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@neuralreckoning
May 22, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Anyone want to run a public Minecraft server during #neuromatch next week? Maybe build a giant, functional redstone brain or neuron? @neuromatch
@neuromatch Or any other games that are not too much focused on murder?
@neuromatch Specifically anyone want to volunteer to run the server? I don't have access to any machines with public IP addresses.
@neuromatch OK, let's see if we can get this to work. Who's in for helping me test this now and has a minecraft education edition account? Image
I believe anyone at a university with Office 365 probably can have access to this free.
@neuromatch Hmm, I don't think it's going to work. I think hosted minecraft education edition servers only work within an institution.
@neuromatch Hmm, there are free hosts for minecraft regular edition, wonder if they're legit...

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Oct 9, 2023
I'm happy to announce the start of a new free and open online course on neuroscience for people with a machine learning or similar background, co-developed by @MarcusGhosh. YouTube Videos and Jupyter-based exercises will be released weekly. There is a Discord for discussions. Image
For more details about the structure of the course, and to watch the first video "Why neuroscience?" go straight to the course website:



Currently available are videos for "week 0" and exercises for "week 1", but more coming soon.neuro4ml.github.io
Why did I create this course? Well, I think both neuroscience and ML can be enriched by knowing about each other and my feeling is that a general purpose intro to neuro or comp-neuro isn't the right way to inspire people in ML to be interested in neuro.
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May 28, 2022
Over the last few years, each time I review a paper or (even worse) a grant application and give a negative opinion, I feel bad. I know that by doing so I'm harming someone's career and also just giving them of those days where you show your reviews to friends and want to cry.
I noticed that unconsciously I've been drifting towards increasingly positive reviews to the point where I started asking myself whether or not I should just always recommend accept. But that feels kind of dishonest to the person asking you to review.

This is partly what led me to consider stopping reviewing. I didn't feel like I could honestly satisfy both my conscience about the right way to treat the person being reviewed and the person asking for the review. So perhaps the only solution was to stop?
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May 28, 2022
This has led to some quite strongly worded disagreement, so perhaps it's worth expanding a bit on this to explain myself and for me to understand the disagreement better.
I find pre publication peer review for journals as currently done ethically problematic for the reasons described in my thread. I have no objection to post pub PR strictly limited to questions of technical correctness, as long as it's not used to decide significance.
As a consequence, I don't think I should be doing pre pub PR. Should I be made to do this even if I think it's ethically wrong?
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May 26, 2022
The current system of journals and peer review is not serving science. I have therefore resigned from all editorial roles and will no longer do pre-publication peer review. I explain why in this article and in the thread below. Please consider joining me.

neural-reckoning.org/reviewing.html
Journals made sense historically as the only way to get work out to an audience. That's now a solved problem with preprint servers, and, by closing access, journals are actively hindering this. Their only role now is managing peer review and editorial curation.
Peer review can catch errors in papers before they're published, but we know that many errors still get through and it fails to correct problems found after publication. So we cannot rely on peer review alone. Post-publication review does a much better job.
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May 10, 2022
Let's play fantasy science! Imagine a future where science is run the way it should be. Don't hold back. For me, I'm thinking "what would science look like in the star trek universe?" but you don't have to be as nerdy as me. What does science look like in your ideal world?
Mine: we get to work on the problem we think is most interesting/promising, not someone else's idea. There's no abuse of power because nobody has power over others. We don't spend huge amounts of time writing papers in an outdated format that's hard to read and write. Etc.
We work collaboratively, not competitively and communicate our ideas and results as we get them. And of course, most importantly, theorists are crowned as God emperors, as they should be.
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Jun 16, 2021
New preprint/tweeprint! 🧵👇

Modularity can be structural (what connects to what) or functional (specialised groups of neurons). Are these related? Yes, but more weakly than you might guess.

Work by PhD student Gabriel Béna - feedback appreciated!

arxiv.org/abs/2106.02626
TLDR: enforcing structural modularity in the architecture of a NN trained on a task naturally composed of subtasks leads to module specialisation on subtasks, but only at extreme levels. Even quite high levels of structural modularity lead to no functional specialisation.
We looked at the simplest possible case of two modules, each densely connected with sparse connections between them. This lets us precisely control structural modularity from maximum (single interconnect) to no modularity (fully interconnected).
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