albertcardona

albertcardona, 4 hours ago to Neuroscience

"Compensatory enhancement of input maintains aversive dopaminergic reinforcement in hungry Drosophila", by Meschi et al. 2024 (Scott Waddell's la).
https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(24)00325-8

#neuroscience #Drosophila #dopamine

albertcardona, 5 hours ago to Neuroscience

"CRASH2p: Closed-loop Two Photon Imaging in Freely Moving Animals", by McNulty et al. 2024 (Marc Gershow's lab).

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.22.595209v1

The new version of Mirna Skanata & Marc Gershow's 2-photon acusto-optics neuron activity tracking microscope.

#neuroscience #Drosophila

albertcardona, 5 hours ago to android

Turns out all the "unremovable" Samsung apps from the android Galaxy A14 can be uninstalled after all. It's convoluted, but worth it: far snappier – far more responsive, less memory usage.

1. Enable developer options.
2. Under developer options, enable USB debugging.
3. connect to a laptop via USB.
4. Install "adb" (Android Debug Bridge) in the laptop, a command like tool. In Ubuntu 22.04, do "sudo apt install adb". There are packages online for other operating systems.
5. Discover which apps to remove. Not trivial, but there are various lists of Samsung "bloatware" online.
6. Then, use adb to discover which packages to remove. For example:

$ adb shell pm list packages | grep facebook

.. and then remove them:

$ adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.facebook.services
$ adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.facebook.system
$ adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.facebook.appmanager

Likewise for Microsoft cruft.

7. If no apps match the search, then use the "App List" (installable via F-Droid store) to list all user apps or system apps (from a toggle on the top-right menu), which lists all apps by name and with the package name under it.

An app that I removed that indeed drops some possibly valuable services but which greatly improve UI responsiveness:

$ adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.sec.android.daemonapp

The above removes the built-in weather app and various widgets. But suddenly the phone doesn't stall randomly and the UI is snappier than ever.

8. If you regret uninstalling a package, it can be reinstalled with adb.

BTW don't forget to re-enable using only 1 background thread every time the OneUI is updated. Samsung overwrites that setting.

#android #samsung #bloatware #GalaxyA14

lana, 7 hours ago to random

Overleaf, primarily used to write scientific papers, encouraging its users to use AI text. What could go wrong! I am even less open to reviewing papers now. Waiting for Evilsevier to release its "AI for peer reviewers" tool so that we can live in the most boring world ever for a few years. Just until the next generation, with better BS detectors than us, start doing real science again