Great read, last I checked the P. cyanescens patches around the UW campus were still going strong.

Thanks!

REBUS = resting state something or other? (Latin for "of the thing")

My friend Doug sent pictures of the destroyed hockey rink in Ann Arbor!

Hey those are experiments too! Both can be hard, but working with physical reality definitely takes longer...

The cognitive comp neuro conference where reviewer feedback was due yesterday... Sounds like not your situation, but it's mine!

CCN amirite?

Wow, I'm getting excited thinking of the possibilities when we introduce Lego into the Duplo collection my 3-yo has!

Worked extra hard this year to eke out every penny from my tax deductions, phew

A waste of grant proposals

I avoid updating such things! And never system updates right before a busy period. Guaranteed 🧱

Donald Trump is completely unhinged.

Responding to reviewers ⚔️

Toilet's fixed, but Artemis II astronauts now have Microsoft Outlook problem NASA's moonbound astronauts aboard Artemis II have their toilet functioning again, but now they're stuck with an equally annoying but perhaps less urgent issue: They can't open their email.

This headline could apply to all of us

www.kuow.org/stories/arte...

Pretty minor, it's mostly people with less active research programs who have fewer students. Every 5 years after tenure we get evaluated, and if you had no research students it would be flagged but could be addressed easily

At least mine, where we have an MS program but no PhD, expects that I work with at least 1 master's student at a time

Most schools would expect you to advise a min number of students!

We submitted a paper, great now I get the reviews, the student has graduated and the reviewers have asked for additional experiments and I have 1 week to get that done!

Just kind of putting out there into the void how frustrating the review process can be when working with students who have limited time....

Nice talk, @bingbrunton.bsky.social !

Awesome, thanks

Great paper! Simple and to the point. A short mathematical description of the RNN model would be helpful. Also, showing that the random resevoir also works would help strengthen it. I get the feeling you already tried it just didn't write it...

Ok, I read it, it's 4 pages so you can too!

Well now I have to read this!

I'm very curious what a "consciousness dataset" could be!

Think very carefully about what you are providing for the military in taking their money to study AI. Even if it isn't a technology that they will use, your acceptance lends legitimacy to using these targeting systems

Simons funds so much awesome research. I wish it were an option for me/my students!

"Systems can persist in dysfunction indefinitely, and absurdity is not self-correcting."

I have a joke about recursion where the punch line is a joke about ...

I have a joke about brute force algorithms but telling it takes forever