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Michael Bach

@bachmichael.bsky.social
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michaelbach.de. I'm interested in #VisionScience, #illusions, #psychophysics, visual #acuity, #neuroscience, #electrophysiology, #music, #programming, #jekyll, cappuccino (the framework), #rstats. Democracy👍, Hate👎

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Michael Bach @bachmichael.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
#MacOS: Some design missteps in Tahoe can be remedied as I learned from c't today: Smaller corner radii: `defaults write -g NSConvolutionOverride1 -float 10` Wasted space around the floating sidebar: `defaults write -g NSSplitViewItemSidebarDefaultsToFloatingAppearance -bool false` Much better!
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Michael Bach @bachmichael.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A new addition to my “Visual Phenomena and Optical Illusions” collection: “Mainz-Linez”. Here's the live demonstration and explanation of the somewhat mysterious title: michaelbach.de/ot/mot-Mainz.... Enjoy!
A static image of the Mainz-Linez illusion: 4 vertical wiggly lines, in the middle of each a red disk. A small black cross in the center.
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Michael Bach @bachmichael.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
michaelbach.de/ot/aud-Shepa... My demo of the ever rising scale, invented by Roger Shepard, had failed due to new security restrictions in browsers. I rewrote it and added plot showing amplitude vs. log(frequency), hopefully making it easier to understand this amazing effect. Enjoy! #illusion
Screenshot of the ever-rising Shepard scale with frequency spectrum.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.
media.tenor.com
a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
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Michael Bach @bachmichael.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Quitting the Washington Post: anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui.... Impressive, my admiration! Good read. Hope not harbinger of worse things to come. I learned of it via daringfireball.net.
Part of a cartoon.
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Michael Bach @bachmichael.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Bicycling through the nearby woods, I happenchanced upon this frosty gem.
A spider web, frosted
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Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
How are people that used to be evidently smart so bad at understanding obvious truths that they actively destroyed the value of their core product?
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Marius 't Hart @thartbm.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Open the present by shaking the tree? Or is this Schrodinger's gift?
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Michael Bach @bachmichael.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🧪In our journal club: Just had a paper where the authors needlessly made their figures rectangular, although the content was quadratic (same range on x- and y-axis). It really should be quadratic to understand the content better, also the identity line is then at 45°. Old gripe of mine, sorry 😎.
Two data plots. On the left needlessly landscape, on the right quadratic like the data themselves.
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Michael Bach @bachmichael.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A new paper on FrACT michaelbach.de/fract/: “Freiburg Vision Test (FrACT): Optimal number of trials?” (open access) dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004.... Mysterious “kink” at 18 trials (figure): 18 trials a good compromise between fatigue and precision for Sloan letters or 8-alternative Landolt-Cs.
Graph showing LoA steadily decrease with the number of trials, above 18 slower. Inset is the FrACT icon.
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Michael Bach @bachmichael.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I just finished an experiment: For three weeks I responded to every "invitation" from a predatory journal with "STOP PESTERING ME". Results: I now receive about twice as many per day than before… Time to end the experiment and conclude that I'm just validating my email for them 😎. #science
A crocodile swallows the word "Science"
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