@Basak__k

computer science @kingsNMES @ICComputing | ex- neuroscientist | ex- mathematical philosopher.

 London, England
Joined November 2012
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One meme to summarize all state of art ways to handle OOD 💀
Ahmad
@TheAhmadOsmanFeb 9
this is the way
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andy@b1rdmaniaMar 6
London tech and ai scene heatmap. Adding more now. Will sync to office spaces next week. londonmaxxxing.com/

londonmaxxxing

where london tech happens. vcs, ai labs, fintech, web3.

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Will Kinney
@WKCosmoMar 17
How could you possibly do anything but salute this abstract. Respect. 🫡 arxiv.org/abs/2603.12434

Is Time Reversal in de Sitter Space a Spontaneously Broken Gauge Symmetry?

I'll begin with some well-deserved acknowledgements: I am grateful to Daniel Harlow for discussions of time-reversal holonomies. I have also benefited from a long ongoing correspondence with...

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Kording Lab 🦖
@KordingLabFeb 26
This paper on how the brain may do gradient descent is very cool: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Vectorized instructive signals in cortical dendrites

Nature - Mice learning a neurofeedback brain–computer interface task show neuron-specific teaching signals in cortical dendrites, consistent with a vectorized solution for credit assignment...

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Seriously
Neet
@neet_solFeb 23
how about a career pursues me instead
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Obsessed with the details of this wave 🌊 - Turner
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Francis Ebuara@FrancisEbuaraFeb 12
European PhD student defending his dissertation after 3 years. American 6th year PhD student:
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Me core
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Hadas Weiss@weiss_hadasFeb 13
academics in europe watching the americans argue if their mellon grants are good or bad
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went to MIT career fair today, all the quant shops threw away my resume. citadel seems orthogonal to my post-teaching plans. GS
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Organic/bio gradient descent 🥦
Kording Lab 🦖
@KordingLabJan 26
The commonly used learning rules can be interpreted as doing natural gradient descent: kozleo.github.io/documents/S…
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Kording Lab 🦖
@KordingLabJan 15
Replying to @LintonVision
Psychophysics has always been *the* coolest corner of human behavior.
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Frank Nielsen@FrnkNlsnJan 14
Some principles and taxonomy of dissimilarity measures: - conformal divergences - projective divergences - scaled Bregman divergences - total Bregman divergences - f-divergences franknielsen.github.io/Diver…
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Ilan Gur@ilangurJan 13
The biggest breakthroughs and benefits of AI are yet to come -- from systems that can extend our perception, learning dynamically from data beyond our comprehension. They'll teach us new things about the world, serving as new levers for advancing health and wealth. /3
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Very very interesting to see that in this super hyped dead salmon paper, the definition provided for "overdetermination" is exactly how we defined and discussed as degeneracy for the last many many years, also how it is referred to in the original citation from Tononi et al.
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From blood vessels to neurons, physical networks are modeled as wires optimized for length. In @Nature we how surface minimization, via a surprising link to string theory, explains brain and vascular architecture, including neuronal sprouting. Paper: barabasi.com/science/publica…
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David Pfau@pfau30 Jun 2025
We desperately need to take all the people in SF who talk about accelerating biology but have only ever done math or CS and have them do a six month rotation in a wet lab.
Chris J. Maddison
@cjmaddison30 Jun 2025
“Finally, maybe this is controversial but ultimately progress in science is bottlenecked by real-world experiments.” If this is controversial in SF, we’re cooked.
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Finally found a good example use for my aerial yoga expenses of the last 7 years
cinesthetic.
@TheCinestheticJan 7
Margot Robbie actually performed Harley Quinn’s wild handcuff escape in The Suicide Squad (2021). She flipped backward, grabbed the key with her toes, and unlocked herself mid-stunt. James Gunn said, “Her face is covered, but it’s actually her.”
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Replying to @AdamMarblestone @steve47285 @patrickmineault @s_r_constantin @benwandrew
There’s a lot of new movement right now to map the brain for learning algorithms. But we should also take a shot at mapping it for alignment xitter.cf/AlecStapp/status/19549…
Alec Stapp
@AlecStapp11 Aug 2025
Replying to @AlecStapp
2. @AdamMarblestone & @Andrew_C_Payne on how to map the mammalian brain’s connectome to solve fundamental problems in neuroscience, psychology, and AI robustness: ifp.org/mapping-the-brain-fo…

Mapping the Brain for Alignment | IFP

How to map the mammalian brain’s connectome to solve fundamental problems in neuroscience, psychology, and AI robustness

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