"The sun doesn't shine at night."
Neither do petrol stations refine fuel in your driveway, coal dig itself out of the ground, or gas teleport to your home.
Every system has constraints. The winners solve them cheapest. The losers mistake today's problems for tomorrow's outcome. #Bettrification
A bit morbid, but I usually support a person's decision to end their life.
It is one of (the only?) aspect of our lives we can have complete autonomy over.
This includes the law of the state, the biological imperatives of aging, and the social structure we are born into and compelled to follow.
NEW PAPER. Why do larger networks train better?
"Because they contain more candidate *sub*networks that can learn the task" → lottery tickets
This popular explanation uses an appealing but misleading metaphor🧵
We propose an intuitive alternative grounded in theory: escape dimensions
Something I should have read months ago. Ulanovsky's bats fly long tunnels and reveal CA3 as a single-field coder, CA1 as multi-field. Sparse in, dense out — really rather nice. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10537-0
Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry — and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:
