Forgot to x-post!
Honored to share this Neuron interview in which I discuss my childhood, getting a PhD, and RNN reverse engineering and its application to brain data. I also talked about my industry/academic life.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mjFW3BtfH...
The audiobook sample is live on SoundCloud for my memoir, Emergence! A neuroscientist reading his own memoir… I'll let you decide if that was a good idea.
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Should be!
Me holding the first copies of Elusive Cures
Elusive Cures is my first book. I was surprised by how much was required to make it happen (beyond writing it). If you're curious, here's the who and how behind it ... 🧵
(My amazing publisher: @princetonupress.bsky.social)
A remarkable journey of resilience and transformation, from the chaotic corridors of group homes to the halls of Columbia and Stanford, EMERGENCE is a coming-of-age tale where heartbreak and humor meet the scientific wonder of modern artificial intelligence.
🔗 Preorder: tinyurl.com/fzcxb5ea
Join us to push the boundaries of neuromotor interfaces!
We have two exciting Research Scientist Intern positions open:
1️⃣ Neuromotor Interfaces: Computational Modeling (PhD) - This for AI-centric folks
2️⃣ Neuromotor Interfaces (PhD) - Research scientist catch-all, including signal processing, physics, experimental skills, etc.
2026 Internships at CTRL Labs at Meta Reality Labs
It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀
You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Terrifying insanity. What can be done to stop this?
(7/26) The most surprising phenomenology happens after input cessation at t≥0: neurons continue oscillating long after stimulation ends, with lifetimes exceeding any intrinsic system timescale, including the plasticity forgetting timescale, by an order of magnitude (panel iii).
The implication was the latter; that consciousness required biology. Therefore silicon consciousness was not viable.
Again, I was picking up an undertone and really hoping @dlbarack.bsky.social can shed light here, as he swims in these waters regularly and I was merely a guest.
On a related (perhaps different?) note, at the SNAP philosophy of neuro meeting, there was an undercurrent of thought that consciousness required biology. This really confused me because it felt a bit like “we need bio-magic” for consciousness.
What am I missing?
Oh, wow! You *can* pre-order the book. I had no idea.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david...
lolz... where???
Finally, a book that combines early childhood trauma with neural networks and AI. Just what the field was missing.
Coming March 17, 2026!
Just got my advance copy of Emergence — a memoir about growing up in group homes and somehow ending up in neuroscience and AI. It’s personal, it’s scientific, and it’s been a wild thing to write. Grateful and excited to share it soon.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Motor Learning and Neuromotor Ethics
Our Reality Labs EMG Foundational Research team is pleased to announce an RFP! The topic is on motor learning for EMG-based HCI and the related neuromotor ethics. Submissions are due September 1!
www.meta.com/blog/reality...
Open-sourced EMG data plus training/testing scripts to make contact with our results at 100 users for each three tasks (discrete gestures, 1D wrist navigation, and handwriting).
github.com/facebookrese...
This is clearly it. 💯
On twitter, we used to call them tweeprints. I think we need a new name for BlueSky.
Ideas???
Explainer threads 🧵 are generous. They help science be a community, not a contest. Keep 'em coming!
Maybe. Skeptical of the former and bullish on the latter.
Lovely article, Luiz. :)
Thanks for highlighting, Earl.
But what if the murmuration does "compute-like" things, such as temporarily hold static (low-dimensional) state or transition along a temporarily constructed state diagram?
It's been one year since Jim Simons passed away. He remains one of the greatest philanthropists of our time. His commitment to fundamental scientific research was truly extraordinary and remains essential for advancing humanity.
www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/s...
30 days to the launch of Elusive Cures! I learned so much writing it, and I want to share it.
For the next 30 days, I'll post brain & mind research breakthroughs on odd days, and highlight unmet needs on even ones. #ElusiveCures30
First breakthrough: /1
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