You should now read the sequel: The Parable of the Talents. It’s a far better book, and even more apt.
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You should now read the sequel: The Parable of the Talents. It’s a far better book, and even more apt.
Judges have no way to do this. The Marshals Service is controlled by the DoJ.
1/35 New paper out! @jamesTstroud and I dive into why long-term studies are crucial for understanding evolution. They reveal processes impossible to detect in short timescales and capture rare events that transform our understanding of evolutionary dynamics.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We’re doomed!
Would be a buy at $5
Really nice experiment from Zutshi et al. looking at how the hippocampus encodes non-spatial variables, like auditory cue tones, while animals solve a spatial task: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Neuroscience #Hippocampus #BrainScience
‘Ancient Cave Discovery Reveals That 8,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Was Green’ scitechdaily.com/ancient-cave...
Why Tononi et al's defense of IIT fails to convince me. medium.com/@kording/86f...
Excellent post. I agree with the first item on the list, with a small twist of embodiment:
Cognition is that which integrates perceptual affordances with behavioral affordances to enable productive behavior in the agent’s environment.
"Randall hosted a morning town hall Saturday in Bremerton that filled up in minutes. Rather than turning the overflow crowd away, she immediately held a 2nd session. 'I want to hear from everyone who took the time out of their day to be here,' she wrote online..."
www.advocate.com/politics/hug...
Hippocampal neuronal activity is aligned with action plans www.nature.com/articles/s41... - really nice work from G. Buzsaki and colleagues, reinforcing an affordance-laden view of neural coding
Very well-deserved and long overdue. Congratulations to both!
And then Vance gives Trump a little there-there pat on the arm to Grandpa Ranty.
This did not go as they expected
This is excellent. Moving all controls to touchscreens is one of the worst features in new cars.
One of the most memorable places I have been to: the Archaeological Museum in Heraklion. These are just four of the thousands of beautiful urns, jars, cups, and other vessels on display. And, of course, the octopus is a star!
As AI gets more integrated into our cognitive workflow, I think we’ll see an interesting phenomenon in terms of the cognitive skills of humans in an increasing number of areas:
(Human tomorrow) < (Human today)
(Human tomorrow + AI) >> (Human today)
Can we avoid this?
They’re behaving like courtiers have behaved throughout history. It’s the Democrats in Congress that one should have questions about?
And then have their minions cook the deficit numbers for 4 years….
But reality doesn’t care.
Alibaba….
President's Day rallies
The case for proper scientific study of unidentified flying and subsea objects. Whatever you think of that, this long paper is full of fascinating case histories.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2502.06794
It’s very early, but if science declines in the US - as now seems likely - where will it rise? Europe? China? Japan?
Or will AI transform how science is done everywhere?
Our paper on how neural codes track prior events in a narrative and predict subsequent memory for details, led by @collinsilvy.bsky.social, is now out in Communications Psychology! rdcu.be/d93Vc #neuroskyence #psychscisky
"Europe must now start the painful process of “de-risking” its relationship with the US, looking for areas of dangerous dependence on America and stripping them out of the system.” from @gideonrachman.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/11f1...
Chris Fields and I on the origin of life:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪
Yes, but when failure happens - as it will - it will not be blamed on the dearth of experts in public service, but on the few experts that remain.
A large part of the American public has made a turn away from knowledge and reason.
But Soros is a “liberal globalist” (wink, wink) while Elon is a red-blooded American.
It’s worth thinking about how this narrative became so pervasive and why the Democrats were asleep.
After the ongoing coup, the blue states will all reverse their rightward slide. But NJ Gov is always tricky.
Well, if it dissolves into violence, all the guns are on the other side - for now.
