Full survey results show American public have high levels of confidence in scientists while revealing some partisan differences (including on how to fund science), but statements asserting lost trust should be read instead as intentional efforts to degrade trust.

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Great article and thanks for writing. FWIW I think it is also worth pointing out the exciting pace of DBS innovations for therapies driven by basic neuroscience.

It was a wonderful inspiration teaching an early Champalimaud course with Adam many years ago. Watching him assemble a sophisticated data acquisition rig in an afternoon and basking in his incredible joy and excitement for discoveries to come. Rest in peace Adam.

Just to say I very much agree at least with the general perspective you are offering.

Which greatly refined a proposal in some prior work that generative models are needed to explain behavior well www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am very much in favor, we just put out a recent preprint thinking about learning to navigate from the perspective of generative models of trajectories www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

+1. LLMs have taught me two things about myself. More of my thought is prob search like than I appreciate. And more of my language use turns on good sounding statistical structure than I realized. “Poetics” in Weathersby’s terminology. I do hope in both cases it is less than _all_ of what I do…

Fascinating. I appreciate the detailed description. I agree modern LLMs are amazing and the work here is really interesting. The last bit: There are different ways to think, a subset resemble search imo. A few things you say above do feel like search over existing code (eg must be in numpy not Jax)