David H Brown @_dhbrown

Neuroscientist & lover of math. Machine Learning @Senseye Austin, TX Joined November 2013

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Spencer Greenberg 🔍 @SpencrGreenberg

11 months ago

This is a controversial claim, but in my experience, more than 90% of the time, when people bring up neuroscience during explanations of psychological phenomena, the neuroscience adds nothing of value to the explanation other than making the explanation *seem* more authoritative

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François Chollet @fchollet

7 years ago

The most potent way to think about the world is analytically, from first principles, with a focus on the long-term. Nearly all of the media you consume daily steers you towards the opposite: a reactive mindset, based on shallow perceptions, processing the world minute-by-minute.

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Pierre Apostolides @pfapostolides

a year ago

jneurosci.org/content/44/30/… Mixed selectivity…in the auditory midbrain? @GArtofscience certainly says so. Additional shout out to the reviewers who provided some of the most constructive and eloquently written critiques of my career thus far.

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David H Brown @_dhbrown

a year ago

thecodelesscode.com/case/13

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Kording Lab 🦖 @KordingLab

a year ago

When we wrote that paper on neuroscientists understanding microprocessors we inspired a computer architecture person to actually develop a model of the brain: shorturl.at/fKPZx thoughts? I will be happy to report any feedback back to him.

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Backyard Brains @BackyardBrains

a year ago

What the Plant Says to the Touch What the Plant Says to the Flame Blog post 👉 tinyurl.com/HiSchoolPaper

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Kayson Fakhar @Kaysonfakhar

2 years ago

If you try it 3 times you’ll be banned by seaborn.

Niklas Laasch @laasch

2 years ago

If you try it 3 times you’ll be banned by seaborn.

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Shrestha Basu Mallick @shresbm

2 years ago

Good refresher! The REFORMs checklist should be a handy tool for all ML producers releasing models in the real world reforms.cs.princeton.edu

The Gradient @gradientpub

2 years ago

Good refresher! The REFORMs checklist should be a handy tool for all ML producers releasing models in the real world reforms.cs.princeton.edu

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Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

2 years ago

# on shortification of "learning" There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are…

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Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D. @iScienceLuvr

2 years ago

Llemma: An Open Language Model For Mathematics abs: arxiv.org/abs/2310.10631 This paper from @AiEleuther describes an open 7b and 34b LM (continued pretraiming of CodeLlama) and Proof-Pile-2 dataset. The model outperforms all open base models and even Minerva at similar model…

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Luke Gessler @LukeGessler

2 years ago

this paper's nuts. for sentence classification on out-of-domain datasets, all neural (Transformer or not) approaches lose to good old kNN on representations generated by.... gzip aclanthology.org/2023.findings-…

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Cassie Kozyrkov @decisionleader

2 years ago

The solution is to hold your opinions loosely unless the question really matters to you, in which case you're going to have to invest the time and effort.

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Daniel Galvis @D_E_Galvis

3 years ago

Imposter's Math Bio Podcast Episode 2: The Geometry of Dynamics. It's phase plane analysis and dynamical systems for beginners! Please check it out and share it so I can keep working on these. youtube.com/watch?v=AD0fgA…

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Andrei Kashcha 🇺🇦 @anvaka

2 years ago

Map of @github have arrived. Hope you enjoy it: anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz

3 years ago

I am once again begging people not to write excitedly about absurd bills that are introduced in a state legislature without giving any indication of whether those bills are going to go anywhere at all.

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Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

3 years ago

Reversals in Psychology: A list of famous psychological findings that are now in doubt. Includes the Stanford prison experiment, implicit bias, Pygmalion effect, stereotype threat, power posing, multiple intelligences, brain training, learning styles, etc. gleech.org/psych

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317070 @317070

3 years ago

Did you know, that you can build a virtual machine inside ChatGPT? And that you can use this machine to create files, program and even browse the internet? engraved.blog/building-a-vir…

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Probability Fact @ProbFact

3 years ago

People naturally want to minimize sources of uncertainty that they don’t understand, even if there are far larger sources of uncertainty that they do understand.

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Daniel Galvis @D_E_Galvis

3 years ago

Welcome to the Imposter's Math Biology Podcast! A channel dedicated to providing gentle introductions to the many topics in maths biology. I would be so thankful if you would take a look, like, subscribe, collaborate on a topic with me, tell people, etc: youtu.be/PHgekrkka1U.