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Don't, most papers are crap. Go read Paul Lévy or sth.

Theory of the donut, or how I stopped worrying and loved geometric quantization

Tangentially, is the tacit assumption in the community that Riemannian geometry is the correct language to discuss neural manifolds?

I will be hiring through #ELLIS this year: 3 fully-funded PhD positions for troublemakers in #ML #AI who want to design the next gen of #probabilistic #models and #programs that are provably #reliable and #efficient Join april-tools.github.io @InfAtEd Email me! Please share!

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Mallarmé vibes

Training dynamical VAEs for neural data to infer the latent dynamics can be costly. Moreover, you can't reuse the components of the trained VAE easily for another dataset. It'd be nice to use it across sessions & animals. Can we simply re-align the VAE? #ICLR2024 Ayesha Vermani

🚨 New paper alert! Have you ever suspected that spikes, Dale's law, and E/I balance might be more than just biological constraints, but rather fundamental to how brains compute? Check out my latest work with Christian Machens ChampalimaudResearch: tinyurl.com/mpwkkubd 🧵 (1/5)

A new edition of Zotero, Zotero 7, has been released. It is the biggest update in Zotero’s 18-year history, and the company describes it as a major leap forward in design, performance, and functionality. zotero.org/blog/zotero-7/

Textbook: "31 Lectures on Geometric Mechanics" (by Darryl D. Holm): arxiv.org/abs/2408.09564

How much info in population activity on latents? I'm presenting at EUSIPCO 2024 Jeon, H., & Park, I. M. Quantifying Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Neural Latent Trajectories via Fisher Information. European Signal Processing Conference arxiv.org/abs/2408.08752 #compneuro #tweeprint

How can we train biophysical neuron models on data or tasks? We built Jaxley, a differentiable, GPU-based biophysics simulator, which makes this possible even when models have thousands of parameters! Led by Michael Deistler, collab with @CellTypist @ppjgoncalves biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Do you work in AI? Do you find things uniquely stressful right now, like never before? Haver you ever suffered from a mental illness? Read my personal experience of those challenges here: docs.google.com/document/d/1aE…

60's differential geometry notation is wild

Kernel Operator-Theoretic Bayesian Filter for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems ift.tt/QbIlVBX