Of course it will! And then evolve immunity for it, and then attackers finding more vulnerabilities, and more immunity evolves back! It is the red queen effect, and it has already existed in software evolution, just until now at much longer timescales :)
And definitively much more on phenotype testing than on upfront specifications
I am no CS so won't have great takes on feasibility. But I do get the feeling that the idea of a whole population of deployments and continuous evolution from each, plus any kind of adversarial selection mechanisms will emerge
My two cents: we definitively go toward understand nothing, and we handle complexity the same way we have dealing with biology without understanding it for centuries: vigji.github.io/blog/the-mes...
After some months of daily Cursor/Claude usage, I have put in writing my main take home message: with vibecoding, software development will probably start sounding familiar to most evolutionary biologists: vigji.github.io/blog/the-mes...
It feels like you are almost referring to this and you might know, but since it was not linked in the post arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987
As in you were convinced by other s arguments or you just lost any hope about fighting that battle?
I just realised this 10 yo library was a visionary anticipation of coding with LLMs github.com/drathier/sta...
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And so our Decoding the Brain workshop is over! Thank you for three days of engaging discussions; we hope that you will come back home with new ideas and new confusions!
Anyone following the flame sparked by this post might be interested in our upcoming workshop: challenging neuroscience people on their idea of representations:
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There will be plenty of time and space to elaborate and exchange ideas beyond 300 chars lim!
Meaning that there are sub-populations of neurons sending projections to different combinations of brain regions?
We are super happy to announce the third Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience! We will once again look critically at assumptions of modern neuroscience: what does it mean that the brain encodes information? Is this a useful approach, or a metaphor that blurs our vision?
We are happy to announce a next workshop by @cam-openlab.bsky.social! This time you can learn everything you need to know about electronics to know your equipment better, improve your setup and get a deeper understanding of the processes you are studying! nenckiopenlab.org/electronics-...
The workshop was actually featured on @thetransmitter.bsky.social in a piece by @shaena.bsky.social! www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...
Check out our preprint where we take a deep dive into the super-trendy concept of "naturalistic behavior" and ponder: how much naturalistic do we want our experiments to be?
GPT training is soooo 2024
Ignorant about ASMR, I asked GPT for explanation. LOL (it later apologised for the confusion after actual fact checking :D)
Maybe a good time to remember that mice have tiny hyperconnected brains. An estimated 97% of all possible connections between brain areas exist in mice, vs ~62% in macaques and marmosets.
No wonder everything is everywhere in mice, they have all-to-all connectivity!
doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
After a horrible parenting night, I dreamed this morning that I was keeping track of my son's wake-ups and night feedings using xarrays in #Python. Somehow, this gave me a reassuring sense of structure amidst the unstructured chaos - I knew how to access data easily 😅
@xarray.bsky.social
"I published my paper on biorxiv and now I'm hoping to get it advertised in Nature"
This may seem like a diss, but 'is the exposure you get from Nature worth 10k?' has a different answer than 'is it worth paying 10k to publish a PDF online?' (which was always a strawman)
Fully agree. Too bad Italy officially relies on it for any kind of public evaluation-calls for post-graduate positions at universities, habilitation to professorship, etc. This (Italian system) is incredibly frustrating, but seemingly not enough for a critical mass of scientists to protest the rules
Although we don’t want this fight now, if we have to have it we will. We have all the funders/unis/institutes on our side. Elife papers will be treated just the same as before. And maybe we can collectively put a dent in Clarivate’s business model.
A writeup of my thesis on heading direction circuits in the #zebrafish #brain! If you want to read more: edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/31211/1/Petr...
#neuroscience #OpenAccess
I'm former zebrafishology PhD in Portugues lab - early career, if that still counts to be here (still doing some zebrafish stuff with them)
““naturalistic behavior” isn’t necessarily an ideal to strive for in all situations. Researchers need to be using the best methods for their specific research questions and not just get distracted by fancy new technology” says @vigji.bsky.social in this insightful article. Well said.
A beautiful piece featuring the unconventional "Rethinking Naturalistic Behavior" workshop we organised in the Dolomites with the @openlab.bsky.social. We need more such occasions for this kind of debates!
Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social @shaena.bsky.social for giving it space!
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🚨#ComplexityThoughts short essay: Phantom oscillations in your data?
Relevant for data science in general, emerged from a discussion about #Neuroscience applications.
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