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Predictive processing also sheds considerable light on a wide range of typical and atypical forms of human experience. A good starting point is to notice that there are two very broad ways for such processing to go wrong. The first is for the brain to underweight predictions and expectations. This will make it hard to detect faint but predictable patterns in a noisy or ambiguous environment. But the second general way to go wrong is for the brain to overweight expectations. In extreme cases, overweighting results in hallucinations. You seem to see and hear things that aren't there, just because […] they are at some level strongly expected.
Autism spectrum condition was initially thought to reflect a specific imbalance of the first kind — a systematic underweighting of prior expectations. […] Underweighting prior knowledge would make weak or elusive patterns hard to detect, and hard to learn too. Such patterns would include things like facial expressions, intonation, or body language, things that delicately hint, in context, at other people's mental states and attitudes. An imbalance of that kind would also make it very hard to learn these patterns in the first place, and even harder to recognize them in situations that are complicated or ambiguous. Recent evidence casts subtle doubt, however, on this bald initial hypothesis. Rather than weakened predictions, intriguing evidence is emerging that suggests that the core issue involves (not underweighting knowledge-based predictions but) actively overweighting the incoming sensory evidence.
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She doesn't just feel "hunger," instead the more fine-grained specifics of the bodily signals dominate. You are feeling a whole lot of something — but what is it? According to the overweighted sensory information theory, autism spectrum condition individuals constantly encounter an excess of highly detailed and apparently very salient sensory information of this kind, coming from both inside their own body and the outside world. This sensory excess impedes the moment-by-moment identification of the broader context or scenario (in this case, hunger). In other words, the emphasis on every aspect of sensory detail effectively makes it impossible to spot the larger forest for the trees.
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(Andy Clark, The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality)
#ActuallyAutistic

Australia's privacy regulator sues Medibank over an October 2022 data breach, accusing the health insurer of failing to protect the data of 9.7M customers (Emilia Terzon/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-05/medibank-tak…

Medibank taken to Federal Court over 2022 cyber attack
The Australian Information Commissioner has announced it has filed civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court against Medibank over it October 2022 data breach.

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

“I don’t really want to re-hash the discussion about credit for software, or funding for software. This is a lost cause. But we need, collectively, to realize the degree of emotional investment that happens when we develop, and commit to maintaining, a piece of software: not just because there is some attachment to the code as a technical object, but also because there is a feeling of responsibility for the way it will be used.” @…

Vol. 14 - Maintaining scientific software is a bad idea
There is a reason GitHub’s open-source guide for creators starts with self-care. Maintaining code is a long-term endeavour, and more crucially, the skills...

Right. Now it's worked. Accounts moved.
Pretty sure the problem was that Firefish had a cached version of the remote profile from before the alias was set. You can go visit that profile's data and force a refresh, but by the time I realized that I was already rate-limited till the next day just from trying to re-set it on the remote host.
A few left behind on servers that aren't honoring MOVE actions I guess.
Did not copy following-lists, have to do that manually I guess.
Old server is now empty except for the admin account. I'll have it close down in a few days.
Then rebuild it! Stronger than before!

"where should we go today?" – "wherever the wind blows us!" #squirrelcontent

No Labels will not mount third-party 2024 bid after failing to find candidate
The centrist group says it won’t field a ‘unity ticket’ in US presidential election after reaching out to 30 potential people and raising $60m

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What a BURN 🔥🔥🔥
“After its reputation went up in flames, Humane warns users its charging case may too”
#humane #ai #AIPin

After its reputation went up in flames, Humane warns users its charging case may too
Humane is warning customers not to use the AI Pin's charging case due to a potential “fire safety risk.”

More #godotengine goodness is coming in the next release of #JetBrainsRider.
The support for #GDScript is going to be awesome.

Personal, dreams, sad
I don't know if I am capable of dreaming anymore. What are dreams, anyway? How are they different from desires, aspirations and efforts?
But I can consider what I could dream of.
I could dream of not being angry all the time. Of not being filled with hatred.
I could dream of feeling secure. Of not worrying all the time about food and shelter. Of losing health insurance and access to medicine.
I could dream of having someone to rely on, of someone who'd take care of me and the things I can't handle. Of not feeling guilty of not meeting the expectations of others and my own, all the time.
I could dream of being able to experience all that stuff that I read about in books and see in movies. Of it not being too late for me anymore.
#ActuallyAutistic