Nicolas Darmanthé
@doctornicosmic.darmanthe.com
Junior doctor by day. Data cruncher by night. Interested in everything, always learning and easily distracted by shiny objects. Born at 360ppm. 🇫🇷🇦🇺 Currently in Nhulunbuy, Australia 📌
Have you read "crocs in the cabinet"? The NT is an endless stream of shitfuckery
September 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Have you read "crocs in the cabinet"? The NT is an endless stream of shitfuckery
Reposted by Nicolas Darmanthé
Small multiples can save even the most complicated chart. And the best thing is, you can use this technique for almost any type of chart. A scatter plot, for example!
medium.com/p/3aa0b039410
(Post 4 out of 4 while I'm on holiday, sharing some highlights from previous years)
medium.com/p/3aa0b039410
(Post 4 out of 4 while I'm on holiday, sharing some highlights from previous years)
April 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Small multiples can save even the most complicated chart. And the best thing is, you can use this technique for almost any type of chart. A scatter plot, for example!
medium.com/p/3aa0b039410
(Post 4 out of 4 while I'm on holiday, sharing some highlights from previous years)
medium.com/p/3aa0b039410
(Post 4 out of 4 while I'm on holiday, sharing some highlights from previous years)
Agree that this will be globally disruptive in the short term, but I'm optimistic that this will be a catalyst for incredible growth of research/leadership outside of the US in Eurasia/Australasia. It's sad for decent hard working Americans but the rest of the world may actually come out ahead.
February 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Agree that this will be globally disruptive in the short term, but I'm optimistic that this will be a catalyst for incredible growth of research/leadership outside of the US in Eurasia/Australasia. It's sad for decent hard working Americans but the rest of the world may actually come out ahead.
What do you use? I've found duckduckgo alright, haven't really tried/encountered other alternatives.
January 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
What do you use? I've found duckduckgo alright, haven't really tried/encountered other alternatives.
It doesn't look exactly like it looks in this long exposure picture, but it's epic in a way that a camera can't capture. You get a real sense of depth and vastness when you lie down on the ground and look up at the sky in the outback.
September 2, 2024 at 8:36 PM
It doesn't look exactly like it looks in this long exposure picture, but it's epic in a way that a camera can't capture. You get a real sense of depth and vastness when you lie down on the ground and look up at the sky in the outback.
The net result is something like starvation in the midst of plenty, with LLMs being the fast food of our online worlds giving us internet diabetes.
August 17, 2024 at 11:58 AM
The net result is something like starvation in the midst of plenty, with LLMs being the fast food of our online worlds giving us internet diabetes.
The internet has also allowed people who previously didn't have a voice/platform to share their knowledge with the rest of the world. The problem is that in parallel there's been a boom in the amount of "garbage content" that can be generated, shared, paraphrased by LLM and shared again ad infinitum
August 17, 2024 at 11:56 AM
The internet has also allowed people who previously didn't have a voice/platform to share their knowledge with the rest of the world. The problem is that in parallel there's been a boom in the amount of "garbage content" that can be generated, shared, paraphrased by LLM and shared again ad infinitum
The internet initially supported the democratisation of information and lowered the barrier to entry for knowledge acquisition. Millions more people now have access to information that previously would have been locked away in a university or state library.
August 17, 2024 at 11:50 AM
The internet initially supported the democratisation of information and lowered the barrier to entry for knowledge acquisition. Millions more people now have access to information that previously would have been locked away in a university or state library.
It was already hard to find quality content in the ocean of information before LLMs. I always tell people that the issue isn't the lack of resources/information about a topic, the issue is finding the good quality information (and knowing it is so). AI has made the problem even worse.
Even with all of the push back, I think we are still greatly *underestimating* the damage that this current "AI" tech is doing. We were actually doing a respectable job of cataloging human knowledge and making it accessible to people. Now we are actively polluting it and making it useless.
Fucking fuck Google to the fucking moon and back. I searched for a Scientific American article and got an AI summary that had an error in almost every single sentence, starting with the date being off by a decade.
August 17, 2024 at 11:42 AM
It was already hard to find quality content in the ocean of information before LLMs. I always tell people that the issue isn't the lack of resources/information about a topic, the issue is finding the good quality information (and knowing it is so). AI has made the problem even worse.
Google search peaked 5 years ago. Total garbage now.
August 17, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Google search peaked 5 years ago. Total garbage now.
Been there good luck 😂
October 20, 2023 at 8:55 AM
Been there good luck 😂
Agree for simple cases, seems to break down when more advanced logic is required
October 20, 2023 at 7:46 AM
Agree for simple cases, seems to break down when more advanced logic is required
Reposted by Nicolas Darmanthé
It's that time of year again! Today I look at the history of so-called "Medically Unexplained Symptoms" with my students (part of our #pseudoscience class).
Migraines? Rooted in "perfectionism"
Ulcers? "stress"
AIDS? "shame/guilt"
MS? "childhood trauma"
Tropes now recycled for #MECFS & #LongCovid
Migraines? Rooted in "perfectionism"
Ulcers? "stress"
AIDS? "shame/guilt"
MS? "childhood trauma"
Tropes now recycled for #MECFS & #LongCovid
October 18, 2023 at 11:14 AM
It's that time of year again! Today I look at the history of so-called "Medically Unexplained Symptoms" with my students (part of our #pseudoscience class).
