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⏰ Inside a neuroscientist’s quest to cure coma
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Inside a neuroscientist’s quest to cure coma
Thousands of Americans are trapped in disorders of consciousness. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is searching for a way out.

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1. Looking for libraries/examples in a given language for a specific purpose.
2. Sometimes I'm searching for code that uses a certain library/API to understand how others use it.
3. Sometimes I misuse an API and then look for other projects that made the same mistake and need fixing.
4. Sometimes I search for code that uses one of my l…

I feel like tech has gotten smarter, and I've gotten dumber. My Roku Ultra says it does Miracast (on the website) but in my settings I see only Airplay. And my phone (android) does not see it when searching. So does it not do it or am I doing something wrong? #feelingold

from my link log —
“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas: the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending.
https://davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twelfth-night-till-candlemas-the-story…

“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” – the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
The day before the Winter Solstice, 2024 This post is about finally finding a book from one’s youth forty years later – and after nearly thirty years of searching. It is also a tale about gob…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04434 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Searching for Inflationary Physics with the CMB Trispectrum: 1. Primordial Theory & Optimal Estimators
The primordial four-point function encodes a wealth of information about the inflationary Universe. Despite extensive theoretical work, most models of four-point physics have never been compared to data. In this series, we conduct a detailed analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization trispectra, searching for a wide variety of phenomena including local effects, self-interactions, curvatons, DBI inflation, gauge fields, solid inflation, scalar field exchange, spinning m…

When the #AI #coding assistant you are using keeps writing poor code:
"Please pay attention to what we've already discussed and don't reimplement the bad ideas you've tried previously."
And when it insists on saying stupid crap:
"I don't believe this, try searching the web."
🥴

Recent hype is that o3 solved AI web search.
But so far I've tried using it for two "hard" search problems (meaning I first tried searching manually and didn't find much). Both times it hallucinated a ton, making claims that weren't actually in the sources.
On the other hand, both times, I did ultimately find nuggets of useful information after picking through all the hallucinations. So I'm glad I used it?
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Gosling eating breakfast. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. April, 2025. #laarboretum #bird #birdphotography

I might have found a unicorn 😅 This guys has less than 400 subs but filming like a pro. I found him by accident while searching for videos about Onyx Boox Go Color 7. If you find him attractive please tell him that I was the one who directed you towards him 😅
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OiHCUj_Hf

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18680 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

GReX: An Instrument Overview and New Upper Limits on the Galactic FRB Population
We present the instrument design and initial results for the Galactic Radio Explorer (GReX), an all-sky monitor for exceptionally bright transients in the radio sky. This instrument builds on the success of STARE2 to search for fast radio bursts (FRBs) from the Milky Way and its satellites. This instrument has deployments across the globe, with wide sky coverage and searching down to $32\,μ\text{s}$ time resolution, enabling the discovery of new super giant pulses. Presented here are the detai…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11965 has been replaced.
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Symmetry's Edge in Cortical Dynamics: Multiscale Dynamics of Ensemble Excitation and Inhibition
Creating a quantitative theory for the cortex presents challenges and raises questions. What are the significant scales--micro, meso, or macroscopic? What are the interactions--pairwise, higher order, or mean-field? And what control parameters are relevant--noisy, dissipative, or emergent? We suggest an approach inspired by advances in understanding matter. This involves identifying invariances in neuron ensemble dynamics, searching for order parameters connecting key degrees of freedom and d…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06931 has been replaced.
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Searching for Inflationary Physics with the CMB Trispectrum: 3. Constraints from Planck
Is there new physics hidden in the four-point function of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)? We conduct a detailed analysis of the Planck PR4 temperature and polarization trispectrum for $\ell\in[2,2048]$. Using the theoretical and computational tools developed in Paper 1 and Paper 2, we search for 33 template amplitudes, encoding a variety of effects from inflationary self-interactions to particle exchange. We find no evidence for primordial non-Gaussianity and set stringent constraints on…

While searching for an AWS alternative, I just stumbled upon the website #EuropeanAlternatives https://european-alternatives.eu/ which lists digital services and products from the EU. …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05258 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Searching for Inflationary Physics with the CMB Trispectrum: 2. Code & Validation
To unlock the vast potential of the CMB trispectrum, we require both robust estimators and efficient computational tools. In this work, we introduce the public code PolySpec: a suite of quartic estimators designed to measure the amplitudes of a wide variety of inflationary templates, including local non-Gaussianity, effective field theory models, direction-dependent trispectra, spinning massive particle exchange, and weak gravitational lensing. PolySpec includes a python/cython implementation o…

If we know something will only work for us for a while, we can still take advantage of it working for now
Find the podcast by searching for That Hoarder: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding podcast in your podcast player.
#hoarding #hoardingdisorder

“The 1000 fellows announced today—a number available by searching NSF’s database of awards …—compare with 2037 awards made last year and 2555 in 2023”
https://fediscience.org/@StutteringLabUW/114320356134107367

It is only when you start searching the web for tips and tricks that your really know that program ;-)
As in:
"I love this stuff, I cannot get enough of it, I need MORE! even though I just finished every line of the manual"
Or is that just my ADHD?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20915 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

The Feasibility Study of the GeV-Energy Muon Source Based on HIAF
Generating a mono-energetic, high-energy muon beam using accelerator facilities can be very attractive for many purposes, for example, improving muon tomography currently limited by the low flux and wide energy spread of cosmic ray muons, and searching for muon related new physics beyond the Standard Model. One potential accelerator facility is the High Intensity Heavy-Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF), which is currently under construction in Huizhou City, China. Considering the projectile energ…

Applied Astrobiology: An Integrated Approach to the Future of Life in Space
Robin Wordsworth, Collin Cherubim, Shannon Nangle, Aaron Berliner, Esther Dyson, Peter Girguis, David Grinspoon, Rachel Harris, Ken Liu, Adam Marblestone, Christopher Mason, Ryan Morhard, Dimitar Sasselov, Sara Seager, Robert Wood, Peter Worden
https://a…

Applied Astrobiology: An Integrated Approach to the Future of Life in Space
Searching for extraterrestrial life and supporting human life in space are traditionally regarded as separate challenges. However, there are significant benefits to an approach that treats them as different aspects of the same essential inquiry: How can we conceptualize life beyond our home planet?

And Since on the topic of beach cleanup, I have been raised to care about the #environment and I have a distain towards people #littering and just general #pollution . If you want to am…

a grumble about tech-related assumptions
The fair pay campaign leaflet had a QR code, but with my phone it didn't actually work - I suspect because of the reversed colour-scheme.
I guess either they didn't test it at all or they tested it with swankier cleverer phones.
And there was no web address anywhere on the flyer, not even in small print! (The article above is one I looked up by searching.)
It strikes me as classic present-day "romance of clever tech". Where is the basic common sense of "not everyone has the same phone" or "what's the fallback if the technical cleverness doesn't work".
#tech #access #QRCodes #grumble