Flatten the curve means you Governor Gavin Newsom get us through using healthcare at capacity. ICU beds are empty. #COVID19 #StayHomeSaveLives #Progressives

A historic day. After the darkness, division and hate of the past four years, America has spoken and rejected more of the same. Congratulations to my good friend President-Elect Joe Biden. Today we go forward in hope & progress.

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Stop funding research (the way you do) Because it is wasteful, unethical and unscientific A thread (1/16)

🚨 BIG DATA RELEASE 🚨 We are beyond excited to announce the release of our Brain Wide Map of neural activity during decision making! It consists of 547 Neuropixel recordings of 32784 neurons across 194 regions of the mouse brain 🐭🧠 (1/7)

What happens when we train the largest vision-language model and add in robot experiences? The result is PaLM-E 🌴🤖, a 562-billion parameter, general-purpose, embodied visual-language generalist - across robotics, vision, and language. Website: palm-e.github.io

Interested in mental health and computational research? We are looking for a full time research assistant for the CCNP (ccnp.princeton.edu). You will recruit subjects for studies, perform clinical and cognitive assessments, and administer study tasks, all in a...

An open letter from Jewish students - The Brown Daily Herald browndailyherald.com/article/2023/1…

✨I have an open position for the next 3-year development phase of our open-source Python libraries for analyzing mass spectrometry data! Have a look at our vacancy --> florian-huber.github.io/uploads/ZDD_jo… (Please share with people you think would match this position. Thanks!)

How I've felt all day... 👀👀👀ICML Conference #ICML2024

Wow it looks easy like this!

Increasingly I feel that academics self-organise themselves not primarily by 'topic of interest' but rather 'epistemology'. Different fields and subfields have different assumptions about what is useful knowledge and how it is acquired 1/2

How can we efficiently find task representations online that work well for the ongoing task while leveraging relations with other tasks? Our simulations show that episodic memory can help! URL: shorturl.at/tT246 Here’s a summary: (1/n)

A more biological set up for feedback connectivity in gradient-based learning: arxiv.org/pdf/2405.20594

Thrilled to share our NeurIPS Spotlight paper with Jan Bauer* Kai Sandbrink* Andrew Saxe summerfieldlab @summerfieldlab.bsky.social Ali Hummos*! We study how task abstractions emerge in gated linear networks and show that these abstractions support cognitive flexibility. openreview.net/pdf?id=AbTpJl7…