Eli Sennesh
@elisennesh.bsky.social
Abolish the value function!
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Eli Sennesh
@elisennesh.bsky.social
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Eli Sennesh: Oscillations, but not Spike Rates, Encode Predictive Processing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Talk by Eli Sennesh of Vanderbilt University. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley.Abstract: The appearance at the...
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Had a great time visiting Berkeley's Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience!
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A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.
Spin this out a bit?
October 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.
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the idea of changing the law is so dead in america that the idea that something might be banned by statute rather than by arguing that it is already banned (in terms of water use, in terms of copyright) seems completely alien
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
the idea of changing the law is so dead in america that the idea that something might be banned by statute rather than by arguing that it is already banned (in terms of water use, in terms of copyright) seems completely alien
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JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
That's like saying we should support the food industry. It provides a social good, along with some bads. Do we support the workers, or the bosses?
There has been a noticeable reticence in left and liberal circles to voice full-throated support for pornography, even as it's become increasingly clear what the open end goals of the censorship movement are
In a lot of ways other leftists chose this path folks. They shrugged and didn’t care when Patreon banned a ton of hypnosis and TF creators, or when YouTube started their ASMR crackdown. Now it’s coming for queer porn creators, more and more. Who will stand up?
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
That's like saying we should support the food industry. It provides a social good, along with some bads. Do we support the workers, or the bosses?
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The two are coextensive here. Capitalism in decay: the decline in profitability of legitimate, virtuous businesses forces money into illegitimate, evil businesses.
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The two are coextensive here. Capitalism in decay: the decline in profitability of legitimate, virtuous businesses forces money into illegitimate, evil businesses.
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Confirmed this with an NIH source. At the moment, not aware of anyone else who has been placed on leave though.
According to a source, Jenna Norton, who led a letter criticizing Trump's decimation of the NIH (see below), has been placed on administrative leave. She's the first at NIH to be put on leave, joining EPA officials who criticized Trump policies.
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NIH scientists publish letter criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research
The letter addresses the termination of 2,100 research grants valued at more than $12 billion and some of the human costs that have resulted, such as cutting off medication regimens to participants in...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Confirmed this with an NIH source. At the moment, not aware of anyone else who has been placed on leave though.
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Both the left and the “don’t fight” Democrats want to depict the “fight/don’t fight” conflict within the Democratic Party as a proxy conflict between the left and the center. It gives the left a lot of extra lift while giving the “don’t fight” faction a tool to keep people on side. But it’s wrong!
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Both the left and the “don’t fight” Democrats want to depict the “fight/don’t fight” conflict within the Democratic Party as a proxy conflict between the left and the center. It gives the left a lot of extra lift while giving the “don’t fight” faction a tool to keep people on side. But it’s wrong!
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Hanson's Treatment of Time: There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday.
—fortune(6)
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November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Hanson's Treatment of Time: There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday.
—fortune(6)
—fortune(6)
Ed schools delenda est
Terrifying deskilling:
"Phonics is challenging for many kids. The cueing strategies seem quicker and easier at first. And by using context and memorizing a bunch of words, many children can look like good readers — until they get to about third grade"
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"Phonics is challenging for many kids. The cueing strategies seem quicker and easier at first. And by using context and memorizing a bunch of words, many children can look like good readers — until they get to about third grade"
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Ed schools delenda est
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regardless, "prominent early backer of OpenAI has LLM-related psychotic episode in public" is somewhat concerning
July 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
regardless, "prominent early backer of OpenAI has LLM-related psychotic episode in public" is somewhat concerning
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Jeffrey Epstein was picking out Trump term 1's cabinet secretaries. I repeat, Jeffrey Epstein was picking out the President of the United States' fucking cabinet.
well that's odd, because in late december 2018 epstein tells larry summers he's in palm beach, summers asks if he's going to mar-a-lago, then christmas morning epstein tells summers he's "being asked for 3 names to replace mnuchin"
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Jeffrey Epstein was picking out Trump term 1's cabinet secretaries. I repeat, Jeffrey Epstein was picking out the President of the United States' fucking cabinet.
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I think a lot of people have decided (without evidence) that defending a way to throw sand in the gears of the Trump regime right now means defending it through perpetuity, but that doesn't follow in the slightest.
"The filibuster is anti-democratic because it prevents the majority party from enacting it's agenda." Yes have you happened to notice who said "majority party" is right now?
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I think a lot of people have decided (without evidence) that defending a way to throw sand in the gears of the Trump regime right now means defending it through perpetuity, but that doesn't follow in the slightest.
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With my great advisors and colleagues, @achterbrain.bsky.social @zhe @danakarca.bsky.social @neural-reckoning.org, we show that if heterogeneous axonal delays (imprecise) can capture the essential temporal structure of a task, spiking networks do not need precise synaptic weights to perform well.
