To be fair, players like van de Ven deserve so much better (just look at Kane!)

Perhaps, but what about all the Tottenham players ,eh? Go #Arsenal!

This is a strange, and exhilarating, feeling - #Arsenal are actually consistently good!

May her memory be a blessing.

This is a nicely detailed explanation! But when people express frustration with low-D dynamics, I think it is exactly what you say this paper disproves: the notion that variance explained is a proxy for the important parts of neural computation

Oh no, rest in power, Mr. Cliff.

Of course! I'm whining here as an interested (but incompletely informed!) observer who is sometimes dismayed by the jarring simplifications from the non-human primate motor community (I still heed warning lessons from my long-ago PhD supervisor Eb Fetz!).

Yes, but I'd like to think if someone points out that my original surprise wasn't a surprise, I'd stop being surprised and quit dwelling on the "surprising" phenomenon.

Wait, I thought the Gao/Ganguli preprint showed (cautioned) that it is NOT a surprise when the behavior itself is low dimensional in the "many studies" you invoke?

I'm afraid music is purely for listening - haven't tried to connect it to neuroscience. Sadly, didn't know about the Huron book, but will check it out!

Wow, this post made me go listen to Jazz Abstractions again - used to listen to it a lot when I discovered it in the 1990s when I started getting into jazz seriously!

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