You know the famous Pascal quote? "I would have written a shorter letter, but i did not have the time."

So the answer is, backs down for a 2 week ceasefire, supposedly with Iran opening the Strait for those 2 weeks. I'm sure he'll portray his threats as essential to this. God only knows the reality. But threatening genocide even as a negotiating tactic should be (& won't be) something all can condemn.

Trump has threatened to destroy Iranian civilization in 3.5 hours. Could be nuclear, or non-nuclear; could be he'll back down. Just an incredibly frightening moment. Dems in House & Senate should be issuing unified statement: this is genocide and military must disobey illegal orders. But they won't.

Protect Academic Life in Iran We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...

Academic friends,
It's beyond heartbreaking to watch what's unfolding in Iran & the region.
A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions.

Please read & sign if you agree:
sites.google.com/view/protect...

#IranWar

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desire, and there was also her mixed-race daughter who was a strong character. But nonetheless a white film, with a take on protest that was fairly content-free. It was an excellent film but nowhere near the power, originality, depth of Sinners. But the Academy is majority white. And it showed.

Opinion: Sinners was by far the best film of the year. But it was a film of black experience & music, straight and direct and without an ounce of bending over to make whites feel more comfortable. One B A Another was a white film, with a powerful black women for 1/3 who was mostly white men's 1/

scientists, and i hate to give false hope. So i don't feel certain it's helpful. But it's all i can think of.

The only thing i can think of is stories of scientists getting thru WW II - Lisa Meitner, for ex. -- for inspiration, that even wars are temporary and enough determination - difficult! - may carry you thru till a moment opportunity opens. But the Iran situation may be worse that WW Ii for 1/

(which might be wrong, but this doesn't challenge them).

present when the task is not being performed. This is about how higher areas build task-appropriate representations for use when performing the task, simpler (more redundant) representations for simpler tasks. Doesn't in any way challenge the ideas behind redundancy reduction 2/

Redundancy reduction was proposed as a principle for baseline early sensory representations. Here they're studying V4 in a two-alternative choice. When performing the learned task, the neurons focus in on representing the choices, and so become more redundant. This increased redundancy is not 1/

I know two perfect movies, very different: Casablanca, and Ground Hog Day. Except Casablanca has one very slight imperfection: that scene of the woman flamenco guitarist playing could go w/o losing anything, I think (?). Otherwise, flawless.

you could be right. I've thought predictive coding and predictive processing were used interchangeably, but it's not a subject I've focused on a lot and i could be wrong.

Mark, one comment: 'predictive processing' is usually taken to mean suppression of the predicted, whereas what you're finding is enhanced responses to predicted stimuli. Need a different term - predictive enhancement?? - to distinguish

If 'they' is the Columbia admin, I have no idea, but if 'they' is those of us working in ZI -- we do!

ML/AI conferences use Open Review, allows anon dialogue between authors and reviewers before it turns into a final review. Given a sincere reviewer, this allows correcting misconceptions and errors w/o going thru multiple review rounds. Maybe someday Neuro will adopt this simple big improvement

You probably know this ("in certain contexts") but just in case: whether the changes are multiplicative or subtractive, and what is being constrained (L1, L2, something else) are largely independent (Miller and MacKay, 1994)

Predictability, complexity and learning We define {\em predictive information} $I_{\rm pred} (T)$ as the mutual information between the past and the future of a time series. Three qualitatively different behaviors are found in the limit of ...

This seems relevant, I noticed you didn't cite it so perhaps you're not aware of it? arxiv.org/abs/physics/... This doesn't deal with computational constraints but it does address what part of the information in a time series is useful -- predictive information.

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RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project "GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...

I've been told Sameer Project is the "gold standard" for sending aid to Palestinians. Of many projects, this one is to keep Gazans warm this winter: shelter, warm clothing, blankets. Now they're in tattered tents w nothing, w/ Israel blocking aid entry despite ceasefire.
chuffed.org/project/1491...

Ketanji Jackson issues a stay on the order forcing Trump to fully pay SNAP now? WTF? Here's a good explanation: she's making the best of a bad situation, forcing things to move quickly; if she didn't do it, the rest of the court would have, and would have let everything slow walk thereafter.

And if it is 2AFC -- then is it phenomenologically just the same as blindsight, and the question for both is what that phenomenon means? Or is there something phenomenlogy distinct from blindsight?

So they say they did not see anything, but they can explicitly report where it was, what color it was? What does explicitly mean -- was it a two (or multi) alternative forced choice, as in blindsight? Or you just asked them and they told you??
Thanks --

I'm completely ignorant about this line of research so forgive what is probably a dumb question but: how is this different from other phenomena, like priming, or blindsight, in which a stimulus that does not enter consciousness nonetheless influences subsequent choices?

Israel denying it's limiting aid

Israel to allow 600 aid trucks into Gaza every day: Report

Isn't it amazing that IL was never limiting aid entry, never deliberately inducing hunger/starvation, or denying medical supplies so medical care couldn't function, no drugs, anesthesia/analgesia, proper sterilization; yet when there's a ceasefire Israel can suddenly "allow" 600 trucks/day to enter?

So outrageous. Head of Kamal Adwan Hospital, "detained" by IL since Dec, held w/o charges at ILi torture ctr Sde Tieman, beaten, tortured, held in solitary confinement, starved, lost >40kg (~90 lbs), denied med treatment. They'll eventually claim he's Hamas but if so they'd have charged him.

This is the professor at Rutgers who studies fascism and anti-fascism, got doxxed by some rt-wing group, was getting death threats, and decided to move to Europe.

Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing what comes out of the group --

Graphic of an IDF sniper along with a quote from a sniper: "There's a line that if the Gazans waiting for food cross, I can shoot them. It's like a game of cat and mouse. They try to come from a different way every time, and I'm there with the sniper rifle, and the officers are shouting at me, 'Take it down, take it down.' I fire 50-60 bullets every day, I've stopped counting Xs. I have no idea how many I killed, a lot. Children."

Haaretz wrote Hebrew-only article re IDF soldiers with PTSD from Gaza combat experiences. Various awful testimonies, including this from a sniper who daily served at GHF aid sites, w job to shoot any of the desperate unarmed people who crossed an invisible line.

www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazin...