Huw Swanborough
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Huw Swanborough
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Cognitive neuroscientist at ETH Zurich. Primary interests in affect processing/perception and auditory neuroscience. Outside of science: Hiking, huts, snow, history, bluegrass, and folk. ------- Everything's a signal, man.... Everything's a signal
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I heard there stood two legs of stone,
Honoring his works unkown,
But you dont care for statues standing trunkless.

Well it goes like this stamped on lifeless things,
Final words of the King of Kings,
The mighty ruler Ozymandias.

Ozymandias...

Ozymandias..
This is just to say

I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert

and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand

Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
Oh!!

I read 'The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell' a few months ago. Absolutely brilliant.

Big part of me restarting reading for joy after finishing PhD. Not sure I could pick a favourite from it, but just loved it. Meaning to make some stuff inspired by it, particularly The Curator.
Whenever I email an author about methods from papers in the last 5 years.
Final Fantasy VII Remake's director says that almost all documentation from the original game has been lost to time.

(Read more: Eurogamer)
My art skills have no improved.
And - which is more - you'll be Ozymandias!
If you can keep your trunk when all about are losing theirs and falling into sand;
If you can keep your visage high when all are sinking and no longer sneer with cold command;
If your words survive stamped on lifeless things;
Declaring yourself the king of kings,
Yours are works mighty...
They fuck you up, your King of Kings.
They may not mean to but they do.
They leave you trunkless legs of stone,
And add some visage, just for you.
Whose land this is I do not know
The statue fell down long ago;
No one will mind me stopping here   
To watch the sand o’er ruins blow.

My camel friend must think it queer   
To rest with no oasis near   
And precious little shade these days   
Gives Ozymandias, I fear.

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Obsessed with this trend.

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I heard there stood two legs of stone,
Honoring his works unkown,
But you dont care for statues standing trunkless.

Well it goes like this stamped on lifeless things,
Final words of the King of Kings,
The mighty ruler Ozymandias.

Ozymandias...

Ozymandias..
This is just to say

I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert

and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand

Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
Hard to find stuff that has a bit more energy and 'tactileness' than lo-fi or standard chill-out playlists while not making me think of beaches and instead is a little cosier in vibe.
Please help #musicsky and #music folks.

I have a playlist below that is just some of my favourite creamy, chill music.

I love it but it's got a summer vibe and I'm trying to make a more Icecreamy beats for a more winter vibe and having a hard time finding songs.

open.spotify.com/playlist/1FA...
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Ozymandias is 100% the best theme and variations (or...meme and variations?) poem.

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I heard there stood two legs of stone,
Honoring his works unkown,
But you dont care for statues standing trunkless.

Well it goes like this stamped on lifeless things,
Final words of the King of Kings,
The mighty ruler Ozymandias.

Ozymandias...

Ozymandias..
This is just to say

I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert

and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand

Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
Ah god I love this.

Used to love it when my parents would put it on in the car while driving around the countryside.

*Two slightly...distorted guitars*
tbh when I look back at my music undergrad compositions at that age, it's like I thought it was a requirement to write in funky time signatures and sub-divisions lol.
It's not great that as a field, we seem to be unable to unify or even agree on the important features of a paradigm as straightforward as an oddball task.

The more perceptual the paper the better it seems to be but still... We should have a pretty consistent idea on what it should be lol.
Remember when people used to say "oh, better put in the work because generations after you will be raised with computers and will have a huge advantage?"

Yeah....
"If you don't do this work for us, we will stop asking you to do this work for us"

A bold negotiation tactic.
I really can't sing and play at the same time but I thought it was too fun to not try it
I heard there stood two legs of stone,
Honoring his works unkown,
But you dont care for statues standing trunkless.

Well it goes like this stamped on lifeless things,
Final words of the King of Kings,
The mighty ruler Ozymandias.

Ozymandias...

Ozymandias..
This is just to say

I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert

and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand

Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
Getting stuck in local pergaminima or just regular pergatory?
Fantastic.
Which reminds me of this old classic on the Noise Miners.

“'Noise mining is a funny thing,' he said. 'When you first see a bit of noise, it doesn’t look so impressive. But as you work it out of the rock, it gets more and more refined.' This process, he explained, is called 'shucking.'"
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
I'm starting to think that maybe academics just aren't very clever.... There's no other explanation for some of the stuff I see.
Economics does the same, but they have established quite wide-ranging evidence that doing so creates "alphabetic discrimination" in which there are career and publication advantages to those with names at the start of the alphabet. See, eg: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
The Effects of Listing Authors in Alphabetical Order: A Review of the Empirical Evidence
Each time researchers jointly write an article, a decision must be made about the order in which the authors are listed. There are two main norms for doing so.
dx.doi.org
Some pretty good skies this evening