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2024-06-11 20:21:47

Yohan John 🤖🧠 on Nostr: Ages ago, my PhD thesis advisor described a computational neuroscience model as a ...

Ages ago, my PhD thesis advisor described a computational neuroscience model as a mnemonic for remembering the empirical data. Some friends were a bit bothered by this seeming lack of ambition.

Now I worry that even this goal will be obscured by the shadow of AI/ML: will people bother to think about, say, the mysteries of short term plasticity or active dendrites when you can throw the backprop+RL kitchen sink at anything?
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