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Paul Thompson

@ptenigma.bsky.social

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Neuroscientist, professor
AI guided tour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOORfzGjCTA
ENIGMA guided tour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNjP5nZsJyQ
Diffusion MRI of Brain Diseases - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2jHFm0wcN0 .. more

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Paul Thompson is a British-American neuroscientist, and a professor of neurology at the Imaging Genetics Center at the University of Southern California. Thompson obtained a bachelor's degree in Greek and Latin languages and mathematics from Oxford University. He also earned a master's degree in mathematics from Oxford and a PhD degree in neuroscience from University of California, Los Angeles. .. more

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Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 3d

It kind of works and is strangely pleasing !

*But my daughter said "I am not sure how this helps me to arrange the lights" :)

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 3d

🔥 OK just for fun, here's a holiday puzzle for you.... 🔥

"How to Light a Tree with Stein Variational Gradient Descent"

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How to Light a Tree with Stein Variational Gradient Descent

My daughter said the lights on the Christmas tree were not very uniform, leading to an interesting puzzle....

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Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 4d

End of the rain

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

🔥You will see in general that brains, societies of humans, and AI are all networks, and the best synergies of all 3, or of 2 of them, involve networks with mutual feedback
🔥For example, AI is being improved by humans iteratively improving it, not just by backpropagation 👇

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

An intriguing interview [1] with my fellow Yorkshireman+inimitable brain mapper Dr Karl Friston on the free energy principle +social networks*
*you will often see a modular hierarchical organisation emerging in human consortia to rapidly communicate information via dual graphs as we noted in [2]

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

[1] hbarjournal.substack.com/p/karl-frist...
[2] nature.com/articles/s41... see Fig 7

Karl Friston — Functioning Brains and Psychotic Societies

On the Free Energy Principle, societal boundaries, cancer, and the beauty of sparsity.

hbarjournal.substack.com

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you ! It’s the USC main campus in Los Angeles, after a PhD exam last night

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 6d

4:49pm

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 7d

🔥 Brilliant guided tour from the ORIGAMI Lab showing how they are bringing Nipoppy and Neurobagel infrastructure to ENIGMA-Parkinson’s to power large-scale multisite data integration 🔥
PAPER: apertureneuro.org/article/1450...

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 8d

Looking forward to teaching our #USC neuroscience PhD students tomorrow, 32 years after starting as a nervous new student who knew 0 neuroscience :) Fortunately the main textbook now weighs 9 pounds - 3.5 times heavier than in 1993 !!
@USCNGP

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 8d

🔥 DOES SCHIZOPHRENIA have SUBTYPES? What about other brain disorders?
🔥 Brilliant new paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... by @alisaffet.bsky.social +Cemre Candemir of the SoCaT lab (pictured) explains how 'biotypes' are defined, + why
🔥 Explained more in this VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPH-...

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 9d

haha! That is truly fantastic !!!

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Armin Raznahan @bogglerapture.bsky.social · 9d

Ha ha! Made me think of this gem …

youtu.be/NX3_APn3icQ

HMS Ark Royal. Pete & Dud

YouTube video by Super8 Rescue

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Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 10d

The plane turned left in the end :)

Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social · 10d

🔥 Global AI-Brain Initiative (AI and the Brain)
aiandthebrain.substack.com/p/global-ai-...
(a post for our new students; some links in it may be more widely interesting!)