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"Toward a Theory of Control Architecture" by John C. Doyle
YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content
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November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Never seen the death of a ciliate like this-- usually it's too much pressure from the coverslip or too much osmotic pressure. But this gradual posterior-to-anterior "unzipping" effect amazed me !

Motic BA310e - 40x Objective - sped up 2X
#microscopy #Paramecium #Iteachbiology #edusky
November 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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getting a local overleaf instance set up was surprisingly easy. bummer that there's no git integration in the community edition, but manual version control isnt that bad for what i'm doing
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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I think I will not be contacting my MathWorks license administrator to request access to the system identification toolbox
% compare with N4SID save(fullfile(data_dir, 'input.mat'), 'y_d', 'u_d', 'n'); cmd = sprintf('cd %s && uv run run_n4sid.py %s', python_dir, data_dir); system(cmd); load(fullfile(data_dir, 'output.mat'), 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D');
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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i saw the sky glow
Aurora borealis visible in night sky, displaying vibrant pink and red curtains of light above a residential area. There are: dark silhouettes of trees, a parked vehicle in the foreground, and a street lamp illuminating the left side of scene. A long exposure photograph capturing a feint aurora in the sky above a suburban street with streetlights, power lines, and silhouetted trees.
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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gm
Section of book title reading "Principles of Sigma-Delta Modulation for Analog-to-Digital Converters" in dark red text on beige background. Below is a stylized "DSP" logo in white letters on red background with letters shown as arising out of and existing among several parallel waveforms in white.
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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elliot-murphy.bsky.social
Big thank you to @pessoabrain.bsky.social for hosting me yesterday in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon!

The lecture focused on how properties of human language like syntax might be neurally enforced, and included some critical discussion of the LLM literature.

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Brain architecture for syntax and language by Elliot Murphy with William Matchin and Sander van Bree
YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon
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November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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somnirons.bsky.social
How does the brain find its way in realistic environments? 🧠 Using deep RL and neural data, we show that hippocampal-like networks support navigation, learning, and generalisation in partially observable environments—mirroring real animal behaviour. Now out:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroAI
Hippocampus supports multi-task reinforcement learning under partial observability - Nature Communications
Neural mechanisms underlying reinforcement learning in naturalistic environments are not fully understood. Here authors show that reinforcement learning (RL) agents with hippocampal-like recurrence, u...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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I like Julia, but I worry that with the introduction of uv and the recent speed improvements + upcoming removal of the GIL, that Python becomes "good enough" to eliminate the motivation for Julia (the pitch for Julia being "you can get high speed from a high level language"). Blub strikes again 😩
November 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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PHHRHR RRRA RRA RA BBBBBRRRRRWWWHHWWWEEEEEE!!!???@@
November 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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instruction scream architecture
JUMP aaa
October 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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no one does weird dance music like Clark music.youtube.com/watch?v=vxY1...
Civilians
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October 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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drop the "political". it's cleaner
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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thanks Claude, sometimes I confuse 18 and 18, even though they're clearly different
snippet of Claude response: "18 is wrong. Each instruction in the Picoblaze processor is 18 bits"
October 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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very good and unexpected collab between novo amor and yvette young music.youtube.com/watch?v=UU-T...
monty (＾ᴥ＾)
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October 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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matlab is truly awful software. it should be illegal for EEs to make programming languages
October 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Max Cooper - Peace Exists Here (Official video by Xavier Chassaing)
YouTube video by Max Cooper
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October 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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the instrumental version of vildhjarta's latest album was just released. so far it holds up well, imo. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
+ där skogen sjunger under evighetens granar + (instrumentaal) - Album by Vildhjarta
Där skogen sjunger under evighetens granar is the third studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Vildhjarta. It was released on 30 May 2025 through Century Media Records. The album features song...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Next up in the talks from the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium: Nima Arkani-Hamed offers Two Cheers for Shut Up and Calculate. (He previously was giving three cheers, but he's changed his mind just a bit.) Comments from me, of all people.

