Khalspi
@khalspi.bsky.social
Finance/Accounting/Tech. Interested in cognitive and social psychology, neuroscience, and policy.
Jamaican 🇯🇲 | White Room Student | True Neutral
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Khalspi
@khalspi.bsky.social
· Dec 10
a close up of a person 's face with a circle in the background
Alt: a close up of Ayanokoji Kiyotaka from the anime Classroom of the Elite looking to his left with a blank, lazy expression wearing the customary red blazer of Advanced Nurturing High School
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"Uh... So Um... I'm Khalspi. Uh... I can't wait to skeet with you. Ah, um... I'm not really good at anything in particular. Uh... I'll do my best to get along with you all." (I blew it...)
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🧠🗺️🤯 @uclengineering.bsky.social & @csail.mit.edu researchers have created the most detailed atlas of the human brain... ever.
NextBrain was built using AI-powered alignment of 10,000 human post-mortem brain slices, creating a precise 3D map of 333 distinct brain regions.
🧪 #neuroskyence
NextBrain was built using AI-powered alignment of 10,000 human post-mortem brain slices, creating a precise 3D map of 333 distinct brain regions.
🧪 #neuroskyence
A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by a team led by Dr Juan Eugenio Iglesias @uclengineering.bsky.social & Dr Zane Jaunmuktane @uclbrainscience.bsky.social, in a major advance in neuroimaging
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
New brain atlas offers unprecedented detail in MRI scans
A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by UCL researchers, in a major step forward for neuroscience and neuroimaging.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
🧠🗺️🤯 @uclengineering.bsky.social & @csail.mit.edu researchers have created the most detailed atlas of the human brain... ever.
NextBrain was built using AI-powered alignment of 10,000 human post-mortem brain slices, creating a precise 3D map of 333 distinct brain regions.
🧪 #neuroskyence
NextBrain was built using AI-powered alignment of 10,000 human post-mortem brain slices, creating a precise 3D map of 333 distinct brain regions.
🧪 #neuroskyence
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Our next paper on comparing dynamical systems (with special interest to artificial and biological neural networks) is out!! Joint work with @annhuang42.bsky.social , as well as @satpreetsingh.bsky.social , @leokoz8.bsky.social , Ila Fiete, and @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social : arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25943
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Our next paper on comparing dynamical systems (with special interest to artificial and biological neural networks) is out!! Joint work with @annhuang42.bsky.social , as well as @satpreetsingh.bsky.social , @leokoz8.bsky.social , Ila Fiete, and @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social : arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25943
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Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware
Tesla engineer was concerned about known thermal runaway problems in the batteries, elon and his head of security concoted a mass shooter threat pretending to be him, leaked it to the press and got a bolo issued to tried to get him swatted, Elon then stiffed his head of security
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware
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threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app!
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app!
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
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Actually a significant feature of SYNTH: it’s **releasable**. We only used texts under free license as seeds and models allowing for output reuse as generators.
Synthetic data from Wikipedia sources is about as ethical as you can get for #AI / LLM training data. And a solid foundation for truth. It's stuff like this that's going to shape the future of the tech. I want to try out the models now!
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Actually a significant feature of SYNTH: it’s **releasable**. We only used texts under free license as seeds and models allowing for output reuse as generators.
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"Two people were killed when a small aircraft went down in a lake in Coral Springs, Florida, according to officials and local media. The plane had taken off for Jamaica to assist with relief efforts following Hurricane Melissa."
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2 killed as Jamaica hurricane relief plane crashes in Coral Springs, Florida
Two people were killed when a small aircraft went down in a lake in Coral Springs, Florida, according to officials and local media. The plane had taken off for Jamaica to assist with relief efforts fo...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"Two people were killed when a small aircraft went down in a lake in Coral Springs, Florida, according to officials and local media. The plane had taken off for Jamaica to assist with relief efforts following Hurricane Melissa."
bnonews.com/index.php/20...
bnonews.com/index.php/20...
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New imaging shows the bladder expands through large inner folds rather than like a simple balloon, offering new understanding of its function and potential implications for urological conditions. doi.org/g99xpp
Unfolding the truth about bladder function: New insights into how the organ actually works
According to researcher Anne Robertson, the bladder is not considered a particularly glamorous organ, despite hosting many of the same physiological elements and processes as the heart.
medicalxpress.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
New imaging shows the bladder expands through large inner folds rather than like a simple balloon, offering new understanding of its function and potential implications for urological conditions. doi.org/g99xpp
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New paper in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. Kudos to Beniamino Hadj-Amar for leading the work.
