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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 9h

Do you have the Merlin app downloaded? It’s done a pretty good job for me even with terrible photographic skills

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 10h

Does anyone know of a good biography of Matilda of Tuscany?

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do you know if anyone who knows what they’re doing has ever estimated bit rates in the primary sensory cortices?

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sid Meier’s Civilization (1)

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don’t think my cousin’s intentions were genetic in nature, but posting a dating profile picture of himself covered head to toe in paint after a backyard gravity painting session was certainly successful

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I deeply sympathize! If you want to check the box, models like BERT are in play.. my response would be something like “language heuristics are far more regular than sequential visual sampling and can be trained using written text, on the other hand measurements of gaze require individual sampling”

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Congrats! Interested in reading it.. any idea when the digital edition comes out (due to family sharing reasons, am mostly looking at iBooks)?

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you’re in NYC, tacos canos, original tomatillo salsa is amazing (uws)

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

True, but hours from now future you is probably going to be interested in reviewing the decision process

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Current sample size is small, and use cases require extensive screening, I would love that this works and could be deployed to the global south at scale when the cost decreases, but not ready yet

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As someone who has been prescribed modafinil for non-24, it does keep me awake, but distinctly lightheaded.. the idea that it’s some magic productivity sauce is vastly overblown

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There’s a reason that the Ancient Greek Gods vacation in Ethiopia

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Curious, Gemini has continued to feed me mostly trash answers.. is it data or compute?

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I apparently missed this, can you please give more details? Thompson was one of my favorite books I read during my class on race and empire in victorian england

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

US copyright law is insane.. the Sonny Bono act of 1998 retroactively extended copyright.. while the supreme court ruled that works once in the public domain can’t be pulled back, I can totally see how Amazon lawyers are trying to limit potential liability.. the activity is sociopathic nonetheless

congress.gov

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Also mentored Mozart’s younger son, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart who went on to help establish the first musical school in Lviv

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’ve used (in prep) in two circumstances: 1) The work has only been orally presented by senior authors in more general talks (my SCN work) 2) There have been multiple presentations that addressed particulars of a larger project and don’t capture the full scope Not sure how preprints solve that

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A ‘reasonable degree’ sure, but that doesn’t mean anyone can be a mathematician just like it takes a certain talent to be a philologist.. I hit my ceiling in Math in graduate level algebraic combinatorics, and I can tell you that there were a few people in that class who were more talented

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you have more specific questions I’d be happy to answer them.. I’d start by contacting a youth hockey program (especially if it’s community oriented like North Park in NYC) and ask them to give you their parents introduction to the sport

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I know plenty of scholars who have organized shelving strategies, mine has two constraints: heaviest stuff goes at the bottom, the rest is free association.. my time needed to find THE BOOK is if anything, a bit better

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

As Bob Sekuler pointed out to me during my defense, the EDR two object cueing task is also terrible, and that he with Ball had invented the UFOV task 5 years before my earliest citation (an aspect of clinical and scientific literature not co-citing) we’ve replaced RDKs with RSVPs, with some success

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It would have helped if MLB hadn’t put their games behind a $150 paywall

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Is it a food delivery requirement to put at least twice as many staples as necessary on the paper bag?

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My RAs have similar complaints.. my solution has been lending them my old textbooks, which has worked really well

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I agree, more often being the cyclist.. but this is over a mile without side access, so nearly all the pedestrians are solo runners or walkers.. one issue is even the e-bike Citi riders (who are capped at 25mph) are getting passed by people going 15+ faster

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is not a street, it’s a -12ft wide path with 4ft north and south bike lanes and a 4ft pedestrian lane nearest the river.. walking on a shoulderless road against traffic is a perfectly acceptable experience

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I recently walked down the bike/pedestrian path from 125th to 100th on the Hudson, and was more unnerved by the 40+mph e-bikes and scooters than I was riding around Boston on no-shoulder roads for five years

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

But the capture of the El Gamo could assuredly be repeated at will!

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Mosquito has that bet covered

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I went to the Residential College at UMich 25 years ago for my first year, pass/fail with instructor comments for all courses.. didn’t hurt me getting into PhD programs one bit (eventually transferred to LS&A due to choice of majors)

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I totally respect lifetime fans.. I’ll still watch the final game in Major League, even though the rest of the movie has aged terribly

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I was more thinking of the sequence of teams.. and at this time of the season I look at the standings more than the score (also, somehow Spectrum decided that it was a good idea that I can’t watch the Yankees without a special subscription to the mlb streaming, so I don’t follow the games 😤)

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

So a neural network that has a world model is by this definition incurious? Then how did the world model form? By design fiat? Or is the idea more along the lines of ART where a model has Lyapunov stability and can’t forget its experience?

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

You have almost as terrible a set of rooting interests as my dad, who grew up a Phillies fan in the 40s and 50s, moved to the Red Sox in the 60s, Giants in the 70s and Mets from the late 80s.. combined winning ~.440 per AI.. luckily he brought me to my first baseball game at age 2, at Yankee stadium

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

You’ve never been to Caffe’Sant’Eustaccio or Caffe’Tazza d’oro, have you? And you have to choose one.

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Not ADHD so far as I know, but I dread sleeping into alarms so it’s really stressful.. if I wake up early I usually try to eat some food, drink some water and avoid screen time, and try to get back to sleep.. lack of water & early waking is definitely correlated

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It is a stupid and highly enjoyable movie

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Way too tame! Meet the Telegony (another part of the Homeric Epic Cycle).. and I’d love to see interpretations of all the great 5th century playwrights (if one does Aeschylus, you can even include the battle of Marathon totally gratuitously!)

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I never understood why stopped the “behold the power… of cheese” ads, did I go eat some cheese just about every time I saw one? You betcha

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In so far as I can tell you’re looking at 300k to get it running and probably 1.5m to properly do so

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I hope you have some feta around!

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The two best mayors so far in my life have been Dinkins, who brought a serious crime problem under control and Bloomberg who broke the car lobby, both of which took several years.. Mamdani seems so far to be the opposite of broken windows, finding small things that make life better regularly

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Where I first bumped my head was in Sergei Fomin’s algebraic combinatorics class, where one of my classmates solved an open problem

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I know a few people who study Grothendieck seriously, and it is beyond me.. so I went into neuroscience

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

One of my goals, like with the green and red Loeb libraries is to collect them all.. it won’t be easy.. my hardest get so far was Probability (95) by Shiryaev

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It isn’t particularly accurate but it is super-powerful, that the most literate regiment in the Union Army was used as cannon-fodder.. they did not finally win the right to become equal combatants until the wage was equalized in 1864, back pay iirc waited until the 20th century

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Nico Foley @nicofoley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Are you saying that the Ralph Fiennes bow stringing has been eclipsed?

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