galen
@galenbrain
Theoretical neuro, vision, ML. PhDing at Berkeley. https://dissonances.blog
Ending the year with the last post of Neural Computation. A sprint through special topics and a reflection on the semester. Happy new year! dissonances.blog/p/wrapping-up-…
compared to other places i've lived (nyc, taipei), berkeley is by far the scariest place to be a pedestrian or biker imo. terrible road design combined with the most unskilled and/or malicious driving i've ever seen
Just watched a head-on collision on Martin Luther King Blvd in Berkeley, where city traffic engineers once again tried to design pedestrian safety features around the higher priority of helping drivers speed. Because I was a witness, I saw which driver caused the crash …
when people turn 30 they’re sorted into one of these four houses like in harry potter
Never doubt your decision to do a PhD - that’s the job of your reviewers, family, and friends.
UC Berkeley's Evans Hall is the apotheosis of this trend.
"Math is beautiful." Your university's math building:
Whoever coined the term coined the term coined the term coined the term
this is what every e/acc and x-risk argument sounds like to me
what if a POTATO could FLY would that make it A SUPERHERO would it be allowed to be PRESIDENT would it SEE IN XRAYS WITH ALL ITS EYES and IS THIS A DREAM - AM I EVEN REAL? NOBODY is ASKING these QUESTIONS man
David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.
I maintain that Twitter killing vine was one of the largest setbacks in American cultural development
with rumors of Musk buying TikTok, I still cannot believe that Twitter correctly identified short form video content was going to be the next big thing with the rise of Vine, outbid everyone to buy Vine and then just killed Vine and hoped everyone would forget about it
I have read few papers as immediately useful and important as this one on Cacio e Pepe phase behavior. Tl;dr: the starchy pasta water is absolutely critical to avoiding “mozzarella phase”
what are your favorite examples of good roasts (comedy or social media, not cooking)?