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Guillaume Bellec

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Maciej Kania @kaniamaciej.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Train your model on a task, or fit it to biological data? And once it's optimized, what does it tell us about the brain? 🧠 In our #BernsteinConference satellite workshop, we'll discuss these questions through the lenses of different optimization methods. Check it out in Room 3.104! 🤓😉
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Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have a postdoc position open in my NeuroAi lab in Vienna 👌👾🧪🧠 And I will be at Bernstein (workshop only), please reach out if you are interested
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Two tenure track positions are open in Computer Science @mcgill.ca ! Secure Software mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill... Quantum Computing mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill... Come join our department, and live in the coolest city in North America! (Yeah, I stand by that.)
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Computer Science: Secure Software and Computer Systems
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 03/09/2026
I can finally tell the world that i was selected for an ERC stg 🤯 Maybe this what people mean when they say they are "humbled by" but I am at peak imposter syndrome, and I really mean it: 1/
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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📢 We are hiring a full professor in "Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems". Come join us at Germany's first and largest cognitive science program. Please share far and wide, and get in touch with any questions. www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit...
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129 FB 8 W3 Professorship Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Systems, Institute of Cognitive Science: Uni Osnabrück
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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yale Neuroscience is hiring another computational neuroscience position this year! Please share with anyone who might be interested, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the position, or growing neuro-AI community at Yale/WTI!
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Alireza Modirshanechi @modirshanechi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Excited to share that I'll be starting as a junior professor and Emmy Noether awardee at the University of Göttingen this October! 🥳 🚀 I'll be hiring #phd students and #postdoc across #machinelearning, #neuroscience and #cogsci: modirlab.github.io/open-positio... Please spread the word! 🙏
PhD ad informationPostdoc ad informationInformation about Göttingen and equal opportunities
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hombrecerebro.bsky.social @hombrecerebro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Harvard Neurobiology + Kempner are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in computational neuroscience. The search is broad; researchers combining computational and experimental work (including nonhuman-primate research) should apply! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16615
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Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
The Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University invite applications for a tenure tra...
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John Pearson @jmxpearson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
**Four** positions in AI/ML for biology at @dukemedschool.bsky.social, including in Neurobiology. @scottsoderling.bsky.social and David Page are leading a tremendous initiative in Discovery AI. Wonderful colleagues, wonderful place.
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AI/ML for Biology - 4 tenure-track assistant professor positions - Durham, North Carolina job with Duke University - Biochemistry & Cell Biology | 12862109
Discovery AI Initiative and Departments of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Integrative Immunobiology, Neurobiology, and Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
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Brokoslaw Laschowski @drlaschowski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Come join us in Toronto. UofT is hiring an Associate Professor/Professor and endowed Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence. @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Associate Professor/Professor - Artificial Intelligence
Associate Professor/Professor - Artificial Intelligence
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Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
After my lecture at the FENS-CHEN Cambridge summer school, I shared this coding tutorial (pytorch): It shows how to fit RNN (and spiking RNN) to electrophy to predict optogenetic perturbation from cortical recordings. github.com/guillaumeBel...
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GitHub - guillaumeBellec/perturbation_testing_tutorial
Contribute to guillaumeBellec/perturbation_testing_tutorial development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 15/07/2026
I just gave a short tutorial on what is a spiking neural network and how to train one. From zero to a trained network in one hour. Slides and code you can run in Colab at this repo: github.com/neural-recko... 🤖🧠🧪
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GitHub - neural-reckoning/cambridge-fens-chen-summer-school-2026: Code and slides for 2026 FENS Chen Summer School on Learning with spikes
Code and slides for 2026 FENS Chen Summer School on Learning with spikes - neural-reckoning/cambridge-fens-chen-summer-school-2026
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GerstnerLab @gerstnerlab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
How can the brain learn the hidden hierarchical structure from high dimensional data? In our latest work, we use synthetic datasets to analyze two classes of bio-plausible learning rules: variants of Direct Feedback Alignment, and local self-supervised learning. We find only the latter succeeds.
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Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Accepted at ICML 2026. I am extremely proud of this work. Local learning is starting to work really well! The theoretical perspective of local learning minimizing an emergent global objective has been eye opening Congrats @zihan-wu.bsky.social and Ariane Delrocq! Great team
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 12/06/2026
🏹 Job alert: Post-doctoral Fellowship in Neuroimaging at IMT Atlantique 📍 Brest 🇫🇷 ⏰ 17 July 🔗 bit.ly/4xk2Ljy
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Institut Mines-Télécom - Post-doctoral Fellowship in Diffusion Neuroimaging – 24-month Fixed-Term Contract
A leading general engineering school within IMT (Institut Mines-Télécom), the number one group of engineering schools in France, IMT Atlantique aims to support transitions and train responsible engine
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Laura Driscoll @lndriscoll.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
New job posting! If you're interested in working with our group, check it out. 3 year position (with possibility to extend) at >100k. alleninstitute.org/careers/jobs...
