dissonances

Neuroscience as intuition

A reflection 1.5 years after my first blog post

May 1 • 

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December 2024

Wrapping up Neural Computation

Sprinting through special topics, and a reflection

Dec 31, 2024 • 

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Computing in high dimensions

Featuring a dip back into 𝖞𝖊 𝖔𝖑𝖉𝖊 AI history

Dec 30, 2024 • 

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Microwaving a Hopfield network

An introduction to the Boltzmann machine

Dec 28, 2024 • 

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Perception as visual inference

Bayes and natural images

Dec 26, 2024 • 

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Stable states

A brief introduction to attractor networks in theoretical neuroscience

Dec 9, 2024 • 

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November 2024

Ambient spaces

Learning manifolds

Nov 19, 2024 • 

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Heaven metal

You should listen to Midwife

Nov 17, 2024 • 

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Some nonlinear learning

Clustering, and our favorite: sparse coding

Nov 11, 2024 • 

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October 2024

Limits of linear learning

Neural implementation of linear classification and principal components analysis

Oct 31, 2024

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Whitening, three ways

Efficient coding of natural image statistics in the retina

Oct 14, 2024 • 

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Time versus rate

Encoding (and decoding) with spikes

Oct 3, 2024 • 

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