Gregory Kulp

👀 The whole brain 7T "natural scenes dataset" now has mental imagery data!

NSD-Imagery: A Benchmark Dataset for Extending fMRI Vision Decoding Methods to Mental Imagery

Conference paper:
goo.gl/scholar/wPx1HJ

Dataset:
naturalscenesdataset.org

Lots of noise out there, I think a lot of the technology is a huge distraction if it doesn’t have a direct impact on my work/deeper understanding in my field.

More. More. More.

Being selective on what you take on in life (personally and professionally) is absolutely key to being content. You don’t have to take on ‘more’. Take on more of what you value that brings you peace and satisfied your ambition.

First page screenshot of an academic article titled "Attention as an object of knowledge, intervention and valorisation: exploring data-driven neurotechnologies and imaginaries of intensified learning" by Dimitra Kotouza, Martyn Pickersgill, Jessica Pykett & Ben Williamson. Abstract: Innovations in mobile neuromonitoring and brain–computer interfaces are increasingly used to inform understandings of human brains and behaviours while also catalysing imaginaries of neuroscientifically measured and enhanced economic productivity. In this paper, we focus on neurotechnologies that claim to capture, monitor, measure and train learners’ attention. We analyse a corpus of relevant scientific, governance, and commercial texts to explore how they reconfigure learners’ attention as an object of knowledge, intervention, and valorisation. We demonstrate that outcomes-driven neuroscience research and technological development tends to split attention into optimal and undesirable forms: externally versus internally oriented, and synchronised versus unsynchronised with others, which become the variables of intervention to optimise attention. Commercial wearables, in turn, envelop desirable forms of attention under logics of brain control, social discipline, and valorisation. This process is enacted within an international context of speculation on neurotechnology investments and their anticipated outcome of enhancing future human productivity. Circumscribing desirable forms of learner attention and subjectivity, these technologies provide expanded means to mould and monitor learners’ attention towards performativity regimes of economised education governance while enabling profit-making based on learners’ activity.

New paper from our @leverhulme.bsky.social funded project on biology, data science and education just out

Led by Dimitra Kotouza, it explores how student "attention" has been conceived by neuroscience as an object of intervention and a source of value via neurotechnologies doi.org/10.1080/1750...

I don’t want to build AI solutions. I want to leverage them without a doubt though. Locally. Securely.

Lead with curiosity. Curiosity only kills dumb cats 😅

Always appreciate when people in life put things into perspective

Especially when that perspective comes from a general want for happiness and health 🤟🏼

Was playing would you rather with my partner.. following along with an accounts videos. So many cheesecake related questions. We chose cheesecake over everything. Now we want cheesecake. #cheesecake

Ok… so for Swift #iOSDevs - I know root structure can impact deployment - but the package.swift has thrown me big time..

Why do I have to place everything under two folders? Isn’t that redundant? Or am I being dumb? #DevQuestion #HelpPlease

That’d explain some of the dependencies 🥴

Got a fav place to dive into for 90% of that 10% to satisfy my ADHD? 😂

Favorite version? Or really just from where you hopped in?

Any veteran tips to avoid or do that’ll make my life a little more interesting working on it? 😅 shameless HELP

Someone once told me I know too much and not enough at the same time 🫠

Why I’m looking to extend vertically down learning analytics specifically and become a specialist. Knowing some things some of the times is great for leadership (in my opinion) but I want to make an impact to be a leader 🤟🏻

But what if I like my bugs 🥹

I definitely like that aspect so far, but I guess I’m just in the mindset of correcting my bugs AFTER I make ALL of them 💀 big exaggeration but feels way too real right now lol

Speaking of profiles check this out …

Excellent resource and hub on all things xAPI profiles

profiles.adlnet.gov/profiles

I’m VERY fortunate I’ve found a partner who’s in an adjacent market for me to immediately dive into some profiles to normalize data and really start understanding that complexity ..

These legacy solutions do AMAZING work - but I think a good market shake will be a great thing for everyone #edtech

Solutions like Water Shed and Learning Locker are powerhouses … but to say they are interoperable, well I guess it depends on their acceptance criteria! 😅

It’s SO expensive to set up for some systems, costs money to set up pipelines out and to data lakes, doesn’t work with all LMS… etc

A huge goal for myself is to really explore the complexity in interoperability.. I mean this is the GOAL for most following the LRS path.

And I strongly feel it falls extremely short in most cases. I love and respect what’s been done in the past - (it’s literally inspired me) but MAN

more…

No programming language is flawless - but equally… I break everything I touch at least once 😅

Swift is throwing me through a loop and I feel SO unprepared 🥴 #swiftdev #edtechbuild

Starting with an Apple forward build feels extremely restrictive… and like I have to ignore a portion of the people I’m building for intentionally.. - however, I am starting to look at angles I normally wouldn’t when considering interconnectivity options 🥴

I need like 3 extra hours a day. Not to work - but for the extra sleep 😅

As I continue to dig into the ever going problems/pain points with learning records in education

There are some GREAT solutions for really niche EdTech problems… why does it feel so far that a lot miss the mark or simply don’t aim for connectivity? Or normalization of data?

Signing our first sitting member for our Advisory Board — a great reminder that others believe in our product too. 🤌🏼

Ever see a product in a parallel sector and your like ‘WOW - that’s EXACTLY a vertical I had in mind…’

Because I happened upon a product and different problems solved but holy moly! SO reminiscent of #learningdata but for employee records!

What you’re doing is enough. Yes, aim for higher. But acknowledge where you are and where you came from.

After a personal convo with my business partner - we both realized we didn’t know much on each others successes! Now we can celebrate each other and build on that too 🔥 #grateful #selflove

One of my favorite parts of problem solving is the pause… RIGHT before ya take a step back and say ‘I have no %#^ clue’ 😅

#EdTech #EduSky

Remember admitting is the first step LOL

Just like that we have our first sitting member on our Board of Advisors! Well… a signature here and there and it’ll be as good as set

A great mentor in recent past and I respect their opinion SO much. Exciting! Can’t wait to share details #EduSky

Simplest doesn’t mean basic — it means it works!

Congrats! Do you work on the development side for esports?

I've created a 'Getting Ahead with #EdTech' starter pack with some key people I follow as part of my PLN that are well worth connecting with. Check them out!

go.bsky.app/EsCwJnL

A problem well defined, is a problem half solved.

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