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There is sooo much hype around this, when the Eon team did almost nothing new compared to the published research. (For context I did my PhD in a fly motor control lab and still fol…

This is fascinating! Having a really strong video encoder model and then a simpler decoder from that reminds me of the recent D4RT from DeepMind as well: https://d4rt-paper.github.…

Does streaming compression work if some packets are lost or arrive in a different order? Seems like the compression context may end up different on the encoding/decoding side.. or …

This is amazing, I just ran it and it works perfectly for my needs! For context, I recently switched to the KDE window manager (KWin) after a decade of xmonad, to simplify my confi…

I'm not OP, but I've been interested in something like this, but from the perspective of memory systems within oral cultures. I'd love to talk more! I wonder if you know (and maybe…

I read her whole retrospective last summer and it was the story that made me feel like I not only had a place as a trans woman in science, but could be ambitious as well! Retrospec…

There was a radiolab episode about the other side, interviewing the people advocating for critical theory in debate: https://radiolab.org/podcast/debatable It's true that it goes a…

I don't know, as a neuroscientist this is very confusing. Blue light generally is linked to arousal, as in this study for instance: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32973462/ I wond…

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2730/

Ahh that's right, I remember using the steam-run wrapper a lot. If I remember correctly, it would work in 80% of cases and fail on the last 20% (usually if some library is missing …

I've had a rather similar experience with NicOS a few years ago. I did get comfortable with the language and even contributed a small package! I did like having a reproducible conf…

For the past couple years, I've been using this hacked version of xf86-input-evdev (by Teika Kazura), which allows the use of a space bar for the space and as a "control" modifier …

It's funny, I was just thinking about this article this morning. When I first read it over 10 years ago, this quote really struck with me: > Another personality defect is ego asser…

Everyone has their own machine with a hard drive containing their data. Google drive is the secondary cloud backup.

This is with a regular Google Workspace plan, independent of the university-wide research plan. The research plan unlimited storage is indeed going away for us as well ( https://it…

Google drive is great for storing research data. I work it in a fly neuroscience lab and we use it to store all our electrophysiology and video data. Each person in the lab is stor…

Responding to this video, I really liked this take from Aaron Blaise (animator on Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin and director of Brother Bear) on AI in animation. https://www.you…

Ohh good idea. Will write it sometime. If you're interested in the progress in animal tracking, I wrote a post summarizing some up and coming research here: https://writing.lambdal…

As I was told, pretty much any PhD graduate can get a postdoc somewhere. PhD -> postdoc transition is really about whether you want to stay in academia at all. From my rough impres…

Yes absolutely this! This is 100% a thing in the US as well. Moving around between undergrad and PhD has wrecked my social life. Many of the students in my program are not doing a …

That's a great point! Honestly this was a quick post I wrote to practice writing and wrote it from my own personal experiences. I agree with you about research being really open en…

That's true, I meant to write that it's on the upper end. I think my current stipend is about $36k for a neuroscience PhD in Seattle. I've updated it to this: > A "good" STEM PhD s…