From an evolutionary perspective, what distinguishes the human brain? You may say, the neocortex. Surprisingly, in humans and other great apes, the expansion of the cerebellum accelerated faster than the enlargement of the cerebral cortex. cell.com/current-biolog…

Is head-fixed awake animal a good model for natural perception? doi.org/10.1038/s41467… shows that it is not. Contrary to findings in head-fixed, our head-free mice (collab @oferyizhar) revealed thalamic POm and VPM both co-code head and whisker kinematics

🇦🇺🔫 Allegations have surfaced stating that Dr. Rachel Gunn aka RayGun, manipulated the qualifier by setting up her own governing body, denying grants to underprivileged performers, and allowing her husband to coach the national team. Australians have started a petition

Get ready for peak

If you're hesitating to upgrade due to ZotFile incompatibility, try Zotero-Attanger. It works even better IMHO. github.com/muisedestiny/z…

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Ok, who should have been on this empty third spot?

While I'm terribly proud that associative memory is receiving this attention with the Nobel Prize, I can't help but have a Schmidhuber moment and feel sad that those like Marr, Nakano, Amari, Little, Stanley & many others weren't recognised. Still, congrats to Hopfield & Hinton!

Thomas Miconi Amari

“We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis.” academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…

Let me share a lecture from my ML for Physics course at EPFL, where I derive the Boltzmann machine from the maximum entropy principle and use it to motivate the attention mechanism and a simple transformer architecture. Enjoy! youtu.be/dwMhw2X8_TU youtu.be/od_XiaCJzV0

Lenka Zdeborová uses statistical techniques from physics to understand how large language models solve problems. Does she think of herself as a physicist, a computer scientist, or a mathematician? “I would say all of the above.” quantamagazine.org/the-computer-s…

Hi guys, the South Korean government just declared the martial law. I really wish that I am kidding now…

The police blocked the entrance to the National Assembly, which has a power to lift martial law…

"대한민국 군인들이 시민을 향해 총을 들고 서있습니다" 오마이뉴스 티비에서 지금 이 얘기 하자마자 이 장면 나오는데 지금 군인이 총을 겨누는거임?????

Military helis have dropped troopers who tried to enter the National Assembly and were blocked by citizens. The National Assembly still needs four more members in the building to lift martial law.

I see so many interesting science in my time line and have no idea what’s going to happen to this country’s democracy tomorrow. Feeling really surreal.

Sorry that seemed premature, but.they have all the necessary members now. I am not sure what’s going on….

They passed lifting martial law at last!! That was just crazy two and a half hours.

Folks, here is a lesson. Never elect a maniac as a president who sends his soldiers to raid the parliament. It’s really not good for your mental health.