Ali Mohebi

Graves. Ready for dead elementary school kids. Truth is naked, like the emperor

Waking up to the news of my new country dropping bombs on my old country. Oh well. Goodbye Bluesky

Take me back to May 21, 2018

I suppose there are still living, dear Jeffreys who hover over our institutions, and some colleagues are continuing to woo them for a fistful of dollars. It's like the ending of Jurassic Park. You think you destroyed the island, but dinosaurs are still out there. This movie has a sequel.

What happened in 2022?

Congrats!!! Celebratory drinks?

It’s out!

One of my favorite posters at GRC, excited to read this!

Thrilled to finally share this work! 🧠🔊

Using a new reinforcement-free task we show mice (like humans) extract abstract structure from sound (unsupervised) & dCA1 is causally required by building factorised, orthogonal subspaces of abstract rules.

Led by Dammy Onih!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Yeah thanks, that will come later in the course...

Here's the main page for the course:
mohebi-n-associates.github.io/NLDM/

This semester, I’m teaching an undergraduate course on learning and decision-making. I am developing interactive demonstrations, such as random dot motion and reinforcement learning, which will expand throughout the semester. Here’s an example if useful
mohebi-n-associates.github.io/NLDM/Demonst...

The current system is working exactly as designed. It destroys critical thought to protect capitalist hegemony and utilizes disciplinary techniques to mold compliant, indebted subjects. It is a factory for the production of inequality that only societal change can address imho…

Another instant classic! Congrats to Dennis, Vijay, and team!

Where does learning through imitation happen in the brain?

In juvenile zebra finches, we pinpoint a synaptic locus of song learning in a cortico-basal ganglia circuit and leverage this localization to measure the timescale of consolidation and make birds learn faster! #neuroskyence (1/14)

No thank you. I've seen this show before.

Consulting firm bro at work. Preparing slide decks

Capitalism is ridiculously funny.

Ok, then I will throw in my 150% endorsement!!

Totally forgot the bear. Should go on the poster for the next year's event...

I think that should be the norm. After all as they say in QUBS: two hands, two cookies, right?... We should be allowed to experience sweets, twice...

You will have a redeeming week, and will meet caring, brilliant people, which will make you realize why why why you signed up for this job...

And there will be amazing coffee, right Gunnar?

Congrats, Kaue!

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.

My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

Thrilled to see the first preprint of the lab out 🤩 Check it out if you need to compare dynamics in your data and RNN (or any other combinations of dynamical systems)!

I was just informed on Slack: WE paid a $388 tariff on a $782 bill for an imported lab equipment. Nice!

Want your renovation project at your favorite uni to move faster? Open a Kalshi tab on the completion date and send a link to the higher-ups, your contractors, or, I don't know, your state senate, the federalis. Let the markets do their magic!

Will this wall be painted before April 1, 2028? Bid!

In this analogy, universities become museums of science

At best, I see myself as a science 'curator'.
The days are gone when you were the person in the room who knew more facts about the subject matter. Now there is a device in everyone's pocket that knows more than you and I combined. What we could do, if anything, is design a learning trajectory...

Oh wait. Do flies have brains? 🤯