Wow. I want to take that class!

Claude Code's Source: 3,167-Line Function, Regex Sentiment Anthropic claimed 100% of Claude Code is AI-written. A source leak exposed a 3,167-line function, regex sentiment analysis, and 250K wasted API calls daily

"AI amplifies whatever is already there. Good discipline becomes great output. No discipline becomes technical debt at machine speed. Anthropic chose a direction. Go faster. Have Claude check Claude. And when it breaks, go faster still." substack.com/home/post/p-...

Claude Code's Source: 3,167-Line Function, Regex Sentiment Anthropic claimed 100% of Claude Code is AI-written. A source leak exposed a 3,167-line function, regex sentiment analysis, and 250K wasted API calls daily

"Quality is a relic now. Nobody wants it. Nobody pays for it. Nobody measures it. The metric is velocity. The metric is how fast you can ship a 3,167-line function that burns a quarter million API calls daily and call it 100% AI-written." 🔥

techtrenches.dev/p/the-snake-...

and the same is needed to truly challenge our **humans* too!

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/decision-mak...

Monkey auditory neurons "did not show enhanced responses to unexpected stimulus repetitions, contrary to predictive-coding theory. However, they did show enhanced responses to unexpected stimulus omissions." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Wish I could placebo my body into thinking sitting at my desk is HIIT #PhDLife 🤣

But what if "learning to hear a note before you sing it' isn't the same thing as imagining sound?

(Might explain how some singers have excellent musical skills but unreliable intonation for example)

But also, how might objective attempts to measure *visual* imagery have similar issues?

Ooh this is cool.

So... in my previous singing career I also taught others to sing. An important first step is learning to match pitch, which often needs to be taught by asking them to imagine the sound first 🎶

So I've always imagined anauralia is something which learning could improve 🧵

PREACH IT JAMIE

Love this. Sensory systems of other creatures can be extraordinarily different to ours, helping to reveal the assumptions we may be making in our own research.

Also if you want an accessible and fun way to delve into this topic, check out Ed Yong's fab book "An Immense World"

#neuroskyence

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision The classical view of visual cortex organization as a collection of specialized modules processing distinct features like color and motion has profoundly influenced neuroscience for decades. This fram...

Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

#neuroskyence #visionscience

‘How much have we missed?’: book tunes in to overlooked world of female birdsong Authors set out to correct under-representation of female sounds – and found some surprising revelations

How much have we missed because the assumption was that males sing for +insert reasons+ and females don’t sing?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Perfect weather right? We live in the best place in the world

A half-finished French martini on an outdoor table, with an empty hammock and a pale orange sunset in the distance. What you can't hear are the cacophony of white cockatoos and currawongs in the nearby forest getting ready for their zzzzs in the trees.

French martini in the Brisbane dusk? Don't mind if I do

Dynamic modulation of social gaze by sex and familiarity in marmoset dyads A fully automated 3D tracking framework reveals that sex and familiarity strongly shape natural social gaze dynamics in freely interacting marmosets.

Really excellent to see more attempts to model social cues like gaze using natural behaviour. For too long we've constrained variation for experimental control

*but the meaning is often in the variation!*
#neuroskyence

elifesciences.org/articles/105...

My heart ❤️

Transfer to a naturalistic setting restructures fear responses in laboratory mice Zipple et al. show that transferring laboratory mice to naturalistic outdoor enclosures prevents and even reverses a canonical anxiety phenotype in rodents. The findings underscore the value of studyi...

"Although animals in natural environments accumulate a wide range of experiences that allow them to calibrate threat assessment, most behavioral studies of anxiety rely on laboratory animals housed in static, impoverished conditions."
🔥
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Keen to know how you made a circular ice block!

I've just opened a paper about birds that begins with the claim that 'Wild animals routinely make decisions that are influenced by social information'. I've read so many behaviourist papers that refused to mention, never mind attribute, decision-making powers to birds that this was a shock.

As a face researcher I appreciate work like this👇

It's more helpful when thinking about facial gestures to consider relations and contextual interactions than discrete signals

'risk/reward' seems to capture this better than 'fear' imo

#neuroskyence

Nadine Dijkstra - Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain YouTube video by MIT Consciousness Club

Nadine Dijkstra's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciv....

"Remarkably, the same societal tastes predict both profound moral issues (like euthanasia) and mundane behaviours (e.g. whether it is okay to sing on a bus)."

doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

Recurrent cortical networks encode natural sensory statistics via sequence filtering The visual cortex receives a stream of high-dimensional sensory input. The role of dense local, recurrent cortical connections in shaping responses to these inputs has been unclear. Here, we show that...

I think this is a super interesting paper from @markhisted.org and co:

www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

My personal bet is that the phenomenon seen here would be different for some types of inter-laminar recurrence.

#neuroscience 🧪

Just in time for my PhD defense, the work I started during my visiting PhD in the lab of Martin Hebart at Giessen University is available as a preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thanks for sharing Mike! Just sent it to a friend who I know should be super keen.

I KNEW this was Eena's work from just the title 🫁🧠

"Cycle-by-cycle respiration waveforms are coupled with the shape of neural oscillations"

preprint led by Eena Kosik-Rose with Bradley Voytek (& Christina Zelano too!)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#interoception

Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex - Nature Face cells in the macaque inferotemporal cortex are initially able to detect faces and then rapidly switch to a face-specific neural code to discriminate between different face identities.

"Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex" 🧠😊

Exciting new work in Nature led by Yuelin Shi with Doris Tsao

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroskyence #faces

🤣 nice

Fascinating how we often talk about the number of neurons or the universe of synapses
but rarely the length of singular axons (and never in the brain stem!)

If this scales in humans then axons in your locus coeruleus could be several metres long
#neuroskyence