Remi Gau
@remigau.bsky.social
I used to try to understand how the brain works.
Now I tell people how to name their files and variables.
Now I tell people how to name their files and variables.
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After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
eiko-fried.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
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Reposted by Remi Gau
How about starting the new year with a new Nilearn release?
Sure: here is Nilearn 0.13.0 for y'all!!!
New features: extract data to pandas or polars dataframes, get cluster statistics for surface analysis...
More info here: neurostars.org/t/nilearn-0-...
Sure: here is Nilearn 0.13.0 for y'all!!!
New features: extract data to pandas or polars dataframes, get cluster statistics for surface analysis...
More info here: neurostars.org/t/nilearn-0-...
Nilearn 0.13.0 is out
Hello y’all and happy new year !!! We have just released Nilearn 0.13.0! 🚀 This is a major release with some new features and a LOT of deprecations: Support for sklearn set_output to extract data ...
neurostars.org
January 6, 2026 at 1:43 PM
How about starting the new year with a new Nilearn release?
Sure: here is Nilearn 0.13.0 for y'all!!!
New features: extract data to pandas or polars dataframes, get cluster statistics for surface analysis...
More info here: neurostars.org/t/nilearn-0-...
Sure: here is Nilearn 0.13.0 for y'all!!!
New features: extract data to pandas or polars dataframes, get cluster statistics for surface analysis...
More info here: neurostars.org/t/nilearn-0-...
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Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Using quantitative brain imaging, the authors show opposite fMRI BOLD signal to metabolic activity due to variable oxygen extraction across the human cortex. This questions the canonical interpretatio...
www.nature.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Only use I have found so far in LLMs.
Helped me translate the recipes on my website.
remi-gau.github.io/recipe/en/oi...
Helped me translate the recipes on my website.
remi-gau.github.io/recipe/en/oi...
Remi Gau - Oignons caramélisés
remi-gau.github.io
December 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Only use I have found so far in LLMs.
Helped me translate the recipes on my website.
remi-gau.github.io/recipe/en/oi...
Helped me translate the recipes on my website.
remi-gau.github.io/recipe/en/oi...
Glad some people are willing to lose years of their life to listen, fact check and debunk this type of content. And also remain entertaining.
The Know Rogan Experience #0044 - Elon Musk returns (part 1)
We break down the interview with Joe's October 2025 return interview with Elon Musk. And it is so filled with misinformation, we'll need a second show.
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Q4...
Audio: www.knowrogan.com/0044-elon-mu...
We break down the interview with Joe's October 2025 return interview with Elon Musk. And it is so filled with misinformation, we'll need a second show.
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Q4...
Audio: www.knowrogan.com/0044-elon-mu...
#0044 - Elon Musk
YouTube video by The Know Rogan Experience
www.youtube.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Glad some people are willing to lose years of their life to listen, fact check and debunk this type of content. And also remain entertaining.
You think AI is an awesome coding tool?
Have you tried reviewing a pull request that is being vibe-coded by someone not trying to engage with the problem at hand?
Have you tried reviewing a pull request that is being vibe-coded by someone not trying to engage with the problem at hand?
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
You think AI is an awesome coding tool?
Have you tried reviewing a pull request that is being vibe-coded by someone not trying to engage with the problem at hand?
Have you tried reviewing a pull request that is being vibe-coded by someone not trying to engage with the problem at hand?
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Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Spent the afternoon cleaning my parents' garden, rather than cleaning someone else's mess in a codebase. #TouchGrass
Encountered way more bugs, but without ever having to get rid of them.
Never felt the urge to use dark mode. #vitaminD
Pruned some branches, but not the git kind.
Encountered way more bugs, but without ever having to get rid of them.
Never felt the urge to use dark mode. #vitaminD
Pruned some branches, but not the git kind.
April 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Spent the afternoon cleaning my parents' garden, rather than cleaning someone else's mess in a codebase. #TouchGrass
Encountered way more bugs, but without ever having to get rid of them.
Never felt the urge to use dark mode. #vitaminD
Pruned some branches, but not the git kind.
Encountered way more bugs, but without ever having to get rid of them.
