This is an ape ("Kanzi") playing Minecraft! A fascinating experiment on non-human biological neural networks 🙉 I've been teaching AI to play Minecraft for too long. There're so many similar techniques that the ape trainers used: - In-context reinforcement learning: Kanzi gets

Chandrayaan-3 Mission: 'India🇮🇳, I reached my destination and you too!' : Chandrayaan-3 Chandrayaan-3 has successfully soft-landed on the moon 🌖!. Congratulations, India🇮🇳! #Chandrayaan_3 #Ch3

Introducing Neuropixels Ultra, a new probe with >10x site density: an implantable voltage camera capturing complete planar images of neurons' electrical fields in vivo! ⬆️ spike sorting yield, ⬆️ detection of small fields and ⬆️ cell type identification.🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🔥 Takes second pole in a row 👀 Backs up the pack before stops 🤯 Keeps Lando in DRS to defend 📻 Gives us iconic "it's on purpose" line 🏆 Wins epic #SingaporeGP 🇸🇬 The smoothest of operations ft. @CarlosSainz55 😍😅

Ferrari gave Carlos Sainz a play-by-play of the drama unfolding behind him during the final laps 🍿👀 Ride onboard with the race winner to hear how it went 💺 #F1 #SingaporeGP Scuderia Ferrari HP

Data fraud is often framed as a victimless crime--or else the perpetrators frame themselves as the victim. But the true victims are often graduate students who struggle to replicate a prominent study, face professional ostracism, and their only recourse is to leave the field or

WHERE THERE’S A WALL, THERE’S A WILL

Are the invariances of artificial neural networks aligned with those of humans? Check out our paper, now out in Nature Neuroscience! w/ my PhD advisor Josh McDermott and collaborators Aleksander Madry & Guillaume Leclerc. See 🧵 for highlights. nature.com/articles/s4159… 🧵1/N

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Pumped to share this work from my PhD, “A single computational objective drives specialization of streams in visual cortex”, just in time for the holidays! With the all star team Eshed Margalit , cvnlab , Daniel Yamins & kalatwit 🔗:biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵: 1/n…

'Development of visual object recognition', a new Review by Vladislav Ayzenberg (Vlad Ayzenberg) & Marlene Behrmann (Marlene Behrmann) Web: go.nature.com/47akCer PDF: rdcu.be/duhtE

Bringing back this gem about JNU 😂

What is this image made up of red, green, blue, white, and black pixels?

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Baingan?

The recent Memorandum from DoPT requiring mandatory checking-in on their digital system at workplaces is a good initiative in principle to deal with absenteeism of government officials. But surely some flexibility is called for in the case of those, like scientists & technical

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Although it took an exceptionally long time to get this out to you all, I am extremely proud of my first manuscript . This study could not have been possible without SP Arun's invaluable guidance and the excellent resources and support from PsychoPy @psychopy.bsky.social. Please read below:

Dear friends, We are asking for help to pursue the best possible care for Sara. If you can’t donate but still want to help, please consider sharing our campaign on any channel. Merry Christmas, from Sara, Guido, and the rest of the Hawkins clan. gofund.me/3e4366e9