"handheld meat pie" implies the existence of the vehicle-mounted vegetarian pie.

This is the goal of all AI companies... Why go through the bother of buying news outlets or trying to influence public opinion when you can create a product in which users voluntarily ask you to man-in-the-middle attack all information they see? Rocketing towards a permission economy.

Cool job going!! Also working at Uni Salford Acoustics Dept. was an awesome experience for me, a really great environment for anyone looking to progress a career related bio-/acoustics, speech perception, or adjacent fields!!

Not me, I'm built different. I'd be absolutely pure with absolute power. I'd also fly the right distance from the sun if I had wings, use the death note properly, and wish for things of only good with the monkey's paw. Y'all just forget to not be hubristic. Like you don't even try.

Once more around the sun lads.

Time to start the birthday celebrations. I am starting to feel the body slowing down at 37 so I think this year's song should be... open.spotify.com/track/7G6l2F...

youtu.be/6fj-OJ6RcNQ?... Watch watch watch watch. There's no person who won't benefit from this bar maybe the gent who made it.

Oh I miss San Diego. The sunsets in autumn there are just unrivalled for drama and colour.

I'm 100% for not describing methods in detail and referring to the original paper for them, but don't just go "We did the same thing as Ref XX", at least name the approach and give a cursory overview of it's principles. I shouldn't have to read 3 other papers to understand your story.

Not long ago I had a... 'discussion'... Where I held the position that organising your thoughts is a process we shouldn't outsource we it's vital for all thinking. Can't outsource the foundations of what we do.

Many studies of naturalistic comprehension report that surprisal (often LLM derived) explains more of the variance in data than other predictors. Why is this? And why can it be problematic for our conclusions? A 🧵 of takeaways from our paper doi.org/10.1007/s421... with @andreaeyleen.bsky.social

What ideas are you having there ETH?

Not at all a spooky thing to find...

I'm absolutely disgusted at the policies being floated by Labour in the UK. The confiscating of jewelry and heirlooms is purely symbolic, done so to dehumanise refugees. There is no practical benefit here, this will not make any financial difference. It just signals how devoid of values the UK is.

In an ever increasing battle with the new Vietnamese kiosk near me, where I buy more and more things from them as thanks for the free food and they give me more free food as thanks for buying more and more things.

I'm a day late on this, but given the anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald yesterday, I am obligated to reshare one of the best pieces of documentary media ever made by one of the best YouTubers there is. Informative, insightful, respectful. youtu.be/u0Lg9HygEJc?...

100kg at a chocolate festival, consumed by 10,000 people?! That's an awful showing! That's half a twix finger per person. Who goes to a chocolate festival preparing to eat so little chocolate!?

Bag without owner on the train. I call out if it belongs to anyone. Nothing. Get a staff member, they get get more staff who then go seat to seat asking. Someone goes "of course it's mine, why can't I leave it there?" I'm now very aware of how different growing up in 90s UK must have been.

Are we just duck-typing consciousness and cognition now?

Surprised it's not happened more. Cars are rarely equipped with sonar

My main issue with Fleetwood Mac is that they put out so many big hits in a style they essentially started and caused to skyrocket in wider music culture, that listening to just Fleetwood feels like listening to a wedding band playing all the classics. Aesthetic saturation.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Man, I work with such impressive people. It's genuinely awesome.

Out of office enabled... Time for a week of (non-science) reading, writing, musicing, and maybe some city tripping.

Love, love, love this weather. The drama. Oh the drama. I probably need a license for this much atmosphere

Glad to see someone exactly my age having exactly my thoughts lol.

That last post really doing well on Ciel Bleu

How apt. Those multi-colour pens were bulky, uncomfortable to use, never had good quality ink, and didn't actually help you use a pen better but only give the image of flexibility.

Not a bad sunset....

I'm very glad it's no longer en vogue to write with so many subordinate clauses.

The hill I will die on is that plotting the negative deflections on the positive axis because of 'tradition in eeg' makes no sense, and that negative deflections should go down. We match colour to semantic categories of our experiment, we can match directions to directions.

Ah the Swiss sport of Güggellischlaggelli! Excpet you throw a chicken, the bat can be basically anything, just some sort of wooden stick traditionally. Some places have ornate carved wooden bats on display in more rural houses.

And that's "The City and The City" finished. This was great fun to read. I'm not really a murder mystery person and while this technically is a murder mystery, it doesn't have that vibe. Instead it's very... Liminal and metaphysical... Sorta. It's good. Highly recommend

Well this is next year's Halloween decorations sorted. "This is not a place of honour"

I think the weirdest thing about Switzerland is that there is a lot of pride for efficiency here yet I find this place to be so incredibly inefficient lol. Systems are opaque and byzantine, it's rare that staff will assist you, and there's never effort to try and push things through so they work.

Whenever I email an author about methods from papers in the last 5 years.

My art skills have no improved.

If you can keep your trunk when all about are losing theirs and falling into sand; If you can keep your visage high when all are sinking and no longer sneer with cold command; If your words survive stamped on lifeless things; Declaring yourself the king of kings, Yours are works mighty...

Please help #musicsky and #music folks. I have a playlist below that is just some of my favourite creamy, chill music. I love it but it's got a summer vibe and I'm trying to make a more Icecreamy beats for a more winter vibe and having a hard time finding songs. open.spotify.com/playlist/1FA...

It's not great that as a field, we seem to be unable to unify or even agree on the important features of a paradigm as straightforward as an oddball task. The more perceptual the paper the better it seems to be but still... We should have a pretty consistent idea on what it should be lol.

I heard there stood two legs of stone, Honoring his works unkown, But you dont care for statues standing trunkless. Well it goes like this stamped on lifeless things, Final words of the King of Kings, The mighty ruler Ozymandias. Ozymandias... Ozymandias..

Fantastic.

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I'm starting to think that maybe academics just aren't very clever.... There's no other explanation for some of the stuff I see.

Some pretty good skies this evening

Keynote talks.

What do you mean you can't decode the difference between "Not bad" and "Not too bad"?! Absolutely diametric concepts.

I'm getting mixed messages here!

Honestly, at least it's open about the intention. The mass losses on AI are acceptable to companies because if they can have a system where all info is not just filtered in who sees it,but also rewritten, then that's company has an unbelievable amount of power.

Hhahahahahahahaaa