Brain-inspired warm-up training with random noise for uncertainty calibration - Nature Machine Intelligence Cheon and Paik show that overconfidence in deep neural networks arises from standard initialization practices, and that brief warm-up training with random noise improves uncertainty calibration and meta-cognitive recognition of unknown inputs.

Brain-inspired warm-up training with random noise for uncertainty calibration

Another article on using noise for calibration in DNN. Love to see this.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

🏹 Job alert: PhD Position in Open-World Robot Learning at University of Freiburg

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⏰ Apply by 30 June
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Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab?

Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate?

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The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Is Moving to Europe (after 35 years in the USA) After 35 years in the USA, the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony is moving to Europe. This coming September 3, the 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. TICKETS wi…

The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Is Moving to Europe (after 35 years in the USA)
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⚠️ #CCN2026 submissions close soon!

→ GACs, Keynotes, Tutorials & Community Events: March 31 (AoE)
→ Extended Abstracts: April 2 (AoE)

CCN brings together cognitive science, neuroscience, and AI to discuss the computations underlying complex behavior.

Submit your work now!

Trading places: What happens when neuroscience turns into machine learning, and machine learning turns into neuroscience? Neuroscience has become increasingly concerned with prediction, and machine learning with causal explanation, with each field adopting methods from the other. I asked eight experts to weigh in on what...

Neuroscience has become increasingly concerned with prediction, and machine learning with causal explanation, with each field adopting methods from the other, writes @gershbrain.bsky.social. Will this bring us closer to understanding neural systems?

www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Today NeurIPS is announcing our official satellite event in Paris.

After responding to the call from Ellis following the success of EurIPS in December, we are pleased to reach a new milestone by joining forces with the NeurIPS organizing committee for the 2026 edition.

Our paper “Multifidelity Simulation-based Inference for Computationally Expensive Simulators” has been accepted at ICLR 2026! 🥳

We hope this can be a practical solution for anyone analysing and doing inference on computationally expensive simulators.

Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=bj0dc...

Man pointing at screen that read Pi Day is a fake holiday created by math companies to sell more math.

Happy Pi Day to all who celebrate.

A fair coin "knows" π.
Stop flipping when heads first outnumber tails. The expected fraction of heads is π/4. Average many trials → estimate π.
Result by J. Propp, animated for #PiDay.
Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib and @marimo.io
#Mathematics #MathArt #CreativeCoding

A paid summer internship is available in Microsoft Research NYC for a *PhD student later in their degree*, with experience designing human questionnaires/experiments, collecting data on prolific, running statistical analysis, and writing papers. If you know exceptional candidates please ping me. 🙏

🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Researcher (Postdoc) - Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Beyond LLMs (ARC-AGI-3 Focus) (m/f/d)

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🏹 Job alert: PhD and Postdoc Positions in Visual Computing at University of Bonn

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UZH: Postdoctoral Position Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental, individ...

We're looking for a postdoc starting this summer to join our efforts in understanding the capacity limits of cognition: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Even the most brilliant detective can't solve a case without finding the clues first.

Yet most "thinking" VLMs make this exact mistake: they entangle visual search and complex logic into one giant, expensive chain of thought.

Stop burning through tokens in the dark. Ignite a SPARC. ⚡

PhD opportunities The School of Convergence Science at Imperial College London is inviting applications for fully funded PhD studentships on research projects that sup...

PhD opportunity in "The role of neural development in multimodal intelligence" with me, @marcusghosh.bsky.social and @flor-iacaruso.bsky.social. Read details below 👇.

Note there's a very short window for applying (deadline Feb 27).

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If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date):
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868
An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop First-time posters to venerable platform now need an endorsement from an established author

ArXiv preprint server clamps down on AI slop | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Postdoctoral Researcher in Logical Reasoning and Machine Learning Postdoctoral Researcher in Logical Reasoning and Machine Learning

🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Researcher in Logical Reasoning and Machine Learning at Helsinki University

📍 Helsinki 🇫🇮
📅 Apply by Feb 5th
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Our journey at Sakana AI is just getting started.

We are looking for people to help us pioneer the next generation of AI—building from Japan to the world.

Join us: sakana.ai/careers

~everyone I know agrees about this; we’re not being loud about it yet, but I can feel that coming

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments.
www.cell.com/current-biol...

⏳ Just over 2 weeks left to apply! ⏳

We are looking for talented Cognitive Neuroscientists to join our team at Trinity College Dublin for postdoc positions funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV296/r...

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Applications for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Bridging Programme (7-week maths summer school) will open on 19 Jan and close on 16 Feb. Designed for students who wish to pursue a postgrad research degree in theoretical neuroscience or foundational machine learning but whose degree programme lacks a strong maths focus. Applications from students in underrepresented groups in STEM strongly encouraged. A small number of bursaries available. Register for the information webinar on 23 Jan.

📢 Applications open on 19 Jan for the 7-week #Mathematics #SummerSchool in London. You will develop the maths skills and intuition necessary to enter the #TheoreticalNeuroscience / #MachineLearning field.

Find out more & register for the information webinar 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

My department in Edinburgh is hiring a lecturer (assistant prof) in Software Engineering: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Now that Bluesky is pro-AI we should try to trigger another wave of immigration from Twitter. Maybe we could organize an unofficial "Bluesky AI week" where we try to get lots of Bluesky-curious folks to try it out.