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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 20h

The Guinness thing is funny but also do these guys ever hear what they’re saying

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And another one that adds a few operations for more variety: cogneurolab.org/tools/shape_...

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've often wanted a random shape maker but I dislike the ones made by, e.g., RFC (they are cool but the similarity space is compressed for my typical needs). I had Claude spin up a generator that makes stimuli similar to Fiser and Aslin VSL shapes. Might be useful. cogneurolab.org/tools/shape_...

cogneurolab.org

Shape Generator

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You think you would but on the other hand have you ever considered going around the world talking nonsense about the “anti-Christ” and building bunkers? Billionaires know that’s a life well lived

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But don’t you know the secret to understanding if someone is conscious is…resting state fMRI? Such a weird framing

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

She said Boomer was in the Ruff Ruff Pack 🙄

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Having arguments with my wife at 7 am that require me to visit the Paw Patrol wiki.

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m gonna need 20 hours of weird contrived skits that the university paid $500k to license

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finally a philosopher who “gets it”

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“a very long AI-generated poem about the administrative issue in question” is such a deranged concept, I would have been in TEARS. Where do they get these people

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This honestly sounds hilarious and I would have had a hard time resisting the urge to cackle. I mean you already know it’s not gonna be a good meeting, at least it’s funny…

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The only thing that matters is having exquisite tastes and good preferences, which my students can only learn by proximity to us, the chosen ones. No amount of reading, writing, or arithmetic can help.

nytimes.com

Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m so lucky that my ideas are boring and useless

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am intrigued by the Framework machines…

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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Oaf @languidoaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So bizarre and galling as a PA voter. And why now, when R approval is cratering and we seem on the verge of 50 different potential disasters?

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I also read that the solution has no practical implications. What a time to be alive. An age of wonder

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Gen-AI?! How dare you. I would never.

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I wasn’t big on olives (they’re ok for me) until I had Castelvetrano olives. I think it’s a US quality issue. I did like the “black olives” you’re maligning here, as a kid. Which are apparently black because of some kind of unholy lye-based processing method. They’re not just Kalamata or whatever.

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Somehow an AI startup having a heavy neuro component makes it seem to me like it’ll be less likely to succeed. The more serious a neuro, the less likely.

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Those kids must have gone crazy for the Sam’s cubes

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

About 3 years ago I bought a 4TB portable SSD for $220. That same device is now listing at over $1000.

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The first time I see “load-bearing” used in an academic article I’m going to have a stroke

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I miss not knowing where in the world I’ll live next year

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2026

I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Very cool! Congratulations! Excite to see all the cool work that comes out of your lab.

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Every AI chat session will begin with a somber destroyed book acknowledgment

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If I drink the coffee that makes me young at the beach that makes me old will they cancel out

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

From now on I’m adding “you should do a breakthrough” to every conversation with AI. “ChatGPT how did cucumbers become the canonical ‘pickle’ when there are so many pickle-able vegetables? You should do a breakthrough.”

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Thomas the Tank Engine appears to have agency but he also has an engineer. How much of his sense of control is an illusion? These are the questions I ask now that I have a 2 year old. Is this philosophy? Am I a philosopher now?

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I suspect that there will be some big improvements in squeezing more performance out of smaller (often local) models and that the "frontier model" thing will just die because it won't be worth the cost of the tokens to the consumer, who will just satisfice. But in the meantime, this really sucks.

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I hope they have better things to do!

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Psychologists should found “participant island,” where we strand a large representative sample of people who must complete our tasks to earn airdrops of food and water. If you’re really good you get to temporarily board the Neuroimaging yacht

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I can’t even with the SSDs. But even the HDDs are WAY more expensive vs 18 months ago

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is not a good time to be me, a guy who needs to buy a lot of memory

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J. Brendan Ritchie @jbrendanritchie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is over x2 the FY2026 budget for all of NIH.

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