iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Happy Spotify wrapped day to all who celebrate

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/11/2025

I’ve decided that the only person I want to interview Sam Altman is Ziwe

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

"the brain knows something we don't" -Ed Callaway

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

lazy/clickbaity journalism aside, why do people keep referring to these companies as "AI labs", as if they are not corporations?

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Cursor is free for students now so i'm finally trying it and it's actually so nice 😳

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I Teach Missile Defense Targeting, and That Is All

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

another banger from @robhorning.bsky.social how much of the shit we find ourselves in now could've been avoided if a bunch of guys just had more friends? robhorning.substack.com/p/just-for-a...

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Just for a second I thought I remembered you

Being compelled to ask yet again, Are friends electric?

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

"Safety-Guaranteed LLMs" feels like fanfic simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/sa...

Workshop at the Simons Institute next week: "Safety-Guaranteed LLMs"

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

🗣️ the espresso tonic at CoRo 😌

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

the conclusion of every neurophysiology paper

Tumblr post by gerardwaist:
people b saying things so definitively. like man i think it depends

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

For those at COSYNE, I am presenting a poster tonight 🫡 I'll be talking about a V1 complex cell model that factorizes phase and amplitude, and what the dependencies between the phase distributions suggest.

poster 1-005, A factorization model of V1 complex cells is selectively invariant
authors: me, Zeyu Yun, Friedrich Sommer, and Bruno Olshausen

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

berkeley drivers are so terrible man. maybe one of these days i will actually get hit and get a huge check, or die. either way at least i won't have to deal with them anymore

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Is it just me or is GitHub Copilot getting worse

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Public protests are important for solidarity & signaling. But the real work having impact right now is in the courts. So if you've attended protests and are thinking 'what's next?' here are some legal funds to donate to: statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/ democracyforward.org ldad.org/letters-briefs

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Torsten Wiesel (who is 100!) was on a panel at Berkeley today. His love of experiments and exploration in science came up: "David and I kept doing experiments... in spite of prizes and stuff."

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

by now we're used to real headlines resembling onion headlines in ridiculousness. but i think we've reached a new milestone when a real headline is literally used as an onion headline

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Spotify added Create (rightmost), which is where Library used to be and I keep pressing it accidentally. No I do not want your AI Playlist (Beta). I opened this app to listen to music. Can you just let me do that.

Screenshot of new Spotify mobile UI with a Create button on the right menu where Your Library used to be. The options are Playlist, Blend, AI Playlist, Jam.

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

just found out the NEI advisory council meeting that would've reviewed my grant yesterday got cancelled despite being in the federal register 🙃 videocast.nih.gov/watch=55443 www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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CANCELLED - National Advisory Eye Council - February 2025

The National Advisory Eye Council (NAEC) advises the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Director, National Institutes of Health, and the Director, National Eye Institute on all policies and a...

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

effectiveness aside, it seems like adoption of these new "AI co-scientist" tools will just be used to further justify cutting science funding? (and instead funnel it to tech oligarchy) research.google/blog/acceler...

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Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

this is what my brain sounds like btw www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4D8...

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Love Lock Floot

YouTube video by Clark - Topic

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

apparently David Hubel said something to the effect of: if you need statistical tests, you haven't found the right thing. the effect should be obvious. maybe purposefully provocative, but still...

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

if anyone wants to escape reality this weekend they are showing Sátántangó (7h30m) at BAMPFA on sunday. bampfa.org/event/satant...

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Sátántangó

Please note: The film contains a scene of cruelty to animals that some may find difficult to view.

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

casting my vote for more blogging from Konrad

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ceej @ceej.online · 10/02/2025

drake has died

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Did Kendrick 🫰 at the end???

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

can someone help me understand what the actual goal is in these NIH cuts? sure you have the partisan bullshit of defunding the "leftist agenda" that is universities, apparently. but the administration knows the real implications, even if most trump supporters don't. is it just pure authoritarianism?

