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| Topic | uk government brutal abuse of autistic kids |
| COVxy 11/08/19 7:46:19 AM #31 | averagejoel posted... has it occurred to you that a topic about kids who are unambiguously being abused might not be the best place to bring this up? Naw, people often deliberately mix these things to demonstrate whatever broad and improper viewpoint they want. It's the same tactic that PETA uses. The need for the point was demonstrated by the responses of TC to the question "are isolation rooms ever necessary?" --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Joe Biden is selling an unrealistic pipedream, imo |
| COVxy 11/06/19 4:08:00 PM #11 | King_Hutton posted... COVxy posted...I think there will be a small return to normalcy once Trump no longer represents the chance for full Republican control. I did say that they will still suck. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Joe Biden is selling an unrealistic pipedream, imo |
| COVxy 11/06/19 3:58:10 PM #6 | I think there will be a small return to normalcy once Trump no longer represents the chance for full Republican control. They will still be Republicans so they will still, on the whole, be terrible. But I don't doubt that there will be a shift once Trump is no longer in power. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | uk government brutal abuse of autistic kids |
| COVxy 11/04/19 8:32:51 PM #22 | Zikten posted... the article literally points out that it was not the right move and that it's caused some of the patients to regress in their condition. it made things worse. so no, they shouldn't do it I mean, patients aren't supposed to be locked in there for very long. It's supposed to be a brief intervention until the outburst has calmed to a managable level. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | uk government brutal abuse of autistic kids |
| COVxy 11/04/19 8:27:54 PM #18 | Ryuko_Chan posted... of course not Exactly why I made my original post. Just to be clear, every long term care facility for people with severe autism that I know about has isolation rooms. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | uk government brutal abuse of autistic kids |
| COVxy 11/04/19 8:23:24 PM #16 | Ryuko_Chan posted... yeah and ur disgustingly concern trolling considering thats NOT WHAT HAPPENED Would you say there are circumstances where isolation rooms are necessary in the ongoing care and treatment of kids (used loosely, as this is often the case with 18+ patients in care facilities) with severe autism? --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | uk government brutal abuse of autistic kids |
| COVxy 11/04/19 8:19:33 PM #14 | Zikten posted... why do they need to be isolated? Because they aggress and cause extreme harm to themselves and caretakers in their episodes. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | uk government brutal abuse of autistic kids |
| COVxy 11/04/19 8:13:05 PM #12 | Ryuko_Chan posted... COVxy posted...Isolation rooms can be quite necessary for kids with severe autism. Lol. You have no experience with kids with severe autism. There's an brewing movement of woowoo-ology with autism, where people claim that all treatment of autism is abuse. It's dangerous. People say the same shit about ABA therapy, claiming it's abuse. Isolation can be necessary, but it can be abused. The point was to make it clear that isolation rooms in-and-of-themselves aren't abuse. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | uk government brutal abuse of autistic kids |
| COVxy 11/04/19 8:07:15 PM #6 | Isolation rooms can be quite necessary for kids with severe autism. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | "Black people are 13% of the population and commit 50% of the murders" |
| COVxy 11/04/19 12:25:38 PM #35 | GoodOlJr posted... MacadamianNut3 posted...Use your words. My post wasn't an invite to post random links that don't contradict the fact that misusing statistics has been a problem highlighted for decades You aren't getting modded for posting descriptive stats. You are getting modded for posting misleading conclusions from those stats. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | "Black people are 13% of the population and commit 50% of the murders" |
| COVxy 11/04/19 12:17:56 PM #27 | averagejoel posted... if you control for poverty, the rates of committing crimes are not significantly different across races. how many people who bring up that first statistic conveniently omit this fact? Do you have a citation for this? I wouldn't have expected this as these things tend to nonlinearly interact through time. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Daybreak is amazing. |
| COVxy 11/01/19 6:01:45 PM #16 | It's okay. Definitely entertaining enough to keep your attention, but really middle of the pack in terms of their originals. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Jeffrey Epstein's Autopsy 'Points to Homicide,' Pathologist Claims |
| COVxy 10/30/19 11:28:09 AM #15 | PatrickMahomes posted... A forensic pathologist hired by Jeffrey Epsteins brother claimed --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Why does it seem like the theme for every shonen anime is "work hard" |
| COVxy 10/28/19 3:11:33 PM #12 | I think they're supposed to be motivational for young teens who usually have a major issue of not doing things they don't want to do. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | So Gavirulax really gone? |
| COVxy 10/24/19 12:37:43 PM #108 | I always got the impression that Gavi was just a miserable teen putting on a show. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I've studied the brains of monkeys, humans, and now mice, AMA |
| COVxy 10/23/19 4:41:05 PM #44 | Same mouse brain today, different lasers. Fucked up one of the sessions from yesterday. I blame CE >:( --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Google says it's achieved quantum supremacy |
| COVxy 10/23/19 1:44:52 PM #12 | ArchiePeck posted... I listened to a Ted Talk a while back from a scientist who proposed that Quantum computing might have practically no immediate benefit to the average person for decades, but will near instantly make online criminals near infinitely more powerful because pretty much all existing forms of encryption will now be easily breakable. For some reason I don't find it likely that your average criminal will find it easy to access these very very very expensive devices. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Oh cool they're talking about Trump shutting down the Government again |
