, is the result of the scientific and engineering efforts of hundreds of people and has been documented in a scientific journal preprint (link below).

https://t.co/MAo2vCWBHI

[David Sussillo @SussilloDavid]

7/7
As far as we know, this is the first high-bandwidth neuromotor interface that utilizes biosignals with effective out-of-the-box generalization across individuals. This achievement, led by Patrick Kaifosh and @TRReardon, is the result of the scientific and engineering efforts of hundreds of people and has been documented in a scientific journal preprint (link below).

https://t.co/MAo2vCWBHI

[Why you should have a cat @ShouldHaveCat]

Family

[xaq @xaqlab]

@Rainmaker1973 Helpful grouping:

(X+Y)/2 / sqrt(Y)

Find the nearest square Y and then divide the average of X and Y by the square root of Y.

[Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault]

Who's heading to Cosyne? I'll be recording vignettes for the Neuromatch neuroAI course from field leaders and ECRs, asking: what is NeuroAI? DM me if you're interested in chatting on or off the record.