srdjan ostojic Profile picture
Neurotheorist at Ecole Normale Superieure Paris.
Jun 6, 2022 23 tweets 8 min read
New paper out: The role of population structure in computations through neural dynamics. Congrats to @lowrank_adrian, Alexis Dubreuil, @mBeiran and Francesca Mastrogiuseppe for exceptionnal work! Thread ->
nature.com/articles/s4159… Neural computations are currently conceptualised using two seemingly disjoint approaches, as discussed in a beuatiful recent review.
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Aug 21, 2020 10 tweets 6 min read
During my physics undergrad, I have never heard of Singular Value Decomposition (SVD).

Why?

Almost all matrices in physics are symmetric, and in that case SVD reduces to eigenvalue decomposition. 1/n But for non-symmetric, or even non-square matrices, SVD is really the fundamental tool, and data-scientists have known this well.


(Original thread by @daniela_witten)