Lincoln Colling

Last year this time I was in the southern Hemisphere. forgot how brutal Europe is time of the year. Id give anything for a job that let me work from the south in Dec-Feb and in the UK the rest of the time. I don’t know how else to balance a British partner and need for sunlight

Win for Bafana bafana, the springboks, and the proteas. What a weekend to be #ProudlySouthAfrican

Sad to see the Proteas women lose last night against India. But still super proud of them for making the final and pushing India. A final against India at home was always gonna be a big ask 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

I don’t think I could listen to this without getting extremely angry. The only silver lining is that they’re gone. The counter to that though is that they’re spreading those ideas to people who would harm our country out of spite

Just published in JOSS: 'CATS: The Climate Aware Task Scheduler' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08251

The UK census has an enormous number of categories. When I last filled it out there was even an option for “White African”, which I found weird, but more accurate than “White British”

I also grew up white in apartheid South Africa and had my politics shaped by that experience. My politics are the antithesis of everything these people stand for. It beggars belief that you can witness the horrors that such a system inflicts and conclude any differently.

When you do a late night deployment of an infrastructure change in case shit hits the fan. And then shit does indeed hit the fan.

“For free, presumably”… or maybe journals that actually want to publish papers will have to figure out how to get people to review for them, and “out of the goodness of their heart” is probably not it.

I love my ember (as somebody who instantly forgets I made tea the moment I make it only to remember later). But the new app is terrible.

But feel free to drop me a star or open an issue with requests if this is something you’re interested in.

GitHub - ljcolling/bayesplay-py: Bayesplay-py: Compute Bayes factors in Python Bayesplay-py: Compute Bayes factors in Python. Contribute to ljcolling/bayesplay-py development by creating an account on GitHub.

If you head over to the GitHub repo github.com/ljcolling/ba... there’s also an example of how to replicate the default Bayesian t-test. It’s still early and I’ve got more functionality to add (including plotting, so I’m looking for recommendations on plotting packages).

I decided to use the long weekend to port my Bayesplay Bayes factor #rstats package to #python (the R package also powers the General Bayesian tests in JASP). Here’s an example of how to compute a Bayes factor with a normal likelihood and truncated normal prior.

Been back in the UK less than a week and feeling homesick already

Not only is this crass, it is highly significant.

Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe.

And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk.

They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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Oh great. I was hoping somebody would do something on them, and either you or the QAA guys doing it would be great

Yeah, but I’m confused while sitting in the sun at the beach so it’s probably ok.

This had me very confused because tomorrow is actually Friday.

I have a post-doc position to study the effect of AI on education.

How can we ensure that AI tools enhance natural intelligence?

The position is a part of the Estonian Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence.

Please repost - not easy to get people to work in Estonia 🥶

#edusky #neuroAI

Sure you could describe them, but could you explain them? what if you have two systems that are made up of radically different stuff, but you can explain them both in terms of a common set of representation using mechanisms (just instantiated in different stuff)?

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No, the vehicles that carry the representations are physical things

Yes, well I think that is close to the position that’s described in the quote. The contrast would be something like that you can’t give a causal explanation without representations. They’re not merely different ways of talking about the same thing.

Well yes, I’m given up on trying to get scientists to engage with philosophy…. As in literally, I’m a software engineer now.

Yes, of course. It’s more interesting if the argument is actually about substance

No, I’m actually a representationalist… specifically structural resemblance representations.

There’s “having representations” and the representations doing casual work. I think DST people concede that you can give a representational story about dynamical systems, but a causal story doesn’t need them.

In your view are representations doing causal work? Or are they part of an explanatory story, but can be jettisoned by a causal story once we have the underlying math / neurobiology correct? Because if that’s the case then I don’t think there’s a conflict.

Yeah I think coding helps with that training because it concretizes it.