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LLMs are 'secretly' powerful text encoders. LLM2Vec is the key to unlock their embeddings in 1-2 hours in an unsupervised fashion using LoRA. Achieves SOTA on MTEB in the unsupervised category and also among supervised models trained on public data

Code: github.com/McGill-NLP/llm…

Fresh paper just out, driven by Gesa Hartwigsen + Jakub Kopal:

Human-specialized neural circuits are separated from ordinary cognition via causal evidence from localized brain tissue damage repository (n>1000)

Posterior probabilities are reported for the hemisphere-specific…

🤖🧬Techbio deals with biopharma and $NVDA

📢Don't miss an exciting #BSItalk by Dr. Danilo Bzdok (Danilo Bzdok) on Friday, March 29th, 2024, at 1:00 PM ET.

Join us as he presents 'Machine learning paradigms towards single subject prediction.' 🧠🧠🧠

'Neuroscientists today are literally 'drowning in information but starving for knowledge'’.’
A *brilliant* review for how large language model #AI is changing that, as biology becomes an engineering discipline
cell.com/neuron/fulltex… Neuron
Danilo Bzdok Siva Reddy

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Thanks to whoever it is who translated our recent #LLM paper into Chinese !

mp.weixin.qq.com/s/YnO9IeNfvqcJ…

Looking forward to serving as panel member
on responsible #machine #learning models
at the #ABCD initiative meeting at the NIH

this afternoon 3:45pm EST

These often-heard lines like, 'consciousness is just a hallucination', 'consciousness is just what it feels like to be an information-processing system', etc. sound nice, but they fail to address the hard problem, which is the existence of the subjective experience.…

Excited to share our new work Science Magazine-we demonstrated all-optical interrogation of inhibitory synaptic transmission and plasticity during behavior! Kudos to our wonderful collaborators Barna Dudok, Soltesz Lab, and of course, my amazing mentor and advisor Karl Deisseroth