David A. Markowitz
@davidamarkowitz.bsky.social
As this widely reported genocide plays out in real time and Arab nations express growing horror, it's sad to see the continued apathy toward it in the West. Silence on both left and right wing social media. No demonstrations, no boycotts... www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
‘A true genocide’: RSF kills ‘at least 1,500 people’ in Sudan’s el-Fasher
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkiye, Jordan and Qatar express alarm as more evidence emerges of mass killings by paramilitary forces in Sudan's in el-Fasher.
www.aljazeera.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
As this widely reported genocide plays out in real time and Arab nations express growing horror, it's sad to see the continued apathy toward it in the West. Silence on both left and right wing social media. No demonstrations, no boycotts... www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“There is bipartisan agreement in the United States that Sudan is suffering both genocide and famine — and also, apparently, a bipartisan consensus to do little about it,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.
“There is bipartisan agreement in the United States that Sudan is suffering both genocide and famine — and also, apparently, a bipartisan consensus to do little about it,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.
Opinion | In Sudan, No One Doubts That This Is Genocide
Both the Biden and Trump administrations have described Sudan as suffering genocide. And no one’s done much about it.
nyti.ms
September 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Update From Doctors Without Borders: "This is one of the worst situations I have seen” ... "It really is quite unique in terms of the volume of affected people, the level of suffering and also the underfunding of the international response” www.ft.com/content/d331...
‘We watch the graveyards from space’: satellites track Sudanese city under siege
Paramilitary forces have cut off El Fasher, the military government’s final stronghold in the western Darfur region
www.ft.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Update From Doctors Without Borders: "This is one of the worst situations I have seen” ... "It really is quite unique in terms of the volume of affected people, the level of suffering and also the underfunding of the international response” www.ft.com/content/d331...
Wow, VERY interested to see this paper!
August 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Wow, VERY interested to see this paper!
The latest on this humanitarian catastrophe, one of several happening in the world right now, yet strangely neglected in the public discourse: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Starvation spreading in Sudan as aid convoys blocked by siege, UN says
Situation is worsening in El Fasher, which is enduring a daily bombardment of artillery shelling and drone attacks by RSF fighters
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The latest on this humanitarian catastrophe, one of several happening in the world right now, yet strangely neglected in the public discourse: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Shortly after MICrONS demonstrated initial scale-up of volume EM, I think in 2017, I desperately tried to convince NSF bio division leadership (then Olds and Deshler) to launch a mid-scale infrastructure project focused on comparative connectomics across species. They were interested, but no budget.
June 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Shortly after MICrONS demonstrated initial scale-up of volume EM, I think in 2017, I desperately tried to convince NSF bio division leadership (then Olds and Deshler) to launch a mid-scale infrastructure project focused on comparative connectomics across species. They were interested, but no budget.
For example, in my experience with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, type errors are particularly common when passing matrices around.
May 8, 2025 at 2:07 AM
For example, in my experience with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, type errors are particularly common when passing matrices around.
GD requires so much data to train foundation models, however. Data we don't have in neuroscience. People are trying, but what if the time required to collect all the physiology data needed to "properly" train a whole brain model is O(decades)? (or longer)
May 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
GD requires so much data to train foundation models, however. Data we don't have in neuroscience. People are trying, but what if the time required to collect all the physiology data needed to "properly" train a whole brain model is O(decades)? (or longer)
50/50 would be the best odds I've had on anything I've tried for the last 10 years 😉 I'd be stoked to test this hypothesis in a "small" system with well-characterized dynamics, like STG. If that works, move to more complex systems.
May 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
50/50 would be the best odds I've had on anything I've tried for the last 10 years 😉 I'd be stoked to test this hypothesis in a "small" system with well-characterized dynamics, like STG. If that works, move to more complex systems.
It's not obvious to me that getting "all the parameters correct" is the right goal to set for a mechanistic model. At a molecular level, brains are highly dynamic and parameters are constantly in flux. Maybe there is a very large space of parameterizations that recapitulate the same dynamics?
May 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It's not obvious to me that getting "all the parameters correct" is the right goal to set for a mechanistic model. At a molecular level, brains are highly dynamic and parameters are constantly in flux. Maybe there is a very large space of parameterizations that recapitulate the same dynamics?
May 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It's not obvious to me that getting "all the parameters correct" is the right goal to set for a mechanistic model. At a molecular level, brains are highly dynamic and parameters are constantly in flux. Maybe there is a very large space of parameterizations that recapitulate the same dynamics?
If dynamics are fully determined by system parameters (structure + cellular+molecular properties), shouldn't the model exhibit "normal" function if initialized to any reasonable activity state? Why do we need to observe any physiology in advance?
May 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
If dynamics are fully determined by system parameters (structure + cellular+molecular properties), shouldn't the model exhibit "normal" function if initialized to any reasonable activity state? Why do we need to observe any physiology in advance?
If dynamics are fully determined by system parameters (structure + cellular+molecular properties), shouldn't the model exhibit "normal" function if initialized to any reasonable activity state? Why do we need to observe any physiology in advance?
May 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
If dynamics are fully determined by system parameters (structure + cellular+molecular properties), shouldn't the model exhibit "normal" function if initialized to any reasonable activity state? Why do we need to observe any physiology in advance?