Will the search for practical fixes to brain machine interface data compression lead us to a better model of the neural code?

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Is basic science undervalued? David Glanzman talks about the decline of 'middle class' labs and that "there is no empirical evidence that the translational approach accomplishes [cures] any better than the traditional one. Claims to the contrary at this point are mere propaganda”

Together with some friends we built an optical Brain Machine Interface to see if cortical activity (PPC) can control behaviour in real time, without animals having to learn to use it. Here's what happened: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Are Universities becoming obsolete? Are they already obsolete? If so, what will be the consequences?

The University of California is advising scientists applying for residency not to publish in eLife - the journal because it doesn’t have an impact factor, despite zero evidence this matters, and proving once again that the biggest problems in science and academia are entirely of our own making.

Fun, but I'm stuck: on one hand: humans are "special" in perceiving time, and it started with being able to anticipate the light/dark cycle on the other hand: you are describing circadian rhythms, which are explicit, entrainable biochemical clocks, found across kingdoms of life

A great piece on causality (TLDR: read Hume). One thing natural scientists overlook as evidence of causation is the constructive approach (aka engineering): if you can build a thing that does a thing (and does it again, and again), that's a pretty tight case for causality!

A directed graph of every Chess opening