A cool EPFL News article was written about our recent neurotheory paper on spikes vs rates! Super engaging text by science communicater Nik Papageorgiou. actu.epfl.ch/news/brain-m... Definitely more accessible than the original physics-style, 4.5-page letter 🤓 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Pre-print 🧠🧪 Is mechanism modeling dead in the AI era? ML models trained to predict neural activity fail to generalize to unseen opto perturbations. But mechanism modeling can solve that. We say "perturbation testing" is the right way to evaluate mechanisms in data-constrained models 1/8