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Postdoc at UC Berkeley, Redwood Center | 🧠🤖 | 🎹 | 🎾 | https://mysterioustune.com/
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Every living system must adapt, or die. In my first blog post, I show how this fundamental principle can be mathematized: ✅ Brains adapt, and adaptation is about KL divergence minimization. Let's unpack the main insights 🧵[1/n] Link: mysterioustune.com/2025/01/13/w... 🧠🤖🧠📈 #AI

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Is there an arrow of time in the brain? Can Boltzmann and Shannon's ideas be used to understand it? Check this paper by Morten Kringelbach, J Perl and Gustavo Deco on how physics and information theory reveal how hierarchical cognition works cell.com/trends/cogni...

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"Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the slightest notion what it means." —Bertrand Russell, 1929 "Probability does not exist." —Bruno de Finetti, 1974 www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧠🤖🧠📈

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you for capturing this moment. Visa issues can make it difficult, but they won't stop the flow of ideas!

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To my Bluesky friends attending #NeurIPS2024: Check out our poster: “Poisson Variational Autoencoder” (P-VAE)! The P-VAE is a #generative model that encodes inputs into spike count variables and unifies major neuroscience theories with modern machine learning. w/ Jacob Yates and Dekel Galor 🧠🤖🧠📈

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

I started a blog to write about what I truly care about: the relationship between physics, brains, intelligence, perception, and reality. Here’s my "Hello World" post: mysterioustune.com 🧠🤖🧠📈

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Beautiful thread! I extracted my personal favorites:

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