This elaborate carved eulogy challenges our expectations about Roman women. Far from these meek, defenseless creatures the husband keeps on going on about how his wife saved him (and doesn't seem to feel threatened in his masculinity for this), how she avenged her family, etc. 2/

I would never have thought to learn this way.

If LLMs are attempting to emulate what people say, whole brain emulation is attempting to emulate what people think

Is anyone at #ICLR working on / thinking about whole brain emulation, thought decoding from fMRI, or next brain state prediction?

There is an art to replying and commenting, and probably like 60-70% of people I’ve seen on the internet fail at it. The important thing is not to speak your mind, but to “support” the OP. You can support them by disagreeing well & you can “mis-support” them by agreeing stupidly

the epistemology of machine learning doesn't usually allow for this type of thinking. Residuals are seen as a failure to predict rather than as a fact of nature. Residuals exist only to be reduced, not to be embraced and utilized.

Don't be a B-lane swimmer.

So many of the most important people in Charlie’s life — in addition to family — were people he knew and nurtured for decades: Warren, Peter Kaufman, Li Lu, Doerthe Obert, his beloved, feisty, long-time assistant.

May we all have such collaborators, and may we all be them, too.

This is the kind of grad challenge that awaits anyone interested in tying multiple-levels of causation together using quantitative methods in a manner that ensures consistency across levels.

Unfortunately very true. Though 3. basically involves a lot of ETL depending in domain area.

Kevin Cummins If I have to do the data wrangling/validation, I usually multiply my estimate by a factor of 2-4 to accommodate the psychological and emotional trauma I'm going to endure

Today we finally shelved all the books my wife brought into our marriage.

We are dubbing them her “dowry shelves.”

❤️‍🔥

I am reminded of the fact that statistically literate people often bite their tongue on issues like to remain collegial.

Apparently, the new The BMJ meta analysis on psilocybin for depression contains errors that inflated effect sizes by 500%.

The genetic effects may be mediated through altered processes of neural development, rather than reflecting acute molecular functions in the adult.