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Oct 1, 20241 min read
#9 Hugo Merchant: Neuronal population clocks
Hugo works with macaques, who can rhythmically tap their fingers synchronized to a visual or auditory beat.
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Feb 3, 20241 min read
Variational Autoencoders, UMAP and birdsong
Using the paper Goffinet et al., 2021 and birdsong data, I explain how Variational Autoencoders and UMAP works.
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Oct 17, 20232 min read
#6 Kate Jeffery: Grid cells in 3D, entropy & climate change
This episode is all about grid cells, which Kate was already recording in the 1990s.
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Aug 10, 20238 min read
Talking to a crow will be possible in 50 years
“The Dr. Dolittle Challenge - can you build an AI that communicates with animals”? Corvids, neuroscience, and multimodal AI, can handle it.
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Jul 10, 20233 min read
#1 Georg Northoff: Spatiotemporal neuroscience
In the first episode of the Brain Space Time Podcast, I talk to Georg Northoff, a neuroscientist, psychiatrist and philosopher.
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Nov 16, 20222 min read
#7 Tony Zador: The Embodied Turing Test, Genomic Bottlenecks, Molecular Connectomics
Tony has a lab at Cold Spring Harbour, New York. Using rodents, his lab studies the neural circuits underlying auditory decisions. He is...
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Oct 25, 202234 min read
The evolution of the posterior cingulate cortex: Landmarks, autobiographical memories, and self
Many have pointed out that the neuronal dynamics in the hippocampus or entorhinal cortex enabling spatial navigation, may also facilitate...
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Jul 5, 20221 min read
#5 Felix Hill: Grounded Language, Transformers, and DeepMind
Felix is a research scientist at DeepMind. He is interested in grounded language understanding and natural language processing (NLP)....
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Jun 29, 20221 min read
#4 Beren Millidge: Reinforcement Learning through Active Inference
Beren is a postdoc in Oxford with a background in machine learning and computational neuroscience. He is interested in Active Inference...
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May 8, 20223 min read
Getting to know AI
‘Select all squares with traffic lights’ is a common online prompt to prove that you’re not a robot. It is also a typical task in machine...
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