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RT @VincentCostaPhd
#academicjobs Go work with @laurenatlas. She’s a great mentor, DC is one of the best cities in the world, & @IRPatNIH has virtually limitless resources.

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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. - Mary Oliver

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Detect and approach: Close-range #navigation support for people with #blindness and low vision link.springer.com/chapter/10.1 "based on the 2D video captured by a low-cost monocular camera mounted on in front of the chest of the user"

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Someone asked me if this "jailbreaking" of ChatGPT's safeguards is real, so I tried it out (with a more recent iteration of the prompt I found) and yes, it is. I didn't want to try anything too horrific, but it told me the best way to steal a car and bully a teenage girl, and also wrote erotic fanfiction about Batman. (ChatGPT originally refused the latter on the grounds of both explicit content AND copyright infringement...) kotaku.com/chatgpt-ai-openai-d

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The hemibrain videos and images were created with neuVid (github.com/connectome-neuprint/neuVid). Here are some tutorials that show how to use it to make videos of your own. (3/3)

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTH

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Happy birthday to the "hemibrain", a #Drosophila #neuroscience data set released by #HHMIJanelia on January 22, 2020. At that time it was the largest synaptic-level #connectome ever reconstructed, the result of years of hard work by the FlyEM team, led by Steve Plaza, and collaborators at Google. (1/3)

youtube.com/watch?v=PeyHKdmBpq

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Great talk from Ed Wasserman today on the analogical abilities of different animal species. Prompted a very interesting discussion on how same/different tasks can be solved in different ways. E.g., comprehending differences in perceptual entropy vs conceptual understanding of same/different.

Recording available here: youtube.com/watch?v=_p7JL3FTdk

Seminar schedule: analogicalminds.com

@cognition @cogsci @psychology #AnimalCognition #ComparativeCognition

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A breathtaking view of the Sun's reflection on the Pacific Ocean seen from space.

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Nature

Guardians of the brain: how a special immune system protects our grey matter
nature.com/articles/d41586-022

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As part of the new added chapters and upcoming updates to juliadatascience.io we have new cheat sheets for plotting Makie functions. Second printed edition is coming soon. However, you can support the project today by donating here: opencollective.com/juliadatasc #books #coding #datascience #datavis #julialang #makie

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“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” — Douglas Adams

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Science has an award paradox problem—you often need awards to get awards. 🏆 -> 🏆 -> 🏆

Those that get dumptrucked with awards aren't necessarily more worthy either: “winners just above the funding threshold accumulate more than twice as much funding during the subsequent eight years as nonwinners with near-identical review scores that fall just below the threshold.”

@academicchatter #academicchatter #openscience #science medium.com/@erinnacland/the-aw
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.171955711

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5. Graphical Overview

Interested to see what your connected thoughts, notes, and ideas look like?

Obsidian allows you to visualize the connections between notes in a graph like this one.

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Aurora borealis on Jupiter, imaged by the Hubble telescope on Sept 29, 2022.
See the odd, comet-like streak at right? That's the magnetic imprint of Jupiter's moon Io! Its volcanoes spew out fumes that create their own aurora display.
planetarylightshow.com/jupiter #space #Hubble

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