This is also why Sacks' writing is so extraordinary.

They didn't need the scientific literature, nor faculty input, to do the right thing all along. They have always had more access to private data, which must tell the same story as the public data even more clearly. It's distressing to admit but the only thing that has changed is the political winds.

I don't think anyone realized anything. They had to know all along if you and I did: just different factors weighed differently at different times.

It's embarrassing and outrageous it took us five years to bring them back.

... the dark hole in my soul...

I think the Nazi submarine at science and industry museum is extraordinary, as is pequod's pizza.

(I'm actually just trying to bait @nicolecrust.bsky.social into scolding you for my reactionary tweets again.)

Do you think Lord Krebs would have let trainees speak let alone squeal with delight?

Excited to read this paper but you should really clamp down on this undecorous emotion in your lab meeting.

I am not sure how far this goes back in Earl's thinking. For my own part I legit expected Earl's early experiments to find grandmother cells for task set variables in pfc (maybe based on my own shallow reading of eg miller & cohen) and was surprised when he found mixed codes instead.

To be fair, Earl was probably fifteen years ahead of this becoming a commonplace idea in deep networks (which arguably happened only quite recently with the ideas about superposition in LLMs)

Not exactly related but not exactly unrelated either: xkcd.com/793

Have you considered that maybe your problem is that you are talking to physicists?

grumpy-old-men-muppet-show.gif that I don't know how to send.

I don't think we disagree. 🤷‍♂️

Also I constantly remind my coauthors that it is easily verified that ~nobody expands the thread so the first tweet & link are the whole game. Write a good tweet, leading to a good abstract leading to a good paper. Spare me the emojis.

I like organizing project history in a deep nested tree of folders labeled "new," "old," "newer," and "older"