jorge yanar

PhD candidate in the @brody_lab at @princetonneuro, studying how the brain maintains and compares.

[jorge yanar @jgyanar]

@Ikuperwajs @weijima01 This is really cool! Looking forward to reading

[Dr. Emily Jane Dennis @emilyjanedennis]

Out today! @zamakany and I contributed a review on foraging and our vision for bringing together multiple approaches to better understand behavior

https://t.co/5RWoOI6dCr

[jorge yanar @jgyanar]

@mbeisen They had a good run. What a game

[jorge yanar @jgyanar]

@zamakany Don’t know how I missed this when it was first posted. Will give it a read today!

[jorge yanar @jgyanar]

woke up today excited to see all the new ways the Julia LSP could break

[jorge yanar @jgyanar]

I really love writing Julia code, but it's hard to recommend to others due to all the little papercuts. One example: the LSP doesn't quite work if you decide to package your code into a local module and then call that in other scripts.

[Daniel Yamins @dyamins]

We just finished up Winter quarter CS375: Large-Scale Neural Network Models for Neuroscience. Check out the publicly available Syllabus and lecture notes https://t.co/QUzfYRde8o

[Princeton Neuroscience Institute @PrincetonNeuro]

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[pHiycrtyl @iycrtylph]

painting still gives me a kick & i'm functionally illiterate so i don't know what to say about literature but basically all other forms of art have ceased to move or inspire me. i watch a movie, see a performance, listen to new music, & all i perceive is funding structures.

[jorge yanar @jgyanar]

@Ikuperwajs Will give it a listen. I wish Studio Orange had been able to continue with a second season!

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[jorge yanar @jgyanar]

This leads to me just putting all of my functions into a handful of massive .jl files that I `include` at the start of every script. Which works great with the LSP, but doesn't feel scalable.

[jorge yanar @jgyanar]

I really love writing Julia code, but it's hard to recommend to others due to all the little papercuts. One example: the LSP doesn't quite work if you decide to package your code into a local module and then call that in other scripts.

[jorge yanar @jgyanar]

Super impressive work from Julie and others in the lab, involving long and difficult surgeries where they chronically implanted 8 neuropixel probes in a single animal. Check it out!

[Julie Charlton @julie_charlton_]

@brody_lab In a collaboration between @ayjreen @thomaszluo and myself, we recorded what we believe is the record number of simultaneous units (median 2749 per sess.) throughout the forebrain of rats as they performed the Poisson Clicks auditory accumulation of evidence task

[Kathleen Neeley @kathleenneeley]

Carving ground texture on a new linocut

[diksha gupta @dikshagup]

The capstone project of my PhD is now online 🤯 https://t.co/tehQ0PXESr

We argue that the cortex and striatum accumulate evidence in a distributed manner, with recurrent interactions helping to rescue computation upon perturbations.

[jorge yanar @jgyanar]

@IndieGarwood @brownengin Congrats Indie!

[jorge yanar @jgyanar]

@Leokoz8 @BrownUniversity @brownengin @CarneyInstitute Amazing Leo! Congrats!

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE

Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.

This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations. This created the space for a long period of negotiations with the US Department of Justice, leading to a deal that has not yet been formally finalised. We will provide more information as soon as possible.

After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars.

WikiLeaks published groundbreaking stories of government corruption and human rights abuses, holding the powerful accountable for their actions. As editor-in-chief, Julian paid severely for these principles, and for the people's right to know.

As he returns to Australia, we thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom.

Julian's freedom is our freedom.

[More details to follow]

[tyler @tyboydmeredith]

Very excited to have posted a new preprint on my PhD work in the @brody_lab where we show that rats can achieve near-optimal time investment in a confidence-guided waiting task https://t.co/ogMkGIMN6w.

[jorge yanar @jgyanar]

@p1xelHer0 Text is [] because printing press.
Link is () because it's like a globe -- the world wide web.