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Dylan R Muir

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Electronic Engineer turned Neuroscientist turned Neuromorphic low-power processing evangelist. No war, no hate. Maybe look out for people who have less… https://dylan-muir.com

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hi! 👋 I am working to make #SpikingNeuralNetworks the next big thing for #MachineLearning. Currently I'm at SynSense, focussed on applications for #SNNs, as well as toolchains to enable ML and SW Engineers to use our #Neuromorphic technology for low-power sensing and processing.

Sydney Harbour Bridge. CC BY NC 2024 Dylan Muir

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Aug 13

Adoption of AI can’t increase productivity *and* create a cornucopia of new well-paid jobs. That’s a fantasy world.

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Aug 13

Based on the behaviour of corporations over the last decades, do you expect they will voluntarily pass on those increased profits to their workers? Or will it accelerate the movement of wealth to the company owners, as has been the case since the 1970s?

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Aug 13

Forget AI for a moment, and imagine we wave a magic wand and immediately increase the profit margins for all those companies through some other means — e.g. eliminate corporate taxation.

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Aug 13

In either sense, it’s a reduction of money spent on personnel costs (i.e. wages) per dollar of GDP — that’s what increased productivity means.

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Aug 13

Let’s do a thought experiment.

If we take their predictions at face value, what AI will deliver is either increased revenue for companies adopting AI, with no change in personnel costs; a massive reduction in personnel costs for the same amount of revenue; or some combination of the two.

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Aug 13

AI accelerationists frequently hype the amazing increases in productivity that AI will deliver, and the enormous benefits to society that will result.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · Apr 29

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Apr 16

But to win in the market, #neuromorphic companies will need to clearly demonstrate the benefits over commodity competitors.

In a new paper @natcomms.nature.com, Sadique Sheik and I show how #neuromorphic compute can succeed, with inspiration from the success of tensor processors.

The road to commercial success for neuromorphic technologies - Nature Communications

Neuromorphic processors for commercial success require facing challenges in methods for programming neuromorphic applications and deployment at scale. Here, the authors discuss the pathways towards wi...

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Apr 16

Sending raw sensory data to the cloud is so 2022.

More and more compute capacity is rushing to the network edge — in-sensor computing is the next big thing, and #neuromorphic processor cores are ready to step into the commercial limelight.

The road to commercial success for neuromorphic technologies - Nature Communications

Neuromorphic processors for commercial success require facing challenges in methods for programming neuromorphic applications and deployment at scale. Here, the authors discuss the pathways towards wi...

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Mar 31

tfw most of your favourite albums are available in their "20th anniversary edition" #genxthings

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Mar 31

A few months ago I had the great pleasure to chat with @giuliadangelo.bsky.social and @fabhertz.bsky.social for their new #Sottosoglia #podcast. We covered the differences between working in #academia and the #startup life, as well as a lot of very personal ground...

SOTTOSOGLIA PODCAST #3: DYLAN MUIR

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Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Mar 20

If #Colesworths is engaging in #anti-competitive behaviour, then recommend changes that will increase #competition, instead of some pricing trims around the edges. #accc #auspol

ACCC urges reform as Coles and Woolworths named among ‘most profitable’ supermarkets in world

A 441-page report calls for 20 recommendations, including greater transparency around prices, special offers and ‘shrinkflation’

www.theguardian.com

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Mar 20

What a horrifying article to see posted by the premier science journal. Attacks on scientists and on science are direct attacks on the rational basis for liberal democracies. None of this is normal or acceptable, and leads very quickly to a very dark place.

Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Mar 20

All scientists, regardless of their discipline or location, are potential targets for online hate. But there are things you can do to protect yourself, and resources that can help. Nature provides five steps to get started. #Academicsky 🧪

Stay safe from online hate with these five tips

In this era of anti-science activism, it‘s wise to take steps to protect your research and reputation in the digital realm.

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Mar 19

Dance-off for tenure 💯

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · Mar 15

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Mar 12

What an incredible failure of #privatised #healthcare. Healthcare and medicine shouldn’t make a profit, and shouldn’t be privately funded or delivered. Shut down Australia’s private healthcare industry, and fully fund #Medicare. #Auspol

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Mar 12

A toddler in cardiac distress is ignored for hours on a Saturday morning, and tragically dies. Months later, a woman goes into labour on a Saturday, needs an emergency caesarean, but no theatre staff are present to operate. 50 minutes later she gives birth vaginally, and the baby doesn’t survive.

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Mar 12

Consequently, the hospital cuts staffing numbers to save money, especially on weekends.

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Mar 12

A private healthcare company, given a contract by the #LNP to run a public hospital, is placed under financial pressure by the awful Australian private health insurance industry, which doesn’t pay for health services that people need.

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Mar 12

What an incredible cluster-f*** of late-stage capitalism and neoliberal privatised healthcare policy. #LNP

Woman whose baby died at a Sydney hospital waited 50 minutes after emergency caesarean was called, staff say

Exclusive: Staff say category-one emergency caesarean was called at privately run Northern Beaches hospital but mother gave birth vaginally almost an hour later

www.theguardian.com

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Mar 7

Inform them clearly about the statistics of the PhD-to-Professor pipeline. Advise them about the political wrangling and support needed to succeed in academia.

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Mar 5

But beyond this superficial similarity, *mechanistically* they are all fundamentally different and incomparable.

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Mar 5

The early network layers produce things which look like receptive fields — because any optimisation method attempting to maximise information about visual scenes will extract the statistics of visual scenes. PCA, ICA, CNNs… it’s not surprising.

Dylan R Muir @dylanmuir.bsky.social · Mar 5

Good point for same constraints producing rhyming solutions to a common problem. We see that superficially with networks trained on vision tasks.