For sure.

I think the reason silicon valley types are pushing AI so hard is that it *is* actually useful for coding, if one already has some expertise - but tech bros tend to think that tech solutions should apply to non-tech problems.

Another demo I made in less time than it took me to drink my morning coffee:

www.emrichlab.com/wp/wp-conten...

Yes, the hypocrisy is real. Although maybe more akin to Max Verstappen telling some 16-year old with a learner's permit not to drive an F1 car (yes, I am Max Verstappen in this analogy).

I meant "we" as the collective "we" of S&P instructors. Not putting the burden on you by any means.

And I also have been avoidant (if not fully avoiding) AI. Tried to teach grad students Python and Matlab last year without it. Seeing this kind of thing makes me wonder if I should have bothered.

Inspired by @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social, I made this in a matter of minutes using Claude. While I have many reservations about AI, this is undoubtedly rad.

Perhaps we need to compile these for some kind of open source S&P text? @bjbalas.bsky.social
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bluesky is and has always been a posting retirement home for elder millennials

how cool would it be if we had different words for "incredibly computationally intense and kinda troubling but startlingly effective coding tools seeing massive uptake", "dumb UI shit nobody asked for polluting everything", "cheating helper", and "computer program for identifying bird calls or wev"

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My partner is just sitting in the living room watching Angine de Poitrine videos.

I love this little tidbit I found on the EEGLAB website regarding why MATLAB and not Python:

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

New preprint with @SamJung @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Here we uncover what might be driving the “meaningfulness benefit” in visual working memory. Studies show that real objects are remembered better in VWM tasks than abstract stimuli. But why? 1/

Here comes the big AI slop wave of 'scientific' manuscripts!

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

free video for intro lectures on auditory perception

After more than three hours and six minutes of game time, the Leafs go to the powerplay!!!

Sorry for vague-posting. I'm not moving anywhere. Not yet anyway.

Saving....for reasons

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

Clearly there's no shortage of horrors to choose from of late but for some reason this one in particular has really chilled me to the fucking bone. Last week a group of pigs had lunch at a Mexican restaurant called El Tapatio in Willmar, Minnesota. "Staff at the restaurant were frightened," an eye witness told the Star Tribune. You can surely imagine that they were. You can picture exactly how it must have felt in there. Four fucking Nazis with their shit-eating grins squeezing their fat asses into a booth at a family-owned Mexican place poisoning the entire room with their smug impunity. Desecrating a place of community. There's one like it where you live too. In almost every town in the country. We love Mexican food here so much. They forced these people to prepare their food and to serve them all the while knowing that they were going to ruin their lives after. With full bellies. The threat hanging in the air. Of course they did ruin them. They arrested a dishwasher and the two owners a few hours later after the restaurant closed. Can you imagine being made to wash the dishes used to feed the men who are waiting to kidnap you or worse? Cooking and plating their meals? I wonder if they put the same care they usually do into it or if their shaking hands made the work suffer?

You can picture how it must have felt in there. Four fucking Nazis with their shit-eating grins squeezing their fat asses into a booth at a family-owned Mexican place poisoning the entire room with their smug impunity. Desecrating a place of community www.welcometohellworld.com/we-must-love...

Opportunity to move to Canada. 🍁 The Lifespan Institute @brocku.ca is looking to hire a Canada Excellence Research Chair In Healthy Development Across the Lifespan. More info in the job ad (salary negotiable).

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#psychscisky #neuroskyence #development #aging #lifespan #mentalhealth #cognition #physiology #kinesiology

For anyone looking to get out of the US because of *gestures wildly*: we are looking for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Healthy Development Across the Lifespan. The timeline for applying is tight but it's a great opportunity. Details here: brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...

Illustration of the hypothesized flows of information between perception, memory and cognitive control in a conceptual model of working memory. Stimuli attributes are processed to varying degrees of abstraction and parts of these representations can be loaded into working memory under the guidance of cognitive control. Familiar stimuli such as the letter B activate visually abstract representations while less familiar stimuli are limited to sensory representations. Information can be shifted both up and down levels of the perceptual hierarchy to build either more or less abstract representations of either perceived or imagined stimuli. Working memories can be shifted into or out of the hierarchy as needed.

We recently published a theoretical review about how compositional and generative mechanisms in working memory provide a flexible engine for creative perception and imagery.

Pre-print:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Gay Canadian hockey romance exploding is whatever I'm just really happy a bunch of people are discovering Wolf Parade.

Shack attack those KB swings!

Just busting your balls (it's the Canadian way). You're inspiring me to get back to it.