it's not machine learning unless it's from the machine learning region of france otherwise it's just sparkling linear algebra

What happens when our stream of consciousness turns inward, towards the body? Our new fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with distinct patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Cognitive Maps for a Non-Euclidean Environment: Path Integration and Spatial Memory on a Sphere journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

"We suggest that electronic ‘energy-levels’ surrounding atomic nuclei are more reasonably levels of awareness." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… That's going to be a big hmmm from me.

Is "machine learning" an anthropomorphic term? If we couldn't use any anthropomorphic words (like "learning" or "intelligence"), what would we call ML instead?

I'm not sure what to make of this, but I like the title. arxiv.org/abs/2410.00257

A rare case of "tomatophagia" - a woman who ate 1 kg of cherry tomatoes per day. "A rare form of pica, associated with iron deficiency anaemia" cureus.com/articles/26883… She turned slightly yellow, rather than red 🤔

Myth: We only use 10% of our brains. Fact: We use 100% of our brains, but the asshole 10% selfishly takes all the credit.

Things that aren't real:

Remember back in 2022, when we didn't need to worry about a 2nd Trump Presidency, but were concerned about how many participants it would take to map links between personality & brain activity? (cf work by Scott Marek & Nico Dosenbach) We have good news 👇 nature.com/articles/s4200…

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What's up with her eyes? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39524229/ These researchers tried to define the "Ideal Instagram Face for Caucasian Female Influencers" but they used AI to illustrate it...

Brain is the only thing that feels pain

When you realize it

You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search? I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke. "Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in

Here's a question for academics and other researchers: are you worried about AI taking your job?

Science Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

"Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits/s? Why can we only think about one thing at a time?" cell.com/neuron/abstrac… Hmm. If we could think about two things at once, would we be one person or two?

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