NeuroCoder

I thought they had all sorts of in breeding going on in royal lines. That does tend to cause somes issues including mental ones.

There's a lot of interesting things we can do with haptics since they're relatively cheap to put in stuff. Hopefully accessibility gets the software and applications further along soon

I can't speak for others, but when I've discussed the work of peers or even my own work I try to be very careful about not overstating the results. It's far too easy for a lay audience to take such comparisons and run amok.

As for your latter point, I doubt that most scientists studying animals are the ones against preventative measures in regards to extinction. There are plenty of ethical reasons to prevent extinction of a species without ascribing human characteristics.

There are far too few neuro + medicine + CS people. Being able to coordinate research in two of those happens now days we need all three.

They do say they plan to verify findings in primates as well so perhaps the accomplishment here is more concerning the methodology. So there me be some greater merit to this work going forward.

I think it would be more interesting for this kind of study to verify these measures that can only be obtained in animals with neuroimaging. There have been some interesting attempts to move monitor aspects of CSF flow through MRI but we need to make sure we are measuring what we think we are before using in the clinic

It's just supposed to add shock value that it's not someone you'd typically think of as a murderer. The news does stuff like this all the time. I think I saw one that was something like "PTA president sent to jail for...".

Dermatologists probably aren't going to use this. Primary care in rural areas is the best application for this.

Just realized that these release notes are missing added support for public use of atomic pointer ops. Julia has had support for atomic operations for a while in various forms but now users can use `unsafe_load`, `unsafe_store!`, `unsafe_swap!`, `unsafe_replace!`, and `unsafe_modify!` with an `order` argument.

I'm not going to touch most of the stuff you brought up here, but I do think it's worth pointing out that the first psychotic episode revealing something like schizophrenia has long term side effects. Not just socially but also in terms of physical differences in brain structure. These severe episodes can actually be closely monitored and prevent for some people. So there is a very real opportunity to do good here

Exactly. I can usually keep things on my desktop fast with Electron apps still but they eat my battery like no ones business.

The problem with using AI to filter and denoise is that the things we clearly know are unwanted noise are more quickly removed through other means (I can run the fully automated part of processing EEG data in under an hour with my code). The laborious part is quality control related to more subjective things that research is still figuring out what is important.

I missed that study and that is a brilliant way of blinding participants for this sort of thing.

Most common first line treatments for depression don't show any effect for weeks so this is a valid criticism. Things like Xanax for anxiety have an immediate effect though so it's not like we don't deal with this sort of thing.

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This is a really good point. There are a lot of really odd outcomes these mice models consistently produce but we don't know what causes them and/or don't care because it's not within the scope of the primary research question

I really wish they wouldn't call it the second brain. It's very misleading given how the enteric system works in comparison to the brain.

That sentence also seemed awkward to me

I'd be surprised if anyone that regularly reads from cell doesn't know what isoleucine is

I was just adding onto why we should be skeptical. I'm assuming this was published because it's hard to find data like this, not because the results were spectacular

They also say "Because of the relatively small sample size, we did not make corrections for multiple comparisons.".

I don't think that means this should be dismissed entirely because you accomplish what you can with the data available to you. It's extremely hard to conduct studies of specialized populations and if we waited for the perfect conditions nothing would get done. We should just be careful not to make any strong opinions based on this study alone.

I wish the paper put more emphasis on understanding the mechanism driving the outcome than the implications of the outcomes. It's great to discuss the practical utility of findings such as organizational and employment practices (because it's easy to dismiss research otherwise), but remarkably little time is spent actually discussing how their data reflects things like diffusion of responsibility brought up in the introduction.

I might be missing something here. What does this have to do with this article concerning ASD and the bystander effect.

I find this article interesting because I've often had a different view on authority and social norms than my peers growing up. I think there's a lot to be gained by identifying what qualities in a leader and society are actually pragmatic. However, I really dislike how it leans into autism vs neurotypical. It sounds like an "us vs them" assessment where "us" is smarter than "them", which is hard to ignore and represented in many of the comments here.

Although there are many things I continue to push back on, I've begun to appreciate the value of some norms as I get older. I don't think my acceptance of any of things in isolation is a good indication of how smart I was at any given moment in time.

This article should probably be read through a more emotional lens than one of hard facts. Articles like this are littered with very specific details that don't accurately apply to many of the people in the group being described, but are perhaps accurate in spirit. It's also a common pitfall to advocate for ones own group at the expense of another group.

The problem is that it works by simply messing up structural integrity and isn't very specific. Skin is durable and resistant to this but our insides aren't.

When mental health is so bad it messes with work and personal relations one may feel obligated to share. When things start going well there's no need to explain what's going on. I've seen many that it works for and some where they just had to keep looking at other options.

I think there's a Julia forum thread where they are casually benchmarking comparisons between the two. Not sure if it is still active though.

It really depends on what you mean by that. In terms of this article, the gut biome would have to be changed by that. There are definitely different things people do in preparation for anal sex that could change that environment but I'm not sure how much anal sex itself actually changes that. This doesn't account for STDs that have been known to involve the nervous system for a long time already.

It's amazing how quickly I recognized eBay descending into this sort of stuff from its inception. Maybe Amazon did so quickly too, but it's so obviously scummy that even as a teenager I got this impression. Kudos to you for going the extra mile

Mitochondria are at the center of a lot of key processes in general. They play an important role in regulating cell death and free radicals in the body. They also play a role that is still being studied in what membrane receptors are transported to the surface in neurons.

There's a lot that intersects at the mitochondria making it common across many pathogenesis and a very delicate system to interfere with (not ideal for intervention)