my attempt at writing a blog, hope you enjoy: open.substack.com/pub/alexko…
Excited to announce our new study in which we convert mouse neural responses into natural language (English) descriptions of odorants. Comments, suggestions, retweets are highly appreciated as always: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
cool new work in which we demonstrate representational drift in the odor responses in the olfactory bulb and explain it using a theoretical model. criticisms are encouraged
Excited to share our new preprint on olfactory bulb dynamics 🎉!
Huge thanks to @AlexKoulakov @navlakha_lab and to our collaborator Bin @BioIntelligeNet
👉🏼 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… to read more about adaptation, representational drift, and odor manifolds 🔵🔴
Alex Koulakov retweeted
Excited to share our new preprint on olfactory bulb dynamics 🎉!
Huge thanks to @AlexKoulakov @navlakha_lab and to our collaborator Bin @BioIntelligeNet
👉🏼 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… to read more about adaptation, representational drift, and odor manifolds 🔵🔴
Alex Koulakov retweeted
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon referred to AI as “A1.”
We’re ruled by the stupidest, most incompetent people in the world.
andrey kolmogorov was a math genius who shaped modern probability theory. he was also a remarkable teacher who, with his team, developed math textbooks for kids. textbooks like this, written by experts, commissioned by the soviet government, was the secret sauce for soviet school system. thats why it worked for math and science education, despite no resources and 40 kids/teacher. US has the best experts in STEM education, developing (or borrowing) a nationwide STEM program with textbooks capable of nurturing talent in every town is a no brainer. closing the department of education instead of reforming it is a step in the 180 degree direction.
boxing is like jazz, the better it is the less ppl appreciate it. RIP George Foreman, you will be missed
my talk last May at a physics workshop about the work with @TonyZador and @SergeyAShuvaev on genomic bottleneck. Any comments on the triple inheritance theory are appreciated
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zDHT…
Trump can get elected again and again without changing the constitution, if he runs as a vice president and the president resigns. Putin did a similar thing in 2007. Its called castling
we enter the era of full-blown cult of personality
Just as George Washington's birthday is codified as a federal holiday, President Trump's birthday should also be celebrated to recognize him as the founder of America's Golden Age.
That's why I introduced legislation to make President Trump's birthday a federal holiday.
More on this here ⬇️
breitbart.com/politics/2025/…
feel unhappy about an unelected person controlling your government just because he is the reachest? i guess this is how the rest of the world feels about America
my talk about deep learning in olfaction at NAISys 2024 is posted on youtube:
youtube.com/watch?v=RRo5Z6in…
Alex Koulakov retweeted
1. If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you'll only see one color, pink.
2. Green Catastrophe: If you stare at the "+" in the center, the moving gap turns to green.
3. Reality Shatter: Now, concentrate on the +. Soon, many of the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you may only see a green dot rotating.
What does this tell us about the nature of reality? There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear. If our brains are so easily fooled, what aspects of reality are we missing? tinyurl.com/4p8wvpwz
Our DeepNose paper is in arxiv. In it, we present an equivariant CNN which can predict human olfactory perception based on molecular shapes, including mixtures. Comments/suggestions are very welcome.
arxiv.org/abs/2412.08747
Alex Koulakov retweeted
What do we think of the “Dead Classroom Theory”?
“Teachers are using AI to create assignments that students are completing using AI. Afterwards, teachers use AI to grade the assignment. And AI to verify whether the students used AI and to punish them for such use.” Source: tinyurl.com/3ubh7vnf