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Open Positions | Allen Institute
Build your career at the Allen Institute. Explore current job openings and find your place in a team driving some of the most ambitious open science in the world.
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Raymond Chua @raymondrchua.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Excited to share our new paper accepted at ICML 2026 with @tyrellturing.bsky.social and Doina Precup! 🇰🇷 See you in Seoul. A major challenge in continual reinforcement learning is balancing: • plasticity (learning new things) • stability (not forgetting old ones) 🧵 1/15
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Jean-Rémi King @jeanremiking.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We have a new postdoc position to work on Neuro AI and human intracranial recording with Pierre Bourdillon and I: Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Lab info: bourdillon-titan-lab.fr feel free to RT ;)
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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I‘m looking for postdoc candidates in computer vision and control theory (2 positions). Get in touch if you’re interested.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Prestige bias is a major problem in academia: success in academia leads to other unfair advantages. Prestige bias is bigger in fields that are less scientific (eg., art, history). Fields where claims are more testable have lower prestige markers (eg math, physics). kurtishingl.com/files/PTTS_l...
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
this is such a powerful way to support the international neuroscience community, and a massively rewarding experience and great line on your CV to boot. please join us!
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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Alireza Modirshanechi, Benjamin Eysenbach, Peter Dayan, Eric Schulz: Unifying Goal-Conditioned RL and Unsupervised Skill Learning via Control-Maximization arxiv.org/abs/2605.06145 arxiv.org/pdf/2605.06145 arxiv.org/html/2605.06145
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I don't think our culture is ready for accepting this idea, and probably some percentage of humans never will be. My guess: hundreds of years from now a majority will agree with this, but many still won't, and it will correlate with religion and education. (See, e.g., Darwinian evolution) 🧠📈 🧪
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Friedemann Zenke @fzenke.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
1/7 New paper accepted as ICML spotlight arxiv.org/abs/2605.03517! We unify self-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms (e.g., contrastive, VICReg, stopgrad) via latent distribution matching (LDM), which matches an induced latent distribution to an explicit latent model.
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Gabriel Peyré @gabrielpeyre.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
For those interested in normalized gradient methods and optimal transport: I introduce a new class of "spectral" Wasserstein distances for which spectrally normalized gradient descent (Muon but without momentum and small step size ...) is a spectral-W gradient flow: arxiv.org/abs/2604.04891
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Muon Dynamics as a Spectral Wasserstein Flow
Gradient normalization is central in deep-learning optimization because it stabilizes training and reduces sensitivity to scale. For deep architectures, parameters are naturally grouped into matrices ...
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Romain Brette @romainbrette.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"The Brain, In Theory" is out today! A short excerpt in The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
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‘The Brain, In Theory,’ an excerpt
In his new book, Brette pushes back against theories that describe the brain as a “biological computer.” In this excerpt from Chapter 4, he challenges equating brain evolution with programming…
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 03/04/2026
Wanna do neuroscience in Paris but can't find interesting lab? Want to come do a sabbatical but don't know who to collaborate? Check this webpage aggregating ~all the neuroscience labs (+200) in Paris. ⚠️only the information of 'verified' profiles is reliable⚠️ Please retweet 🙏 parisneuro.fr
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Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🧠👩‍🎓 Would you like to study #CompNeuro in Berlin? You can still enrol in the International Master Program Computational Neuroscience at the #BCCNBerlin for an October start -- the deadline has been extended to April 15! Find more information here 👉 bit.ly/4c1h5na #BernsteinNetwork #Neuroskyence
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Master Program computational neuroscience - BCCN
International interdisciplinary research oriented master program computational neuroscience. Students have mentors and a teaching coordinator helps with administrative issues. The Master’s degree is…
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Steve Flammia @sflammia.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The arXiv is becoming a nonprofit separate from Cornell, and they're looking for a CEO. Please repost to let good candidates know! @dabacon.tachyon.institute, @harrowing.bsky.social, @michaelnielsen.bsky.social jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...
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Chief Executive Officer - New York City, New York (US) job with arXiv | 37961678
arXiv seeks its first CEO to champion open, free scientific discovery and guide the platform’s next chapter as an independent nonprofit.
