Caesar Ekya

Engineer, restaurateur (@eatsmac), father of 2, aspiring Cognitive Neuroscientist (@GC_CUNY).
Blue sky:

[Manisha Pande @MnshaP]

Free birds or civic nuisance? Why Indian tourists are hated worldwide

Since Indian tourists are back in the news, do read this excellent piece by @confusedvichar. I am a little sympathetic towards this much-hated species 🥲

https://t.co/IPsp4v0wcQ

[Vishal Misra @vishalmisra]

Last summer I was advocating for BCCI to let emerging stars like Vaibhav to play in the @MLCricket. Fair to say he has now emerged and that ship has sailed 😀
(when I said what is he doing in summer anyway - Manoj Badale - the owner of RR quipped “probably playing lego”)

[Mike Wang @zmwang]

The fact that y’all still came, dropped off the kimchi pani puri. Printed out “how to’s”. Made a few with us and did a pani puri cheers, all amidst the emergency, is simply heroic.

Thank you for sharing your love.

[Caesar Ekya @CaesarEkya]

@KordingLab @ylecun I have noticed this in my life too. When I come across a new idea my mind immediately goes to "what could I do with this". What problem am I grappling with in my life that this could be applied to. Going back to school has made this very apparent.

[Julianne McShane @JulianneMcShane]

Peak/rare wholesome nyc moment: little kid on subway playing rock paper scissors with stranger sitting across from him and the whole car cheering when the kid won 🥹🚊🗽

[Luiz Pessoa @PessoaBrain]

𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘀𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀??
I've shared book suggestions on the brain, conceptual foundations of biology, and much more. Check out the collection. (not perfect at this point).
https://t.co/zJVbTvvkA5

[Steve Maren 🐀🧠💭😨 @StephenMaren]

🧠🧐🤔🐭Decision making in primary sensory cortex?? Fascinating new work by @BeckmanIllinois neuroscience researchers!

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Our brains don’t think in a steady stream. They rhythmically “scan” different alternatives, using attention cycles to sample and compare choices.
Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain
https://t.co/zqJ6r0TxhP
#neuroscience

[Caesar Ekya @CaesarEkya]

This is amazing!

[tmuxvim @tmuxvim]

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

[Caesar Ekya @CaesarEkya]

@gauravsabnis @himganj153 not your level of cookery but this is how I get a family of 4 fed in under 30 minutes. Thank God for frozen vegetables 😁.

[Caesar Ekya @CaesarEkya]

@gauravsabnis Sausage tastes really good in a daal, any daal.

[Daniel Anthes @AnthesDaniel]

Excited about our new preprint: “The illusory simplicity of the feedforward pass: evidence for the dynamical nature of stimulus encoding along the primate ventral stream”

https://t.co/IbtXBTQb5t

Work with Sushrut Thorat, Anna Mitola, Paolo Papale, Peter König & Tim Kietzmann

[Caesar Ekya @CaesarEkya]

@mrgnk @gauravsabnis Oh interesting - I need to try this charcoal process next time I have a cookout.

[Keith Frankish @keithfrankish]

This may be my best paper on consciousness. It's certainly a good introduction to my view of it. Open access. https://t.co/cxvlyRmvjX

[D Prasanth Nair @DPrasanthNair]

Tom Cruise as Rajesh Khanna, Brad Pitt as Sujit Kumar and Julia Roberts as Sharmila Tagore
Only Darjeeling Train is same.

Thanks to AI

Enjoy

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

And even perfect randomization doesn't fix generalizability. Gratitude interventions raise happiness in the US but decreased it in South Korea (Layous 2013). Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) samples aren't humanity.

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

Many of us were taught that experiments are for testing hypotheses. In Ch 1 of Experimentology, our open methods textbook, my coauthors and I argue for something different: experiments are for estimating the magnitude of causal effects.

I think this reframe matters. 🧵

[Himanish Ganjoo @himganj153]

Using a combination of ball tracking, shot data, and biomechanics for the first time, I try to illuminate the methods and dynamics behind Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. Was great fun writing this, first time delving into batting technique.

Please read and share!

https://t.co/c9aSaGAP7B

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

This will be my Mumbai New York connect master 🧵 about my 2 bae bay cities.

Where I compile historic overlaps & parallels I've noticed over the years.

1. Manhattan means Girgaon! Literally! Both names mean Hilly Place in Munsee & Marathi respectively. Hills mostly gone.