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Amazing! Congratulations!

There are certainly other good solutions to multi-animal tracking that DIPLOMAT does not yet implement--like finding visual differences between animals. All code is open source (github.com/TravisWheele...) and these features could be easily incoporated or used alongside the algorithms packaged here.

How it works: instead of finding body parts within frames and then knitting these across frames, DIPLOMAT applies a hidden Markov model (Viterbi algorithm) that traces body parts through a video. We use the same movement and skeletal information as other tools, but as HMM transition probabilities.

Perhaps most useful is that DIPLOMAT is designed to make manual edits much more efficient: multiple body parts can be corrected with a single click and, once corrected, re-traced across frames.

With DIPLOMAT, you can still use models trained in DeepLabCut or SLEAP!

But the algorithms also improve tracking (fewer body-swaps, better recall and precision)--even when body parts are occluded.

"Emotion" vs "affective state" sounds like a fun example of how psychological constructs are clustered hierarchically. Would be interested if anyone takes this up in an articulate and compelling way.

Not an expert, but I take this issue up in my intro neuro course. We walk through ~8 definitions and examine where they fail. We then put these together into our own, including "usual" causes (perceived valence) and "typical" consequences (visceral, also facial/vocal expressions).

Thanks for this!
On writing: I remember Tulving saying that he admired and was inspired by Hartline's paper on lateral inhibition for its writing. From all the written history about Tulving and his influences, this isn't something one might easily guess.

Oh so now we are in a parasocial friendship?

Cool!

Didn't catch that, thank you.

Will add "toothpaste related crime" to the landscape of imagined futures

Earnest question: can't kids get their fluoride by regularly eating a small amount of their toothpaste?

To borrow from Alan Moore "Uglier than death backin' outta the outhouse readin' mad magazine and crazy as a football bat."

Awesome!!
(Incidentally, one of my favorite topics!
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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I did that. Cured the boredom. Aged twice as fast but tripled life meaning--overall win.