1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance?
Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning.
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A detailed theory of thalamic and cortical microcircuits for predictive visual inference A generative vision model offers a detailed theory for cortical columns, thalamus, and computations in cortical circuits.

Happy to have this published …https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr6698

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X

https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

Haha! That was my undergrad final project (thesis) more than 10 years ago! Predicting the next Beethoven's symphony!