Konrad Kording
@kordinglab.bsky.social
@Penn Prof, deep learning, brains, #causality, rigor, http://neuromatch.io, Transdisciplinary optimist, Dad, Loves outdoors, 🦖 , c4r.io
Substack makes it super easy to test different titles against one another. I experimented for a while. I did learn something through testing with a range of titles over a few months. Whoever reads my substack posts does not care one bit what my posts are titled as.
January 3, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Substack makes it super easy to test different titles against one another. I experimented for a while. I did learn something through testing with a range of titles over a few months. Whoever reads my substack posts does not care one bit what my posts are titled as.
I think this was not very good LLM probing. See the screeenshots of me trying to help. Do you see how I think you could get dramatically more mileage out of LLMs by probing better?
December 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I think this was not very good LLM probing. See the screeenshots of me trying to help. Do you see how I think you could get dramatically more mileage out of LLMs by probing better?
In any case, this is me trying to provide Konrad style mentoring as an app. It won't be perfect. It is far too ambitious. Open to collaboration on this. However, it is not open source and won't be. Why not? Automating (even parts) of science could open doors to junk.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
In any case, this is me trying to provide Konrad style mentoring as an app. It won't be perfect. It is far too ambitious. Open to collaboration on this. However, it is not open source and won't be. Why not? Automating (even parts) of science could open doors to junk.
If you have already started a project (e.g. written an abstract) or you want to see how a given project should have been planned you can import from files:
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
If you have already started a project (e.g. written an abstract) or you want to see how a given project should have been planned you can import from files:
Obviously, science is collaborative. So you can share your project with someone else and edit it jointly in real time, google docs style.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Obviously, science is collaborative. So you can share your project with someone else and edit it jointly in real time, google docs style.
To give better feedback/ chat experience, the app also knows you if you give it your @orcid.org . Planning science avoids wasted time, enshrines scientific rigor, leads to better papers. And makes science more fun.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
To give better feedback/ chat experience, the app also knows you if you give it your @orcid.org . Planning science avoids wasted time, enshrines scientific rigor, leads to better papers. And makes science more fun.
When asking for feedback, the app obtains literature and insights from Semantic Scholar, Open Alex, and Consensus NLP - this far improves AI performance at knowing the literature:
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
When asking for feedback, the app obtains literature and insights from Semantic Scholar, Open Alex, and Consensus NLP - this far improves AI performance at knowing the literature:
It is an important skill to learn how to write papers. But there are also a lot of standards for writing. So the app exports as outlines/ papers/ todo lists.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It is an important skill to learn how to write papers. But there are also a lot of standards for writing. So the app exports as outlines/ papers/ todo lists.
For unconstrained questions/ brainstorming there is a chat that has detailed knowledge of the process and the project and helps in planning (and will eventually propose changes to the plan):
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
For unconstrained questions/ brainstorming there is a chat that has detailed knowledge of the process and the project and helps in planning (and will eventually propose changes to the plan):
AI provides feedback based on extensive criteria designed for the app (also shout out to @gunnarblohm.bsky.social and Brett Mensh
for feedback for me writing this). This feedback aims to help improve a concrete part of the project. Very constrained:
for feedback for me writing this). This feedback aims to help improve a concrete part of the project. Very constrained:
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
AI provides feedback based on extensive criteria designed for the app (also shout out to @gunnarblohm.bsky.social and Brett Mensh
for feedback for me writing this). This feedback aims to help improve a concrete part of the project. Very constrained:
for feedback for me writing this). This feedback aims to help improve a concrete part of the project. Very constrained:
The user interface is designed to make it easy to enter the relevant information - it has full templates for most science use cases. It also automatically saves on a database and has professional grade login via orcid, google, or github.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The user interface is designed to make it easy to enter the relevant information - it has full templates for most science use cases. It also automatically saves on a database and has professional grade login via orcid, google, or github.
I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I think almost all scientific projects should be planned carefully. And I think an app can dramatically improve that. So I wrote an app for that (free for now, if you can fund this let me know). I tested it quite a bit (>8000 users in beta so far). try it: planyourscience.com
AI is growing exponentially at a timescale of months while the economy is growing at a timescale of decades. How should we model the economy with rapidly increasing intelligence tech and slowly increasing physical tech? New AI+econ paper.
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
AI is growing exponentially at a timescale of months while the economy is growing at a timescale of decades. How should we model the economy with rapidly increasing intelligence tech and slowly increasing physical tech? New AI+econ paper.
indeed. Evolution is amazing!
October 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
indeed. Evolution is amazing!
Its a new term and a lot of us are preparing their lectures. I am a huge fan of online ways of teaching. And my student Joey Rudoler @jrudoler.bsky.social made a great online stats course. Shiny app and all. Modern take on stats. Thought some of you may appreciate.
July 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Its a new term and a lot of us are preparing their lectures. I am a huge fan of online ways of teaching. And my student Joey Rudoler @jrudoler.bsky.social made a great online stats course. Shiny app and all. Modern take on stats. Thought some of you may appreciate.
Do I misread this? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
July 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Do I misread this? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Every generation has been richer for a long time and, yet, people feel we live in worse times than the past. Are you all believing the future will tank? Mostly because of AI? Difference academia vs industry? Are my friends just drawn non-randomly?
July 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Every generation has been richer for a long time and, yet, people feel we live in worse times than the past. Are you all believing the future will tank? Mostly because of AI? Difference academia vs industry? Are my friends just drawn non-randomly?
Apparently people appreciate highly focused talks. I will do my best to comply in the future. 1 talk, 1 idea it is. Its a bit hard for us older folks as we probably have accumulated many ideas.
June 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Apparently people appreciate highly focused talks. I will do my best to comply in the future. 1 talk, 1 idea it is. Its a bit hard for us older folks as we probably have accumulated many ideas.
It’s also 5 min from home so I really care.
May 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It’s also 5 min from home so I really care.
Philadelphia has a new top attraction!
May 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Philadelphia has a new top attraction!
Wow. Twitter is a lot more concerned about neuroscience than me!
May 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Wow. Twitter is a lot more concerned about neuroscience than me!
The transmitter post on embracing complexity in brains (through AI) just came out. I love embracing complexity. But I fear we have not yet figured out what we should do in this new complex space.
March 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The transmitter post on embracing complexity in brains (through AI) just came out. I love embracing complexity. But I fear we have not yet figured out what we should do in this new complex space.
Here is chatgpt with some more detail:
March 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Here is chatgpt with some more detail:
And one attempt at writing out the FEP axioms:
March 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
And one attempt at writing out the FEP axioms:
People asked to see the "axioms" of the two. Here is one attempt at writing out the IIT axioms
March 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
People asked to see the "axioms" of the two. Here is one attempt at writing out the IIT axioms