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.
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.
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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.
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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):
The rest of the world calls it "changing job". We call it "leaving academia".
Let’s stop treating "leaving academia" as negative. Scientists train for academia, industry, or what suits them. Industry isn’t an alternative; it’s a choice. In fields like engineering, most PhDs go to industry, and no one calls it "leaving academia." We should train scientists for diverse paths.
More than 40% of postdoctoral researchers leave academia, according to a study of some 45,500 researchers’ careers
https://go.nature.com/3Ej9RxA
https://go.nature.com/3Ej9RxA
January 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The rest of the world calls it "changing job". We call it "leaving academia".
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The alternative medicine industry has flipped the meaning of placebos. Don’t be fooled.
My latest on what I'm calling the ShamWow Fallacy.
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
My latest on what I'm calling the ShamWow Fallacy.
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
The ShamWow Fallacy or How Placebos Were Redefined
If I told you that an all-natural remedy performed just as well as a placebo in a clinical trial, how would you interpret that? Proponents of so-called complementary and alternative medicine often cla...
www.mcgill.ca
December 29, 2024 at 7:43 PM
The alternative medicine industry has flipped the meaning of placebos. Don’t be fooled.
My latest on what I'm calling the ShamWow Fallacy.
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
My latest on what I'm calling the ShamWow Fallacy.
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
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Is anyone keeping a list?
To my knowledge, this is the 55th mass resignation from a journal editorial board. Their PR shows the usual stuff: bad services from the publisher (copyediting) which gets more and more journal control (here associate editors contracts and of course APC level). #openaccess
Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
December 27, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Is anyone keeping a list?
A statistical Xmas tree...
Full of stars with a cross at the top.
Full of stars with a cross at the top.
Blessed be the person I inherited my office from 4 years ago. I kept this note, and I revisited it today when emptying my office. What I get it from this is, when you get 0.10 you get crucified.
December 27, 2024 at 7:02 AM
A statistical Xmas tree...
Full of stars with a cross at the top.
Full of stars with a cross at the top.
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Sophie Smith's piece in the LRB on the rape trial, and on men in general, is chillingly, vividly brilliant. Via @helenbarrett.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Sophie Smith's piece in the LRB on the rape trial, and on men in general, is chillingly, vividly brilliant. Via @helenbarrett.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
"arbitrary woodland" == "random forest"
A year earlier, "arbitrary woodland" had first emerged in academic literature as a concept within a paper using data science to predict coronary events and health.
It was a paper submitted to, and accepted by, a conference on Smart innovations in computing.
ieeexplore.ieee.org/...
13/31
It was a paper submitted to, and accepted by, a conference on Smart innovations in computing.
ieeexplore.ieee.org/...
13/31
December 21, 2024 at 11:33 AM
"arbitrary woodland" == "random forest"
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THREAD
This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact
An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
1/31
This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact
An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
1/31
December 19, 2024 at 9:10 PM
THREAD
This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact
An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
1/31
This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact
An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
1/31
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The venerable Bay Area Skeptics are hosting their latest free streaming lecture in 20 minutes, with a talk from the always insightful Massimo Pigliucci (editor of Philosophy of Pseudoscience, author of Nonsense on Stilts and many others):
www.youtube.com/live/1NL_Pvs...
www.youtube.com/live/1NL_Pvs...
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December 13, 2024 at 2:10 AM
The venerable Bay Area Skeptics are hosting their latest free streaming lecture in 20 minutes, with a talk from the always insightful Massimo Pigliucci (editor of Philosophy of Pseudoscience, author of Nonsense on Stilts and many others):
www.youtube.com/live/1NL_Pvs...
www.youtube.com/live/1NL_Pvs...