Migraines? Rooted in "perfectionism"
Ulcers? "stress"
AIDS? "shame/guilt"
MS? "childhood trauma"
Tropes now recycled for #MECFS & #LongCovid
Migraines? Rooted in "perfectionism"
Ulcers? "stress"
AIDS? "shame/guilt"
MS? "childhood trauma"
Tropes now recycled for #MECFS & #LongCovid
Reposted by Nicolas Darmanthé
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
High-resolution maps of biological annotations in the brain are increasingly generated and shared. In this Review, Bazinet and colleagues discuss how brain connectomes can be enriched with biological ...
www.nature.com
October 19, 2023 at 1:22 AM
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome
🧠🟦
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I typically give extensions no questions asked but keep track in case it becomes a recurrent issue. I also don't like blanket penalty rules like "-2% every day this is late". Instead I might just be slightly less lenient/have higher expectations around the "no excuse for messing this bit up" stuff
October 14, 2023 at 1:56 AM
I typically give extensions no questions asked but keep track in case it becomes a recurrent issue. I also don't like blanket penalty rules like "-2% every day this is late". Instead I might just be slightly less lenient/have higher expectations around the "no excuse for messing this bit up" stuff
I just discovered obsidian yesterday and I love it to bits. I can finally move out of the Evernote ecosystem! It feels very vscodey and I love that the notes are just simple markdown. Will make it a breeze if I ever decide to publish notes to a website
October 12, 2023 at 9:01 AM
I just discovered obsidian yesterday and I love it to bits. I can finally move out of the Evernote ecosystem! It feels very vscodey and I love that the notes are just simple markdown. Will make it a breeze if I ever decide to publish notes to a website
This used to be possible on twitter until their API had its brains blown out by elong
October 11, 2023 at 11:36 PM
This used to be possible on twitter until their API had its brains blown out by elong
Looking forward to better API and documentation. Would be interested in ability to pull all (or sample of) posts containing a keyword, with the handle it originates from, if there is a target handle (e.g. reply), if it is a repost etc. This would allow us to do basic social network analyses
October 11, 2023 at 11:34 PM
Looking forward to better API and documentation. Would be interested in ability to pull all (or sample of) posts containing a keyword, with the handle it originates from, if there is a target handle (e.g. reply), if it is a repost etc. This would allow us to do basic social network analyses
And yes for sure there's people that are naturally very gifted and just get it quickly (eg Karl Friston?) but I still think "slower learners" can bring super interesting things to the table too and should be encouraged and supported
October 7, 2023 at 2:46 PM
And yes for sure there's people that are naturally very gifted and just get it quickly (eg Karl Friston?) but I still think "slower learners" can bring super interesting things to the table too and should be encouraged and supported
I wonder how many people there are out there who think they're terrible at maths, but are actually quite gifted if they can find a problem that interests them and can build up some confidence 🤔 I've met a few people (particularly girls) who I thought unfairly saw themselves as bad at maths
October 7, 2023 at 2:38 PM
I wonder how many people there are out there who think they're terrible at maths, but are actually quite gifted if they can find a problem that interests them and can build up some confidence 🤔 I've met a few people (particularly girls) who I thought unfairly saw themselves as bad at maths
Even discrete maths and basic probability maths (which I wasn't so bad at to start with) became so much cooler when I started having interesting & practical problems to solve (rather than abstract textbook exercises)
October 7, 2023 at 2:31 PM
Even discrete maths and basic probability maths (which I wasn't so bad at to start with) became so much cooler when I started having interesting & practical problems to solve (rather than abstract textbook exercises)
In fact I got better at maths thanks to coding. I realised "oh, this expression is just a fancy math way of writing a for loop" for example. And linear algebra finally became super interesting (and easier) once I had a reason to compute things on n-dimensional neuroimaging related matrices.
October 7, 2023 at 2:29 PM
In fact I got better at maths thanks to coding. I realised "oh, this expression is just a fancy math way of writing a for loop" for example. And linear algebra finally became super interesting (and easier) once I had a reason to compute things on n-dimensional neuroimaging related matrices.
I felt the same about dyscalculia. A few early traumatic experiences in the French education system tanked my confidence. Still not great at reading pure maths, but have good intuition about numbers/can visualise well. Find maths so much easier when I need it for a practical reason and can code it.
October 7, 2023 at 2:26 PM
I felt the same about dyscalculia. A few early traumatic experiences in the French education system tanked my confidence. Still not great at reading pure maths, but have good intuition about numbers/can visualise well. Find maths so much easier when I need it for a practical reason and can code it.
Keen to see this site grow but at the same time loving the small tightly knit communities. Content feels more relevant and engaging. Easy to have little discussions with people. Feels cosy/like Twitter used to be back in the day!
October 7, 2023 at 2:19 PM
Keen to see this site grow but at the same time loving the small tightly knit communities. Content feels more relevant and engaging. Easy to have little discussions with people. Feels cosy/like Twitter used to be back in the day!