@tomhartley.me.uk
Former Academic. Neuroscience/Psychology. Starting a new company to make audio software and to produce and mix records. hartleydsp.com Interests: Programming, Recording and mixing music; The Beatles; currently learning to play drums. tomhartley.me.uk
New paper on PsyArXiv looking at task difficulty (memory load), serial order, and error patterns in children’s #workingmemory using a large-scale dataset (N~15,000) #developmental #psychology With @richjallen.bsky.social and @amyatkinson.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
And then all the way up again.
Human hippocampal theta–gamma coupling coordinates sequential planning during navigation
Impressive study from Dan Bush's Lab at UCL:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Google Auto completed my query "are pencil sha..." with "peners made of magnesium".
Funnily enough this was.exactly the question I had in mind, and had just spoken about.
PHILOSOPHY & FUN OF ALGEBRA BY MARY EVEREST BOOLE AUTHOR OF “PREPARATION OF THE CHILD FOR SCIENCE,” ETC.
📚 Now reading 📚
Mary Everest Boole (1909). Philosophy and Fun of Algebra. archive.org/details/phil...
(h/t @olivia.science)
1/🧵
Voters doing exactly what Labour wanted of them www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-p...
I think this is a *super* important paper - if this result can be replicated with other regions or tasks then this may come to form our core understanding of credit assignment signals in the neocortex!
#neuroscience 🧪
this is incredibly shortsighted institutional goal
🤮
It struck me as very interesting. Good luck.
Not central to the issue of LLMs but I am surprised that some academics of whatever persuasion are arguing that academic writing is "not supposed to read well". But it would explain a lot!
A week ago, we had an open conversation amongst senior academics in leadership roles and their use of LLMs (in both their leadership capacities and individually). Small group, not representative, but it already taught me a great deal about the diversity of perspectives (& their consequences). 1/
Letting "AI agents" roam should be illegal, and any harm they cause should cause fines high enough to bankrupt anyone.
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
I am genuinely sorry that since I retired I will no longer be participating in this recurring discussion.
Getting my PhD
Me, posing in front of the portico.
UCL Psychology Panto, featuring Stevie Sackin, me (as golden singing harp), Celia Heyes, Chris Mitchell, Tim Shallice (front of pantomime cow, or horse, I can't remember who was in the back), Dorothy Einon, George Houghton. Directed by Sophie Scott.
Group photo at the ICN not long after the building opened. 1999.
Some memories of UCL.
Getting my PhD
Me, posing in front of the portico.
UCL Psychology Panto, featuring Stevie Sackin, me (as golden singing harp), Celia Heyes, Chris Mitchell, Tim Shallice (front of pantomime cow, or horse, I can't remember who was in the back), Dorothy Einon, George Houghton. Directed by Sophie Scott.
Group photo at the ICN not long after the building opened. 1999.
Some memories of UCL.
I was there for about 12 years. Had fun, made friends, learned a lot. And whenever I go back there I feel like I am coming home. Happy birthday UCL.
I feel the same, tbh.
Do take 15 minutes out of your day to read this @andrewprlevi.bsky.social 🧵 The signs were there for decades
It isn’t possible for PMs to be expert in all fields…or indeed in many. Which is why having the judgement to identify very high quality advisors and really listen to them really matter..
“Some might be tempted to dismiss the Epstein files as just evidence of the extreme behaviour of a prolific sex offender.
But strip away the lewd and crude content, and they also reveal much about how patriarchy works day to day.”
I am surprised there's not more discussion about the security services' role in this. A lot of what's revealed in the Epstein files looks like subversion. While the authorities and government focus on people protesting fossil fuels or the war in Gaza, they don't seem alert to the greater threats.
“We owe it to Epstein’s victims and to British democracy to demand historic change”
Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Job alert!!
We're looking for a Postdoc and two RAs on a 3-year project examining the effects of smartphones on sleep and mental health in adolescents. Details below:
RA: tinyurl.com/7h6zrz2k
Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykmsk757
Please repost :)
Sometimes reddit is an amazing resource.
www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/co...
Anything other than 5 seems a bit naive at this point.
"We know enough." Gut punch.
1. Start the thread from the beginning and then listen.
2. Get a transcript of this man's speech to read at city/county council meetings if detention camps are coming to your area.
We all know enough.
h/t @hudsonette.bsky.social
Explaining my new reverb plugin. If you listen in headphones you can hear the spatial effect as I move the sound source (my commentary) around the sound stage. Beta now available for download at hartleydsp.com.
youtu.be/uphGUiiXepw
Do it!
Explaining my new reverb plugin. If you listen in headphones you can hear the spatial effect as I move the sound source (my commentary) around the sound stage. Beta now available for download at hartleydsp.com.
youtu.be/uphGUiiXepw
One of the ongoing, more redeeming qualities of social media is its ability, when properly structured, to bubble up the joyous creativity of everyday people.