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Max Brodeur

@maxbrodeur.bsky.social

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math & brains @EPFL & MPI interested in intelligence

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Flavio Martinelli @flavioh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

NEW PAPER. Why do larger networks train better? "Because they contain more candidate *sub*networks that can learn the task" → lottery tickets This popular explanation uses an appealing but misleading metaphor🧵 We propose an intuitive alternative grounded in theory: escape dimensions

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Simone (she/her) @simonerencken.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I’m happy to share that our paper about the Sepia officinalis genome is out in eLife!🧬 We compared the assemblies of two individuals that had a different predicted number of chromosomes, and found highly repetitive regions that likely prevented a complete assembly. elifesciences.org/articles/107...

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Max Brodeur @maxbrodeur.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Strange attractor in 1000D space of the activity in a random recurrent network — viewed from the first 20 principal components (in pairs). #mathart #neuroscience

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Max Brodeur @maxbrodeur.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

perturbations of a chaotic map #mathsky

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Max Brodeur @maxbrodeur.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

my neurons think about themselves a lot

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Max Brodeur @maxbrodeur.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Euclid, Newton & Turing This weekend, at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, I finally found a historical copy of Euclid’s Elements. And right next to it: Newton’s Principia and Turing’s handwritten notes. Completely overwhelming.

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Max Brodeur @maxbrodeur.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Smooth-rolling knots! At @markpauly.bsky.social’s lab, we found a way to optimize knots for smooth rolling. I presented our work at Bridges 2025 – the conference for #MathArt. More below ↓

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Max Brodeur @maxbrodeur.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

What is the hidden structure of the natural numbers? In the UMAP paper, @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social et al. embedded the integers as binary vectors of their prime factors. This UMAP visualization of 30 million integers reveals a fractal-like geometry. #UMAP #mathart #dataviz #numbertheory

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