Oooooooo arxiv.org/abs/2401.00649

People with parents at the 100% percentile of wealth are much likely to be academics than literally any other percentile. Holy smokes.

The one single reason why DeepSeek is awesome

Very nice article!

the temperature at which brains develop affects brain connectivity and behavior lower temperatures lead to brains with over twice the connectivity and synaptic complexity 1/

Oh that is cool!

A message from Thalia: 2 yrs ago I was diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer. The tumour made it difficult to walk but I fought back. We are walking the Ullswater way to raise awareness and money for OSCARs. justgiving.com/team/thalia

Douglas Yao LOL..like these tech lords are any smarter than the average Stanford PhD student. This obsession with IQ/smartness by these people is creepy. Most of them made $$ through dumb luck and timing. Why is it so hard to understand that biology is bloody complicated?!

Deficient synaptic neurotransmission results in a persistent sleep-like cortical activity across vigilance states in mice: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

Local versus global sleep organization and the quest to determine sleep function - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Sleep homeostasis in lizards and the role of the cortex | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Fun new paper at #SIGGRAPH2025: What if instead of two 6-sided dice, you could roll a single "funky-shaped" die that gives the same statistics (e.g, 7 is twice as likely as 4 or 10). Or make fair dice in any shape—e.g., dragons rather than cubes? That's exactly what we do! 1/n

New in #JNeurosci: Fujii and Tanaka found a link between the amygdala and how zebra finches learn their birdsongs by imitating other zebra finches. 早稲田大学 Waseda University jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.…

Calling c the "speed of light" completely misses the point. Rather, c is the "spacetime exchange rate": how many units of space you can exchange for one unit of time. In actuality, everything travels at the "speed of light", just not necessarily through space alone... (1/4)

This will surprise you: sine and cosine are orthogonal to each other. What does orthogonality even mean for functions? In this thread, we'll use the superpower of abstraction to go far beyond our intuition. We'll also revolutionize science on the way.

Didn't see this coming

eigenron If we have 10 pieces of cake and 10 people. From 1st to 9th person have chance to pick any of them where as the last person only needs pick the remaining which is available. Where he doesn't have any freedom

Santiago Let's go for a superposition theorem prover. Or maybe a computer algebra system. And no stealing other people's code.

My favorite kinds of scientists are 1) Crazy enough to publish a paper where you give ecstasy to octopuses and study their social behavior 2) Detail-oriented enough to specify in the figure that 30 minutes is exactly 1800 seconds cell.com/current-biolog…

My favorite deep learning intuition is that neural net layers are a series of geometric transforms