"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
The Neural Control & Computation Lab is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow to investigate the neural basis of learning, flexible neural computation, and skilled movement control using large-scale electrophysiology from single-neuron populations in non-human primates 🧠🐒
www.ncclab.ca/join-the-lab
We don’t always know what problems are hard for LLMs. So devs evaluate on tasks HUMANS find hard or on broad benchmarks. What if we could instead anticipate which scenarios a model will fail on—all without evaluating specific input examples?
🧵NEW PAPER by @jenniferlumeng.bsky.social
🚨 New Preprint!
🧠 We gave an AI model one simple rule: rearrange your neurons so that nearby ones respond alike. We never told it what a face, a voice, or a sentence was.
It grew brain-like maps for all three anyway. 🧵👇
🌐 Website: topo-omni.epfl.ch
new paper, #NeuroAI 📣📜
Can measured cortical organization be used as an inductive bias for artificial recurrent neural networks?
In this work, we ask whether cortical geometry, wiring, and function can push RNNs learn.
Not as metaphor, but as measurable structure!
1/n🧵👇
arxiv.org/abs/2606.14975
Finally submitted my response - The Stuff Matters - to the 50(!) commentaries on my 2025 BBS paper 'Conscious AI and biological naturalism'. I'm sorry to all commentators that it took so long. Hopefully the whole caboodle will be published soon. Target paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Chris Meder
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.
Badr AlKhamissi
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
Naomi Saphra
Charlatans taking advantage of vulnerable people - just the lowest, most grotesque sort of behavior...
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
How the wiring and functional organization of cortex shape recurrent computation remains a central question in both neuroscience and machine learning. Here, we leverage data released through the Machi...
