Neuro_Skeptic
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Neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry through a skeptical lens. Just a brain with some eyes. Formerly blogged for @DiscoverMag.
RT @warrenmansell: Now published open access:
Perceptual Control Theory and the Free Energy Principle: a comparison
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RT @leafs_s: Science
Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure
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Myth: We only use 10% of our brains.
Fact: We use 100% of our brains, but the asshole 10% selfishly takes all the credit.
A rare case of tomatophagia - a woman who ate 1 kg of cherry tomatoes per day. A rare form of pica, associated with iron deficiency anaemia t.co/SoO9DLISIF She turned slightly yellow, rather than red 🤔 t.co/0FSXXGfyUk
RT @angryfermion: it's not machine learning unless it's from the machine learning region of france
otherwise it's just sparkling linear al…
We suggest that electronic ‘energy-levels’ surrounding atomic nuclei are more reasonably levels of awareness. t.co/ioEOfRXq3u That's going to be a big hmmm from me. t.co/IjPrj0GT3k
Bergsonian Metaphysics and Huxley’s Doors of Perception t.co/SddXk4OhaU t.co/mrxEOsi472
RT @EAsliturk: Today we will be talking about 9 circles of scientific hell at the 8th Critical Psychology Symposium, in Istanbul. Thanks to…
Discovering Cognitive Strategies with Tiny Recurrent Neural Networks t.co/BLnVfbfOw8 Neural networks with just 1-4 units often outperform classical cognitive models
RT @MishaTeplitskiy: Reasons authors give for not sharing data when their paper says data available upon request
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RT @paul_cal: @Neuro_Skeptic Nice framing & finding. Baseline probability is obviously core to LLM training but irrelevant for many tasks,…