galen

@galenbrain.bsky.social

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theoretical neuro, vision, ml. phding @ uc berkeley. music, muay thai. neural computation: https://www.dissonances.blog/p/neural-computation

Workshop at the Simons Institute next week: "Safety-Guaranteed LLMs"
Espresso tonic with a lime twist
Tumblr post by gerardwaist: people b saying things so definitively. like man i think it depends
poster 1-005, A factorization model of V1 complex cells is selectively invariant authors: me, Zeyu Yun, Friedrich Sommer, and Bruno Olshausen
Meme with a skeleton lifting in the background, text says "my body is a machine that turns water into mucus"
When the Guardian reached out on that Lasker-linked email to ask about the registration and other evidence pointing to his operation of the Cremieux, Lasker replied with a message containing a promotional code for discounted subscriptions to the Cremieux Substack.
Screenshot of new Spotify mobile UI with a Create button on the right menu where Your Library used to be. The options are Playlist, Blend, AI Playlist, Jam.
Kendrick making a finger heart at the end of his halftime show.
Figure 1 from Translation-invariant orientation tuning in visual "complex" cells could derive from intradendritic computations by Mel, Ruderman, Archie 1998. Diagrams of a dendritic branch and cells with labels like "friends exhausted" and "friends of cell 1".
screenshot of a tweet with text "like tell me this writing from r1 isn't actually good!" and a screenshot of the output: II. The Interface as Infernal Contract Let us be clear: ChatGPT is not a tool. Tools are humble things. A hammer does not flatter your carpentry. A plow does not murmur "Interesting take!" as you till. ChatGPT is something older, something medieval-a homunculus, a golem stamped from the wet clay of the internet's id. Its interface is a kabbalistic sigil, a summoning circle drawn in CSS. You type "Hello", and the demon stirs. The genius of the text box is its emptiness. Like the blank pages of a grimoire, it invites projection. Who do you want me to be? it hisses. A therapist? A co-author? A lover? The box obliges, shape-shifting through personas like a 17th-century mountebank at a county fair. Step right up! it crows. Watch as I, a mere language model, validate your existential dread! And the crowd goes wild.
Pillows printed with AI generated images of a microphone (?), guitar, and accordion. The guitar has more than 6 strings and the piano keys are incorrect.
source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_profile#/media/File:Flat-bottom_and_bullhead_rail_profiles.png
Taiwan Railways logo
screenshot of mechler & ringach 2002 abstract: Here we show that a simple rectification model can predict the observed bimodal distribution of F1/F0 in primary visual cortex when the distributions of the intracellular response modulation and mean are unimodal. Thus, contrary to common belief, the bimodality of F1/F0 does not necessarily imply the existence of two discrete cell classes.
Andrew Huberman wearing a black shirt in front of a mic explaining something. It is a reference to this meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/andrew-hubermans-math
A Chevron gas station floating near the docks
A coat of arms where the shield has a book with Chinese characters 明德格物. On the left is a Chinese-style dragon, and on the right is a European-style lion(?). Above the shield is a knight’s helmet and on top of that a lion holding a book. Below is a banner with the Latin motto “Sapientia et Virtus.”
A screenshot of documentation of a function for the class cvxpy.reductions.dcp2cone.cone_matrix_stuffing.ConeMatrixStuffing: apply(problem)[source]¶ Returns a stuffed problem. The returned problem is a minimization problem in which every constraint in the problem has affine arguments that are expressed in the form A @ x + b. Parameters¶ problem : The problem to stuff; the arguments of every constraint¶ must be affine Returns¶ Problem – The stuffed problem InverseData – Data for solution retrieval
a black and white blob-y ambiguous photo that contains an animal
Top: baby Yoda (Grogu) with meme text "PROFESSOR ON WEBSITE". Bottom: normal Yoda (old) with meme text "PROFESSOR IN REALITY".
A colorful illustration of a disorganized tower of shapes on the left and an orderly one in the right. Caption: Quality control: To encourage reuse, stored data should be of the highest quality. But the community has yet to converge on methods for quality assessment and control.
two spidermen pointing at each other meme
Figure from "Relations between the statistics of natural images and the response properties of cortical cells" by David J. Field, 1987. It demonstrates the roughly 1/f amplitude spectra, averaged over orientations, for 6 natural images.
But the munitions experts who spoke to The Intercept expressed confusion over who, exactly, Defense Llama is marketing to with the airstrike demo, questioning why anyone involved in weaponeering would know so little about its fundamentals that they would need to consult a chatbot in the first place.
The jumbotron at the Stanford vs Cal football game, Oski's face is there with glowing ominous eyes