great work on backpropagation in the brain (is it really a thing?) kudos to sander and Pau from @GreweLab73292 💜

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

It's been a while since I last published something on my personal blog, so I decided to write some thoughts on the workshop we organised at the last Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience thank you Ana Clara Broggini, Melika Payvand, and Laura for the feedback and suggestions💜 matteosaponati.github.io/posts/2024/10/…

I am happy to announce that I will be giving a talk at the upcoming #SNUFA2024 you can register for free here: snufa.net/2024/ looking forward to it 💜

you can find me on the new trending cielo blu matteo saponati bluesky let's connect there and get the best out of the online world :)

Mr. President, Ukraine did not “start” this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.🇺🇸🇺🇦 “Russia Invades Ukraine in Largest European Attack Since WWII” Fox News (February 24,

America aligning itself with Russia and China while threatening its former democratic allies is quite a sight to see. America is doing a 180° pivot and turning against the ideals it stood for since the 1940s.

Volodymyr Zelensky is NOT a dictator. Vladimir Putin IS a dictator. Zelensky didn’t start the war in Ukraine. Putin did. Hope this clarifies things for anyone who is confused.

ZurichNLP#17 will be in two weeks on Tuesday, June 17th at the ETH AI Center! Our very own Aleks Ficek 🧪 (NVIDIA) will talk about synthetic generators and verifiers for coding and matteo saponati (ETH Zurich) about structures of self-attention beyond keys and queries.

I am really looking forward to this event! :)