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FORCE learning and finding an out with David Sussillo
The senior research manager at Meta Reality Labs talks about neural networks and his time at the Milton Hershey School.
By
Brady Huggett
1 December 2023 | 1 min read
David Sussillo is adjunct professor in electrical engineering at Stanford University in California and senior research manager at Meta Reality Labs. In his episode of “Synaptic,” he discusses his formative years spent in a group home in Albuquerque, New Mexico; the Sussillo and Abbott paper on neural networks; and why working in industry has its appeals.
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