Eli Sennesh
@elisennesh.bsky.social
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Eli Sennesh
@elisennesh.bsky.social
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Eli Sennesh: Oscillations, but not Spike Rates, Encode Predictive Processing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Talk by Eli Sennesh of Vanderbilt University. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley.Abstract: The appearance at the...
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Had a great time visiting Berkeley's Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience!
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Instead of forcing all Jewish Israelis to abnegate their existence and apologize for surviving (same for Palestinians btw), we should be promoting cross narrative dialogue and work that says “no one is going anywhere, how do we live in this one tiny slice of earth without killing each other.”
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Instead of forcing all Jewish Israelis to abnegate their existence and apologize for surviving (same for Palestinians btw), we should be promoting cross narrative dialogue and work that says “no one is going anywhere, how do we live in this one tiny slice of earth without killing each other.”
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taste is an extremely important thing because of how much of the authoritarian AI revolution is fundamentally about aesthetics.
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
taste is an extremely important thing because of how much of the authoritarian AI revolution is fundamentally about aesthetics.
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Why not everything in manufacturing is automated (yet)
Every few weeks I see someone wondering why so little of manufacturing, particularly in the United States, is automated. There are tons of reasons why, but it's still very difficult to set up robots to succeed: open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
Every few weeks I see someone wondering why so little of manufacturing, particularly in the United States, is automated. There are tons of reasons why, but it's still very difficult to set up robots to succeed: open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Why not everything in manufacturing is automated (yet)
Every few weeks I see someone wondering why so little of manufacturing, particularly in the United States, is automated. There are tons of reasons why, but it's still very difficult to set up robots to succeed: open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
Every few weeks I see someone wondering why so little of manufacturing, particularly in the United States, is automated. There are tons of reasons why, but it's still very difficult to set up robots to succeed: open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...
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anything that assumes control of individual behavior is simply not going to work in america. americans are very defensive of their private spheres. social distancing largely was a bottom-up process when it worked
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
anything that assumes control of individual behavior is simply not going to work in america. americans are very defensive of their private spheres. social distancing largely was a bottom-up process when it worked
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the vaccine and the economic response were the only things about pandemic response that weren't screwed up, which I think tells us a lot
"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
the vaccine and the economic response were the only things about pandemic response that weren't screwed up, which I think tells us a lot
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One might ask, gee, has he acknowledged he was really fucking wrong now that we're gearing up for Operation Fuck Venezuela?
Reader, he hasn't even referenced the fact we're about to do Iraq War 2: Clear And Stupid Danger *once* (I also searched other related terms with nothing, too)
Reader, he hasn't even referenced the fact we're about to do Iraq War 2: Clear And Stupid Danger *once* (I also searched other related terms with nothing, too)
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
One might ask, gee, has he acknowledged he was really fucking wrong now that we're gearing up for Operation Fuck Venezuela?
Reader, he hasn't even referenced the fact we're about to do Iraq War 2: Clear And Stupid Danger *once* (I also searched other related terms with nothing, too)
Reader, he hasn't even referenced the fact we're about to do Iraq War 2: Clear And Stupid Danger *once* (I also searched other related terms with nothing, too)
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The VP of our country went on television and explained that the fascist viewpoint on housing is to oppose building new housing, scapegoat immigrants, and pretend that you can solve homelessness by arresting people and re-distributing their now empty homes to "by rights" Americans.
sometimes you just need to take a step back and marvel at the absurdity that is the left-NIMBY mindset
these are not normal, rational people. they have descended into a bespoke form of madness
these are not normal, rational people. they have descended into a bespoke form of madness
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The VP of our country went on television and explained that the fascist viewpoint on housing is to oppose building new housing, scapegoat immigrants, and pretend that you can solve homelessness by arresting people and re-distributing their now empty homes to "by rights" Americans.
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I really want to I interrogate what these people understand and think about Hitler.
sometimes you just need to take a step back and marvel at the absurdity that is the left-NIMBY mindset
these are not normal, rational people. they have descended into a bespoke form of madness
these are not normal, rational people. they have descended into a bespoke form of madness
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I really want to I interrogate what these people understand and think about Hitler.
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so one half of this is that AI critics tend to be very delusional about the technology going away. but boosters are likely to be remembered in a way akin to, say, a fin de siecle personality that glossed over triangle shirtwaist fire
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
so one half of this is that AI critics tend to be very delusional about the technology going away. but boosters are likely to be remembered in a way akin to, say, a fin de siecle personality that glossed over triangle shirtwaist fire
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I think its worth noting by way of comparison that we have all of the technologies created in the mid to late 19th century but very little of the social, economic, and political conditions surrounding them in their time period would be recognizable to us. They were shockingly perverse
Idk on one hand the user numbers speak for themselves, but I do wonder what users are doing with their sessions and whether they’d be willing to pay, and whether ppl would really resist strong regulations
Like…these recent Gallup poll numbers are not good for AI
news.gallup.com/poll/694688/...
Like…these recent Gallup poll numbers are not good for AI
news.gallup.com/poll/694688/...
