We wrote a "little" review about odor coding across phyla, now out in @nature review neuroscience
Enjoy reading here: https://rdcu.be/dJgF7
With Kara Fulton, David Zimmerman, Aravi Samuel and @Datta_Lab
Back in the early 2000s, the bus network in Los Angeles was a disaster: always late, often by 30 min or an hour. The bus drivers did what they could, considering traffic. The bus line inspectors were traveling by car and berating the drivers for being late ... the futility and absurdity of the line inspectors's actions was not lost on the passengers. No dog fooding, bad service.
Let's see when the EU mandates by law that all its representatives must travel by train. Only then will the situation change.
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.
Enable developer options.
Under developer options, enable USB debugging.
connect to a laptop via USB.
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.
Discover which apps to remove. Not trivial, but there are various lists of Samsung "bloatware" online.
Then, use adb to discover which packages to remove. For example:
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:
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
For the life of me I cannot understand of what use is to delegate writing to a machine. Writing is rewriting, because writing is thinking, is the process of composing one's thoughts, of organising what one wants to say, and putting it down, with references and pointers to data sheets and figures. Delegate writing to a machine and all purpose is lost. As if writing was pointless busywork. Perhaps that's what it is to spammers in search of the small percent of readers who will become marks.
I choose not to write any bullshit, and I encourage you to depart from, and avoid like the plague, any institution that requires you to write bullshit.
Funny thing about being an insect photographer is that OneDrive will be like "Lets look at your memories from a year ago!" and shows me photos of ants eating a dead toad or something.
I guess I just think that those questions children ask, that come from seemingly nowhere— that pure kind of curiosity: is really important, it’s precious. And I wish that it wasn’t so common for adults to stop asking questions like that. I spend a lot of time thinking about the sort of experiences that cause the endless stream of questions to dry up— (it is not because we suddenly have all the answers we need, though that is what some people seem to think it is)
When one asks questions of the curiosity kind, all too often the receiving adults find themselves having to question their beliefs. They don't like that. They get upset and retaliate, or at best, dismiss the questions as childish. Soon a young adult learns to stop asking questions. And to ignore their inner voice.
It's unavoidable that grad students will use LLM's to help them with their writing/proofreading and possibly even help jump start some of their reasoning. Rather than preaching total abstinence, this 3-page article outlines safer ways to use (and not use) these tools. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.3c01544
Just read a fantastic one, on the work of John Letts, from 2001:
"No one had excavated a thatched roof before."
"Before systematic crop breeding, cereals evolved into local land races. Different soils, slope, shading and drainage gave endless possibilities for adaptation. With variety in the seed stock, crops would grow differently even across a single farm. Whatever the weather or diseases, something would always flourish."
"Old thatch provides an opportunity to study this lost diversity. Letts often finds a mix of bread wheat, English rivet wheat - not grown commercially for more than a century - rye, oats and barley. He has also found 35 different weeds, from corn cockle and cornflower - now vanished from English farms - to yellow rattle and cow wheat."
On time: 5 minutes to mix, and 5 minutes to roll the dough into baguettes some hours later. Actual total work time is 15 to 20 minutes tops. One just has to plan around the waiting times.
On cooking cost: depends on the efficiency of your oven and how many you bake at once. In our case, our electric oven when used during the day can draw from solar panels.
On baguette cost: a lot of the weight is water. A 500g bread loaf does not have 500g of flour, nowhere near. Closer to half of that; water loss during cooking is not that great.
And check also the https://scholar.archive.org – with direct links to accessible PDFs for papers, often in the author's websites or in institutional repositories.
The kind of professor I’m trying to be at university:
EDIT: just to clarify, this is a screenshot found offline, not from one of my student. I’m more direct as I tell my students that "piracy is sharing knowledge and sharing knowledge is ethical and what I’m paid to do so please use libgen.rs and sci-hub"
The ToR browser is really helpful here. All they seized was a domain name, not the actual server. Accessing alternative domain names that lead to the same server remains possible. Via ToR in particular.