| COVxy 10/23/19 12:37:33 PM #19 | That would be unfortunate for me, can't really afford to lose a paycheck. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | The real issue with telling kids weed is dangerous |
| COVxy 10/23/19 12:21:21 PM #38 | Weed isn't without its risks, especially in a developing brain. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I've studied the brains of monkeys, humans, and now mice, AMA |
| COVxy 10/23/19 7:55:03 AM #43 | It's been used, to the extent to which it has, primarily to correlate to BOLD signal during task. But the modeling itself is high level cognitive modeling. Very hard to seriously link any of the "modules" back onto the brain. Now, I'm not saying it may not be a useful tool (it looks like it's been very helpful in helping linguistic people specify their models), but it's not typically what you see in the cognitive neuroscience literature, which usually has high level models like drift diffusion or bayesian inference machines (or the thousands of varieties of models to produce prediction error quantities). --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I've studied the brains of monkeys, humans, and now mice, AMA |
| COVxy 10/22/19 9:46:22 PM #41 | i understand that it may be a cool system for certain high level cognitive theories, but that's pretty distant from neuroscience. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I've studied the brains of monkeys, humans, and now mice, AMA |
| COVxy 10/22/19 9:31:38 PM #39 | s0nicfan posted... All the real neuro work in terms of advancing brain science though computational experiments happens in ACT-R anyway. idk who puffed up ACT-R for you, but it really isn't used very much in neuroscience. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I've studied the brains of monkeys, humans, and now mice, AMA |
| COVxy 10/22/19 8:05:15 PM #36 | ssjevot posted... I assume you're doing your PhD coursework? I have a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience and currently work as a research professor in Japan. Grad school was a good time, and yeah most people in the field don't believe in consciousness or free-will as they are traditionally defined. Defended in June, started my postdoc in August. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I've studied the brains of monkeys, humans, and now mice, AMA |
| COVxy 10/22/19 7:14:24 PM #34 | Tyranthraxus posted... What do you make of the implications of this old article? All the more reason for gender balance in science! I kid (and actually, at least among early career researchers, biology/neuroscience is quite balanced). There are an infinite number of hidden confounders in any experiment. Thinking about all of them would drive you insane. You have to do your best, and hope that over time and different labs these confounders average out. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I've studied the brains of monkeys, humans, and now mice, AMA |
| COVxy 10/22/19 7:01:34 PM #30 | RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted... no you haven't. You mean my very normal career progression? Lol. Crono99 posted... Neuroscientists don't know everything Accurate. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I've studied the brains of monkeys, humans, and now mice, AMA |
| COVxy 10/22/19 6:53:18 PM #29 | WilliamPorygon posted... Is it true that, generally speaking, the higher concentration of folds a creature's brain has, the more intelligent they are? Kinda, yeah. If you say "which animals do I think have a larger behaviorial toolkit?", this usually relates to brain convolution, probably as an indication for larger evolutionary pressure for complex behavior (such that the cortical sheet folds into itself to increase surface area). But most rankings of intelligence across animals are highly subjective, and the evolutionary story I just told is unfalsifiable. So don't put too much stock into it. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I've studied the brains of monkeys, humans, and now mice, AMA |
| COVxy 10/22/19 6:35:57 PM #28 | RedWhiteBlue posted... What's the leading theory about the sudden on-switch of 'consciousness' in humans (toddlers I suppose)? Idk, i dont fully understand what people mean when they use that word. You'll have to define what you mean, but i probably wont know still lol. RedWhiteBlue posted... Is there anything that can be taken, legally, to provide immediate benefits to 'brain power'? I.e. nootropics besides caffeine (which doesn't seem reliable for everyone, and causes bad shits and even headaches). Excercise and calorie restriction, pretty much the only really well validated things for "brain health". I didn't read "immediate" when I wrote this. I mean, certainly any stimulants will make you more alert, but it doesn't seem like that's what you mean. DevsBro posted... Which one is dumbest As you would expect, mice lol. But i find humans hardest to work with, on the whole. They aren't motivated to do what you ask of them, and the more rigorous questions are just impossible unless you use lab mates. With nonhuman animals, you can make them motivated and run them for many many trials, allowing for good parameter estimates. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I've studied the brains of monkeys, humans, and now mice, AMA |
| COVxy 10/22/19 5:53:20 PM #23 | Vol2tex posted... What makes consciousness bunk? People use the word consciousness to elevate subjective experience to be metaphysical. The truth is that cognitive neuroscientists have been studying "consciousness" since the 60's. And we have made a lot of progress in terms of understanding how things work, scientifically. But people will look at research on orientation tuning in primary visual cortex and say "but that doesn't explain how I percieve lines subjectively!" --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I've studied the brains of monkeys, humans, and now mice, AMA |
| COVxy 10/22/19 5:48:31 PM #19 | Psychophysics is actual one of the first disciplines in psychology. Then it died down, and now is back in full force. I imagine you expect psychophysics to be something different than what it is though. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I've studied the brains of monkeys, humans, and now mice, AMA |
