Happy Tuesday #SfN23! More passion! More energy! More brains at work! What #SfN23 sessions, events, or networking opportunities have energized you so far? #neurotwitter

Sounds like we need "translational meta-science philosophers"

David Attenborough is now narrating my life Here's a GPT-4-vision + ElevenLabs python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth:

Purdue is the only school in the Big Ten that holds an intramural euchre tournament. Although the program shut down during COVID-19, it reopened in fall 2022 with 71 teams participating. purdueexponent.org/campus/article…

AI has achieved transcendence.

A good, bad idea: only writing test cases and letting a generative coding model write code until they pass

When trust is low, transparency must be high

An abstract aim of computation should be to minimize the impedance between an idea and its realization, and to utilize and inform these feedback loops towards rapid iteration

Perhaps one way to characterize the difficulty in communication is by wondering why movies take so long and budgets are so high: to truly impart an idea to an audience, minimizing information loss, is superbly challenging.

Understanding a thermostat gets us most of the way towards understanding a brain. Understanding a nest thermostat would probably get us quite a bit towards the rest.

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"If you can approach the world's complexities ... with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine... "

To everyone who has been shocked and depressed by the staggering 40% cut to the BRAIN Initiative: we have a voice! Outside Witness Testimony (aka written testimony) for the FY 2025 appropriations cycle is ongoing. Deadline for the House side is Friday May 3 and the Senate side

POV: You’re listening to Eminem’s new album #TheDeathofSlimShady

Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower crowdstrike engineers rn

In 2016, researchers at the University of Adelaide tested Kurt Vonnegut's theory that, "There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers." They took the emotional arcs of 1300+ novels from Project Gutenberg, turned that into data, used modern tech

The ContinualAI Seminars are back! ♾🥳 Join us on Thursday, February 6th 🕕 6 PM CET | 🕘 9 AM PT | 🕛 12 AM ET Let's discuss Task-Agnostic Continual Learning for the Open World with Megan Baker and Gusseppe Bravo-Rocca Register here 👉 stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Snippet of my #StandUpForScience speech at the Minnesota State Capitol 🧪🧬 🧠 #ScienceIsForEveryone ✨ #ScienceNotSilence