it's sad that the UK doesn't have Mormons, because they would be incredible at Taskmaster

What are good examples of meta-training *plastic* neural networks (either optimizing plasticity rules or network structure) to address neurosci questions? Stuff like @tpvogels.bsky.social & @bconfavreux.bsky.social’s rule search, Tyulmankov Neuron 2021, our stuff on transitive inference etc.

Google Meet is down A million meetings cancelled The people exult

tl;dr: DeepMind automates the Graduate Student Descent algorithm!

Really struck at how @tyrellturing.bsky.social model of hippocampus (yesterday at Cosyne) is almost symmetric to the very similar Whittington/Fiete lab models. Latter is based on grid cells, former has no grid cells at all!

Max Bennett’s keynote was, predictably, spectacular 🤯

I’m off to Montréal for Cosyne 2025. Say hi if you see me!

Now out in @NatureNeuro! Animals can do Transitive Inference (TI): quickly learn, and reconfigure, global order from partial info (learn A>B, B>C,C>D, immediately know A>D). But currently no neural model explains the observed features of TI. So we asked the machine to find one for us -and it did!

It was bound to happen eventually!

I’m at NeurIPS! Say hi if you want to talk about meta-learning, computational neuroscience, plastic neural networks, or any combination of the above.

There’s a special place in hell for departments that require letters of recommendation for all job applicants rather than just those who make some initial cut.