Steve Haroz

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Visual perception and cognitive neuroscience scientist
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Fun new post (imo!) with an intro on simulation escape and consciousness theories, then a roundup of AI tool news and folklore and some good game links and RAG refs. open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/...

TITAA #56.5: Escaping the Sim in a Tankopen.substack.com Consciousness - Map Glitch Art - Folklore in France, Iceland, Silesia - Game Clouds and Shadows - AI Video Editing - RAG Links

All my experience and everything I've ever studied and researched about attention tells me these animated hybrid engine displays in the periphery are terrible for safety. Cc @benwolfevision.bsky.social

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Large Models of What? Mistaking Engineering Achievements for Human Linguistic Agency arxiv.org/abs/2407.08790 New paper with Marek McGann

I just opened skype for the first time in a while. The last meeting I had on Skype was in 2021. It's amazing how they went from a monopoly on virtual meetings to mostly forgotten in a span of a couple years. Also, it's super spammy now. Yuck.

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You may already know that the rate of change of acceleration over time is “jerk”. I was surprised to learn the identities of the 4th through 6th derivatives of position. 🧪

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And this is how fascism wins. It convinces moderates to stop using the correct language to name what our enemy is and make no mistake. Trump and the Republicans are a fascist anti-democratic enemy to every real American who believes in the Constitution and rule of law. Do not stay silent.

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Just a reminder: it’s good to oppose assassinations. But you are under absolutely no obligation to treat Trumpists and Trump-apologists as people who are honest, or acting in good faith, when they purport to condemn political violence or violent rhetoric. They’re not sincere.

I need an r/OutOfTheLoop but for BlueSky. Can someone explain what's going on? What happened to whom?

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In my conversations with White House officials, I’ve come to believe they saw open government writ large as a bizarre nonprofit obsession, instead of a crucial bulwark against authoritarianism & a critical approach to restoring broke public trust. And here we are. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/o...

I injured my index finger a couple days ago, and it's still sore. So please know that everything I write, I am typing with middle finger. 🖕

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Political opinions shared on social media? Or ChatGPT bot?

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every other browser all equally looks like shit these days too. WHERE THE FUCK IS DENSITY ANYMORE. WHERE IS USABILITY. I WANT THINGS TO LOOK AND BE USABLE. WHY IS THIS IMPOSSIBLE

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Quick fix for one part of psychology’s underspecification crisis: Add a ‘target population’ subsection before the sample description

2FA needs a more accurate name: OPFEE "Only phone. Fuck everything else." On a computer with the account password, a the same IP as the last time you logged in, and access to the email address associated with the account? None of those are "factor" enough. You need to receive a text.

Of course the legal battle is still ongoing! I don't think we can discount that people being sketchy suck every ounce of time and energy from the people raising concerns. In my opinion, that's why these errors not commonly found: because the people who point one out have little time to do it again.

"We were right about how the data were altered, Gino’s prevailing explanation for the alterations does not make sense, and yet we are the defendants in this case." datacolada.org/118

[118] Harvard’s Gino Report Reveals How A Dataset Was Altered - Data Coladadatacolada.org As you may know, Harvard professor Francesca Gino is suing us for defamation after (1) we alerted Harvard to evidence of fraud in four studies that she co-authored, (2) Harvard investigated and placed...

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We created a guide to artifacts in fake images from Firefly, Midjourney, & Stable Diffusion, informed by large experiments on human detection Makes it easy to test your skills & get better at spotting them! arxiv.org/pdf/2406.08651

Someone was forwarding visitors of sketchy bank websites to my statcheck server. I assume they did it for nefarious reasons, but I can't figure out how someone might benefit from that. Anyway, I snapshotted and moved statcheck to a different server. You might need to refresh your local DNS.

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Pronouns labeler is live! @pronouns.adorable.mom I realize this is missing a lot of pronouns, especially neo-pronouns, but it felt too overwhelming to do this on my own my DMs are open for requests (this time it actually works because i didn't take down ozone just before launching :D)

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The Working Memory Symposium (WMS), the best #workingmemory conference there is, starts today (July 9)! You can find access links and the program here: www.wmsymposium.org/home. Follow @wmsymposium.bsky.social for updates!

Working Memory Symposiumwww.wmsymposium.org We will return this summer for WMS 2024! July 9-12, 2024

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I'll be blogging periodically for @asapbio.bsky.social. Today's post is about a large new survey on behalf of cOAlition S. Lots of great new data about researchers' thoughts on preprints and scholarly publishing. asapbio.org/what-do-rese...

What Do Researchers Think about Scholarly Publishing? Five Key Takeaways from a New Survey by cOAlition Sasapbio.org A comprehensive and high quality survey of researcher attitudes toward the scholarly publishing process was published last week. The joint product of a consultation with Research Consulting and the Ce...

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Now accepted at AMPPS: It's not just p-values that get hacked. We present evidence that the distribution of published Cronbach’s alpha values is also distorted in some way due to hacking and/or bias. @malte.the100.ci @ruben.the100.ci @taymalsalti.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

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So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

I wonder if anyone's analyzed how politicians in power during the lead up to the Olympics do in elections. It seems that the local population is often pretty annoyed and disgruntled at the disruption and cost of the event. Does it have political fallout?

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Has anyone created an open-access repository for vision science demos/illusions, tagging VR-compatibility? Seems like it would be a useful resource for many educators and science communicators.

Pseudoephedrine should just be called Crystal Meth Light. Proposed advertisement: Do you hate sinus headaches and want to feel the impending doom of being chased by a tiger? Then use Crystal Meth Light! If you act now, we'll throw in a coffee to add a second tiger.

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I'm 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 to be speaking at #useR2024 next week. How to Interpret Statistical Results with the marginaleffects 📦 for #RStats Here’s a pre-recorded video on Youtube in case you can’t make it youtu.be/ANDC_kkAjeM Let me know if you're in Salzburg and want to chat!

How to Interpret Statistical Results with marginaleffects for Ryoutu.be Practice recording for my talk at User! 2024 in Salzburg.

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Update on newish journal Language Development Research: a model for how journals should be! Small, experts as editors, open practices and FREE!

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Hey #VisionScience folks, does anyone know of any good viscog demos for the oculus 2? I'm thinking illusions or any principles of memory that could be used at a desk that is aimed at young students potentially interested in psychology

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It has been proposed that schizophrenia patients rely more on sensory input and less on prior information. According to this view, they are less affected by visual illusions that rely on perceptual priors. But is this really true?(shorturl.at/jmhKv) 1/6🧵