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We were delighted to welcome Fembiobio students from Chile last Friday! They met with Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and SWC researchers to learn about the exciting computational and experimental neuroscience work being done in the building.

Dear friends of the #learningsalon, we miss you! We're eager to meet again & need a volunteer for the role of our incredible Claire! Please ping me if you're a grad student/postdoc who'd like to volunteer & help us set up AV, prepare guests, monitor/save chat, upload to YouTube!

I'm sharing some teaching resources I’ve made recently. These scripts span a variety of intro topics in ML and comp neuro and are built to be intuitive, visual and assume little prior knowledge. Everyone’s welcome to use, learn from or adapt them (colab🔗s at the end of the🧵)!

1/5 Excited to finally share our new paper (led by Laura Driscoll, now a group leader at the Allen!) in Nature Neuroscience on modular computation in neural networks! We've explored how artificial recurrent networks handle multiple tasks, offering insights into flexible computation.

We have a faculty position coming up; get in touch/PM me if you'd like to join us at UCL! Deadline 28th of August. Compensation substantially higher than listed (can give details per PM)

Postdocs of the world! Come and present your work to the SWC community. We'd love to hear about you and your research. Apply to #ENSS by August 5.

Recently at CogCompNeuro I led a tutorial on sparse autoencoders for LLM interpretability. For anyone interested, here's the link! colab.research.google.com/drive/1DeagoR3…

Introducing Project Sid: the first simulations of 1000+ truly autonomous agents collaborating in a virtual world, w/ emergent economy, culture, religion, and government Humans are the only species to land the moon, because we can cooperate at a vast scale Can AI do the same?

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📣NEURO FACULTY JOBS! 🧠 University of Oxford opened *2* positions for Associate Professors of Neuroscience! Come be our colleague! Applications due: noon, 18 Nov 2024 More info: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… University of Oxford Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics (DPAG) Oxford Neuroscience Pembroke College St Hilda's College

I find it strange that there's no Wikipedia page for Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, despite its huge influence on ML/AI/CompNeuro. I've tried twice to create a basic one and gotten rejected both times for "lack of reliable sources".

Congratulations to @UCL alumnus Sir Demis Hassabis on being awarded the #NobelPrize in Chemistry. The Google DeepMind co-founder & CEO, previously based Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, is honoured for using AI to predict the structure of almost all known proteins ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/oct/…

ELLIS applications closing soon! If applying for a PhD with Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit , then consider applying to ELLIS with a Gatsby supervisor.

📢📢Application deadline for both Gatsby-only and Joint SWC-Gatsby PhD programs is fast approaching! Unsure which to choose? Just pick the one that seems best— you’ll be considered for both if we think you are a better fit for the other one. Please RT!

⏰ Deadline Monday 11 November 👋 Apply now to join this amazing community! Gatsby Unit: ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-a… SWC: sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/ap… Joint: ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-a…

📢 Post-Bayesian online seminar series coming!📢 To stay posted, sign up at tinyurl.com/postBayes We'll discuss cutting-edge methods for posteriors that no longer rely on Bayes Theorem. (e.g., PAC-Bayes, generalised Bayes, Martingale posteriors, ...) Pls circulate widely!

We did it. We killed neuro twitter and it's resuscitation it's happening somewhere else. Come join us! thetransmitter.org/community/huge…

The launch of Google’s London AI Campus is a seismic moment. AI offers us a golden opportunity to drive economic growth and put more money in people’s pockets. My message to young people is: get involved — my government will support you.

Fully neural mechanisms for structured generalization and rapid learning identified using a meta-learning (“learning-to-learn”) approach to model relational learning (e.g. if A > B and B > C, then A > C) Thomas Miconi and Kenneth Kay nature.com/articles/s4159…