BI 235 Romain Brette: The Brain, in Theory YouTube video by Brain Inspired

Interview with @braininspired.bsky.social for my book "The Brain, In Theory":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3zE...

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

If there were one fact I wish more people in the field knew, it's that randomly-initialized RNNs can do basically anything (as in reservoir computing)

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social

We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked

What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective

We call it the digital sphinx

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Statistics Canada to cut 850 jobs in 'dark time' for public service, union says Federal statistics agency entered its workforce adjustment period Monday, sending notices to thousands of employees.

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash.

Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save Us The problem with AI isn’t hype. The problem is who and what it’s useful for.

"Fascism ... is committed to a play of power and aesthetics that regards a desire for truthfulness as an admission of weakness. It loves a bullshit generator, because it cannot conceive of a debate as anything but a fight for power..."

Great piece from @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer.

Reflective piece by Eve Marder – "What happened to the pursuit of truth"
rupress.org/jgp/article/...

I thought it was great! Check out Chirimuuta's Brain Inspired interview for an overview. Maybe one caveat is that it's aimed more at philosophers of science than neuroscientists.. but I found the arguments very compelling.

The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience An exciting, new framework for interpreting the philosophical significance of neuroscience.All science needs to simplify, but when the object of research i

The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience, by M. Chirimuuta / @mitpress.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... Looks interesting - has anyone read this yet?

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We need to establish permanent roles focused on reading and synthesizing actoss all these different angles.

When I was young, I thought “Readers” in the UK academic system did exactly that, and I wanted to be one when I grew up. Turned out, they’ve got just as many open tabs as the rest of us.