Dirk Gütlin

🔑 Our key finding: TUS over the frontal eye fields (FEF) excited saccadic behavior, effectively biasing eye movements towards the contralateral side within a fraction of a second. 👀 This confirms that TUS can modulate behavioral in humans in real time.

Delayed, Reduced and Redundant: Information Processing of Prediction Errors during Human Sleep During sleep, the human brain transitions to a ‘sentinel processing mode’, enabling the continued processing of environmental stimuli despite the absence of consciousness. We employed advanced informa...

Delayed, Reduced and Redundant: Information Processing of Prediction Errors during Human Sleep

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#neuroskyence

Ten simple rules for building a collaborative coding culture

Ten simple rules for building a collaborative coding culture

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#MLSky

A generalized Bayesian framework for maximizing information gain and model selection Author summary In this work, we present a generalized Bayesian framework for designing informative experiments and selecting suitable models in biological systems. In simple terms, our method identifi...

A generalized Bayesian framework for maximizing information gain and model selection

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#stats #neuroskyence

The Rise of Eyes Began With Just One

Vision Science makes the front page of NYT!!
featuring work from @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social with comments from Berkeley's own @karthikshekhar.bsky.social
#visionscience

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New blog post:

"Higher orders need higher standards"

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I discuss our current work disentangling misconceptions around "higher-order" networks: arxiv.org/abs/2602.16937

Explainer thread for the paper here: bsky.app/profile/tiag...

Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests - Nature Machine Intelligence Tangtartharakul and Storrs use standardized neuropsychological tests to compare human visual abilities with those of visual language models (VLMs). They report that while VLMs excel in high-level obje...

Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests

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This is what RESISTANCE
looks like! 🙌🏼
#fightthepower
#pinks

State House votes to rename Florida airport to Donald J. Trump international The Republican-controlled Florida House voted 81-30 in support of the name change to President Donald J. Trump International Airport

Last week Donald Trump registered the trademark "Donald J. Trump International Airport." This week Florida Republicans voted to rename Palm Beach International Airport Donald J. Trump International Airport," putting taxpayers on the hook for licensing fees that go straight to him

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.

*one voice altered to disguise identity

More complex optimization research!

Always love to see new papers on this.

I've found messages likes this scattered throughout innumerable books of the library.

I think this is serious.

Sooo, I've been browsing through the eternal library for a bit and found this...

Should I call the cops?

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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Haha. Well the correct inverse Turing test logically would be:

You chat with an LLM and if one or multiple LLMs rate your text as produced by another LLM, you're not conscious (sorry, bud).

Works 100% of the time 60% of the time 👍

And now something positive:

solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time.

☀️ 💨

#TippingPoint

Source: dr.dk

I hope we really learned that.

If you're having a hard time with the GOP. They are deliberately making you feel this way. I remember reading Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine many years ago. She details how the U.S. bombards countries with crises to distract and overwhelm the denizens. Now those tactics are used against us.

Looking for data that the government is pulling down? We may have it backed up for you. Check our portal: portal.datarescueproject.org

Know of data being taken down or worried about a data source? Let us know: baserow.datarescueproject.org/form/r7V1c44...

GitHub - thosvarley/syntropy: A python package for information-theoretic analysis of discrete and continuous data. A python package for information-theoretic analysis of discrete and continuous data. - thosvarley/syntropy

Introducing a new scientific computing library: syntropy.
Syntropy is a comprehensive package for information theory, aimed at both theoreticians and data analysts working on discrete, continuous, and mixed data.
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Maybe, but still: politicians and news outlets are talking about it as if it had any relevance, which it has not... :/

And that creates a wrong image of the whole thing.

Attacking a NATO partner to demonstrate power to potential adversaries is like sawing off your brother's leg so you can use it as an improvised club to fend off hypothetical enemies.

The very act of it makes NATO and the US much weaker than it could ever compensate by having a Greenland outpost.

Why are people even buying into the narrative that a potential Russia/China aggression would be the true reason for Trump to annex Greenland?
It's so obviously not the true reason.

Also vielleicht würde er die Republik gerne wie ein Finanzmanager führen, aber das bedeutet noch nicht einmal dass er das könnte... 🤷‍♀️

Wichtiger Zusatz:
Keiner von Friedrich Merz' Posten in der freien Wirtschaft war im operationalen Geschäft tätig. Merz' Karriere ist die eines Lobbypolitikers:
Politik -> Wirtschaftslobby -> Politik.

"Merz der BlackRock-Manager" ist ein Narrativ um ihm mehr Wirtschaftskompetenz zuzuschreiben.

The growth of Paris from 250 AD to the present day in 3 minutes.

🔎 CITY 3D TIMELAPSE

Among all the weirdness of today, look ok at this marvel of human progress turning 25 today:
- free for everyone, no subscription, no ads
- built by everyone (who likes to), with a very slim organizational overhead
- the single largest source of knowledge in the word

Humans can do great things.

Achilles saying: Iason is a pretty odd name for an American average dude. Joe, Paul, Jack, ... and Iason?

Haha 😂

I know you know but I still had to do it.