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

this would be best case scenario for my thesis tbh

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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 · 02/04/2025

I can relate and want to read this rant

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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 · 17/03/2025

literally never in my life

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

At this rate, maybe true soon

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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

I love Autechre! If you haven't listened to it before I'd recommend their album Chiastic Slide e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Rq...

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Autechre - Cipater [HD]

YouTube video by Anon1696

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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

I've tried Perplexity (I have Pro through school) to find relevant papers and honestly it's not great, but I haven't tried all the new fancy models. I think once in a while it gives me stuff that is genuinely helpful, but it's always basic stuff I could've also just found with a Google search.

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

I see. My problem has always been that the doublechecking part takes basically as much time as doing it myself in the first place. As long as it's not guaranteed to be correct (or I don't trust it's correct), I feel like the gains are marginal if any? But maybe your experience is different.

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

genuinely curious, vampiring aside, have you ever found these tools to be helpful at all for writing? haven't tried too much myself.

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

do you have favorite examples of neuroscience studies that mistake correlation for causation? or would you be willing to do a deep dive blog post at some point :)

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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 · 09/02/2025

had a matcha once that started tasting of shrimp as it cooled. weird. but fun

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

the muzzle velocity overwhelming seems to be working! i guess it would be nice if they truly were already falling apart like he says, but somehow i don't fully believe they are actually that disorganized/incompetent...

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

yes, and when you change the infrastructure of a country to rely on these AGI tools that you now also control, you win. so what's next?

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

bsky.app/profile/gale... yeah destroying universities is clearly contradictory to the technowhatever, pro-SV signaling of the administration. it just feels like another superficial goal covering something more fundamental and sinister. which i guess is just seizing all power?

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

we have all become experts overnight on indirect costs so we know the potential negative impacts to health research. but the only benefits i can immediately see for the administration are 1. upholding their anti-woke promises, 2. demonstration of power/authoritarianism. what else is there?

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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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