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Katharina V. Wellstein

@kvwellstein.bsky.social

Former postdoc @drbreaky.bsky.social PhD @ETH_Zurich, next stop London. Research: #CompPsychiatry, #psychology, #interoception, #psychosis Single Mom & Researcher. Currently investigating mechanistic underpinnings of blunted and constricted affect

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Andrew D Wilson@adw.bsky.social · 4w ago

I am looking for someone knowledgeable about how the concept of prediction and predictive control feature in Optimal Feedback control theories, to contribute to a special issue - do I know any? (Please repost :) Some quick context 🧵

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Katharina V. Wellstein@kvwellstein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am not a worrier but ever so often having little to no money pulls me into a dark sticky mud of worry. Worry about the coming years, worry about what I can give my son, worry about my pension that already has huge pay gaps, worry worry worry. And then it just blows over. Blissful ignorance.

Katharina V. Wellstein@kvwellstein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It only took me 3 weeks but I am finally fitting the volatile kalman filter to my data together with the uHGF, a rescorla-wagner, and Sutton model all using the BFGS algorithm. Easy small steps for many giant step including many lessons learned for me 😅

Katharina V. Wellstein@kvwellstein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If we are indeed "stuck genAI " like LLMs and have to "get with the programme", can someone please make them more energy efficient? www.cell.com/patterns/ful... Independent thinking doesn't seem important enough to save but maybe the planet is?

The carbon and water footprints of data centers and what this could mean for artificial intelligence

Company-wide metrics from the environmental disclosure of data center operators suggest that AI systems may have a carbon footprint equivalent to that of New York City in 2025, while their water footp...

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Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · 2mo ago

😳!!! Huge implications. “The goal here is not to question which entities are, in fact, conscious or not. Rather, we question the scientific bases of these claims.” (Thank you for it!)

Recently, many authors signed the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness.1 It claims that there is strong scientific support for phenomenal consciousness—the feeling of what it is like to undergo a specific perceptual experience—in all mammals and birds. Even invertebrates like mollusks and insects are said to have a “realistic possibility” of being phenomenally conscious.
hakwan lau@hakwan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

authors.elsevier.com/c/1nA3C_KOmx... new paper in Neuron in which we argue that many claims on consciousness in AI & animals etc are inconsistent. they are driven by theories/views that are not really supported by empirical evidence. they confuse subjective experience w/ cognition or perception

Katharina V. Wellstein@kvwellstein.bsky.social · 2y ago

Recently I have come across students who are told to use toolboxes to process their data but lack the basics of the corresponding programming language. They then turn to ChatGPT to help them debug the code when it throws an error. #Programming This type of thing worries me for numerous reasons:

Katharina V. Wellstein@kvwellstein.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just to clarify: I personally have not experienced anything like this. Seems like once you started in a lab with a good and kind supervisor (Klaas E. Stephan) the likelihood of being guided to people with a similar attitudes (previously @drbreaky.bsky.social and now soon Prof. Mitul Mehta) is high.

Katharina V. Wellstein@kvwellstein.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you are in academia long enough you will either hear of or experience toxic academics. Those of us lucky enough to not go through anything like that (yet) know names, heard stories, were quietly warned and stay away. Those who were affected also only wisper to the ones they trust.

Katharina V. Wellstein@kvwellstein.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What a privilege it is to live and work in different countries! It is a real perk of research life that many people never get to experience. I do feel bad for my son sometimes because of all the friends he makes that he has to let go of at such a young age. But still. What a privilege!

Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc@christosargyrop.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#oopsie Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!

Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

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