ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

A brand new goal.

I haven't seen a paper that mixes a task-driven neural network (a la DiCarlo) with anatomical connectome detail, save for the work from Bryan Tripp. It seems like it's an obvious research direction and an important step towards virtual brains. Anybody know of any good work in this direction? CC @neuralreckoning @ShahabBakht

Image from https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(22)00125-4

Some bad news about John Mastodon. #JohnMastodon

1) Create a limited number of NFTs.
2) Offer half of them to rubes at $99 a pop. Sell out to create artificial scarcity.
3) Float a small number of the remaining half on an exchange for absurdly high prices, say, $10,000. The punters won’t bite but you can buy them from yourself to support the value.
4) Value your remaining holdings at $10K each instead of $99 each. Presto, you’ve invented tens of millions of dollars.
Now anybody who wants to give you money can buy your NFTs, clean.

We've updated our long-run life expectancy dataset. It now includes the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

More on our topic page on life expectancy:
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy

International poll, so please boost for a wider sample.

How many languages can you read (and, of course, understand!) without the help of an online translator?

Looks to be that Elon's jet is headed to Europe

Day 17 of the #ArtAdventCalendar and i'm a bit late today.

"Family Unit"
Fuji GX617 / Fuji Velvia 100
#believeinfilm #GoWideOrGoHome #analogphotography #PanoramicPhotography

Your name is JOHN MASTODON. As was previously mentioned it is your BIRTHDAY. A number of CAKES are scattered about your room. You have a variety of INTERESTS. You have a passion for REALLY TERRIBLE MOVIES. You like to program decentralised social network software but you are NOT VERY GOOD AT IT.

I avoid jet trackers by not taking a private jet every single day

Using #vim is easy once you learn a few basic keybindings.

h and l - move left and right
j and k - move down and up
η and λ - move backwards and forwards through time
ξ and κ - translation through additional temporal dimension (if applicable)
ᚻ, ᛄ, ᚳ and ᛚ - moving left, down, up, and right through celestial spheres
𐤄 and 𐤋 - switch deity to pantheon member to left or right
𐤉 - supplicate to chosen deity
𐤊 - challenge chosen deity (dangerous)
:q - exit

Some next level pipa playing here. Am seriously impressed.
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RT @dusttodigital
Pipa player Jiaju Shen using a slap technique to perform the song “Dummy Eyeballs.”
https://twitter.com/dusttodigital/status/1604217622958161921

Lawn sign.

TIL that hot water freezes faster than cold water, this has been known since at least the time of Aristotle, and there is as of yet no single accepted explanation for why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect

"John Mastodon, I presume?"

If you can read this, then #Amidon successfully posted the first ever toot from an #Amiga computer!

Every mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six-foot-six and weighed two-forty-five
Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip
And everybody knew ya didn't give no lip to big John
(Big John, big John)
Mastodon (big John)

What a cool font website! h/t @adactio

https://www.readvisions.com/marvin

I heard #JohnMastodon was a man who withdrew from a culture that no longer valued his content. He and his fellow posters founded Mastodon, a decentralized network where their wisdom and talents could be appreciated by the few who had the persistence follow.
#WhoIsJohnMastodon