a hangry mouse
@oscillatory.net
the salad of thought rarely arrives dressed
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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
Motic BA310e - 40x Objective - sped up 2X
#microscopy #Paramecium #Iteachbiology #edusky
November 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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
Motic BA310e - 40x Objective - sped up 2X
#microscopy #Paramecium #Iteachbiology #edusky
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
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
I think I will not be contacting my MathWorks license administrator to request access to the system identification toolbox
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I think I will not be contacting my MathWorks license administrator to request access to the system identification toolbox
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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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5wd...
The lecture focused on how properties of human language like syntax might be neurally enforced, and included some critical discussion of the LLM literature.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5wd...
Brain architecture for syntax and language by Elliot Murphy with William Matchin and Sander van Bree
YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5wd...
The lecture focused on how properties of human language like syntax might be neurally enforced, and included some critical discussion of the LLM literature.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5wd...
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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
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...
www.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroAI
instruction scream architecture
October 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
instruction scream architecture
thanks Claude, sometimes I confuse 18 and 18, even though they're clearly different
October 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
thanks Claude, sometimes I confuse 18 and 18, even though they're clearly different
matlab is truly awful software. it should be illegal for EEs to make programming languages
October 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
matlab is truly awful software. it should be illegal for EEs to make programming languages
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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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QL...
October 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QL...
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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
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
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
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
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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
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
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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
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
youtu.be
October 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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
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
saw some cool mushrooms
October 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
saw some cool mushrooms
new tigran, now with matt garstka on drums, and there's a guitar??? new supergroup idea: animals as leaders, but they add tigran www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSLz...
Tigran Hamasyan - War Time Poem (Official Audio)
YouTube video by TigranHamasyan
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
new tigran, now with matt garstka on drums, and there's a guitar??? new supergroup idea: animals as leaders, but they add tigran www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSLz...
i think i figured out how to walk properly again. it only took me 10 years to realize that I needed to buy zero drop shoes and then very slowly walk 2-3 miles every day for weeks, focusing on maintaining proper form. i hope that i can soon (next year?) run a mile for the first time in 16 years
October 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
i think i figured out how to walk properly again. it only took me 10 years to realize that I needed to buy zero drop shoes and then very slowly walk 2-3 miles every day for weeks, focusing on maintaining proper form. i hope that i can soon (next year?) run a mile for the first time in 16 years
ahh yes, the Arboreal Whistle Pig
October 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
ahh yes, the Arboreal Whistle Pig
apparently one of my superpowers is that almost every AI-generated video gives me motion sickness. so I have a pretty reliable algorithm for detecting AI videos:
1. watch video
2. wait for nausea (it usually doesn't take long!)
1. watch video
2. wait for nausea (it usually doesn't take long!)
Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.
October 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
apparently one of my superpowers is that almost every AI-generated video gives me motion sickness. so I have a pretty reliable algorithm for detecting AI videos:
1. watch video
2. wait for nausea (it usually doesn't take long!)
1. watch video
2. wait for nausea (it usually doesn't take long!)
new neighbor moved in recently
October 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
new neighbor moved in recently
I predicted the author from the title alone
Who invented deep residual learning?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24732
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24732
September 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I predicted the author from the title alone
Gemini helpfully pointing out a sign mistake I made, even while it seems to be having some kind of output generation problem
September 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Gemini helpfully pointing out a sign mistake I made, even while it seems to be having some kind of output generation problem
it seems that sometimes I'm able to meditate my migraines away (during the aura phase). it happened once before, but I was only able to replicate it last night. previously, whenever I got a migraine aura it would always lead to a headache.
September 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
it seems that sometimes I'm able to meditate my migraines away (during the aura phase). it happened once before, but I was only able to replicate it last night. previously, whenever I got a migraine aura it would always lead to a headache.