James Wu

@analogist_net

Engineer, neuroscientist. Building better neuroscience tools . PhD from . He/him. Opinions my own. Every little thing matters.

Duwamish land
Joined May 2014

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    3 Jul 2018

    In honor of 's thread on the *visual* quirks of our brains, let's talk about "how bullshit insane our brains are": sensory and motor systems edition.

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  2. Jan 27

    More important than ever, now: you can take facts about a culture — authentic heartfelt stories, even — and still use selection and cherry picking to fuel a racist narrative.

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  3. Jan 13

    Literally every time you look under any human invention you think is boring and take for granted, it’s always black magic

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  4. Jan 11

    Did you ever need a random integer in bash, /dev/urandom is just tantalizingly there but it's full bytes, and every easy bash snippet with modulo gives a biased distribution? Here's a bash function that only needs GNU userland (bash, bc, head, xxd)

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  5. Jan 8

    Amazing survey from of colloquial Chinese phrases around the word "death". Cultures approach the word with tremendously diversity - critical when thinking about non-Anglocentric policies around threats, harassment, etc.

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  6. Jan 8

    Does get to win some sort of award for bringing live to the real world

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  7. Retweeted
    29 Jun 2018

    friendly reminder since this is going around again: DO NOT EAT THE RICH! it's called bio-magnification, people! the rich are at the top of the food chain, so they accumulate toxins from their food at a greatly increased rate. Instead, /compost/ the rich.

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  8. Retweeted

    Today ICE + CBP will begin a pilot program to harvest DNA from immigration detainees. "CBP will begin collecting DNA from any person in CBP custody who is subject to fingerprinting...include aliens as well as U.S. citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents."

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  9. Jan 5

    If you’ve never wondered why it’s called a banana republic See (today Chiquita) and (today Dole)

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  10. Jan 5

    At the same time, think about the fact that our most popular fruit is a single disease-prone cloned monoculture *tropical fruit* that must use custom container ships, for which we killed and enslaved in multiple wars on numerous plantations

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  11. Jan 5

    Dear 1.5+ gen east Asian-American Seattleites: If you stay complacent and complicit and “don’t talk politics” like you disproportionally do, don’t complain when you’re next. If you have any doubt, just visit any Japanese-American business on Jackson St.

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  12. Jan 5

    BANANA FACTS (A banana shipping logistics thread)

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  13. 13 Dec 2019

    PSA: HMAC-SHA512-256 is, in fact, not HMAC-SHA512/256. Lest you lose an hour wondering where the problem was.

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  14. Retweeted
    9 Dec 2019

    Congratulations to Tim Brown () on the successful defense of his dissertation: “Modulating Agency: the Moral & Aesthetic Import of Closed-Loop Deep-Brain Stimulation.” Well done, Tim!

    Tim Brown and his committee members smiling.
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    9 Dec 2019
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  16. 8 Dec 2019
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  17. 8 Dec 2019

    IUCN (the intl org that classifies endangered species) published its ocean deoxygenation report this week at . My partner did a huge amount of work to lead author a chapter on tuna & billfish impact, with and others. Read:

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  18. 1 Dec 2019

    We went to the longhouse market today and found this incredible “Bear & Black Snake” painting of defiance and resilience by Native artist

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  19. 10 Nov 2019

    Amazing snark about the parasitic gatekeepers of the for-profit science publishing industry.

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  20. 30 Oct 2019

    Neuropsychology of Witchcraft and Macbeth with at

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  21. 25 Oct 2019

    Every time I come back from a trip and clean my phone, I remember back to Hitchhiker’s guide, where Ark B contained “useless” careerists, like telephone sanitizers and management consultants, and I’m like... WAIT I AM A TELEPHONE SANITIZER

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