Very nice review of bursts, their generation, their transmission, and their role. One analysis that I would love to see sometime is their prevalence. Bursts should suggest a somewhat bimodal distribution of inter-spike intervals. How prevalent are they?

consider joining us at penn as Asst Prof if you do ML in Bio! I make really good coffee.

How deep is your … brain?

In our new Nature Rev Neurosci paper, we propose the shallow brain hypothesis. We contest the prevailing view that inference in the brain is hierarchical and can be captured by deep learning algorithms.

with M Suzuki and C Pennartz
nature.com/articles/s4158…

Every year I read a lot of grad school applications from accomplished people that don't give me the info I'm looking for. It feels like a major hidden curriculum thing. So here's (my opinion on) how to write a great Statement of Purpose/Research for a PhD program. 🧵 1/

Aside from seeing his friends & colleagues and taking stock of the field's progress at #Cosyne2024 Co-GC Blake Richards Blake Richards is looking forward to:

1⃣ research into the 🧠's predictive learning (which he feels is on an upswing)

2⃣ the latest cortical comp. DNN models

Royal Society meeting “The promises and pitfalls of preregistration” to be held in London (and online) March 4th-5th, 2024. Free to attend. Call for posters and lightning talks now open. Details: royalsociety.org/science-events… w/ Marcus Munafò Sophia Crwll is on 🟦☁️ Dorothy Bishop EJ Wagenmakers

This is incredibly important. We will all be using such methods soon.

From sleeping in bed to sitting in plane seat in 25 minutes. New personal record. Don’t ask me why. Yes some days don’t start well.

I wrote a post-mortem on the Gino-Ariely scandal: How I came to suspect Gino’s work, the resistance I met during my Ph.D., my experience working with Data Colada, and the lessons I hope business academia will learn from it.
theorgplumber.com/posts/statemen…

Its applications season. So I am getting lots of applications of prospective PhD students. Let's say many applications could be better. Some people must have put together pages to help their applicants. What are the best pages out there?

👉Do professors discriminate against PhD students interested in industry?👈

Anecdotally: yes
Theoretically: yes
Our paper: no*!

Huh? A quick thread + *caveats (1/n)

Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Finally more emphasis on rigor for nih grant reviews!

I’m recruiting PhD students Penn for fall 2024! Consider applying if you’re interested in reimagining healthcare by developing AI tech for use during clinical encounters. I advise students through PennCIS , Penn Bioengineering and UPenn DBEI. Details here: med.upenn.edu/kbjohnsonlab/

In eye-tracking, it seems that typical devices require calibration. However, if you have an outlooking camera then the world should allow a saliency based automatic calibration. Is there standard code for doing that?

We are all staring at scaling curves in DL these days. But there must be some good theories of why these curves look the way they do? Which papers should we read?

Same people who believe pca has world model also believe in impending ai catastrophy. Correlation or causation?

Artificial General Intelligence is Already Here, from Peter Norvig and me on Noema Magazine 'Today’s most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial general intelligence.' noemamag.com/artificial-gen…

Jonny Smallwood I asked chatGPT to explain its review process as a flow diagram. It did a great job:

Dinosaurs against file drawer bias. Yes, this thing is a surprisingly fun toy.