From the archive: "Manufacturing Authenticity: How We Yearn for the Real and Fall for the Fake", by Martijn Visser #Philosophy #Philsky
Manufacturing Authenticity: How We Yearn for the Real and Fall for the Fake
From the archive: "Manufacturing Authenticity: How We Yearn for the Real and Fall for the Fake", by Martijn Visser
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Interesting piece in which @itsneuronal.bsky.social suggests dropping the common bit-per-spike metric & reporting the duration of held-out data to validate a model Seems to be just 120ms of data for a sharply tuned, high firing rate head-direction cell, i.e. just 3-4 spikes arxiv.org/abs/2607.28779
Bits per Spike as a Betting Game: An Interpretable Unit for Held-Out Log-Likelihood in Neural Data Analysis
Held-out log-likelihood is the standard currency for comparing statistical models of neural spike trains, and is often reported as bits per spike relative to a homogeneous Poisson baseline. The units ...
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A great response to people who claim kids need to learn "A.i." to be job-ready: "But the tech of today looks nothing like it will in five or even two years’ time: it’s the equivalent of selling your child’s intellectual liberty in exchange for a penny-farthing bicycle."
Every gas leaves a distinct fingerprint in light. At Augsburg’s MINT Summer School, glass ampoules were turned into plasmas using an electromagnetic field. The third from the left glows like the hydrogen and deuterium plasmas in W7-X and ASDEX Upgrade. #physics
Finnish nature photographer Lassi Rautiainen followed a female grey wolf (Canis lupus) & a male brown bear (Ursos arctos) for 10 days. They played together, shared meals, napped together. Both were young adults. They appeared to be... friends? (📷: Lassi Rautiainen, www.wildfinland.org)
Lean & mean, from project naming to expertise curation. Nuclear little venture, explosive growth. 🐑🌪️
The BMW Z1 Proved A Startup Could Make BMW Cool Again — Revelations with Jason Cammisa
YouTube video by Hagerty
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piped.wireway.ch/results?sear... Observation. Deliberation. 🔇/🔕/=sh.
The BIG Problem with Modern Calc Books
YouTube video by Wrath of Math
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In Samskritam, there is a saying: विनाशकाले विपरीत बुद्धिः | meaning, "at doomsday does the intellect plot its own downfall¹." Well done, Ka @kaburbank.bsky.social for creating wide awareness around the abominable true state of what is perpetually sold to us under the guise of a beneficial wonder.
Jessica (Ka) Burbank@kaburbank.bsky.social · last mo.Re: AI companies buying old books in bulk and destroying them If you have info on this (or know someone who does) signal is kaburbank.77 I will protect your anonymity with my life
When you thought 2024 would be your year, but then 12 billionaires start building doomsday bunkers.
Just a reminder: if your stomach isn’t hurting, your nostrils are clear, your throat isn’t sore, and you don’t have a headache, take a moment to appreciate it. 🙌
Lovely. US is proving us right in the primitive phases of ware(.) abuse. A swift take down is ideal for monsters, before progression's alarming stages; but wit works too.
They pushed back on Flock AI surveillance. Now their votes are being overturned.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Great to see Ellie Spens’ model out! Interplay btwn episodic (hippo) & semantic (neocort’l) systems, in encoding, consolidatn, recall & problem solving with sequential info, as compressive retrieval-augmented generation. Inc gist-based distortion in stories & inference www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hippocampo-neocortical interaction as compressive retrieval-augmented generation - Nature Communications
Here the authors model interactions between episodic and semantic memory as ‘retrieval-augmented generation’, explaining consolidation of structure from sequential experience, the reconstruction and d...
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"My New Year's Resolution is to find a principled way to think about all those cell types in the brain" Why friend, you are in luck, because @rgast.bsky.social has just the perspective for you: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How heterogeneity shapes dynamics and computation in the brain
Much effort has been spent clustering neurons into transcriptomic or functional cell types and characterizing the differences between them. Beyond sub…
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Confused about all this talk of compositionality in neuroscience? Read our new perspective www.nature.com/articles/s41... with authors Reidar Riveland and Alex Pouget.
The compositionality continuum as a principle for studying the neural basis of intelligence - Nature Neuroscience
Compositionality exists on a continuum of increasing complexity rather than as a binary trait. Studying its implementation in simpler biological and artificial systems is the most tractable path towar...
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The number of people with electrodes in their brains is believed to have more than doubled in the last couple of years.
Brain-computer interface trials are taking off
The number of people with electrodes in their brains is believed to have more than doubled in the last couple of years.
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From the archive: "Revisiting the Noumenon", by John C. Brady #Philosophy #Philsky
Revisiting the Noumenon
From the archive: "Revisiting the Noumenon", by John C. Brady
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We all need that safe place. One in our heads (mind fields) too🦣🐻❄️
Merrymac Farm Sanctuary@merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · last mo.When people think of hay in the context of a sanctuary, it's of course going to bring one thing to mind- food for the horses! What many don't realize, is that hay is a safe place to land. Hay is warm, can be built into a nest, can embrace bodies that once only knew cold concrete. Hay is home.
Cornish artist Kirsty Elson trawls the beaches of her home collecting driftwood as the raw material for her coastal scene sculptures #WomensArt
To this & the immediate reply we say: Absolutely correct. Hasn't changed, the m.o has further passed into the hands of the next set of incorrigible wielders of power. We shall quell them yet. Parampara chalati asti eva |
Anna Belew@nabelew.bsky.social · last mo.But to equate bottom-up, community-led struggles for linguistic sovereignty and continuity, to a sentimental hoarder's tight grip on useless junk? Same as it ever was. An unbroken lineage of sneering dismissal of the agency, expertise, and autonomy of the people under your boot.
But to equate bottom-up, community-led struggles for linguistic sovereignty and continuity, to a sentimental hoarder's tight grip on useless junk? Same as it ever was. An unbroken lineage of sneering dismissal of the agency, expertise, and autonomy of the people under your boot.
It's also important for these pieces to cast aspersions, or outright deny, the empirical data on correlations between language and well-being. If Rationalism and Reasonableness need to be opposed to Sentiment and Nostalgia, we can't have quantitative data about good outcomes getting in the way.
This false dichotomy between "preservationists" and "speakers" is beloved by Let's Be Realistic-type pundits who produce anti-revitalization discourses. It's a handy shortcut to framing "preservation" as something imposed from outside--evoke smug white academics scolding an Elder for their choices.
Tim Bernard reviews a new preprint study by Jeba Sania, Marta Ziosi, and Fazl Barez examining how six AI systems across democracies and autocracies embed features that can enable authoritarian practices.
Researchers Detail How AI Systems Can Enable Authoritarianism
A new preprint study of authoritarianism-enabling AI presents another set of evidence of the gaps in safeguards, writes Tim Bernard.
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The government is prosecuting US citizen Sam Tunick for allegedly providing authorities with a “duress password” that wiped his phone when they tried to seize it at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport.
The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
Whoops, was that the duress password?
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