Tootfinder

I'll put the pro in procrastinate later.

Watch how fast TikTok profiles your interests & creates dopamine #addicts but also intensifies & reinforces bad feedback loops like #depression or #anger spirals.

I uninstalled that…

One must imagine Sisyphus and her cat and all the oranges that are not her cat.

Joking aside, this advice is generally pretty good. Reducing social media usage *definitely* improves my mental health. The less time I use my phone, the better my focus is. Dopamine purges *really* help increasing creativity. Most of the things he's saying are pretty spot on, but I literally can't finish some tasks without help. My brain is just wired in a way that makes listening to a podcast while doing chores basically necessary. I just can't go to a normal gym. I go to a climbing gym because it make exercise actually interesting.
There are a lot of hacks ADHD folks have to use to do "normal" stuff. Neurotypical folks just can't seem to comprehend that.

A Dopamine-Serotonin Theory of Consciousness
Diogo Sousa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02614 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02614

A Dopamine-Serotonin Theory of Consciousness
This work presents a comprehensive theory of consciousness grounded in mathematical formalism and supported by clinical data analysis. The framework developed herein demonstrates that consciousness exists as a continuous, non-monotonic function across a high-dimensional neurochemical space, with dopamine serving as the primary intensity regulator and serotonin (5-HT2A) as the complexity modulator. This work offers mechanistic explanations for the full spectrum of conscious states, from deep sle…

I have finished supernatural

if i never read the words "dopamine hit" again it will be too soon

"En 2011, l’OMS accueille une nouvelle maladie dans son catalogue: la bigorexie. Initialement réservée aux adeptes des salles de musculation, le terme décrit désormais l’addiction au sport."
#santé #trail

Enjoyed this interview with UX researcher Ben Taels. He talks a lot about what games ux research is as well as what it's not. Some high level goals and some specific examples.
https://aftermath.site/video-games-user-experience-ux-r…

'Dopamine Simply Doesn't Work Like That': An Interview With A User Experience Researcher - Aftermath
Part of the reason I have worked in games UXR and not, say, microwave UX, is that games can be designed to be hard

Old SPICE, new SPICE, i dont care
Just gimme all the SPICE

A novel approach for classifying Monoamine Neurotransmitters by applying Machine Learning on UV plasmonic-engineered Auto Fluorescence Time Decay Series (AFTDS)
Mohammad Mohammadi, Sima Najafzadehkhoei, George Vega Yon, Yunshan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07227

A novel approach for classifying Monoamine Neurotransmitters by applying Machine Learning on UV plasmonic-engineered Auto Fluorescence Time Decay Series (AFTDS)
This study introduces a hybrid approach integrating advanced plasmonic nanomaterials and machine learning (ML) for high-precision biomolecule detection. We leverage aluminum concave nanocubes (AlCNCs) as an innovative plasmonic substrate to enhance the native fluorescence of neurotransmitters, including dopamine (DA), norepinephrine (NE), and 3,4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC). AlCNCs amplify weak fluorescence signals, enabling probe-free, label-free detection and differentiation of these m…

SPICE SPICE baby

SPICE is the SPICE of life

Spice makes me feel ALIVE.
if I was a demon, I'd put Holy water in my soups just for an extra kick

Development and in silico imaging trial evaluation of a deep-learning-based transmission-less attenuation compensation method for DaT SPECT
Zitong Yu, Md Ashequr Rahman, Zekun Li, Chunwei Ying, Hongyu An, Tammie L. S. Benzinger, Richard Laforest, Jingqin Luo, Scott A. Norris, Abhinav K. Jha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20781

Development and in silico imaging trial evaluation of a deep-learning-based transmission-less attenuation compensation method for DaT SPECT
Quantitative measures of dopamine transporter (DaT) uptake in caudate, putamen, and globus pallidus derived from DaT-single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images are being investigated as biomarkers to diagnose, assess disease status, and track the progression of Parkinsonism. Reliable quantification from DaT-SPECT images requires performing attenuation compensation (AC), typically with a separate X-ray CT scan. Such CT-based AC (CTAC) has multiple challenges, a key one being the n…