Tomas Fiers
@TomasFiers
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Better tools are possible. Let's build and share them. Doing a PhD with @markdhumphries : {neuron Vₘₑₘ imaging} ─{math&code}─ᐅ {in-vivo connectomes} (⚡⇔🔗 in🧠)
Joined October 2012
Meanwhile in Europe: the Impossible Burger is still 100% illegal. Thank you, anti-GMO people, for protecting us from sustainable, humane and delicious plant-based burgers. 🙃
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Tip for reading arxiv papers on your phone more comfortably, icymi real-life example: https://t.co/1fdXkrxBMI Thanks to hard work of @dginev and others
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Register by June 21 for UK Neural Computation 2024 (Sheffield, July 8-10): https://t.co/S5wUGy4bMY A meeting for everyone interested in the computations of the brain Speakers include: @adamatzky
@neuralreckoning
@Timothy0Leary
@EGVasilaki
@somnirons
@TheBrunoCortex Please RT!
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Language models naturally generate outputs towards the "center" of the data distribution they are trained on, neglecting rare/tail perspectives. This paper argues that while useful, overreliance on recursive AI systems could lead to a "knowledge collapse" phenomenon where public
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Writing makes the ephemeral [ideas] into stable entities, which one can then manipulate and improve. I'm not sure this is an idea which *can* be overrated....
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@michael_nielsen I first came to appreciate this when I read Siddhartha Mukherjee’s description of it — rather poetic IMO
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Same! Brain tissue is so dense, so packed, so messy Nothing like those 3D images with lots of empty space that pop up when you Google "neurons" It's like Cell Biology textbook diagrams vs @dsgoodsell's illustrations:
A few years ago, this video (EM reconstruction of a 6um cube of rat hippocampus) completely changed how I think about the brain. It's a jumbled mess of spaghetti, not a bunch of circles connected by lines as those pesky theorists would have you believe https://t.co/Co3sYPLQXK
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Scientific discovery is like poetry, in that you become a bit more 'flou' / loose in what words can mean
@nickcammarata I suspect evolution was discovered many times, by animal breeders and midwives and maybe even Leonardo - but it is a really hard idea to put into words and communicate. Darwin's genius was in appropriating words of causality for actorless processes on unintuitive timescales.
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Ultorg: A User Interface for Relational Databases. (Fresh from today's HYTRADBOI database conference!)
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In this piece Jamie casually introduces a remarkable narrative style — he walks you through the workings of an entire industry through *gradual construction* of a visual map! Slice-by-slice!
10,000s of tons of CO2/year: how much we can remove from the air in 2023 1,000,000,000s of tons of CO2/year: how much we need to remove by 2050 We need to double our capacity every 21 months for the next 27 years Who’s working on this now? Read here:
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Another reason why I love @dginev's https://t.co/Sj0Gopu0eU is that it allows me to link _directly_ to figures or tables that I want to share from papers. Today's use case: The HepMC3 status code table!
ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org
In high-energy physics, Monte Carlo event generators (MCEGs) are used to simulate the interactions of high energy particles. MCEG event records store the information on the simulated particles and...
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“Everyone gets a plate before anyone gets seconds” but for housing.
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🤓 I built a life form exploration tool! Can you find Homo Sapiens? spoiler: it's VERY hard. https://t.co/TaElCuFdQF - only works with arrow keys / buttons right now - pulls in data from the (awesome!) @Wikipedia API - based on amazing @NCBI taxonomy data
kairollmann.de
A life form exploration tool, based on NCBI taxonomy data
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As Werner Herzog said: https://t.co/Pd085Tqx92 "An overwhelming lack of order. Even the stars in the sky look like a mess. There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to the idea that there is no real harmony as we conceived it"
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Same vibes as that optimal 17 square packing
What is this beast of a cell? What if I told you it came from your brain? This is an #astrocyte reconstructed from a volume of visual cortex smaller than a piece of dust. A thread with videos
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From one of the authors: https://t.co/DEKC2FSTVH
When scientists attack data for looking noisy, it signals to the rest of the scientific community that we can only publish clean data. That's just not how the scientific process works. 3/n
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Why Mastodon doesn't stick for me, and I keep coming back to twitter: The best, most salient content often comes through friends' likes:
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@lisatomic5 "Index cards as thought Legos" https://t.co/oV9lqn4xI3
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