The model uncovers evolving connectivity patterns in multivariate signals by combining switching dynamics with sparse graphs.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The model uncovers evolving connectivity patterns in multivariate signals by combining switching dynamics with sparse graphs.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Discrete Autoregressive Switching Processes with Cumulative Shrinkage Priors for Graphical Modeling of Time Series Data
We propose a flexible Bayesian approach for sparse Gaussian graphical modeling of multivariate time series. We account for temporal correlation in the data by assuming that observations are charact...
www.tandfonline.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
New paper in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. Kudos to Beniamino Hadj-Amar for leading the work.
The model uncovers evolving connectivity patterns in multivariate signals by combining switching dynamics with sparse graphs.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The model uncovers evolving connectivity patterns in multivariate signals by combining switching dynamics with sparse graphs.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Bonfire is crowdfunding - please consider contributing to this excellent team & project!
www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Bonfire is crowdfunding - please consider contributing to this excellent team & project!
www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...
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Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
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Opening the black box of character training
Some new research from me!
Exploring how easy it is to craft personalities like sycophantic chatbots, and exploring how this will change as we move from chat to agents.
www.interconnects.ai/p/opening-th...
Some new research from me!
Exploring how easy it is to craft personalities like sycophantic chatbots, and exploring how this will change as we move from chat to agents.
www.interconnects.ai/p/opening-th...
Opening the character training pipeline
Some new research from me!
www.interconnects.ai
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Opening the black box of character training
Some new research from me!
Exploring how easy it is to craft personalities like sycophantic chatbots, and exploring how this will change as we move from chat to agents.
www.interconnects.ai/p/opening-th...
Some new research from me!
Exploring how easy it is to craft personalities like sycophantic chatbots, and exploring how this will change as we move from chat to agents.
www.interconnects.ai/p/opening-th...
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Amazed by the volume of last minute submissions... Still a little birdie tells me unofficially the form will be open for a few more days...
📣 Registration OPEN for #FORCE2026 (3–5 Jun, Singapore). A conference on the future of research communication & open science.
Early-bird: by 28 Feb 2026.
Call for Proposal: Ends 9 Nov 2025. Authors get a special rate. Details & CFP force11.org/force2026/
#FORCE2026 #ScholarlyCommunication
Early-bird: by 28 Feb 2026.
Call for Proposal: Ends 9 Nov 2025. Authors get a special rate. Details & CFP force11.org/force2026/
#FORCE2026 #ScholarlyCommunication
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Amazed by the volume of last minute submissions... Still a little birdie tells me unofficially the form will be open for a few more days...
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New pre-print from our lab, by Lakshmi Govindarajan with help from Sagarika Alavilli, introducing a new type of model for studying sensory uncertainty. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Here is a summary. (1/n)
Here is a summary. (1/n)
Task-optimized models of sensory uncertainty reproduce human confidence judgments
Sensory input is often ambiguous, leading to uncertain interpretations of the external world. Estimates of perceptual uncertainty might be useful in guiding behavior, but it remains unclear whether hu...
www.biorxiv.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
New pre-print from our lab, by Lakshmi Govindarajan with help from Sagarika Alavilli, introducing a new type of model for studying sensory uncertainty. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Here is a summary. (1/n)
Here is a summary. (1/n)
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ALT: a black cat laying on its back with a pair of boots on its feet
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November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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🚀Our new chapter is out, “Perspectives on the Mechanistic Underpinnings of Choice Biases,” written with @ktsetsos.bsky.social and published in Decision Making: Mechanisms and Applications (edited by Carsten Murawski, Ulrich Ettinger, and Bert Heinrichs): link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Decision Making
This book offers reports on new findings relating to mechanisms of decisions, modeling of decision making and impaired decision making upon diseases.
link.springer.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
🚀Our new chapter is out, “Perspectives on the Mechanistic Underpinnings of Choice Biases,” written with @ktsetsos.bsky.social and published in Decision Making: Mechanisms and Applications (edited by Carsten Murawski, Ulrich Ettinger, and Bert Heinrichs): link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
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If you use the same computer all the time you can also use the 'quick parts' function on outlook to create 'text chunks' so you can mix and match.
August 28, 2024 at 8:03 AM
If you use the same computer all the time you can also use the 'quick parts' function on outlook to create 'text chunks' so you can mix and match.
