One of the weirdest parts of being on the internet today is the rush of advertising masquerading as “content” in the form of reviews, articles, backstories, etc that get generated whenever something needs to be uh… advertised. This used to be purely a political thing, we’d get bombarded decades ago with a bunch of different …
One of my girls is really fascinated with a game character called “Pou“. If you haven’t seen this game, it’s based around a weird brown trianglish character that you have to take care of like a Talking Tom game. It feels exactly like a cheap knock off of some more popular item you’d find on …
One of the (too many) projects I’ve been working on for a bit is automating a hydroponic growing system with a focus on individual level use but easy replication for lots of individuals. So a grow system for every home, but easy to make and deploy in a lot of homes. One of the cool …
Subcortical and cerebellar volume differences in bilingual and monolingual children: An ABCD study – brain explodes. I have so many thoughts about this. First, this suggests that native bilinguals store less of their object representation information in the DCN/cerebellum, and more of their object information in limbic/cerebral areas. HOW COOL IS THAT? The idea that language learning …
I guess there’s two different paths this was pushing along, the first was that “time” doesn’t really exist like we perceive it or talk about it in most physics models, it’s a property we derive from causality. And we like causality because it appears, thus far, to be an inviolable universal constant. Rather than “time”, …
Time perception as a function of integration “staple” density Read More »
Something I can’t really wrap my head around the last couple of days is the gravity of what it means if “autism” related genes are experiencing a selective sweep right now. If you’re familiar with the current astronomical definition of a planet, a selective sweep is similar to the “clears it’s own orbit” requirement.
