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#Neuroscientists of the world - do you sometimes have questions about a new technique you're trying to setup in the lab? Or getting too much noise in your system and wondering why? Not sure why your rats / flies / humans are not learning? Which virus to get for your optogenetic experiment? How to stain brain slices? Whether an expensive piece of kit is worth buying? ...
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NeuroMethods
A space to ask and answer questions about methods in Neuroscience (this replaces our previous Slack workspace). Prospective users: you should be able to join with an academic email :) | Cheers to Zulip for sponsoring our workspace!

J'utilise #Claude © occasionnellement, environ une fois par jour, mais depuis une semaine j'ai en continu ce message. D'autres dans ce cas ?

#Dentist -related question, if given the choice with "amalgam" fillings or "white" fillings which one is better? 🦷
I would ask a dentist but since they get more money for using the white filling they don't seem completely unbiased..

Quite incredible that this guy ( #Thinkpad x200s) - who is now at least 12 years old - is still alive and kicking! :blobrat_aww:
Also, this was the best keyboard ever, the Lenovo keyboards have been downgraded since then to become blend just like any other laptop keyboard. The trackpoint still works perfectly on it while it doesn't on my more recent lenovo (T490s, about 6 y.o.).
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🤖 some #Git users may be interested into this bash script that analyses your git diff and creates meaningful commit messages using an #Ollama #LLM (local / cloud).

🤖 A bash script that analyses your git diff and creates meaningful commit messages using an Ollama LLM (local / cloud).
🤖 A bash script that analyses your git diff and creates meaningful commit messages using an Ollama LLM (local / cloud). - llm-commit.sh

That's certainly a good start!
Burnham to scrap Starmer’s digital ID scheme in ‘reset of priorities’ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/18/burnham-to-scrap-starmers-digital-id-scheme-in-reset-of-priorities

Burnham to scrap Starmer’s digital ID scheme in ‘reset of priorities’
Incoming PM will reallocate unspecified resources from unpopular plan to helping with cost of living

" L’ANTS, qui gère les cartes d’identités et passeports, visée par une attaque informatique, des données potentiellement divulguées"
https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2026…

L’ANTS, qui gère les cartes d’identités et passeports, visée par une attaque informatique, des données potentiellement divulguées
Les fuites concernent notamment les noms et prénoms, l’adresse électronique ou la date de naissance d’usagers.

Had to install #Windows11 and I am discovering that not only does it want to use my location, but also the only option is "Accept"
Like.. that's great, they give you the option to let it access your location (Yes) or not (No) but the only button you can click to move on, instead of being called "OK" as a normal OS would do, is called "Accept" 🤔

Hey all what's the best #PythonIDE for running #JupyterNotebooks without genAI?
Edit: never mind, for now I'm just using Jupyter Notebook, I just don't really understand why you'd want to code in a browser, or why you'd want all your functions and code and everything to…

Just saw that #genAI models now have a "how to protect the environment" suggestion... which suggests to use different genAI models 😇🤣🤦
You want to know the best way to save energy and protect the environment?

• do not use genAI (use your own brain, or your friends')
• while you're at it, protest all the data centers that are getting built to support all that "energy-saving"…