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Sjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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Biological Laboratory | LEGO® Ideas
This is a two-floor realistic Biological Laboratory building. In this design, I try to tell stories about biologists, introduce biology concepts to general publ…
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Gaute Einevoll @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Episode #38 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On extracting spiking network models from experiments - with Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn38 How to fit spiking network models to experimental data when there is no unique parameter set giving the best fit.
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Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Very refreshing interaction with the undergrad student form India @kaurarmanjot445.bsky.social ! 🧪 🧠 She was interested in our math equivalence between spike timing and deep relu nets With a short call and few emails she reproduced the work and open sourced a turorial github.com/kaurarmanjot...
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GitHub - kaurarmanjot445-sys/snn-mnist-conversion: Time-to-first-spike SNN conversion for MNIST - exact gradient equivalence implementation
Time-to-first-spike SNN conversion for MNIST - exact gradient equivalence implementation - kaurarmanjot445-sys/snn-mnist-conversion
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Quentin Berthet @ AISTATS @qberthet.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🚨 🔬 PhD positions at Google DeepMind in France 🇫🇷 We are advertising Master Level Intern positions at Google DeepMind within our Frontier AI Unit. These could lead to co-advised PhD positions with Google DeepMind and French academic institutions. job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
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Stagiaire de niveau Master, France / Master Level Intern, France
Grenoble, France ; Paris, France
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date): academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868 An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.
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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
PhD Alert! We’re recruiting for a new, fully-funded #Neuroskyence PhD studentship to model multiple sclerosis in vitro, combining immunology with ephys. Led by the awesome @juliae.bsky.social Please repost. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Modelling multiple sclerosis in a dish to test therapeutics at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Modelling multiple sclerosis in a dish to test therapeutics at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Summer school on Neuro AI in Cambridge. Registration Deadline: 16 Feb 2026 Speaker line up: G. Bellec A. Billard R. Bogacz R. Ponte Costa W. Gerstner M. Giugliano L. Hunt M. Sahani P. Series P. Tino www.fens.org/news-activit...
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FENS-Chen Institute Summer Program on AI-Accelerated Neuroscience Discovery and Translation hosted by the University of Cambridge - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
Application Submission Deadline: Monday 16th February 2026, midnight Applications will be open from Thursday 8th January to midnight on Monday 16th February. The application form and further details…
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Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I highly recommend this postdoc position in Paris. Joao is amazing and it's a unique opportunity to do serious computational/ML analysis with human brain recordings in vivo. 🧪 🧠
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Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
These days I drink Iranian tea everyday so I don't forget. Media coverage of these events have been very poor in my internet bubble so far.
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Guillaume Lajoie @glajoie.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Come join us for this first worshop of a three part series on the computational ingredients of reasoning in minds and AI. Reasoning is a complex term, especially in light of an exploding category of methods in LLMs. These workshops will explore reasoning’s multiple facets.
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Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I always have an issue with self proclaimed "foundation models in X". A key defining feature of a foundation model is adoption by a community of users. If nobody has built on top of it. It's no foundation
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Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Neuromorphic camera for neural recordings 🤩🤩 So spiking cameras enabling sub millisecond optical imaging. Potentially enabling to record... Spikes? 🐸 Science history is just so ironic sometimes (50 years to close the loop)
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Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The kind of concept you hear once and you never forget. If you know what the electrode records. You know what it stimulates.
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Maxime Beau @maxime-beau.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Applications are open for the 2026 Paris Spring School of Imaging and Electrophysiology! It’s a great way to discover Paris (❤️) while learning a pretty wide range of techniques for neuroscience, in a fantastic environment. Share widely: parisneuro.ovh
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Paris NeuroCourse | Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience
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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 22/12/2025
Sequences are everywhere! In every brain region. And are written in stone. Invariant Activity Sequences Across the Mouse Brain. Out today, by Célian Bimbard, with @kenneth-harris.bsky.social. Based on data by Célian and by @intlbrainlab.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Examples of sequences of activity seen in multiple regions of the brain
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Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Very important
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
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Fabian Sinz @sinzlab.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to: - Lead their own research group - Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine
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Guillaume Bellec @bellecguill.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Our paper on data constrained RNN that generalize to optogenetic perturbations now citable on eLife: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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Biologically informed cortical models predict optogenetic perturbations
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
We should just use standardized test scores + grades to admit students into college. Everything else is way too easy to game, allowing the extremely rich to dominate access to prestigious colleges. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... I've been saying this for a long time, but the data makes it clear.
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
1/ Why does RL struggle with social dilemmas? How can we ensure that AI learns to cooperate rather than compete? Introducing our new framework: MUPI (Embedded Universal Predictive Intelligence) which provides a theoretical basis for new cooperative solutions in RL. Preprint🧵👇 (Paper link below.)
Image of robots struggling with a social dilemma.
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