We'd like to thank our wonderful panelists for their help in planning this event across the last few years, some of whom are traveling a long way to join us, and to the
@vssmtg.bsky.social staff for all their logistical support. We look forward to hearing your thoughts!
We'd love to involve the broader VSS community in this event, starting now. We genuinely want to know where you stand on this topic, so please feel free to give us your open-ended hot takes here (the spiciest takes may be featured in the intro):
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We think this is a perfect time to take stock on this topic—recent findings across diverse subfields invite us to reexamine nearly every facet of the "textbook" binding problem, and the DNN revolution has given us new tools and "model organisms" for exploring it afresh.
If you're like us you might've wondered at some point: whatever happened with the binding problem? Is it alive and kicking, solved, ill-posed? We're delighted to have the chance to hash this out from all interdisciplinary angles (behavior, neuro, AI) at this year's VSS.
🧵Excited to announce—
"Reimagining the binding problem(s) for the 21st century": A VSS Symposium
St. Pete Beach
@vssmtg.bsky.social
May 15th, 10:30am
Presenters: Peter Tse, JohnMark Taylor, Seda Karakose-Akbiyik, Ana Chica, Anne Sereno, & Jake Quilty-Dunn
visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...
now on Twitter an AI dog automatically pops up and spouts regime propaganda slop at you when you express heretical opinions
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
Excellent primer. Can be hard to pack in software engineering training amidst everything else in grad school but a little bit goes a long way
gotta believe the top salsa dancers would score through the roof on spatial intelligence / shape rotation tests
Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.
I searched for “clave rhythm” and this came up
Geometry of Musical Rhythm is a lovely book
Recording modalities like fMRI aggregate the responses of many thousands of neurons, but how does this affect representational geometry? Meticulous essential breakdown from @veronicabossio.bsky.social
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Thank you! Hope it helps you out and welcome any feedback you’ve got
Great suggestion, that’s the biggest item on the to-do list and actually shouldn’t be too difficult with the existing infrastructure—just want to make the interface user-friendly and flexible so there are some design choices to figure out
Deep neural networks are complex, but looking inside them ought to be simple. Check out TorchLens, a package that can visualize any PyTorch network and extract all activations and metadata in just one line of code:
github.com/johnmarktayl...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
