john sakon

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Why did so many previous studies report low dimensionality? 1. High-quality neural datasets are finally large enough to probe representations beyond just tens of dimensions! 2. Standard methods in cognitive neuroscience are insensitive to low-variance—but meaningful—dimensions.

Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Tl;dw?

Daily Memo: A Thousand Confirmed Kidnappings in the Past 90 Days, Plus Two More Deaths in Detention

@eltragon.bsky.social

Really good

**How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited
for cognition?**
That goes to the top of the list!
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Right? Read that too and I think they meant “more opaque”

This is a movie for uncles that tell you “you just don’t understand” when you argue with them about the war on terror

Thanks—been meaning to rewatch since it’s held in such high regard. Didn’t realize it was Sheridan + Villaneuve!

I bet this will be the opening of the dam and >$500k direct will be increasingly common. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

"I Felt Like A Prudish American, But It's The Norm In Europe": People Are Sharing Common Customs Abroad That They Want The US To Adopt "It's embarrassing that it exists abroad — yet is not provided for free to all students."

I didn’t know Buzzfeed still was churning out listicles but this is a good one! www.buzzfeed.com/hannahloewen...

Ex-Honduras president, convicted of drug trafficking, freed on Trump pardon A former DEA agent called the release “devastating”: “It means any attempt to work your investigations to the highest levels is meaningless.”

Full pardon for the convicted drug trafficker who helped move 400 tons of cocaine. Death by airstrike for the guys on the boat www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them.

Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded.

“Make America Healthy Again.”

Typical Yggy logic. If bsky/left cares, you did it wrong. If bsky/left doesn’t care, you did it wrong.

ChatGPT backfills rest of article. Press send.

You can’t have it both ways matty

Mr. Shor fan sir? Where’d you go??

Love SDB but that’s not even the best song on the album

Remind me did Afghanistan do 9/11?

So your justification is hypothetical attacks, the kind of which has happened one time before?

How many “9/11 style” attacks have happened to the US?

Your justification is made up “9/11 style” attacks?

cab screen opened with bari weiss giving some stupid ted talk thing, immediately hit mute, looked up now and it’s newsmax doing war propaganda. love to live in an age of billionaire funded right wing agitprop funneled directly into every public and semi-public space around

It’s intentional, they want you to look through a bunch of stuff to get your interest piqued in other things

Didn’t even remember this guy’s name but great to see he’s blocking scientists instead of engaging with them

I am proud to appear as the seasick scientist on left of this picture, filling in a data log (clipboards still in use in 2025) of my guess at where the hell we were out in the pacific!

Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.

IMDB can't be trusted bc it got woke-bombed

this was just my personal opinion but