Gustav Markkula

@markkula.bsky.social

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Prof at Leeds trying to model human behaviour, the weirder the better Into road safety, neuroscience, machine learning, and connections between fundamental and applied science https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/transport/staff/957/professor-gustav-markkula

Example conflict (time to collision) heatmap from a conventional rule-based model and the machine-learned model, showing a more stereotyped and sparse conflict distribution for the rule-based model.
Stimulus and response locked centroparietal EEG are both flatter when under cognitive load than otherwise, this includes the ”CPP” style peak at response
Film noir detective looking out a window, and a screenshot from the linked post: “Moving forward, I would have to be more skeptical, even (or perhaps especially) of high-impact papers with impressive results.”
R3. Adopt the “single file” philosophy. Ideally, key workflows (e.g. model or evaluation definititions) should be defined in a single file. This has emerged as a powerful force for reproducibility in ML research (see Table 1 for examples). While this approach contradicts traditional software engineering principles of modularity and abstraction, it offers distinct advantages for research code: (1) complete understanding of an important component (e.g. how a model works) requires reading only one file, (2) minimal abstraction layers and dependencies, and (3) easy adaptation of either complete implementations or specific components. One can simply copy this single file into another codebase. Removing friction from future reuse also benefits us—as we can see from Table 1, these methods get a large number of citations.
Champalimaud Foundation, right next to the sea
A pixellated rendition of the steps in the “recipe” for top-down iterative writing: Doing (and documenting) the research Gathering your results - and methods! Deciding on your (draft) message Title-abstract-figures-tables Heading-level outlining Paragraph-level outlining Sentence-level outlining Turning the outline into text Polishing
Abby Sydney Dec. 11 I absolutely HATED this. I like Connections because it’s a word puzzle, not a visual puzzle. It’s a massive “No” from me. 31 Replies792 RecommendShareFlag Caz commented December 11 C Caz Australia Dec. 11 I can see this working as a completely separate puzzle but please, please don’t ruin my favourite puzzle by adding in this version. It changes it from being a word puzzle to an interpretation of a picture puzzle. 4 Replies649 RecommendShareFlag タイタイ commented December 11 タ タイタイ 日本 Dec. 11 I didn't like this one. The text version is less ambiguous. A drawing of a mouth? Maybe lips? Teeth? Hard to tell from the image what the focus is supposed to be.
Graph showing Gini coefficient going up from 0.60 in 1820 to 0.72 in 1910 then fluctuating thereabouts until 2000 from where it drops to 0.67 in 2020.
Promotional artwork for the game Outer Wilds
Screenshot from paper: “Accordingly, Telban [16] proposed a visual–vestibular interac- interaction model. Later, Gustav [17] confirmed that during driving, drivers integrate visual and vestibular cues rather than relying solely on the vestibular system for perceptual information.”