matttkk.bsky.social
Neuroscientist obsessed with brain structure and comparative neuroanatomy.
They’re not circuits. It’s not wiring. Cortex is a resonant mesh.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matt-Kirkcaldie [ image by https://mattcoyle.net ]
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💀
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MORE!
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(donation receipt is in his question post)
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I’ll be interested to read it. Do you see a role for the glutamate-glutamine-GABA cycle?
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The "why" is rather more basic and straightforward - seizure and coma are maladaptive states, and staying in between is a delicate equilibrium!
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WOW. Thank you. One of the most evocative images I’ve seen from Mars.
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Magic!
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@matthewcobb.bsky.social ‘s “The Idea of the Brain” is a great contemporary overview of the history of such metaphors and “explanations”.
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flameheadband.bandcamp.com seems to be them
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Not to mention the balletic blocking in the early parts of HIGH AND LOW
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More!
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yeah nah
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I believe they get public funding based on the number of #1 votes regardless of whether the candidate is electable
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AFTER THE STORM (Korēda)
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That’s dreadful. I hope this is the worst it gets and that the future is brighter.
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One of my favourite records of all time, I can’t believe it’s only half of the show!
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My friend had a IIc with a 5.25 drive in the side. That was in Australia in 1986.
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Letraset!
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My guess would be one of the smaller "major" satellites of Saturn, possibly Rhea or Mimas, in front of the planet.
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NEU!
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90 minutes (ultradian cycle of arousal)
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A BAND CALLED DEATH is a great doco about these DC pioneers
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The secret ingredient: narcissism
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B, B, M, S, check.
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all I can say is, there’s no “milkshake pig”
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? my beef's not with you, it's with corporations calling text generators AI when there's no intelligence involved; same with chess programs. I apologise if you felt personally attacked, I should've made the context more explicit. Since it was a reply to Carl's sceptical post I assumed it was clear.
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Neither of them is AI - chess programs are tree searches with optimisations; current LLMs create text resembling chess games in their training sets. Early in the game there are plenty of examples and so generating plausible moves in context can be done by fuzzy matching. Later on, not so much.
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Gosh, text pattern mimicry has failed to produce abstract higher order intelligence even if you do it a lot? What a surprise.
Hoping this is the apotheosis of the big-data fallacy. So much good research passed over for moon-shot white elephant national prestige projects, so much energy wasted.
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Beautiful work. I love the “gegenschein” around the rover’s shadow too.
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Outstanding in his fields
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Phew! Sorry for the misinterpretation
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Well I guess that’s one of the greatest albums of all time - but Spotify can go take a hike if they’re leveraging it to continue ripping artists off.
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No VU and Nico?
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Oh, nice. Looking forward to digging in!
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2a. Introduce them to poutine
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I think there’s a bit on their website which covers “add drives to a volume” or “add drives to an array”. Only constraint is to use same size drives or larger. I swapped a 4 drive array from an old DiskStation to a newer (secondhand) one and it was pretty much seamless - they are good like that.
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Might be a good idea to get a 4 bay one anyway - if you set it up with their RAID format you can survive two drives failing. Don’t forget you can plug an external USB drive in and shift non critical stuff to that, too.
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I can't distinguish between the "executive" gradient from grey to white, versus the "perceptual" gradient from grey to white. Do they define them?
Not to be entirely negative: here's one I drew for a lecture, not specifically about memory except that most cortical structure encodes prior experience.