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

It's not surprising I guess, but still so incredible to me that the very basic concept of university education is accepted as leftist agenda, esp given all the ivy League people in the administration

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

THIS IS SO CUTE they're friends 🥹 from pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9592109/

Figure 1 from Translation-invariant orientation tuning in visual "complex" cells could derive from intradendritic computations by Mel, Ruderman, Archie 1998. Diagrams of a dendritic branch and cells with labels like "friends exhausted" and "friends of cell 1".

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

things feel very sinister right now and also it's raining in berkeley so this is the vibe open.spotify.com/playlist/4K6... send me sinister music

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Sinister

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

getting older is all about understanding why people in senior positions are bad at responding to emails

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

maybe it is time to leave substack (below by substack ceo) if you lack critical thinking skills and want to make money, i kinda get why you'd support "freedom of speech" in its current politicized form. but to shamelessly kiss up to (resisting using a different verb here) elon and zuck is pathetic

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

did not have a konrad trump impression on my 2025 bingo card but here we are, this administration truly bringing us new surprises every day

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

i've always been confused about mainstream ai fearmongering (ai takes control and rules the world etc.), bc what Ali describes in this thread (and on his blog) seems like a much more immediate (and indeed already occurring) problem. and it seems to be the goal of SV + new admin to push it forward.

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

ai slop found in a train exhibit in taiwan :(

Pillows printed with AI generated images of a microphone (?), guitar, and accordion. The guitar has more than 6 strings and the piano keys are incorrect.

AI generated train image. The numbers and Chinese characters are garbled in the AI slop way.

An image that says "XINBEITOU" but the letters are not straight around the edges, and the illustrated people's hands are weird.

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

new franz ferdinand is so franz ferdinand-y that i'm getting teenage angst flashbacks www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0gQ...

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Franz Ferdinand - Build It Up (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Franz Ferdinand

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

the taiwan railway logo is so cool. it's the combination of 台 (台灣 = taiwan) and 工 (work), which also resembles the cross section of a railroad track. and it also resembles the traditional style seen in the circular version of "寿" (longevity), shown here on a 土地公 (guardian deity of a place)

cross-section of a typical rail, source https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Typical-rail-cross-section-60E1_fig1_319542997

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

oh i am reading this book ASAP and the main point of mechler & ringach 2002 was this, which people have seemed to largely ignore!

screenshot of mechler & ringach 2002 abstract: Here we show that a simple rectification model can predict the observed bimodal distribution of F1/F0 in primary visual cortex when the distributions of the intracellular response modulation and mean are unimodal. Thus, contrary to common belief, the bimodality of F1/F0 does not necessarily imply the existence of two discrete cell classes.

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

what are your favorite examples of good roasts (comedy or social media, not cooking)?

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Ending the year with the last post of Neural Computation. A sprint through special topics and a reflection on the semester. Happy new year! 🥳 www.dissonances.blog/p/wrapping-u...

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Wrapping up Neural Computation

Sprinting through special topics, and a reflection

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Hyperdimensional computing, inspired by cognition, is a framework where the primitives are high-dimensional vectors. It sits somewhere between symbolic and connectionist AI. Some basic examples: www.dissonances.blog/p/computing-...

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Computing in high dimensions

Featuring a dip back into 𝖞𝖊 𝖔𝖑𝖉𝖊 AI history

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

What happens when you heat up a Hopfield network? An intro to the Boltzmann machine. www.dissonances.blog/p/microwavin...

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Microwaving a Hopfield network

An introduction to the Boltzmann machine

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Visual illusions give us hints about how we do scene understanding. One approach is to model perception as probabilistic inference. Some examples on natural images! www.dissonances.blog/p/perception...

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Perception as visual inference

Bayes and natural images

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galen @galenbrain.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

my dad thought Goldie Hawn was in Hair. Goldie Hawn was not in Hair. she was in Shampoo.

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