Nick Shelbourne

@Shelbournator

Cognitive science, philosophy and psychotherapy explorer. Studying an MSc in Experimental Psychology at University of Bristol. Tweets unaffiliated.

Joined April 2017

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  1. Nowcasting and forecasting Corona - Lancet journal - Doubling infections every 6.4 days - Reports on 25 Jan off by a factor of 100 (true number est 75815)

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    Jan 31

    I collected some free resources for learning computational neuroscience on my website. Please feel free to share with others and to send me suggestions.

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    Jan 29
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    Jan 29

    I'm thinking about putting together a document with links to lots of good, freely available resources for learning comp neuro. What would everyone suggest? Top of my head, I know about the Gerstner textbook, INCF training spaces, and notes just posted. What else?

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    Jan 28

    More on the free energy principle and active inference, with a schematic way of interpreting internalist vs anti-representational stances on one axis and the importance of life to construct a theory for cognition on the other

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    Jan 25

    GPT-2 is a test of empiricism. GOFAI was a test of nativism. So far, they have both failed. Solution: neuro-symbolic approaches exhibit the best of both worlds. Prior world knowledge to reason compositionally, alongside flexibility to generalize to new experiences

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    Jan 23

    An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience The hopes that ever more detailed brain mapping would make function easier to understand are fading

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    When presented with *human* toys, female *monkeys* play more with typically feminine toys, whereas male *monkeys* play more with masculine toys. In human & nonhuman primates, females have a greater interest in infants, and males in rough-and-tumble play.

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    No serious observer denies that human beings are making the planet warmer. The real climate debate is about how we should respond to the challenge, writes . via

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    Jan 22

    I wrote about vengeance, morality, Nietzsche, Foucault, Girard, antisemitism as the theme of my childhood, and why everyone is much too cavalier with the assumption that anger contains within it a natural or reasonable endpoint.

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    Jan 22

    Anglosphere nations are the most generous. Ranking of countries by % of GDP donated to charity: 1. US (1.44%) 2. New Zealand (.79%) 3. Canada (.77%) 4. United Kingdom (.54%) 5. South Korea (.50%) 12. Japan (.12%) 18. France (.11%) 24. China (.03%)

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    Jan 22

    Let me guess... tiny sample, no specific hypotheses, enormous number of variables and covariates mined, no replication sample?

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    Jan 21
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    J, that author and book got it’s inspiration from a book: “Human Sin or Social Sin.” It Went through a ten-year peer review and now 98% of neuroscientists no longer believe in free will. Ask EO Wilson. – at Tastefully British

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    What are some communities, people, companies, games, books, films, etc. that have naturally attracted & connected very bright, curious, interesting + generally optimistic people? I'm thinking , , 's books, , the nerdier side of crypto

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    Jan 20

    Cues that predict reward activate dopamine neurons but the function of this response remained unclear. This study demonstrates that inhibiting dopamine cue responses impairs second-order conditioning as predicted from TD learning theory. Elegant study!

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    MLK was, among all else, a supple & non-dogmatic intellectual. "My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence" recounts his reading of Enlightenment thinkers, discomfort w Marx & Nietzsche, appreciation of both sides of human nature, discovery of Gandhi, much else.

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    Jan 17

    Our new paper: We used human intracranial recordings to confirm the unique functional profiles of major "intrinsic" brain networks (default mode, dorsal attention, salience) and revealed their dynamic relationships with behavioral fluctuations

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    Jan 16

    You know how Jared Diamond kinda makes things up, skips well-known facts (people like Yali were renowned experts not randos) + emphasizes things selectively that support his point? Yet people still love Guns, Germs, & Steel? OK what should I recommend that people read instead?

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