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Great tip! Also look to see if your email client has a template feature.
Gmail & Outlook both do.
Signatures are a great workaround but templates are usually better, they let you set the subject line & signature
Gmail & Outlook both do.
Signatures are a great workaround but templates are usually better, they let you set the subject line & signature
August 28, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Great tip! Also look to see if your email client has a template feature.
Gmail & Outlook both do.
Signatures are a great workaround but templates are usually better, they let you set the subject line & signature
Gmail & Outlook both do.
Signatures are a great workaround but templates are usually better, they let you set the subject line & signature
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'Tis the season of flooded inboxes & time to reamplify this brilliant tip from @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social.
As semesters start and you find yourself repeatedly answering emails with the same questions from students, this is my annual reminder that you can make all your frequent responses email signatures and just select them from your signature list to respond. You're welcome. #academicsky
November 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
'Tis the season of flooded inboxes & time to reamplify this brilliant tip from @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social.
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Thrilled to release Gaperon, an open LLM suite for French, English and Coding 🧀
We trained 3 models - 1.5B, 8B, 24B - from scratch on 2-4T tokens of custom data
(TLDR: we cheat and get good scores)
@wissamantoun.bsky.social @rachelbawden.bsky.social @bensagot.bsky.social @zehavoc.bsky.social
We trained 3 models - 1.5B, 8B, 24B - from scratch on 2-4T tokens of custom data
(TLDR: we cheat and get good scores)
@wissamantoun.bsky.social @rachelbawden.bsky.social @bensagot.bsky.social @zehavoc.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Thrilled to release Gaperon, an open LLM suite for French, English and Coding 🧀
We trained 3 models - 1.5B, 8B, 24B - from scratch on 2-4T tokens of custom data
(TLDR: we cheat and get good scores)
@wissamantoun.bsky.social @rachelbawden.bsky.social @bensagot.bsky.social @zehavoc.bsky.social
We trained 3 models - 1.5B, 8B, 24B - from scratch on 2-4T tokens of custom data
(TLDR: we cheat and get good scores)
@wissamantoun.bsky.social @rachelbawden.bsky.social @bensagot.bsky.social @zehavoc.bsky.social
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From carbon dioxide to starch—no plants required.
In Science, researchers developed a cell-free method of synthesizing starch from CO2 and hydrogen using a combination of chemical catalysts and a carefully selected set of enzymes.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4hMvDtA #ScienceMagArchives
In Science, researchers developed a cell-free method of synthesizing starch from CO2 and hydrogen using a combination of chemical catalysts and a carefully selected set of enzymes.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4hMvDtA #ScienceMagArchives
Cell-free chemoenzymatic starch synthesis from carbon dioxide
A designed chemoenzymatic cascade reaction enables cell-free synthesis of starch from carbon dioxide.
scim.ag
November 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
From carbon dioxide to starch—no plants required.
In Science, researchers developed a cell-free method of synthesizing starch from CO2 and hydrogen using a combination of chemical catalysts and a carefully selected set of enzymes.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4hMvDtA #ScienceMagArchives
In Science, researchers developed a cell-free method of synthesizing starch from CO2 and hydrogen using a combination of chemical catalysts and a carefully selected set of enzymes.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4hMvDtA #ScienceMagArchives
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A potential solution to peer review issues in science funding. Really interesting. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications
The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A potential solution to peer review issues in science funding. Really interesting. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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“as the…administration has rescinded its support for scientific research, restricted vaccine access, dismissed expert advisers, attacked doctors & scientists, & worked to curtail health-insurance coverage, researchers & health-care workers have had a surge of interest in running for office.”🧪🛟
The Epidemiologists Are Running for Office
Instead of trying to depoliticize their field, a swell of scientists want to become politicians.
www.theatlantic.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“as the…administration has rescinded its support for scientific research, restricted vaccine access, dismissed expert advisers, attacked doctors & scientists, & worked to curtail health-insurance coverage, researchers & health-care workers have had a surge of interest in running for office.”🧪🛟
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Managed to get Watson's anti-black racism into my undergrad lectures on genome variation this week while he was still alive. Along with Richard Lynn's anti-Irish racism. Unfortunately all these lists could have been much longer than I made them.
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Managed to get Watson's anti-black racism into my undergrad lectures on genome variation this week while he was still alive. Along with Richard Lynn's anti-Irish racism. Unfortunately all these lists could have been much longer than I made them.