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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · 7d

I think I’ve spent too long looking at linear algebra that I thought this donut shop was celebrating the pseudo-inverse of 90 years.

A yellow box for LaMar’s Donuts and Coffee. Top line reads “Celebrating 90+ Years” but the plus sign is superscript, the notation for a pseudo-inverse.

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 11d

Well don't I feel stupid

A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · 14d

Do it for the job security, or the mountain view. I’m not judging!

Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 16d

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 16d

a big hamburger

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 20d

Just saw Mario turned 40 this week and so, once again, I present to you: the first level of Super Mario but all the sound effects are farts.

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · 20d

At some point either cause VC funders or other realise this is a complete waste of money or AI growth falters in another way, its going to make the dot-com crash look like a picnic in comparison?

👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · 20d

Why do I point this out? Well in the US, the dogma of hyperscaling to make the next big leap in model performance means capital expenditure on AI was larger than all consumer spending this year.

finance.yahoo.com/news/spendin...

Spending on AI data centers is so massive that it’s taken a bigger chunk of GDP growth than shopping—and it could crash the American economy

As Rusty Foster, author of the widely read media blog Today in Tabs, puts it: “Our economy might just be three AI data centers in a trench coat.”

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · 20d

I wouldn't normally link to an AI paper but the DeepSeek paper in Nature has one astonishing stat in the supplementary. The cost to train on top of the base LLM was below $300k. I think the cost of the original model was only 10x more.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning - Nature

A new artificial intelligence model, DeepSeek-R1, is introduced, demonstrating that the reasoning abilities of large language models can be incentivized through pure reinforcement learning, removing t...

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · 20d

RIP CTF system, ur wiv the angles now.

👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · 21d

You can tell SPM is uncomfortable about turning 30, it’s spent all year telling everyone it’s 25!

Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · 22d

A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issue

Issues | Cerebral Cortex | Oxford Academic

Publishes papers on the development, organization, plasticity, and function of the cerebral cortex, including the hippocampus.

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · 23d

Having flashbacks of using that back in 2013 (I think) when it would only update once every second on our ancient hardware!

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · 23d

Laurent is fantastic to work with and never short of inspiring ideas. Please apply or spread the word!

Laurent Sheybani @laurentsheybani.bsky.social · 23d

We are hiring !

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I am looking for a motivated person interested in a PhD in basic neuroscience, for a project at the edge between epilepsy and sleep.

If you are interested, check the job announcement:
jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

Assistant-e (A2) (6548)

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Sep 8

Are we allowed to post Dave Grohl anymore, just trying to work out which of my teenage listening habits I am allowed to talk about.

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Sep 8

We've got a very jet-lagged niece staying with us for a fortnight, so this will be me for the forseeable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhdC...

Dave Grohl in FRESH POTS!

YouTube video by themcrookedvultures

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · May 16

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Sep 5

What a first six seconds for the Eagles, an injury and a sending off!

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Aug 7

Its a complex feeling to receive two papers in the same week for comments, both including authors who sadly passed away too soon in 2025. Hopefully these papers in small part help their names echo though the ages that little longer.

👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Aug 6

Turns out instead of just voxel and world coordinates, there's a secret third way too?

👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Aug 6

I've got 99 problems and they are all related to how FreeSurfer stores mesh data.

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Jul 23

One thing I wasn't expecting to have regularly to look up is what the Americans call paracetamol.

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Jul 22

Pleased to see this paper finally published. We investigated which conductive models are appropriate for source analysis of spine electrophysiology. Turns out modelling the bone is quite important! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Volume conductor models for magnetospinography - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Volume conductor models for magnetospinography

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Jul 22

No problem, happy to answer more questions if you have any!

👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Jul 22

You are correct. Typically the spherical symmetry of the head (and that fact radial sources are silent) means we can approximate the head without considering the skull. It’s a nice to have in MEG where it might be essential for MSG due to the morphology.

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👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thanks!

👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Jul 22

Pleased to see this paper finally published. We investigated which conductive models are appropriate for source analysis of spine electrophysiology. Turns out modelling the bone is quite important! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Volume conductor models for magnetospinography - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Volume conductor models for magnetospinography

www.nature.com

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