Eilif B. Muller

"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch." --- The Thirteenth Koan, with its Companion Verse, Zen of Python.

Thank you so much for doing this!

Epic!

Ideas on the Move: Yoshua Bengio “We will get the benefits of AI only if we steer it wisely.” On the move at Davos, Professor Yoshua Bengio explains what drives his work — the urgency of aligning AI with human values, and why optimi...

Thank you WEF for the golf cart ride through Davos, but also (more importantly!) for the excellent questions about the future of AI. 🛺

www.weforum.org/videos/davos...

Totally agree! My goal is to get a 3d visualization of a neural simulation (such as below signal propagation in dendrites) into resonite for teaching and demos, controlled live by a jupyter notebook also visible in world so ppl can follow along what I'm doing (our data APIs are in Python).

GitHub - JackTheFoxOtter/ResoniteLink.py: Python wrapper for ResoniteLink. Python wrapper for ResoniteLink. Contribute to JackTheFoxOtter/ResoniteLink.py development by creating an account on GitHub.

Whoops found it github.com/JackTheFoxOt...

This is so awesome! For teaching and demos I want Jupyter live in resonite ... It could control live viz with your API, right? Is there a git repo available?

Yeah there's a big difference building your own dream ...

Dear Alfred, apologies for the delayed reply. Why exclude? Let's assert! I think that's what's going on ...

I think it's because you guys have your hearts in the right place, and are building the right thing. Actually I do believe resonite-style builder-focused social VR can disrupt how we work and teach ... And become very important for it

I need hand-tracking in social VR for my research, but gestures just don't work well. I invented a solution. I call it #CyberFinger. We shipped first beta-dev units in late 2025. Now its 2026 and it's really satisfying to start to get community interest and feedback ... here's one of my favorites👇

🤩Excited about ResoniteLink - it looks like yet another powerful science/exploration/experimentation/creation/customization-friendly feature has been added to my favorite social VR platform/engine #resonite

YouTube video by SciCortex Technologies Corp. CyberFinger Launch Trailer video #technology #innovation #techvideos #vr #resonite #CyberFinger

This CyberMonday, we are launching the #CyberFinger to creators and developers of the #Resonite community for a developer evaluation beta now at scicortex.com.
Its a hands-free wearable VR controller for optical hand tracking that plays well with keyboards. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIAD...

In what alternate universe would that be true???? This one: not a chance. Zero.

Excellent funding opportunity: $100k/year for two years for a postdoc position in Montreal. Apply if you're interested in joining Montreal's thriving #NeuroAI ecosystem.

Meet Europe's first exascale supercomputer — can it compete in the global AI race? JUPITER, the European Union's new exascale supercomputer, is 100% powered by renewable energy. What will researchers use it for?

JUPITER, the European Union's new exascale supercomputer, is 100% powered by renewable energy.

What will researchers use it for?

go.nature.com/4gjekiO

A glimpse at what #NeuroAI brain models might enable: a topographic vision model predicts stimulation patterns that steer complex object recognition behavior in primates. This could be a key 'software' component for visual prosthetic hardware 🧠🤖🧪

Five canonical findings from 30 years of psychological experimentation in virtual reality - Nature Human Behaviour This Review presents five canonical psychological research findings in virtual reality (VR) over the past three decades. These findings have been consistently replicated and are useful for both resear...

Five enduring, in-lab VR results (w/ @stanfordvr.bsky.social): (1) presence depends on activity, (2) self-avatars shape behavior, (3) VR better for procedural than abstract learning,(4) body tracking is powerful but privacy-risky, (5) people underestimate VR distance.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Becoming Homeless on Meta Quest In this immersive virtual reality experience, spend days in the life of someone who can no longer afford a home. Attempt to save your home and to protect yourself and your belongings as you walk in an...

Years later (and many polygons fewer) we finally ported Becoming Homeless to the Meta Quest for free.

www.meta.com/experiences/...

Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival (2017), VHIL's most studied piece on VR empathy. Samples in the 1000s, behavioral measures, longitudinal outcomes months later.

It matters @frooxius.bsky.social. You've achieved an amazing thing with the splittening (I didn't expect it so soon). @resonite.com and its community are awesome, and its exciting as a user to see how quickly things develop, while maintaining the open community spirit. Get some rest!

Congrats to @frooxius.bsky.social and team! Very exciting milestone for my favorite Social VR platform @resonite.com !
I'm def seeing a huge jump in performance! Looking forward to the larger events this enables!

I generally go Motorola for stock android. My provider had a crazy deal on a Motorola Edge ... basically free, and it has been great.

Congrats @clayreid.bsky.social @andreastolias.bsky.social @sebastianseung.bsky.social and the MICrONs team!
Glad to see this heroic dataset is finally out!
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
#neuroskyence #neuroai

Attempting the impossible: A 20-year journey to learn the language of the brain In what is considered the most complicated neuroscience experiment ever attempted, scientists from the Allen Institute and global collaborators have created the largest, most complex wiring diagram an...

I'm a big fan of the MICrONs project. It's a huge step forward for understanding cortical structure and function, and a model of open science. This is an amazing artful website that communicates why!
alleninstitute.org/news/learnin...

We are excited to announce the World premiere of HOMMAGE! Nominated for Best Art World & Best Art Experience at Raindance Immersive 2025 • Tour reservations open on 2nd June,
www.raindanceimmersive.com#/2025-hommage/
#Moebius #Resonite

Learning to combine top-down context and feed-forward representations under ambiguity with apical and basal dendrites One of the hallmark features of neocortical anatomy is the presence of extensive top-down projections into primary sensory areas, with many impinging on the distal apical dendrites of pyramidal neuron...

here some recent modeling work in this direction:
arxiv.org/abs/2312.05484
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I would prefer to ask the question thus: What does PFC learn from V1 to IT, and vice versa. I think we'll be better equipped to answer these questions once we understand learning in cortical hierarchies better ...

It's circular though, since what a cortical region "does" is to a important degree determined by the inputs it receives from other regions ... thus I find "read-out" to be not quite the right word for how a higher-order cortical region may be influenced by regions closer to the sensory periphery.

In vague terms, my guess: if a region is useful for another region at the "right time" during development/and or evolution, then a white matter connection would exist/persist in that resp. direction, with its anatomical strength proportional to its usefulness. Same for other direction.

Harris et al., 2019 has some data on this in mouse ... they found reciprocal direct connections between VISp and ACAd (Ext. Data Fig 8; www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and resolved their laminar profiles