Dima Rinberg

Paper Alert: A new theoretical framework for olfaction. Joint work with Hamza Giaffar, @SergeyAShuvaev, and @AlexKoulakov journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Pro tip for AI/ML researchers: joint work with @DimaRinberg shows that in real neural networks crucial signal analyses occur Rapidly & Outside-of-cortex, limiting the utility of the (very popular) concept of bio-inspired networks that (only) replicate cortical circuit computation

In the Thanksgiving spirit, thanks to Twitter and to new beginnings on the other side @dimarinberg.bsky.social

This award is very hard to respond to. I have received many hundred congratulatory notes, from former students, post-docs, Princeton University juniors and seniors, funding agencies and foundations, authors, signature collectors, amateurs, elementary school neural network followers, and on and on. An astonishing fraction of them has found their way into useful and interesting Neural Network careers by a casual interaction in class, at a meeting, hearing what I had to say about their ideas, learning from thinking about how I worked with a class, or from being my teaching assistants... There are some whom I remember well, and others for whom my reaction is “are they certain that our interaction sparked a single usable thought?” Yet they go on and comment “you changed my life” and follow on to explain that they heard me lecture when they were 15, and have been a member of the Neural Network brigade of the research army ever afterward. I cannot make detailed comments to most of my letter writers. In sum I can only say that I tremendously enjoyed the interactions that the Neural Network community provided me with; that the mutual interactions have given me much pleasure over the years; that the community interested both in brain and in artificial brain has proved a good way for science to develop even if institutions have not always been sympathetic. Often these institutions found the enthusiasm infectious, after a period of doubt. In short, we often have won--. No, perhaps all we know is that we have not yet lost. I still believe that finding mind lodged in biological matter is the most profound question that physics can pose. And that the breadth of physics is a good base from which to begin.

We tested our theory's predictions by comparing existing receptor-ligand affinity and connectivity data obtained from the fruit fly olfactory system.

We analyze the geometrical structure of odor representations in a multi-D space of receptor affinities and its low-D implementation, the primacy hull. We propose its implications for the structure of feedforward connectivity in early olfactory networks.

Paper Alert: A new theoretical framework for olfaction. Joint work with Hamza Giaffar, @SergeyAShuvaev, and @AlexKoulakov journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Read this and reach out to your Israeli colleagues.

We’re still on the lookout for the perfect candidate to join our team! I’ll be at SfN from Sun to Wed—find me if you’re interested. #JobOpening

Some thoughts about the challenges that are faced by the olfactory system from Yoram Ben Shaul and myself cell.com/trends/neurosc…

We are looking for a postdoc to lead a new project in olfactory diagnostics: can we detect human diseases using the mammalian olfactory system as supersensitive, broadband chemical detector? A lot of imaging, data analysis and gas chromatography…. rinberglab.com/positions

Hit the mark at this #OptoGRC2024 session 🎯 Led by @ianOldenburg with Rosa Cossart, @HistedLab, Dmitry Rinberg, @ameswithabrain & @harshida_rp - you won't want to miss this one!

Hey Edmund, @neurochong , congratulations! Very happy for you!!!

@fermatslibrary Is the first law a special case of the second law. Seems to be redundant.

Newton's Laws 🍎 1st: An object at rest stays at rest an object in motion stays in motion. 2nd: Force = Mass×Acceleration. The more you push the faster you'll go. 3rd: For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction. A rocket can lift off by expelling gas downward.

The algorithmic capabilities of a real neuron are far beyond what the McCulloch-Pitts-Rosenblatt unit, the foundation of most artificial neural networks, can achieve. Our new controller neuron model is also available here: arxiv.org/abs/2401.01489

Very excited for #OptoGRC2024! Join us there: grc.org/optogenetic-ap…

Ofer, thank you for a call! Great initiative! Shoham (@ShohamLab) and Rinberg labs are here to help. Pls reach out to us. We are at the NYU Medical School. rinberglab.com, nie-lab.org

3. Israel does the same evil acts as Hamas. (Mistakes happen in war, but Israel always seeks to minimize civilian casualties.) 4. Hamas are 'militants'. (They are terrorists who behead infants, rape women and massacre at a music festival.)

The true rationale of #HamasISIS atrocities - this is very much about #Russia, #Ukraine️ and the coming US presidential elections. Israel is the fault line of massive tectonic plates in motion.