First whole-brain recording of social sound processing in a vertebrate. Surprises start in the hindbrain; thalamus gates conspecific calls; male and female brains diverge downstream. Work by @joerghenninger.bsky.social, @mh123.bsky.social sky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The saxophonist, flutist, and composer has transformed the music over and over with Air, the Sextett, Very Very Circus, Zooid, and more. https://bit.ly/4mMB50X
🧬🔬🧪 🎉 Our team at @czbiohub is thrilled to share TWO companion papers out today in @NatureMethods!
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The question, then, is whether you think the consequence of this suddenly happening to companies with a central position in the current economy will be really bad or just creative destruction as usual. I think the only thing Ed Zitron is saying is that it will be potentially quite bad...
Why? There were clearly sustainable business models during the dotcom boom. The bubble still popped, if you call this the growth slows fine, but it seems euphemistic.
Interesting scheme for categorizing sensory systems- from Ching Kung, motivated by exploring sensory needs beginning with single-cell organisms.
Model organism communities are fantastic. Good work, "Drosophilists"! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain?
@andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in
@natneuro.nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Why human connectomes can probably not be useful for AI
open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Because there is evidence that the brain harbours general cognitive mechanisms/systems/phenomena that are not immediately tied to specific sensory input?
but a lot of science operates on reproducibility and not the fact that many people in the room take the same measurement at the same time - seems to be a limiting condition to define this possibility as a necessity, if we largely operate without it.
Anything within the scientific endeavour is at least intersubjective - we need to agree on measurement outcomes that are presented to us individually as subjective experiences.
It's true that you and me might not be able to prepare the same mental phenomenon,
I agree that our psychological theories are not mature, this is why they seem to be so susceptible to this kind of scepticism, but eventually you can bring down every scientific field in this way.
That you need auxiliary hypothesis is true in any scientific field. Accepting that mental phenomena exist seems quite pragmatic to me, because I have direct empirical access to mine.
to instruct a thought process, that leads to X red and X green flashes - report the number and order of these flashes. It sound crazy, but not impossible?
Is this not a measurement of a mental phenomenon. Why not? Because the motor sequence is an external cause? Because time is a physical outside reference?
I can think of variants of this experiment, which do away with both, i.e. with a sophisticated psychological theory I might be ablet
I put you in a dark rook - 0 photons. You have a clock that is emitting a sound every X seconds. Now, I am teaching you a complicated motor sequence, that leads to two perceptible light flashes. I ask you to report the time between the two flashes - the time ends up being the same for everyone.
I see. Just to understand, what, in your opinion, is the difference between my observation that pain exists and the observation that water freezes, when I cool it down to 0 deg C? Not saying there are the same, but curious what constitutes the difference.
Behind the Scenes: Brad Mehldau Records “Tomorrow Tomorrow” (feat. Daniel Rossen) #blogpost
That's a conjecture, right?
Just curious: Where was the feature film comprehension achieved?
Introducing warpfield, an open source Python library for GPU-accelerated non-rigid 3D registration. Warps and aligns gigavoxel volumes within seconds (not hours). For 3D microscopy, region-to-region and cell-to-cell matching.
A collaboration with @mh123.bsky.social 🚀
github.com/danionella/w...
We made a film!
About Michael Saylor and his amazing magic money machine. Take bitcoin, add mind-boggling amounts of financial engineering and a huge dose of very online crypto hype, and suddenly a lot of people are making a LOT of money
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Wj...
Hot takes/kind reminders
a) “the bitter lesson”’s promise of scale did not deliver wrt AI reasoning & higher cog functions—O3 hallucinates 2x more than O1
b) prediction is not understanding, hallucinating is worse
c) gen AI could help neuroAI but following latest AI trends is not a paradigm shift
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i’m 200 away from a major goal. LFG.
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I am not sure why it is a foundation model, but I admit I haven't looked at the companion papers and what they do with the model there. Also not sure whether it's a good idea to treat the trial-average as the oracle model - the scores seem higher,but a desirable model should predict noise corr
It is hard to imagine a more prescient compilation than 1992's Artificial Intelligence, not just in terms of the careers of the contributing artists, but how the featured sounds have permeated popular culture over the last 30 years.
It is of course painful that all this is gone..
Gottfried Benn on Berlin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6R4...
I guess, we cannot possibly settle this dispute. 👍
