Fall Leaves YouTube video by 40Hz Oscillator

Some new 40HzOscillator stuff I’ve been working on. This went over pretty well at the Halloween gig.

Fall Leaves
youtu.be/aE7WIriAdAw

Sunday matinee gig. Guaranteed to be home before bedtime!

HoW They HeAR.... YouTube video by 40Hz Oscillator

40hzOscillator project

HoW They HeAR....
youtu.be/UrS-WZPcfFA

Rainbow over Avon pier. OBX, NC

Explore consciousness theories and implications A global hub for theories of consciousness—authenticated by leading theorists, designed for professional consciousness communities, and open to all

Interested in consciousness? The Landscape of Consciousness website has you covered. It has everything from science to not science.
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#neuroscience

How dopamine neurons devalue delayed rewards Reinforcement learning in the brain relies on different dopamine neurons discounting rewards at different rates.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Capturing the morning light on campus

Activities of Daily Living #1: Brush your teeth YouTube video by 40Hz Oscillator

You should brush your teeth....the fluoride is good.....

#electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #abletonlive

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFlr...

Erratic Lights YouTube video by 40Hz Oscillator

Something new: Moss meets circuits meets glitchy traffic lights meets koi meets..... simpler plugin

#electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #ableton

youtu.be/GTVLGqoKM_Y?...

I try to stay away from politics but this crab eating a grape is very important.

How do you simulate a brain in any detail with a simple digital (or even quantum) computer? "Making a connection" in the brain is not just "information processing." It's physical. There is no workable "software" driving the mind. It is the "hardware" that is messy and unique, and constantly changing

Much appreciation for Kai Ryssdal here 🔥

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Why Causal Knowledge Is Pragmatically Possible: Bridging Philosophical Skepticism and Scientific… When we observe the world, we note that events consistently follow one another. As David Hume famously argued in An Enquiry Concerning…

Great article by @kordinglab.bsky.social‬ on "why causal knowledge is pragmatically possible".

The best arguments for causation--& only one we need--is pragmatic. Here pragmatic isn't weak/subjective, but connected to actual goals, utility & outcomes in the world.

medium.com/@kording/why...

A neural mechanism for terminating decisions LIP and SC are interconnected areas important for perceptual decision making. Stine et al. show that these areas play distinct roles during decisions. LIP represents the accumulation of evidence, wher...

perceptual decision task (monkey saccades to target to indicate choice of 1 of 2 opposite motion directions), recordings (published in www.cell.com/neuron/fullt..., elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...) by Gabe Stine in Shadlen lab. 2/

Picture of neural manifolds for the two choices in a decision-making task, depicted in 3D and in 2D

New preprint: "The geometry of the neural state space of decisions", work by Mauro Monsalve-Mercado, buff.ly/42wVHD5. Surprising results & predictions! (Thread) We analyze neuropixel population recordings in macaque area LIP during a reaction time, random-dot motion 1/

Sad day for America that Anthony Fauci needed to receive a pardon to prevent persecution from those who should be thanking him. He dedicated his career to improving human health & saved millions of lives during COVID. He should be receiving a medal, not a pardon #❤️Fauci @doctorfauci.bsky.social

Congratulations this is awesome!

For best quality need to set YouTube quality to 1080....

Forest Canopy YouTube video by 40Hz Oscillator

Working on a project called TidBit.

Bite-sized pieces of sound and video—each one around a minute or less. Over time, these tidbits will be synthesized into a larger audiovisual montage. Gotta have goals!

#electronicmusic #psychedelicvideo #ambientmusic

youtu.be/Ubr-fUhCXnc

Sally Lightfoot crab (Grapsus grapsus). Took this pic in the Galapagos back in 2015. Digging through some old pics.

#Galapagos #photography #wildlife #nature

What will it take for you to care about transgender people? Of all the people justifiably living in fear of the incoming Trump administration, there is one group that stands out for its vulnerability and, to quote the late Tony Campolo, you don’t give a damn. ...

BAPTIST NEWS [Dec 26] -- Publisher Mark Wingfield: "Taking away their rights & health care, shaming & scapegoating them—this is a death sentence. If you gave a damn you would speak up...If Jesus were among us today, he would be eating dinner with some trans folks..."
[@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

An image of Claude Shannon, holding a wooden mouse in a small maze.

Did you know that Claude Shannon also developed maze solving algorithms?

Which he implemented physically using a wooden mouse named Theseus.

To solve a given maze, on a grid, Theseus used two modes:

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Another of my favorite pics from an OBX trip. This one is in Buxton. #ocean #photography

Surf Worshipers (pic taken off of ramp 55 in OBX). #ocean #photography

Sunset in OBX off of ramp 55. It doesn’t get much better.

I wrote an introduction to RL for neuroscience last year that was just published in NBDT: tinyurl.com/5f58zdy3

This review aims to provide some intuition for and derivations of RL methods commonly used in systems neuroscience, ranging from TD learning through the SR to deep and distributional RL!

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Recent addition to my collection.

Going through some 2024 travel photos. Wat Pho temple complex in Thailand. #travel #photography