Bravo to Steven Strogatz for attempting the impossible task of presenting the renormalization group method for singular perturbation problems in one lecture! Here's a short thread that he inspired me to write while taking a break from final exam grading & COVID-19 work for UIUC.

Excited to announce that Nature Neuroscience Nature Neuroscience has published my article "A sensory-motor theory of the neocortex" (based on active predictive coding). #Neuroscience #AI #brain PDF: homes.cs.washington.edu/~rao/Rao-Natur… Article page: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Very excited to announce openings for my first 2 lab members Chalmers University of Technology 1️⃣ PhD in theory of ML bias [chalmers.se/om-chalmers/ar…] 2️⃣ Postdoc in ML theory [chalmers.se/om-chalmers/ar…] Beautiful campus, a liveable city near an archipelago 🛶 Work closely with me to shape the lab! 🌱

NAISys - NeuroAI Meeting at CSHL **** ABSTRACTS DUE July 12 **** Blake Richards Doris Tsao

Just published in Physical Review X! Enjoy open access at journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/1… and stay tuned for the follow-up on language modelling!⏲️

I am teaching John Hopfield's kinetic proofreading in a course on Seminal Papers. While preparing class I bumped into these fascinating autobiographical notes by him. It describes his path to biophysics, with important lessons on how to choose "A Problem" pni.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/…

Happy to join Physical Review E as an Associated Editor for machine learning. PRE is home to some of the most influential works in the intersection between Physics and ML since the 80s - and I look forward to foster this presence. Send us your works 🙂 ! journals.aps.org/pre/edannounce…

Very excited to share two big life updates! 1) Starting in Fall 2025, I will be joining Brown University's school of engineering (Brown Engineering) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Engineering, with an appointment in the Carney Institute for Brain Science. 1/4

So insanely cool! Glassy physics ftw!

Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] KanwisherLab Alex Koulakov Guillaume Lajoie Mackenzie Mathis, PhD Alva Noe Carsen Stringer @[email protected] Andreas Tolias Lab Daniel Yamins Alex Wiltschko Eva Dyer SueYeon Chung Giacomo Indiveri | @[email protected] Max Bennett Matthias Bethge Eva Dyer Robert Yang deadline extended -- please retweet

very fun

This book is without question one of the best I’ve read in graduate school. The techniques they introduce are more timely now than ever before as tools to open the black boxes of deep learning, neuroscience, and high dimensional statistics

Be sure to check out the #KempnerInstitute posters this week at #CCN2024! Sonja Johnson-Yu Satpreet Singh Naomi Saphra Kanaka Rajan Cengiz Pehlevan Ann_Huang Ilenna Jones, PhD @ imbizo.africa Jacob Prince talia konkle George Alvarez Fenil Doshi M Ganesh Kumar Blake Bordelon ☕️🧪👨‍💻 Andy Keller Shuze Liu Sam Gershman

Extremely chuffed about this new preprint. How does the human auditory system track "pitch motion"? It turns out, it's the same way the visual system tracks motion (🤯)! Come for a NEW auditory illusion, stay for the fMRI & natural speech analysis! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We’ve moved to the chalkboard today for Cengiz Pehlevan’s #IAIFISummerSchool lecture on “Scaling and renormalization in high-dimensional regression.”

Math is beautiful! The free convolution of a semicircle law and Marcheko-Pastur leads to the optimal test error when learning a target function corresponding to an extensive-width neural network with a quadratic activation. More in arxiv.org/abs/2408.03733

very fun! curious about whether the heat flow interpretation of NW has any relevance here arxiv.org/abs/2408.03769 'Nadaraya-Watson kernel smoothing as a random energy model' - Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth, Cengiz Pehlevan

Risk and cross validation in ridge regression with correlated samples ift.tt/g6dswer

1/ Excited to share new work with online, learning guy, Alex van Meegen, and Ashok Litwin-Kumar! "Connectivity Structure and Dynamics of Nonlinear Recurrent Neural Networks" analyzes how global, spectral structure of connectivity in real-world networks affects collective dynamics.