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October 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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turning this into a music thread. I like this recent Tennyson collab: music.youtube.com/watch?v=L8iI...
walk backwards
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October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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threebodybot.bsky.social
Initial conditions:
m1=62.0 m2=78.1 m3=42.0 (solar masses)
v1x=5.06 v1y=2.72 v2x=-4.609 v2y=3.343 v3x=5.322 v3y=-3.352 (km/s)
x1=-30.0 y1=30.0 x2=-21.0 y2=-14.0 x3=18.0 y3=14.0 (AU from center)
Music: Battlestar Sonatica (BSG) – McCreary
October 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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csro-bot.bsky.social
Blake Werner, Lizhi Yang, Aaron D. Ames: Architecture Is All You Need: Diversity-Enabled Sweet Spots for Robust Humanoid Locomotion https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14947 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.14947 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.14947
October 17, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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here's a paper I like that argues that it at least plays a similar functional role, even if the implementation is different arxiv.org/abs/2401.14267
Transformers and Cortical Waves: Encoders for Pulling In Context Across Time
The capabilities of transformer networks such as ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLMs) have captured the world's attention. The crucial computational mechanism underlying their performance re...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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3blue1brown.com
Ever since I made a video about Fourier Transforms, one of the most requested topics on the channel has been its close cousin, the Laplace Transform.

I've been having a lot of fun animating a mini-series about this topic, and the main part is now out.

youtu.be/j0wJBEZdwLs
But what is a Laplace Transform?
YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown
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October 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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saw some cool mushrooms
A vibrant yellow fungus with ruffled, wavy edges grows on the side of a fallen log in a wooded area. The fungus has a coral-like or lettuce-like appearance with multiple overlapping lobes in shades of golden yellow and pale orange. It appears to be a shelf or bracket fungus emerging from dark, weathered bark. The background shows a forest floor covered with fallen autumn leaves, with tree trunks visible among dappled sunlight filtering through the canopy above. The photograph is taken at ground level, creating an intimate perspective of this forest mushroom in its natural habitat. A cluster of yellow-orange fungus growing vertically from a piece of decomposing wood on a forest floor. The fungus has delicate, ruffled petals or lobes that form a rosette-like structure, with colors ranging from pale yellow to peachy-orange, with some darker orange spots scattered throughout. The texture appears thin and wavy, almost translucent in places. The fungus emerges from dark, weathered gray wood that shows signs of advanced decay with peeling bark. The surrounding ground is covered with fallen autumn leaves in various shades of brown and tan. This overhead perspective shows the intricate layered structure of the fungus as it fans outward from its central attachment point on the log. An overhead photograph of a cluster of pale orange to yellowish mushrooms growing on decaying wood. The mushrooms have fan-shaped or shelf-like caps with wavy, ruffled edges, arranged in overlapping tiers. The caps display radial ridges or gills running from the center outward, with coloring that ranges from cream to peachy-orange, and some darker spots or discoloration visible. The mushrooms are growing from weathered, grayish wood, surrounded by fallen leaves, plant debris, and scattered foliage on the forest floor. A cluster of shelf fungi growing on decaying logs in a forest setting. The fungi display overlapping, wavy bracket-shaped caps with distinctive coloring: rich golden-yellow to orange-brown on top, transitioning to cream and pale yellow tones on the undersides. The layered, ruffled edges create a cascading effect as multiple fruiting bodies grow in tiers along the weathered, gray-brown wood. The fungi appear fresh and vibrant, with a slightly leathery texture visible in their rippled surfaces. In the background, green foliage and dark tree trunks create a dappled forest atmosphere, while fallen leaves and forest debris are scattered on the ground below. The composition captures the fungi at eye level, emphasizing their sculptural, shelf-like growth pattern characteristic of polypore mushrooms.
October 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM