Dan would know better than I, I gather it’s some action that the Appropriations Committee needs to take

It is delaying peer review all the potential reviewers’ emails are stuck in the straight

Thanks!

Do you happen to know if it went through this past week, as expected?

Well anyways…they’re definitely using AI either way 😂

My experience with an honors class is that they seem to get a lot out of the ones I’ve made. Especially when it comes to understand concepts like receptive fields and population coding.

My experience is that it can certainly make readable code, though it’s often better just to ask Claude to edit it. But having a strong programming background still helps so much in understanding what it gets wrong, the existence of certain limitations, etc. so training in coding still essential imo

I have a bunch of these, not all listed here but a lot of them. Updating as I go. Happy to contribute to anything!
cogneurolab.org/PSYC310

Well I also didn’t write the textbook I use, but I don’t allow plagiarism.

Browser-based explanation of the basic classification algorithms commonly used in MVPA, for a grad course I'm teaching this fall. You can click to add data points in different patterns, see algorithm's response, and compare algorithms' performance.

I hope you have been doing your part to dispel the myth of Boston, which is not a real city.

I wonder if a lot of these effects are downstream of known, large-scale effects of GLP-1 agonists on chronic and systematic inflammation. There is quite a lot of evidence for reduced of inflammation.

A clinician friend has told me that her some of her GLP-1 patients spontaneously report what amounts to improved executive function. I don't think that's even on the radar for average people taking GLP-1s.

The most compelling to me are the effects that I have a hard time understanding the role of a placebo effect in. How many people went into taking a GLP-1 with the notion that their memory would improve on this drug? I suppose asking the question "has it improved your memory" is leading, but still.

Opinion | GLP-1 Experimentation Is Everywhere, and Science Can’t Keep Up Millions of Americans are experimenting with the drugs. Science can’t keep up.

From this article

The low interest in studying these drugs amongst non-medical psych and neuro researchers baffles me. Perhaps it's the barriers. But I don't think the folks rooted in medical disciplines are gonna do a great job of studying effects on body image, productivity, relationships, social life, memory...

I know it didn’t happen but it gives me joy to imagine your dad yelling “what the hell are we supposed to do with all this effin yarn” and his entryway is just jammed to the gills with piles of yarn

Oh I envy you! Korea is the coolest.

I wanted a way to explore Unicode by visual similarity, not just by name or codepoint, so I built Charcutrie.

It lets you browse characters that look alike, search across scripts and symbols, and even sketch a shape to find matching glyphs. (pretty badly for now :D)

charcuterie.elastiq.ch#U+221E

There is something to what you're saying, I think it becomes quite difficult when they overlap -- I have the same experience. I have also noticed that when there is more than one object they're challenging to simultaneously perceive. See linked. I wonder if there is some degree of attention req.

“Experts are dubious.”

Yeah I don't really do this much for research stuff because I feel like I could fall into a hole if I overstep my expertise. I use it to make apps and demos for classes that otherwise I could do in theory, but would not because I don't have the time to invest.

I’m using it to do things I simply would not otherwise do

MaaS: Moon as a Service

Here's anaglyph version of basically the same example.

Yeah you have to go to the view tab to see it, the preview is just a single frame of one eye image. I forgot to tel Claude to remove that, it’s useless except to show students there is nothing in the monocular image

It stands to reason that more is better

I end up just buying a pack of cheap anaglyph (red/blue) glasses and handing them out. The program generates those too. I cast free fusion as a secret and sacred art that can only be learned by the Select. Maybe that will motivate a few of them 😂

There’s only supposed to be one 3D circle 😂 the perils of the autostereogram

Yeah I had it add the two little white dots to assist the fusion. But they are not easy to see. Probably adding more such markers more prominently would help. But the generator makes anaglyph versions as well and that’s what I’ll use in class, personally. I never have success teaching free fusion.