Registered and granted. SF here I come

Some highlights of stuff I've been reading since summer

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THE GIRL WITH SILVERINE EYES [POST-ROCK] YouTube video by Laine Chinensy

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When Animorphs ended, fans were vocal about how they didn't like the depressing ending.

K.A. Applegate responded with amongst the most brutal letters I've read.

It takes a generational talent to tell your fans "If you're mad at me because that's what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad."

Very cool!

Curious what lessons from genomics will apply to whole-brain scans. Not (now) obvious that full mapping will unveil all the secrets of the brain/mind.
But complex interactions seems to be bread and butter in comp neurosci, so is it as a field more ready for the challenge?

Anyone have a good animal feed to follow? Bonus points for bugs and other non-standard animals

EAG Bay Area (and travel support) application sent. Now we wait

I've been using a modified version of @emollick.bsky.social's Tutoring prompt for a plurality of recent conversations.
I'm not entirely happy with it, as it promotes longer conversation, which leads to losing context which means it loses effectiveness p fast, but it's decent.

it always be two dumb bitches telling each other exaactly

Dwarf Fortress bugs belong in the Louvre

Evangelion, the Second Apocalypse series, Elesh Norn/Phyrexia

Semi-spoilery Arcane post: things I am now thinking of arcane as being like that I had not predicted it would be like: Annihilation, The Dark Tower, Time War, Dune, Speaker for the Dead

D&D Combinatorics xkcd.com/3015

I was skeptical of this at first, but saw my mum do it sometime in the last 2 years, tried it out, and now I'm also fully a convert

A two-page panel spread from a manga. A girl is laying out fabric, and measuring it out to cut it. A man leans over her as she does so, and comments on her exact and meticulous work.

A panel from a manga. A young girl looks at her feet, where the cobble stones are lighting up by magic.

An elaborate art-nouvaeu like painting of Qifrey from Witch Hat Atelier

A young girl inscribes a peculiar pattern, and reacts in joy and wonder as magic springs forth.

Got volume 1 of Witch Hat in physical because some of these panels are pure art

seeing my courses on dynamical systems and machine learning converge in hamiltonian monte xarlo was surprisingly satisfying... now to try to actually implement it

Department of Full Luxury Galactic Metascience PhD Plan for CANDIDATE Committee: Prof. MEMBER1 Dr. MEMBER2 Dr. MEMBER3 October 23, 2023 Phenomenon ! The subject matter to be addressed. What is the question? Citation for background are useful, but don’t do a full lit review (yet).1 Ad- ditional references can be included at the end bibliography by using \nocite. Theoretical Perspective The framework for explaining the phenomenon. What are the impli- cations of theory? If more than one theory is relevant, how do the implications differ? What are the current holes in the theory or theo- ries? Approach Modeling and empirical research approach to address the theory/ies nominated above. Important thing is to justify the approach in terms of theory. Specifics of Approach Outline any special skills, equipment, or techniques that will be re- quired. This includes, in the case of field research, a paragraph on the background of the field location. Data analysis approach needs a sketch. Can use citation2 for further detail. Expected Products A list of the (usually 3) articles expected for completion of the PhD. Think of each as a fantasy abstract. 1. The Evolution of Human Uniqueness. There is wide agreement that humans are unique. But it is rarely asked: Have they always been unique? In this paper, we derive a general uniqueness theorem

that states that any unique species must have been less unique at some point in the past. This theorem has implications for the achievement of world peace. 2. Niche Construction, Disease Transmission, and Global Warming: Chaos Deconstructs the Block Chain. How many buzz words can be combined in a title? In this paper, we find that the natural limit on buzz words in any specific scholarly field is always given by the triangular number Tn where n is one more than the number of tenured faculty in the field. 3. A Bayesian Hierarchical Survival Analysis of Counting Sheep. Just like all those other models of counting sheep, but this one will be Bayesian. Schedule Outline of the calendar for the subject to change. work. This is necessarily rough and Comment First wave of being awesome Write papers #1 and #2 Second wave of awesomeness Write paper #3 phd plan for candidate 2 Date (Duration) Jan 2019 (1 year) Jan 2020 (1 year) Jan 2021 (6 months) Jun 2021 (6 months) References

It's the time of year when I teach research proposal writing to the new PhD students. Here is my 2 page PhD project template that we work with. Many people find it useful, so sharing again. LaTeX template (and PDF): github.com/rmcelreath/P...

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