Nick Halper

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Congratulations to The Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2), Mohamed Abdelhack (@mabdelhack), from @CAMH_KCNI, and Michelle Wang from The Neuro, winners of the 2024 The Neuro - Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes! 🥇 buff.ly/3MKQeiW #OpenScienceWeek

Neuroscience needs research engineers, but orgs are not ready for this. I agree wholeheartedly with Gaelle and Olivier. 1. RSEs should be inside of a ladder/org where they can learn from each other. A lone RSE in a lab is a recipe for isolation, skill atrophy, low mobility. 1/

@karpathy We could work together. @neuromatch is global education program that works with @GoogleDeepMind and @RealityLabs to teach AI research skills. We have AI teaching assistants and work closely with the AI and education community.

⚡️ Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs. The announcement: --- We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native. How can we approach an ideal experience for learning something new? For example, in the case of physics one could imagine working through very high quality course materials together with Feynman, who is there to guide you every step of the way. Unfortunately, subject matter experts who are deeply passionate, great at teaching, infinitely patient and fluent in all of the world's languages are also very scarce and cannot personally tutor all 8 billion of us on demand. However, with recent progress in generative AI, this learning experience feels tractable. The teacher still designs the course materials, but they are supported, leveraged and scaled with an AI Teaching Assistant who is optimized to help guide the students through them. This Teacher + AI symbiosis could run an entire curriculum of courses on a common platform. If we are successful, it will be easy for anyone to learn anything, expanding education in both reach (a large number of people learning something) and extent (any one person learning a large amount of subjects, beyond what may be possible today unassisted). Our first product will be the world's obviously best AI course, LLM101n. This is an undergraduate-level class that guides the student through training their own AI, very similar to a smaller version of the AI Teaching Assistant itself. The course materials will be available online, but we also plan to run both digital and physical cohorts of people going through it together. Today, we are heads down building LLM101n, but we look forward to a future where AI is a key technology for increasing human potential. What would you like to learn? --- @EurekaLabsAI is the culmination of my passion in both AI and education over ~2 decades. My interest in education took me from YouTube tutorials on Rubik's cubes to starting CS231n at Stanford, to my more recent Zero-to-Hero AI series. While my work in AI took me from academic research at Stanford to real-world products at Tesla and AGI research at OpenAI. All of my work combining the two so far has only been part-time, as side quests to my "real job", so I am quite excited to dive in and build something great, professionally and full-time. It's still early days but I wanted to announce the company so that I can build publicly instead of keeping a secret that isn't. Outbound links with a bit more info in the reply!

Sign-up for Mind Matching at #CCN2024 (w @neuromatch)! bit.ly/4bAs8Bt TLDR: Fill out the form and the algorithm will pair you with potential new collaborators, colleagues, and like-minded friends. Sign up deadline: July 22 Max 240 participants

🎉Thrilled to announce our expanding partnership w/@climatematch as we provide their Climate Impact Scholars Program (CISP) w/access to LEAP Pangeo for next-level research, increased collaboration + career development! bit.ly/4c44zSI #community #openscience #climate

Question for folks in collaborations of 5+ labs: do you feel like you are all set with data architecture? Did you get enough funds for this? What are the limitations right now?

@KiltzLisa If you are looking for any help when printing/producing, I used to work in operations at a board game company!

Together with a fellow PhD colleague, we are trying to cope with our academic experienced by turning them into something fun and exciting - a board game! You can contribute with your experiences as well here: tinyurl.com/phd-game #phdlife #academia #academictwitter

🚨We're looking for PIs and industry researchers to mentor our amazing students! You can do a lot of good by meeting with students from diverse backgrounds and guide them on their professional journey. A few hours can make a big difference!

@Ana_BurgosRuiz Hey Ana, we’ve worked on something similar and have matched 30,000 academic or industry scientists through our platform already. Would love to talk about what you are building and see if we can work together

We need to achieve x number of registrations in the form on the website in order to start building the platform and launch it with those profiles. I encourage you to fill out the form if you are interested: portiko.vercel.app

We are launching a platform to connect researchers who are open to collaborate with others... (1/3)

Climatematch brings together outstanding students from 103 countries, many of whom lack career connections. Spend just one hour a week with them and make a real impact on their lives and career paths. Apply here: buff.ly/4bf3B5A Learn more: buff.ly/4aKzbb0

Neuromatch brings together outstanding students from 103 countries, many of whom lack career connections. Spend just one hour a week with them and make a real impact on their lives and career paths. Apply here: buff.ly/4bf3B5A Learn more: buff.ly/4aKzbb0

We are currently accepting applications for #ProfessionalDevelopment Mentors for this year's Academy! 👉 Learn more about the program and how you can make an impact: buff.ly/4aKzbb0

24 months ago @motifneuro was a slack channel between neurotech friends who believed we could create a technology to treat drug-resistant mental health disorders. Today we are building that product. 🧵

It’s happening! Recording for Neuromatch

I loved academia when I was in it — and believe more ever the exceptional value of truly transferable skills obtained within. That said, for the sake of all of humanity, I hope it can free itself of the rampant credit chasing, low agency, consensus fetishizing, and security primacy that IMO hold it back from its limitless potential

I have posters for sale! This art was drawn using my implanted #BCI. Neural signals drawing neural signals, what's cooler than that? Having this poster in your lab may increase motivation up to 20%, resulting in more papers and grants being written! bit.ly/3thAE8n

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Universities are funny. Hey what if we took a medieval institution for training priests and aristocrats and combined it w a hedge fund, sports franchise and resort for teenagers Oh and it'll be the backbone for fundamental research for our entire civilization

Neuro twitter, pls help and RT! Hit like on this post to vote in the Art of the Brain contest. We created this piece from the white matter tracts of a subject in our a depression DBS trial. The target network is highlighted, and the streaming data supports clinical decisions.