Psst - neuromorphic folks. Did you know that you can solve the SHD dataset with 90% accuracy using only 22 kb of parameter memory by quantising weights and delays? Check out our preprint with @pengfei-sun.bsky.social and @danakarca.bsky.social, or read the TLDR below. 👇🤖🧠🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2510.27434
Exploiting heterogeneous delays for efficient computation in low-bit neural networks
Neural networks rely on learning synaptic weights. However, this overlooks other neural parameters that can also be learned and may be utilized by the brain. One such parameter is the delay: the brain...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
With my great advisors and colleagues, @achterbrain.bsky.social @zhe @danakarca.bsky.social @neural-reckoning.org, we show that if heterogeneous axonal delays (imprecise) can capture the essential temporal structure of a task, spiking networks do not need precise synaptic weights to perform well.
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As @brycecovert.bsky.social explained later that year, declining unionization and declining democracy go hand in hand. In trying to quash organizing efforts, companies like Starbucks deploy authoritarian tactics: surveillance, repression, and coercion.
We Mean Nothing to the Company | Bryce Covert
Employers hold enormous power over our lives—with few checks on how they choose to wield it. Unions are an antidote.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
As @brycecovert.bsky.social explained later that year, declining unionization and declining democracy go hand in hand. In trying to quash organizing efforts, companies like Starbucks deploy authoritarian tactics: surveillance, repression, and coercion.
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Starbucks workers at 65 locations across the U.S. are on strike after contract negotiations stalled. In 2022, Molly Osberg described the steps the company has been taking to stop organizers: captive audience meetings, weeping executives, and sudden closures.
Brewed Awakening | Molly Osberg
Corporate social responsibility is a sham. For proof, look no further than your local Starbucks.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Starbucks workers at 65 locations across the U.S. are on strike after contract negotiations stalled. In 2022, Molly Osberg described the steps the company has been taking to stop organizers: captive audience meetings, weeping executives, and sudden closures.
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The Sulzberger name comes up in other places. In 2019, Epstein sent himself a list of names "for bannon steve"; one is "Suzlberger". Punch Sulzberger died in 2012, so this may his son Sulzberger Jr, who took over the NYT - and supervised the "but her emails" coverage that helped elect Trump. 4/
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Sulzberger name comes up in other places. In 2019, Epstein sent himself a list of names "for bannon steve"; one is "Suzlberger". Punch Sulzberger died in 2012, so this may his son Sulzberger Jr, who took over the NYT - and supervised the "but her emails" coverage that helped elect Trump. 4/
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good summary thread for the insane epstein/sulzberger/michael wolff connection
Why the NYT didn't report on their Epstein info is tangled up with another question: was Epstein a friend of the Sulzberger family? Epstein claims he first befriended NYT publisher "Punch" Sulzberger in the 1970s, when Sulzberger's daughter (age ~12) was at the prep school where Epstein taught. 1/
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
good summary thread for the insane epstein/sulzberger/michael wolff connection
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this is the policy side of the impunity some elites enjoy in their personal lives btw
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
this is the policy side of the impunity some elites enjoy in their personal lives btw
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Fei-Fei Li’s Worldlabs.ai releases their Marble Labs model and tools. They predict meshes that can be re-styled. Smart. And predictable. It helps solve the predictive impermanence issues with pure pixel-to-pixel world models and it’s going to work with how far engines already work.
World Labs
World Labs is a spatial intelligence company, building frontier models that can perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Fei-Fei Li’s Worldlabs.ai releases their Marble Labs model and tools. They predict meshes that can be re-styled. Smart. And predictable. It helps solve the predictive impermanence issues with pure pixel-to-pixel world models and it’s going to work with how far engines already work.
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Change the legal term from sex trafficking to rape trafficking, victims of trafficking cannot consent to sex while being trafficked. It is rape.
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Change the legal term from sex trafficking to rape trafficking, victims of trafficking cannot consent to sex while being trafficked. It is rape.
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The American Pogrom continues
RAISE YOUR CHILDREN SO THEY DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE THIS dailyfreepress.com/11/13/10/216...
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The American Pogrom continues
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This makes Albany officially downstate. I’m sorry I don’t make the rules.
Albany, here we come!
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that Metro-North plans to add a round-trip train between Grand Central & Albany on the Hudson Line, with additional stops at Rhinecliff, Hudson, and Albany-Rensselaer Station. Planning is currently underway with an anticipated launch of Spring 2026.
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that Metro-North plans to add a round-trip train between Grand Central & Albany on the Hudson Line, with additional stops at Rhinecliff, Hudson, and Albany-Rensselaer Station. Planning is currently underway with an anticipated launch of Spring 2026.
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This makes Albany officially downstate. I’m sorry I don’t make the rules.
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Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
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Me, wisely: "But *his* emails"
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Me, wisely: "But *his* emails"