Lucas Martins

Excited to share my PhD paper is out! We studied how motion vision is processed beyond the optic lobes to help flies walk straight. It has been a wonderful collaboration with @michaelreiser.bsky.social, @dddavi.bsky.social and many others not in bluesky!
Paper + digest here: bsky.app/profile/cham...

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Esta semana acabei o primeiro draft completo da minha tese, e submeti um requerimento para poder marcar a defesa - agora são horas de descansar e recuperar :)

This week, I finished the (first) complete draft of my thesis and submitted a request to apply for my thesis defense - now it's time to rest and recover :)

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What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta Magazine Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world th...

'The confusion stems in part from the way the term gets tossed and twisted between disciplines (...) But it’s also because truly wrapping one’s head around entropy requires taking some deeply uncomfortable philosophical leaps.'

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This is my first post here, and I'm happy to share some news. We've just launched megabouts.ai! 🐟📈
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