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I think its worth noting by way of comparison that we have all of the technologies created in the mid to late 19th century but very little of the social, economic, and political conditions surrounding them in their time period would be recognizable to us. They were shockingly perverse
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Ads for Medicare advantage. After the break they’ve pivoted from being mad at Lizzo to being mad at trans women. It’s just so crazy whenever I have to catch this shit in the wild, they really are who you hear they are
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Ads for Medicare advantage. After the break they’ve pivoted from being mad at Lizzo to being mad at trans women. It’s just so crazy whenever I have to catch this shit in the wild, they really are who you hear they are
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Thrilled to share our new paper!
With @tomtom-auer.bsky.social team, we asked how #evolution reshapes what animals #eat to match their ecological niches. Using pan-neuronal Ca2+ imaging, we show that the changes are in how the brain processes #taste.
Link @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With @tomtom-auer.bsky.social team, we asked how #evolution reshapes what animals #eat to match their ecological niches. Using pan-neuronal Ca2+ imaging, we show that the changes are in how the brain processes #taste.
Link @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evolution of taste processing shifts dietary preference - Nature
Calcium imaging of taste neurons and the ventral brain provides insight into evolutionary divergence of food choice in Drosophila species, supporting a role of sensorimotor processing in addition to p...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper!
With @tomtom-auer.bsky.social team, we asked how #evolution reshapes what animals #eat to match their ecological niches. Using pan-neuronal Ca2+ imaging, we show that the changes are in how the brain processes #taste.
Link @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With @tomtom-auer.bsky.social team, we asked how #evolution reshapes what animals #eat to match their ecological niches. Using pan-neuronal Ca2+ imaging, we show that the changes are in how the brain processes #taste.
Link @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Left austerity will be a disaster
i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Left austerity will be a disaster
>tfw you "go back to Poland" www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...
‘Poland is for Poles not Jews,’ Polish MP at Auschwitz | The Jerusalem Post
Braun, the head of the Confederation of the Polish Crown party, made the comments on Saturday amid news of the Polish government’s plans to adopt a resolution combating antisemitism.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
>tfw you "go back to Poland" www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...
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scorn was an effective weapon for the monkey jpeg NFT shit because it was effectively a status good, generative AI is a tool that millions get utility out of daily and you can't sneer your way out of that.
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
scorn was an effective weapon for the monkey jpeg NFT shit because it was effectively a status good, generative AI is a tool that millions get utility out of daily and you can't sneer your way out of that.
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I wish Democrats, even in TN, could realize that in a contest for an urban district, they are running to represent urban constituents, and should not say that they hate us. nypost.com/2025/11/26/u...
Tennessee Democrat who said she hates Nashville, country music is neck-and-neck with Republican in special House race: poll
A closely watched special House election in a Tennessee district President Trump won by 22 percentage points last year is turning into a nail-biter, according to a stunning new poll.
nypost.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I wish Democrats, even in TN, could realize that in a contest for an urban district, they are running to represent urban constituents, and should not say that they hate us. nypost.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Imagine going through life like this
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Imagine going through life like this
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This also contains perhaps my first piece of criticism of American government policy and im curious if those in the know think I am correct
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This also contains perhaps my first piece of criticism of American government policy and im curious if those in the know think I am correct
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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This isn't a foreign psy-op, and it's not the product of social media bots. It's a homegrown menace, and it's getting worse. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This isn't a foreign psy-op, and it's not the product of social media bots. It's a homegrown menace, and it's getting worse. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Read this inspiring perspectives coauthored by the Worm Resource directors and worm Nobel Laureates! 4 Nobel Prizes and how they were enabled by major NIH-supported research resources (the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, WormBase, and WormAtlas) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Read this inspiring perspectives coauthored by the Worm Resource directors and worm Nobel Laureates! 4 Nobel Prizes and how they were enabled by major NIH-supported research resources (the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, WormBase, and WormAtlas) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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I've always loved the openness and collegiality of our C. elegans community 🪱, but this perspective really helps emphasize just *how important* those traits are for scientific progress. A true tribute to how curiosity-driven science leads to innovation! 🙌
Read this inspiring perspectives coauthored by the Worm Resource directors and worm Nobel Laureates! 4 Nobel Prizes and how they were enabled by major NIH-supported research resources (the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, WormBase, and WormAtlas) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I've always loved the openness and collegiality of our C. elegans community 🪱, but this perspective really helps emphasize just *how important* those traits are for scientific progress. A true tribute to how curiosity-driven science leads to innovation! 🙌
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No, America's rising anti-Semitism is not an online illusion created by foreign-run social media accounts on X. I wrote about how this comforting fiction is contradicted by real world events and survey data. Foreigners can fan the flames, but they didn't start the fire. We did. Gift link:
People Are Underestimating America’s Groyper Problem
Rising American anti-Semitism isn’t a foreign influence operation.
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
No, America's rising anti-Semitism is not an online illusion created by foreign-run social media accounts on X. I wrote about how this comforting fiction is contradicted by real world events and survey data. Foreigners can fan the flames, but they didn't start the fire. We did. Gift link: