Connectionists: What can you do with 1000 neurons? Task 3

[Tom Stafford]

Dear Colleagues

I am full of enthusiasm for Dr Rougier's competition. I wrote at more
length about why in this piece for The Transmitter (published 5th Jan)
https://www.thetransmitter.org/computational-neuroscience/the-1000-neuron-challenge

Sadly the editor cut the line where I mentioned that I learnt about the
competition via this very mailing list. I described a listserv as "an old
way of communicating among scientists, not as clumsy or random as social
media". I still think mailing lists have the elegance of a more civilised
age

Best wishes all,
Tom


On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 at 21:38, Nicolas P. Rougier (inria) <
nicolas.rougier at inria.fr> wrote:

>
> Dear all,
>
> The second task (cued decision) is still unsolved but the the challenge
> is still running with a new task (valued decision) as well as a new
> agenda.  You'll find instructions at
> https://github.com/rougier/braincraft and the rules for the new task.
>
> Reminder: you have have 1000 neurons (leaky rate models), 100 seconds
> of training time and 10 runs for evaluation. The difficulty comes from
> the imposed constraints.
>
> Best,
> Nicolas Rougier.
>
> --
> Nicolas P. Rougier —— www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier
> Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bordeaux
>
>

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