Alex Weber @weberam2@qoto.org

This substack post about how our understanding of the #cerebellum has been so wrong for so long (or at least those of us not paying attention)

I'm probably making a cardinal mistake, but my takeaway simplified understanding is that the cerebrum is more distributed/ slow learning, while the cerebellum is for super fast execution of heuristics it has learned. Kind of like CPU vs GPU?

Did you know the cerebellum has 80% of all neurons in the brain? Or that it essentially maps almost every part of the cerebrum, even down to language being localized on the left? Get out of here...

https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/what-does-the-cerebellum-do-anyway

Last toot about #vim (for now)

Learning the basic vim motions can seriously help in other domains.
I've installed a #Firefox plugin so that I can navigate better with my keyboard.

I'm also using a #zsh (my current shell) plugin that allows me to use vim motions to edit commands etc. That may sound strange but I find it incredibly useful.

Finally, my terminal emulator #Alacritty has some basic visual vim options for scrolling and copy/yanking text.

I almost feel like learning vim motions should become more standard... am I crazy?

I really want to stay with #mastodon
Threads and Bluesky I feel will all just eventually go the way of #enshittification

What are some tips on improving my experience?
Should I change my server from qoto.org?
Should I use a third party app? Currently I'm rocking the official app (I think)
Any other tips?

My toot about #neovim being my #IDE got some traction.
I'm curious why others are using it over something more popular like #VSCode.
Especially as VSCode has a vim plugin.
Personally I don't trust Microsoft to not eventually #enshittify it. Plus there was that whole thing with #telemetry. And I won't pretend to fully understand, but it seems like a sneaky version of #opensource.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Neovim, and I believe most if not all the plugins, appear to be more truly open source... if that makes sebse. Again, there are complexities there I'm only beginning to figure out.

Anyone else trying to use #neovim as their #IDE?
It's both fun and frustrating (steep learning curve)
I'm using the #LazyVim config after trying a lot of the other ones.
Also, obligatory shout out to #Alacritty and #Tmux

Great read. Hard to summarize.

But basically: people have been buying bigger cars/trucks. Which has creates a positive feedback of people feeling unsafe unless they also drive bigger vehicles. Which means with electric, people want big. But big EVs are super heavy and expensive. Which is bad for many reasons.

All of that is to say: the future needs us to majorly rethink transport. How can we both: improve public transport and infrastructure to make people drive less; and how can we get people to drive smaller cars when they do.

https://www.businessinsider.com/electric-car-ev-sales-prices-problem-transportation-2024-1

My MSc student Allison (graduated this summer) has had her first manuscript published as a preprint. https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.12.08.570818v1
Next step is to get it peer-reviewed and published in a reputable journal (suggestions?)
We looked at the Hurst Exponent in preterm babies shortly after birth and at term age, and compared to healthy terms. We found the HE started below 0.5 and then crossed the 0.5 line sometime around 39 weeks. Sensory and motor networks developed fastest. And finally, the younger you are born, the slower HE increases

Let me know what you think!
#neuroscience #braindevelopment #criticality #braincriticality