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Erik Peterson

@parenthetical_e

Senior Scientist, Pasteur Labs.

 Los Angeles
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Joined September 2020
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Led by @AlexLavin_C137, written by too many wonderful people to fit in a tweet, our latest is a detailed roadmap for a new merger of scientific computing, scientific simulation, and artificial intelligence. arxiv.org/abs/2112.03235
Simulation Intelligence: Towards a New Generation of Scientific Methods

Simulation Intelligence: Towards a New Generation of Scientific Methods

The original "Seven Motifs" set forth a roadmap of essential methods for the field of scientific computing, where a motif is an algorithmic method that captures a pattern of computation and data...

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AI does end our race. Not out of malevolence or oppression AI ends us because the training corpus included so many stories about AI ending our race. Death by 🤖🦜.
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Monkeys playing battleship!
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@SciReports29 Mar 2023
.@DLBarack and colleagues use a Battleship-like game to show that humans and monkeys forage for information before searching for a reward nature.com/articles/s41598-0…

Visuospatial information foraging describes search behavior in learning latent environmental...

Scientific Reports - Visuospatial information foraging describes search behavior in learning latent environmental features

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Orit Peleg@oritpeleg19 Jan 2023
Beautiful work 🤩👇
Shekhar lab (@sshekhr) profile pictureShekhar lab@sshekhr19 Jan 2023
📢Excited to share lab's first preprint and our first Stentor paper! "Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular ciliate Stentor” biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… We asked "Can a simple unicellular organism mimic multicellularity?" 1/n
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Seems an apposite time to repost this link.medium.com/7nTJfK8ooub
The Absurdity of Peer Review

The Absurdity of Peer Review

What the pandemic revealed about scientific publishing

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the academic environment. (teehee)
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"Simulation Intelligence" is the merger of scientific computing, simulation, and AI to broaden the scientific method for the machine age. arxiv.org/abs/2112.03235
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Hype and hyperbole, sure. But mostly I think there is so much damn potential here.
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Short answer: Everything ! Cool new work by Erik Peterson @parenthetical_e
bioRxiv Neuroscience (@biorxiv_neursci) profile picturebioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv_neursci22 Oct 2021
What can astrocytes compute? biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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Kyle Dunovan@dunovank22 Oct 2021
Shadow brain!
Erik Peterson (@parenthetical_e) profile pictureErik Peterson@parenthetical_e22 Oct 2021
Astrocytes can compute anything neurons can? My latest paper that started as a joke, and I hope did not end up as one. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
What can astrocytes compute?

What can astrocytes compute?

I demonstrate theoretically that calcium waves in astrocytes can compute anything neurons can. A foundational result in neural computation was proving the firing rate model of neurons defines a...

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Astrocytes can compute anything neurons can? My latest paper that started as a joke, and I hope did not end up as one. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
What can astrocytes compute?

What can astrocytes compute?

I demonstrate theoretically that calcium waves in astrocytes can compute anything neurons can. A foundational result in neural computation was proving the firing rate model of neurons defines a...

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The latest greatest preprint, with @bradleyvoytek TLDR: It’s good to oscillate, sometimes. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Costs and benefits of using rhythmic rate codes

Costs and benefits of using rhythmic rate codes

Neural oscillations are one of the most well known macroscopic phenomena observed in the nervous system, and the benefits of this kind of coding have been the topic of frequent analysis. Many of...

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I am so in love with this tiny life.
Scott Miller (@byscottmiller) profile pictureScott Miller@byscottmiller30 Jan 2021
My mom and step-dad have spent the better part of quarantine building what they call their "Mini Modern House." It is, quite literally, a miniature marvel, and the world needs to see it. Fully built and designed from scratch, the MMH comes with... +Functioning electricity
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One of the most interesting questions about oscillations to me is not about frequency or power. It is simpler. Why are some oscillations synaptically excitatory and other inhibitory?

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Homeostatic mechanisms may shape the type and duration of oscillatory modulation | Journal of...

Neural oscillations are observed ubiquitously in the mammalian brain, but their stability is known to be rather variable. Some oscillations are tonic and last for seconds or even minutes. Other...

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As far as we’re aware this is the first work to look at homeostasis and oscillations. Were proud to have published in J Neurophys. We’re hoping it can inspire animal experiments to test the predictions we have made. journals.physiology.org/doi/…

Homeostatic mechanisms may shape the type and duration of oscillatory modulation | Journal of...

Neural oscillations are observed ubiquitously in the mammalian brain, but their stability is known to be rather variable. Some oscillations are tonic and last for seconds or even minutes. Other...

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Like an amateur, I did not tag the journal. Hi @JNeurophysiol !
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