The Great Bluecheck Civil War has begun.

Just watched "All We Imagine As Light". A great film! Subtle, bittersweet, radiant. Really captures Bombay at night. The soundtrack was beautiful too.

What can weakly electric fish teach scientists about #NeuroAI? Read about how #KempnerInstitute’s Kanaka Rajan is studying elephantnose fish to gain insights into #collectiveintelligence and #AI systems. bit.ly/4gQMbi1 Harvard Medical School Yohan J. John

What are we talking about, when we talk about 'representations'? My undergraduate student, Oyinkansola Olorunleke, is conducting a thesis project Trinity College Dublin on the concept of representation in cognitive sciences & neuroscience. tinyurl.com/2e6rcnxv

If you are a researcher who is interested in neural and/or mental representations, consider responding. And you'll be helping out an undergraduate student too! (I helped a little with drafting the questions for the survey.)

Too many cooks spoil the broth? Not if the cooks are GPUs in a cluster. :P That's the tl;dr of a fun little explainer I wrote about how GPUs leverage parallel processing.

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

This was an interesting paper for me to wrap my head around. I came up with a little graphic that we didn't end up using, but I think some people might appreciate the visual analogy. (No points for guessing the inspiration. :P )

This makes me think that an auditory approach to writing is far too often neglected — both in academic writing and in a lot of genre fiction. Analytic philosophy is some sort of formalist minimalism minus any rhythm. :P Continental philosophy is... prog rock? Jazz fusion? :P

"People outside the field are often surprised and alarmed to learn that we do not understand how our own AI creations work. They are right to be concerned: this lack of understanding is essentially unprecedented in the history of technology."

biology is where overconfident quants go to die

Andor is a great example of a phenomenon we could call the Hegelian suspension of older genres in new ones. It's easy to discern the WW2 and Cold War spy thriller vibes suspended in (and revivifying?) a dessicated sci fi exoskeleton.

"LMCompress shatters all previous lossless compression records on four media types: text, images, video and audio." nature.com/articles/s4225…

I had an interesting conversation with Sam Gershman recently. Check it out 👇

"... those who stayed shifted their attentions away from original research and toward hermeneutics: interpreting the scientific work of metahumans." Ted Chiang wrote this in the year 2000 in a sci fi essay in Nature (!?). Reminds me of research on interpretability in ML. 😛

Recently discovered a band called Gauley Bhai, from Kalimpong and Bangalore. Their new album 'Sunbari' is excellent. Nepali folk-rock with touches of Tuareg desert blues. youtu.be/Nn_u6F2wYUQ?si…

In which I connect some of the dots from BF Skinner to LLMs! :P

When someone says "brain circuit", you think:

Somehow this song seems appropriate. 😛 youtu.be/aygY5OqMuKE?si…

I love that it's not just "turtles all the way down", but turtles all the way up, down, left and right, filling up the entire plane. The reflected turtles get three stripes, as they are where three lines meet.