David Sussillo
@SussilloDavid
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Neural reverse engineer. Research scientist at Meta Reality Labs. Adjunct prof at Stanford. Prev: Google Brain, Stanford postdoc. Milton Hershey Alum.
Portola Valley, CA, USA
Joined November 2016
We're hiring! . Join Meta Reality Lab's EMG Wristband foundational research team! ⚡️. We're seeking research scientists with systems neuro/ML/AI/BCI/EE backgrounds, with skills on a spectrum from modeling to experimental expertise, as well as generalists who excel in both areas.
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I'm deeply touched to read @marinopagan's reflection on our 2013 contextual decision-making study in The Transmitter. Knowing that our work has influenced others' scientific journeys is both humbling and inspiring. 🙏.
In our latest edition of “This paper changed my life,” @marinopagan reflects on a seminal paper that revealed the complexity of neural population dynamics and the power of recurrent neural networks.
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RT @NicoleCRust: This is such a mistake - these alternative ways of testing aren't good enough "models" to evaluate new drugs. People will….
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RT @_TheTransmitter: How can we make progress in developing a general model of neural computation rather than a series of disjointed models….
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RT @NandoDF: Feeling pressure to work more than 5 days per week? Don’t. I’ve been super productive all my life and I never worked on the we….
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RT @xavierjgonzalez: We also just dropped a new blog that steps through both the the math and the code!. Blog: Post….
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RT @seasonedschemer: 1/. We just open-sourced two large wrist electromyography (EMG) datasets - one towards typing without a keyboard and t….
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RT @jessedmarshall: emg2pose: Hand pose estimation anywhere with neuromotor interfaces . A Dataset and Benchmark @ Neurips 2024 https://t.….
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RT @scott_linderman: Did you know that you can parallelize *nonlinear* RNNs over their sequence length!? Our @NeurIPSConf paper "Towards Sc….
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RT @lndriscoll: If you want to do a postdoc w me (or generally do theory at Allen/UW) apply for this!. It’s a pretty independent postdoc p….
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These are just top of mind. What other papers address "psychological phenomena" while going full-stack down the neuron and also include a theoretical hypothesis at the dynamics/meso-scale?.
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Here's a similar piece of work showing causal evidence for line attractor dynamics in the hypothalamus of rodents observing aggressive behavior.
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Here's a paper that helps explain thirst satiety in mice. It goes all the way down to the level of individual neurons and cell types while providing a meso-scale explanation of satiety via a putative line attractor.
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While I question the 90% figure, I agree with the core sentiment. However, I believe this will change significantly within the next decade or two due to improved recording methodologies, theoretical advances, and computational approaches in our understanding of how the brain.
This is a controversial claim, but in my experience, more than 90% of the time, when people bring up neuroscience during explanations of psychological phenomena, the neuroscience adds nothing of value to the explanation other than making the explanation *seem* more authoritative.
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RT @jackclarkSF: AI skeptics: LLMs are copy-paste engines, incapable of original thought, basically worthless. Professionals who track AI….
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No, AI Has Not Killed Marr's Three Levels, It’s Merely Maimed Them (Consider me triggered. 😂🤣). The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, particularly in neural networks and deep learning, has led some to question the relevance of classical frameworks like David Marr's.
Marr's three levels are dead. AI killed them.
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