Nathaniel Daw
Neuro prof at Princeton, social media cynic.
- heads up on a cool postdoc at cambridge. i collaborate on this project as well and looking forward to interacting with the team.
- We have an open postdoc position with Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social and Emily Holmes, at the Emotional Cognition Lab dtalmi.wixsite.com/emotional-co..., @uniofcam.bsky.social to conduct advanced memory modelling. Details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50770/ Apply by 21.4!
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- i know of one other almost identical case.
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- Right I should have said most of those recs ultimately came from Nina. I second the civil rights museum too.
- Go to bomb biscuit and fishmonger; also walk on the beltline. Oh and I haven't been but people say delbar is great persian
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- It is indeed truly a fearful thing to agree with me
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- glorious comrades
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- Not just Harvard.
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- I see you pass near Princeton. I can take you to Bent Spoon
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View full threadProposal is to tax university endowment income, at least for those with big endowments.
- They don't like private philanthropy either to the extent it's viewed as associated with leftist/cosmopolitan causes (cf attacks on soros etc)
- True except they're also coming after endowments. Of course Id rather be at a rich institution but the goal is to flatten the whole sector.
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- all study sections scheduled to meet tomorrow have now been canceled. not looking good for hcmf!
- the study section I serve on is supposed to meet feb 24-25 (though it does not seem to be listed in fed reg) -- all indications are it is going ahead.
- one of the most intriguing projects i've been involved in: automated scientific discovery in an area (human/animal RL) I've been working on forever. can an LLM do the job of my grad students? if it is backed up by super smart scientists incl @pcastr.bsky.social @neurokim.bsky.social & kevin miller
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- I think these are symbolic for interpretability and not as a mechanistic claim, despite that phrase. That said, one motivation is that humans doing these tasks probably do use linguistic reasoning or similar, so we might hope to capture that more accurately here than w standard more "neural" models
- announcing this year's neuroeconomics summer school, this time outside paris. too many great lecturers to list, even too many great organizers (plassmann,glimcher,tymula,kable,me). & you wouldnt believe all the past students and where they are now. sign up: www.insead.edu/events/neuro...
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- Hard disagree. Role of reviewer response is direct dialogue with reviewer comments. Changes to MS motivated by this dialogue are at least one step removed from this, and not typically identical. Reviewer response explains why the MS was changed in the way it was.
- hello world. we have an opening for a strong theory postdoc to work in my lab on a exciting collaboration with Josh Berke and Loren Frank labs modeling and analyzing data on rat hipp-pfc-bg-da involvement in spatial maze foraging, replay, value etc. apply here: www.princeton.edu/acad-positio...
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- intriguing idea but categorically no.
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- South Philly barbacoa (make your own tacos from long-stewed lamb) is an institution and an experience.
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- Different worse?
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- There is a classic 70s literature on thinkaloud in chess and sort of reasoning puzzles I think (like Herb Simon era) but I don't know if it's been revisited from modern perspective. could be interesting
- finally my take is confidence judgments are the most direct part of metacognition, but what it's really FOR is stuff like deciding whether/when/what to deliberate (@marcelomattar.bsky.social stuff) so to me what is most interesting is less the reports and more how they're (perhaps implicitly) used
- I think that sounded a little negative on your core ideas but was not meant to be! more like riffing around them enthusiastically.
- gosh there is a lot to say for a tweet-or-whatever. One maybe related thing is conscious/unconscious vs MB/MF, both @amiroftals (still on twitter) and separately @hakwan.bsky.social have looked at. on conf/metacognition per se I think the sorts of qs you mention are wide open 1/
- eg how confidence judgements behave at different levels of a deliberative task, how they are informed by differnet types of MB/MF knowledge/experience. personally i wouldnt go near it without first getting @smfleming.bsky.social to explain what's the key question and give me tons to read. 2/
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- Ah but the synthesis here leads to the paper template to rule them all: You THOUGHT you knew X. But you actually DIDN'T. But you were RIGHT all along. Dramatic line, both challenges and soothes.
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- This platform is all earnestness, no room for schtick.
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- Yeah my take is that the Julia package ecosystem is pretty janky and volatile -- and that's important obviously -- but the core language is so performant and well designed that it makes a lot possible. Python is basically the opposite: amazing ecosystem, appalling core. Also has its place.
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- Also: “My dear Fox, I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.”
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- Yins!
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- I really miss having random crypto and porn spam accounts lining all my posts though
- Everything is everywhere all at once. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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- Ha! The best way to defuse a lunatic ranting is with an actual nuanced and thoughtful argument. I forward to reading it, and then climbing down haha
- I mean "can you predict x from a huge package of variables that are correlated with each other and with a bunch of other stuff that is also correlated with x?" Of course! it's an empty paradigm that the field backed itself into because they wanted to do something/anything with multivariate data.
- And then people get themselves twisted in knots reasoning about decoder performance and dreaming up indirect questions about cross decoding and stuff. All because it's not the right question for anything we actually want to ask.
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- A simpler point is just that decodability is just not very informative. Lots of stuff is correlated. The decoding perspective (eg vs encoding) makes it tough to even reason about multiple variables simultaneously.
- One more week to apply for our joint faculty position in Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Computer Science Dept, in neuroAI and intelligent systems, broadly construed. Do you fit? Yes. But feel free to contact me with q's. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
- Come work with us! @PrincetonNeuro and @PrincetonCS are searching for a joint faculty member in NeuroAI and intelligent systems. On the PNI side, our human cog neuro group (already v. computational) is esp keen to develop more connections with AI and CS. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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- I do think this is very much a result of algorithmic choices. Twitter is the way it is *because* the recommendation algorithm is optimizing engagement which drives outrage viral and changes the whole character of the conversation. It was that way even pre-Musk.
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- This is why I've become a peer review abolitionist. Ofc I'm grateful to my colleagues who spend their time reviewing my papers. But it's just a disproportionate waste of all our time: as reviewers, authors, editors. We spend most of our time on all sides of this, for such diminishing returns.
- @mgallen.bsky.social Interception is narcissism. Change my mind on Twitter.
- I think the right way to understand the pseudoscience letter is like a letter to the editor of NYTimes or something. It's responding to media coverage, not directly arguing science. So it does read a little weird as a psyrxiv preprint, and I think this is driving some of the backlash.
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- Sorry didn't mean to single you out. I thought you had pushed a bit harder on this angle on social media. But like I said too much focus on one word.
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- It's amazing how technical details how the platform works (esp: the rec algorithm chasing outrage) affects the tenor the conversation.
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- Without accusing anybody of trolling anybody (and to be clear, I admire nothing more than a well executed troll), it does sound like you're getting lured into arguing about rhetoric while also arguing the rhetorical device is distracting...
- My favorite part of the consciousness pseudoscience letter discourse is the repeated sense that free energy theory is implicitly criticized or perhaps next up against the wall.
- I guess I think "we're a bunch of scientists and the thing you're calling a leading theory really isnt" is pretty standard fare for an NYTimes editor letter.
- I mean Hakwan in particular clearly felt strongly about using the word "pseudoscience" for better or worse. But ppl are too focused on that, imho. Bigger point is they're just saying they don't take IIT seriously, and the only surprising thing about that is how bluntly they put it.
- I didnt sign the letter because it's out of my lane. But I am v sympathetic. HL fills in context below which is rly about lifting the veil on what ppl rly think/pushing back on comms. Wont satisfy backlashers looking for direct science debate. For that start w Hakwan's earlier preprint on Cogitate.
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- (not to criticize, Lisa, I have the privilege of being too awkward and confusing to teach big UG classes so my version of this problem is much simpler.)
