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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #428,314!

Glad I had a camera on my desk.

1/ Here's a critical problem that the #neuroai field is going to have to contend with: Increasingly, it looks like neural networks converge on the same representational structures - regardless of their specific losses and architectures - as long as they're big and trained on real world data. 🧠📈 🧪

Definitely with you on the “makes experiments harder” bit…

Do you think of that as a key empirical anchor (nice term of yours) or not? If not I would be curious to know why not. (I also like your notion of anchoring to cell types and physical properties and we like that in addition as well.)

Inspired by similar lines of thinking (different flavors of RL algorithm converge to same optimal policy) we want to watch the networks learn and see how closely that matches the learning process observed in the brain. Ie www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mesolimbic dopamine adapts the rate of learning from action - Nature

Analysis of data collected from mice learning a trace conditioning paradigm shows that phasic dopamine activity in the brain can regulate direct learning of behavioural policies, and dopamine sets&nbs...

Had a great time trying to think through some challenging questions in this short opinion piece written with Jimmie Gmaz, Jason Keller and Juan Gallego www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Integrating across behaviors and timescales to understand the neural control of movement

The nervous system evolved to enable navigation throughout the environment in the pursuit of resources. Evolutionarily newer structures allowed increa…

Really nice work from our collaborators out today www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Preserved neural dynamics across animals performing similar behaviour - Nature

Recordings of neural populations from motor cortex and striatum spanning monkeys and mice demonstrate that neural dynamics in individuals from the same species are preserved when they perform sim...