Thank you to Garrett Daniel’s in Senator Thom Tillis office for an invigorating discussion about healthcare policy! #HOH24 AHDA/THA Facial Pain Association Eric Thomson

Parallel rows do not appear so.

Here it is! A huge milestone in neuroscience – the complete connectome of the fly brain from the FlyWire team (FlyWire). In this special issue, we have 9 research articles. I’ll try to summarize them in a couple threads starting here 🧵

Reasons authors give for not sharing data when their paper says "data available upon request" nature.com/articles/s4159…

Academic ironies

Nice article about releasing software for general scientific use, focusing on cellpose.

uv now ships with dedicated documentation for PyTorch

"we apologize for the short delay"

Pink is actually the same color as orange, and blue is the same color as green.

If you want to understand the brain, should you work as a neuroscientists in the lab? Or teach the subject for students? Or simply read textbooks and papers while having a normal job? In this blog post, I share some thoughts on this topic. gcamp6f.com/2025/01/08/ann…

This can be big. Google unveils the successor to the Transformer architecture "We present a new neural long term memory module that learns to memorize historical context and helps an attention to attend to the current context while utilizing long past information. We show that

The left heart appears pinkish while the right one orange, though they are the same color.

This is one of the wildest git diffs I've ever seen

I create the Python Developer Tooling Handbook to address these gaps. It doesn't replace blog posts, documentation, or great sites like Real Python. Instead, it provides a comprehensive, opinionated, up-to-date source on all things developer tooling. pydevtools.com

A few months ago we quietly open-sourced a PyTorch video decoding library called torchcodec -- small, nimble, fast. The LeRobot folks had some nice things to say about it.

Outlook: You have 1 unread email. Me: I do? Where? Outlook: lol, well that’s the big mystery. Anyway, have a fun day!

Feels like we're reaching a tipping point for technologies that will unlock whole brain emulation, e.g. a team from China just announced an optical method for cellular resolution monitoring of activity across mesoscale networks than span the whole mouse brain. 👇

The uv build backend is now stable, and considered ready for production use. An alternative to setuptools, hatchling, etc. for pure Python projects, with a focus on good defaults, user-friendly error messages, and performance. When used with uv, it's 10-35x faster.

There is only one side. #NoMoreNazis #Wolf2