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jonny

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Digital infrastructure 4 a cooperative internet. social/technological systems & systems neuro with some light dynamical systems & crush on topology on the side.

writin bout the surveillance state n makin some p2p

science/work-oriented alt of @jonny

information is political, science is labor

This is a public account, quotes/boosts/links are always ok <3.

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elduvelle_neuro, to random
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Best time and place to realize that you don’t have access to your animal unit past midnight is definitely not at 12:05 AM, in front of the animal unit, with a rat 🙃

jonny,
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@elduvelle_neuro what the heck. When should someone taking care of animals ever not have 24h access to them. The animals are alive 24/7!

jonny, to workersrights
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at is ready to for divestment.
https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/09/graduate-students-rally-in-court-of-sciences-to-support-strike-authorization-vote

jonny, (edited )
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Our employer deploying police violence against us is an unsafe working condition and we have filed a ULP. Strike authorization vote is next Monday-Wednesday
https://www.uaw4811.org/

https://uaw5810.org/2024/05/01/important-info-for-union-members-strike-authorization-vote-announcement/

auditoryJoel, to Neuroscience
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I’m part of the project testing the of influential studies. We are using as a tool in this effort and you are invited to take part, especially if you have some expertise in EEG research, no matter how little. See below for details.

You may well know about the success of “prediction markets” in forecasting the likelihood of replication (e.g., Dreber et al., PNAS 2015). We are delighted to announce that we have partnered with economists who led these seminal studies to test the wisdom of the EEG community.

From today (as we near the end of recruitment for this project - please see last calls below), we are opening a survey to ask you to vote on the likelihood of some hypotheses studied in the project. Subsequently, you will be invited to bet on the likelihood of success through a stock market platform, where you will earn real money for you or a selected charity.

The success of this effort will become clear when we complete the full project in a few years time. But the results will immediately tell us about the degree of optimism/pessimism amongst our community.

So, please share this widely and place your bets now...

How can I sign up for the prediction markets? Registrations to participate in the prediction markets are administered via the sign-up form linked below. You must have experience of working with EEG (for example, through collecting and/or analysing EEG data, which may be evidenced by having published peer-reviewed articles or preprints with EEG or equivalent experience e.g. designing, collecting and analysing data from EEG experiments).

https://pavlovug-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2fDq4NW3JydtlOhg09G1yGVAVSU8W-Whs6kPML9_ZfizxufZcjwEmQPWP5AnyD8NUrSZsBDvk7fYcappAg1Sgo3_tXQFMEu2Cc91Q_7ZoUrnvmZiS20DZiHsSFcGXN3Cpu_h990jl35DhtizskaAYiFIXKDiVMD0arROUO4-wXStjr4hF_n39GH14z3uQM6NK9ioOU86MruRx

jonny,
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@auditoryJoel oh my god this sounds like so much fun. Is there a "neuroscientist who has read lots of EEG lit but never done an EEG experiment" tier?

treyhunner, to python
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What are your favorite one liners?

jonny,
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@treyhunner

p=print;print=lambda *a, **k:p(*[str(b).upper()+'!!!' for b in a], **k)
jonny,
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@romanroe @treyhunner what kinda objects do ya got with an id attribute?

iris, to random
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My cat made a friend, months ago I think. They call insistently for Rory to come join them outside most mornings and some evenings. The friend is starting to trust me enough to not run away when they see me. So now the two of them can hang out on the patio while I sit just inside.

jonny,
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@iris
I WISH my cat made friends I want to badly to find her in a cat pile some day but she is so full of hate and fear that she becomes the bully in every relationship

jonny, to random
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Thinkin bout the headless men and other ancient types of guys again. Medieval bestiaries have taken over my life

jonny,
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@liohong
They need their friends! Dog head guys and one leg guys

jonny,
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@q_observations
I WANT IT TO.

jonny,
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@q_observations
Whats the story with smoke body guy

jonny,
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@liohong
NOBODY EVER SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT THEM I have absolutely zero lore on them except their existence. Thats what keeps me coming back: how did this myth start? Surely there must be some story there

jonny,
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@liohong
Is Ordinary Japanese People a proper noun cluster? Or not sure what you mean?

