jimthommo.bsky.social
He/him. Professor of Psychology at GMU. I study social perception and cognition. Carlton supporter.
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During undergrad I briefly lived in a shared house with a bunch of Kiwis (on the dole, natch). If we played NZ trivial pursuit and I don't know the answer, I would guess sheep, All Blacks, or Sir Edmund Hilary and it seemed to work ok. Oh and that Slice of Heaven song
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Boer on the floor
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I think this is a key point. Reasonably good evidence of grid-like coding exists, esp for inputs that sit nicely on a grid, in primates incl humans. Less convinced that grid codes are particularly special/ubiquitous.
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Finally, Ray describes being in Purgatory as "You weren't really s**t, but you weren't great either. Like Tottenham." This references EPL side Tottenham Hotspur and McDonagh said the thought of them winning a trophy and ruining the gag is “a source of anxiety in my life."
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Congrats Mark!
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"smells like...victory"
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Shout out to this review by @hugospiers.bsky.social and others www.nature.com/articles/s41... Some sort of hybrid between local Euclidean maps and non-Eucl topo rep (hierarchy? not?) seems like a good start
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When you say it like that it almost sounds like we are going to have to define what we mean by cognitive map. Urrrrrggh
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It is a super cool study! I'm a little confused by the separation of action and agent, altho I assume this means you can have diff agents doing same action (and oppo). Curious to see so much "agent" response esp in regions like STS for animals as the agents
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Stopped there last time for a case on the way home. Might do again
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Ok magic gardens related activities sounds like a definite
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Awesome, thanks!
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Better than a piece of string dipped in water!
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I think we are on our 10th rewatch of all seasons of Modern Family. Great just to zone out
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Dozens of words!
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Keep in mind one more thing: LOTS of SV want to see the end of chip restrictions to China. New US administration, this could be seen as argument for the futility of those restrictions. "Why bother when they can eat our lunch anyway?" Good reason to hype this
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Note this is also pretty bad for the bloated SV companies too. Diminishing returns on current approach, writing on the wall on things like energy (hence the new "fusion" hype), not a particularly obvious market for most of these tools
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On the other hand, there are reasons to be skeptical. Jury is still out on training w synthetic data. Lots of reasons why this is great for beating benchmarks. Lots of reasons why this won't succeed with true OOS. I'd wait and see before buying into the DS hype. 2/n
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I loved the Golden Ball in York. I know you mean UK pubs, but my three are all in Melbourne: The Standard (Fitzroy), All Nations (Richmond), and the Lincoln (Carlton). With maybe a quick trip to the Great Northern in Carlton North for one last cheeky one
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Great thread! A challenge then is how to control for stratification, esp when even excellent datasets have at best imperfect measures
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I used to find it boring but now love it, especially my long runs. Go slow, do plenty of easy runs. Fuel to run/recover too. Plus I get tons of inspiration from the SWAP podcast swaprunning.com/podcast which is surprising as their positivity is usually not my jam
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Heartbreak! Having organized a couple of conferences my biggest battles were always how do we not get charged $20 for a dry, stale muffin
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Back in the good(?) old days there used to be a yelling match at every OHBM. I remember someone yelling at Logothetis as he presented the LFP-BOLD data. Some of the face processing ppl got into it another year. I remember someone storming the stage for the keynote and KF trying to shepherd them off
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Cognition is a vague concept, and I think aside from the broad definition above is best defined by what makes it up (the processes). As we do science, some processes might turn out to be more cog than we thought, others less so
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Idk, I agree that we likely do the things you say (active inference etc) but that doesn't mean every part of it is cognition. Locomotion? Probably not cog. I might initiate/adjust/control it in service of cog. Mechanosensation? Same. The two interact/couple, still wouldn't consider it cog
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Massive ice block at 14th and Kearny NE is even worse. Spinning wheels. Cars headed north of 14 not stopping at the stop sign so they have momentum. DC Water knows about this for more than a week but won't fix it. @cmzparker5.bsky.social are you all just waiting for Spring?
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The bridge on Taylor Street NE was really bad. In front of the park on 12 St NE at the corner w Michigan. Two that I remember. Not to mention the burst pipe on Kearny & 14th NE that DC water came out but didn't fix and now is ice, and another burst pipe on Lawrence near 12th NE
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If you get really stuck (and/or have trouble sleeping) you can find the Simon Schama BBC series A History of Britain online which iirc has a good ep on the Tudors