🧵Excited to announce— "Reimagining the binding problem(s) for the 21st century": A VSS Symposium St. Pete Beach @vssmtg.bsky.social May 15th, 10:30am Presenters: Peter Tse, JohnMark Taylor, Seda Karakose-Akbiyik, Ana Chica, Anne Sereno, & Jake Quilty-Dunn visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...

now on Twitter an AI dog automatically pops up and spouts regime propaganda slop at you when you express heretical opinions

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Excellent primer. Can be hard to pack in software engineering training amidst everything else in grad school but a little bit goes a long way

gotta believe the top salsa dancers would score through the roof on spatial intelligence / shape rotation tests

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

Recording modalities like fMRI aggregate the responses of many thousands of neurons, but how does this affect representational geometry? Meticulous essential breakdown from @veronicabossio.bsky.social biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Deep neural networks are complex, but looking inside them ought to be simple. Check out TorchLens, a package that can visualize any PyTorch network and extract all activations and metadata in just one line of code: github.com/johnmarktayl... www.nature.com/articles/s41...