jonny,
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@liohong
Omg scp I have not seen this in some time

jonny, to random
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My labmate had never heard the truth that "furries run the internet/develop all critical infra/etc." And it got me wondering how that came to be. Has anyone written like a cultural history of how furries came to concentrate in sysadmin roles and whatnot? It could be that theres no story it just is that way, but I wonder if there were notable examples of like "a team at Bell Labs in the 1960s were all furries and..."

jonny,
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@cavyherd
Looks like that tag didnt work, what instance are they on?

jonny,
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@MishaVanMollusq
Not trying to do transfemme/catgirl erasure, as surely they also run the internet ♥

tdverstynen, to random
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Can we please talk about RFK Jr.’s neurocysticercosis without demeaning people suffering from brain trauma?

jonny,
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@tdverstynen
I still cant believe there are literal brainworms in the political news. My "neurodivergence and pathology should 100% not be stigmatized and some ppl live normal lives with sometimes astonishingly large proportions of their brains damaged or missing" is conflicting with my sense of poetic irony.

neuroinformatics, to random
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To improve reproducibility in (systems) neuroscience we have developed:

  • NeuroBlueprint (neuroblueprint.neuroinformatics.dev), a simple, standard data folder specification
  • datashuttle (datashuttle.neuroinformatics.dev), to automate the creation, validation and transfer of NeuroBlueprint projects
jonny,
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@neuroinformatics
NWB's about to get a whole lot easier to work with, and part of that will be decoupling the schema from the storage and format like this :) looking forward to checking this out tmrw, nice work !!

laurentperrinet, to random French
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La arrive à Marseille à bord du !

(vu par télescope depuis Marseille, Belem à environ 10 miles de la côte, derrière le Planier)

jonny,
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@laurentperrinet almost like a dream <3

neuralreckoning, to science
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Thought about hypothesis testing as an approach to doing science. Not sure if new, would be interested if it's already been discussed. Basically, hypothesis testing is inefficient because you can only get 1 bit of information per experiment at most.

In practice, much less on average. If the hypothesis is not rejected you get close to 0 bits, and if it is rejected it's not even 1 bit because there's a chance the experiment is wrong.

One way to think about this is error signals. In machine learning we do much better if we can have a gradient than just a correct/false signal. How do you design science to maximise the information content of the error signal?

In modelling I think you can partly do that by conducting detailed parameters sweeps and model comparisons. More generally, I think you want to maximise the gain in "understanding" the model behaviour, in some sense.

This is very different to using a model to fit existing data (0 bits per study) or make a prediction (at most 1 bit per model+experiment). I think it might be more compatible with thinking of modelling as conceptual play.

I feel like both experimentalists and modellers do this when given the freedom to do so, but when they impose a particular philosophy of hypothesis testing on each other (grant and publication review), this gets lost.

Incidentally this is also exactly the problem with our traditional publication system that only gives you 1 bit of information about a paper (that it was accepted), rather than giving a richer, open system of peer feedback.

jonny,
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@neuralreckoning
Not just longer, but with a more firm derivation chain from theory to result which includes a lot of the exploratory work that youre talking about - the hypothesis test should only happen once we have established the rich background for it to be genuinely informative in, so substantially greater than the "1 bit per experiment"

If youve never read that meehl paper I wont spoil it for you, its a true gem. Stick with it even in the places where he seems like he's teaching a 101 course, its worth an attentive read (in part bc his writing voice is incredible).

For strictly the bools -> floats as experimental outputs argument, this is the gist of a lot of "abandon NHST, embrace effect sizes" lit of like 2011-2020

jonny,
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@neuralreckoning oh i am definitely on the same page as you there. needless to say i think the insistence on having everything be hypothesis testing and discrete "results" rather than a tapestry of observations is an artifact of the journal article form.

another book along these lines is "a new kind of science" by stephen wolfram, but i don't recommend reading that because he is one of the worst writers i have ever read even if the ideas are interesting between all the chaff. arguing for pure exploration, "let the system speak for itself" using cellular automata as the illustrative system.

jonny,
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@neuralreckoning
Not the publishing system per se but the literary form of journal article.

jonny,
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@deboraha
@neuralreckoning
The meehl paper? It would definitely make my list of papers everyone should read regardless of discipline. I mean there are more lyrical meehl papers but this is one that like once you see it you cant see normal lit the same way

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@deboraha
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Oh well yes I like that one a lot too (along with the rest of her work I have read :)

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