Never felt the urge to use dark mode. #vitaminD
Pruned some branches, but not the git kind.
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The result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration:
"Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824
TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.
"Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824
TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.
April 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration:
"Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824
TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.
"Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824
TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.
Reposted by Remi Gau
markets soar as investors realize that mommy didn't actually disappear, she was just hiding behind her hands
April 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
markets soar as investors realize that mommy didn't actually disappear, she was just hiding behind her hands
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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
April 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
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Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn.
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
Psych-DS
A specification for psychological datasets. JSON metadata, predictable directory structure, and machine-readable specifications for tabular datasets.
psych-ds.github.io
April 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn.
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
And it's live RIGHT NOW!
psych-ds.github.io
(This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)
If 80% is the threshold, I think people should get seizures from most websites with cooking recipes.
April 6, 2025 at 6:27 AM
If 80% is the threshold, I think people should get seizures from most websites with cooking recipes.
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GitHub Action now officially support the free-threaded CPython.
hugovk.dev/blog/2025/fr...
hugovk.dev/blog/2025/fr...
Free-threaded Python on GitHub Actions
hugovk.dev
March 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
GitHub Action now officially support the free-threaded CPython.
hugovk.dev/blog/2025/fr...
hugovk.dev/blog/2025/fr...
If you care about computationally reproducible results but also like notebooks. You probably should ditch jupyter in favor of marimo.
Traditional Python notebooks are stored as JSON, not Python, causing a whole host of problems.
For one, ipynb files are hard to use with Git: few character changes can yield enormous git diffs.
marimo solves this and more by storing notebooks as pure Python files: www.youtube.com/watch?v=skuI...
For one, ipynb files are hard to use with Git: few character changes can yield enormous git diffs.
marimo solves this and more by storing notebooks as pure Python files: www.youtube.com/watch?v=skuI...
March 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
If you care about computationally reproducible results but also like notebooks. You probably should ditch jupyter in favor of marimo.
Today I was told I am more useful than a LLM. Take that, chatGPT!
March 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Today I was told I am more useful than a LLM. Take that, chatGPT!
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WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
February 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
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After years of research on human interaction and experimenting with novel ways to organize communities, today I unveil a brand new social media app.
The key idea: your interactions are arranged in ‘bins’ along a social dimension. You post, we put it in one of these ‘bins’.
The name? Histogram.
The key idea: your interactions are arranged in ‘bins’ along a social dimension. You post, we put it in one of these ‘bins’.
The name? Histogram.
February 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
After years of research on human interaction and experimenting with novel ways to organize communities, today I unveil a brand new social media app.
The key idea: your interactions are arranged in ‘bins’ along a social dimension. You post, we put it in one of these ‘bins’.
The name? Histogram.
The key idea: your interactions are arranged in ‘bins’ along a social dimension. You post, we put it in one of these ‘bins’.
The name? Histogram.
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We checked how easy it is to match up people's brain maps after spatial normalisation. Turns out very! Maybe that surprising to many in the field - but my impression has long been that people are a bit in denial about deidentifying data. #neuroskyence #visionscience
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Retinotopic mapping data permit accurate matching of participants across different datasets
Public sharing of neuroimaging data is becoming increasingly common for the advancement and validation of scientific research. However, this sharing poses challenges regarding privacy and data safety,...
doi.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
We checked how easy it is to match up people's brain maps after spatial normalisation. Turns out very! Maybe that surprising to many in the field - but my impression has long been that people are a bit in denial about deidentifying data. #neuroskyence #visionscience
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Left my hand to my niece to do as she pleases and here is what happened.
Hope my fellow geeks will get all the video game reference.
Hope my fellow geeks will get all the video game reference.
January 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Left my hand to my niece to do as she pleases and here is what happened.
Hope my fellow geeks will get all the video game reference.
Hope my fellow geeks will get all the video game reference.
Reposted by Remi Gau
Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.
The Collapse of Ego Depletion
Science's Biggest Self-Control Failure
open.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.
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Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
January 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
I for one cannot wait for the next AI winter...
January 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I for one cannot wait for the next AI winter...
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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
January 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):