At the end of my career, I will not care at all what my h-index is or how many papers I published. However, I will care tremendously whether I was a good mentor and had a positive impact on the lives of others. I want to live those values every day from now until then.

*Symmetry-Based Representations for Artificial and Biological General Intelligence* by Higgins Racanière Danilo J. Rezende Nice introductory paper on the role that symmetries are gaining in learning representations both in AI and neuroscience. arxiv.org/abs/2203.09250

#PSYCHE Public Lecture: You might know what having a #memory feels like, but do you know what the #brain is doing when we remember? Come join Upinder Bhalla this Sunday to decode the experience of remembering. Bhalla Lab National Centre for Biological Sciences Sign up here: bit.ly/Upinder_Bhalla

An AI engineer is the point of contact between magic and reality

We're back after a two-year hiatus! Inviting applications for CAMP (Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity), an international computational neuroscience school, in-person National Centre for Biological Sciences, India. 23 Jul–7 Aug 2022. Details: camp.ncbs.res.in Please retweet!

We are happy to share our new story published in Science today on "Dynamic compartmental computations in tuft dendrites of layer-5 neurons during motor behavior" science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We lost all the students in yesterday’s attack and left with empty class. Please don’t write about Afghan’s pride & resilience anymore. We are tired, exhausted, shattered & devastated. Afghans need a break. Afghans need peace. Afghans need a normal, equal & poor but hopeful life.

🚨 New paper from the Rajan lab accepted at #ICLR2022! We used curriculum learning in recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to help us figure out how real brains learn! Read here: openreview.net/forum?id=TpJMv… 🧵 (1/9) Let’s say you want to learn how to juggle…

Hilarious. Sundar Pichai finally responds to SA

An engineer and a topologist were locked in their rooms for a day with a can of food but without an opener. /1

"The Why, How, and When of Representations for Complex Systems" It's been said before, but what a terrific contribution from Dr. Leo Ann Sizemore Blevins Dani S. Bassett @tinaeliassi -- great for junior researchers entering complex systems, great for people already in the field.

Cognitive Science students ("COXIs") from Osnabrück are known far and wide: loveable nerds, hackers, geniuses, world-changers, thinkers, scientists, and brain-enthusiasts. Consider joining the CogSci network now to help them continue their mission: ikw.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/the_institu…

"Learning alters neural activity to simultaneously support memory and action" Excited to share a new preprint, led by Darby Losey, with myself, Emily Oby, Aaron Batista, Byron Yu, Steve Chase, and team. 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Global media is speculating whether current challenges in the business sector will trip India’s ambitions to be a global economic force. I’ve lived long enough to see us face earthquakes, droughts, recessions, wars, terror attacks. All I will say is: never, ever bet against India

Harsh, but fair. For those tempted to overplay this * Demis Hassabis majored & did his PhD in cog neuro * Geoffrey Hinton majored in Psych & is founding director of the computational neuro. unit at UCL * Yann LeCun link convs to neuroscience Breakthroughs are not spontaneous.

Mechanisms of memory storage and retrieval in hippocampal area CA3 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

I wrote down my rules on how to Science. I hope you find it useful!

Active Inference Institute Finding the best sequence of actions that minimize an objective function (an energy) measured over the predicted trajectory is very much like inferring latent variables. If you insist on being Bayesian, then you infer a distribution over action sequences by trading the average

Announcing NeurIPS Preschool Track This year, we invite preschoolers to submit machine learning research papers.

RT appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab (at TU Dresden). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kvQ1… to send your application and find more information. The deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have Qs.