| COVxy 10/22/19 5:36:45 PM #17 | _Matchabuu_ posted... What is the most unexpected finding youve come across in your research? Good question. Uh, probably that functional connectivity using fMRI doesn't seem to be complete bunk. The fact that it's seen at such a low frequency screams that correlations should be too entangled with other physiology to work, but the data really seems to be reflection communication across the brain. Would have to take a moment to think of something more specific if you want it. MedeaLysistrata posted... Do mental events have threshold conditions? Dont know how to frame the question better Seems that they do, from basic psychophysics and the associated neuroscience. How this behavioral thresholding works in the brain is an area of heavy research. My first real project in my postdoc lab is to look at how it may be occuring in the striatum and how this comes about computationally (how does the circuitry actually evaluate evidence and threshold output?) --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I've studied the brains of monkeys, humans, and now mice, AMA |
| COVxy 10/22/19 4:53:26 PM #3 | Currently shooting lasers at a mouse's brain to see what'll happen. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Books teaching children about their genitalia criticised for being sexist |
| COVxy 10/22/19 3:06:32 PM #4 | Burying the lede there, eh? Pun absolutely intended. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | It seems "Neurodiversity" is the latest SJW buzzword |
| COVxy 10/21/19 8:17:46 PM #73 | It's literally the argumentation of the bible of "neurodiversity" NeuroTribes. The claim is that autism isn't a disease at all. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | It seems "Neurodiversity" is the latest SJW buzzword |
| COVxy 10/21/19 7:56:23 PM #68 | hockeybub89 posted... This is literally about employing those that want and are able to work, and people getting mad at that being "special treatment". But it's not a different issue. People like averagejoel who spout neurodiversity, claim that all people with autism aren't disabled, but that society is just structured around neurotypicals. It's complete bonkers, and usually a result of these types of coverage which portray autism as just people who are a little different. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Do you enjoy The Big Bang Theory? |
| COVxy 10/21/19 7:25:54 PM #3 | It's entertaining. Not amazing, but most sitcoms aren't. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | It seems "Neurodiversity" is the latest SJW buzzword |
| COVxy 10/21/19 7:02:46 PM #61 | Darmik posted... Are those the 77% who want to work? We need societal solutions for people who are unable to work but have no structures to help them live. You'd be surprised how sparse the resources are for people like this. So it's nice and makes you feel good, a puff peace abour employing people who are just a tad weird, but you are sidestepping and covering up the more important issues that we need to deal with as a society. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | It seems "Neurodiversity" is the latest SJW buzzword |
| COVxy 10/21/19 6:33:38 PM #57 | Darmik posted... And yet the article is about a business with a workforce where 75% of the employees are on the spectrum. High functioning autism is a very small proportion of the people with autism. The people who advocate this shit think that autism is just being a little weird. But people midway up the spectrum need help going to the bathroom. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | It seems "Neurodiversity" is the latest SJW buzzword |
| COVxy 10/21/19 6:08:51 PM #52 | Darmik posted... So why aren't they capable of working? What barriers are they facing. The fact that their brain is fucked up so they literally cannot hold a job. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | It seems "Neurodiversity" is the latest SJW buzzword |
| COVxy 10/21/19 5:55:43 PM #48 | Axiom posted... The people bothered by this are the ones who make fun of and bully autistic people Naw, there's a certain amount of woo-woo bs that comes with the territory. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I've studied the brains of monkeys, humans, and now mice, AMA |
| COVxy 10/21/19 5:30:41 PM #1 | I suppose my most controversial stance in these things is that I think consciousness is a bunk concept, but that's pretty much universal amongst neuroscientists (until you get to the age of 70 it appears). I also don't think that feeding shit into deep neural nets and examining the architecture is likely to get us very far in terms of neuroscience, despite the flash. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I 100% support transgender rights and don't get they upset people but... |
| COVxy 10/21/19 4:42:26 PM #30 | This is probably the least important issue in that arena and the fact that anti trans people cling to it is telling. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | It seems "Neurodiversity" is the latest SJW buzzword |
| COVxy 10/21/19 4:31:12 PM #34 | averagejoel posted... disabled people are only disabled to the extent that society does not care for them Lol, naw dawg. Get this. There are literally people out there that aren't as able functioned as you are. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | this hong kong business rubs me the wrong way and i am highly suspicious of it |
| COVxy 10/19/19 10:55:27 PM #22 | K. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | this hong kong business rubs me the wrong way and i am highly suspicious of it |
| COVxy 10/19/19 10:50:19 PM #20 | The whole "i'm just a rational liberal pushing all these right wing points" thing. "Just asking questions" --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | this hong kong business rubs me the wrong way and i am highly suspicious of it |
| COVxy 10/19/19 10:41:52 PM #18 | Ryuko_Chan posted... Your whole schtick is gross and you should feel bad. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is the Nobel Peace Prize meaningless? |
| COVxy 10/19/19 2:59:04 PM #6 | All nobel prizes are meaningless. But this topic is shit and you should feel bad. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
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