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errorstatistics.com
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| | | | | A topic that came up in some comments recently reflects a recent tendency to divorce statistical inference (bad) from statistical thinking (good), and it deserves the spotlight of a post. I always alert authors of papers that come up on this blog, inviting them to comment, and one from Christopher Tong (reacting to a... | |
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neuroskeptic.blogspot.com
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| | | | | According to a paper just published (but available online since 2010), we haven't found any genes for personality. The study was a b... | |
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pharmrev.aspetjournals.org
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| | | | | This paper formulates the action of psychedelics by integrating the free-energy principle and entropic brain hypothesis. We call this formulation relaxed beliefs under psychedelics (REBUS) and the anarchic brain, founded on the principle that-via their entropic effect on spontaneous cortical activity-psychedelics work to relax the precision of high-level priors or beliefs, thereby liberating bottom-up information flow, particularly via intrinsic sources such as the limbic system. We assemble evidence for... | |
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | These days, I often need to remind myself that, as an undergrad, grad student, postdoc, or professor, I've now been doing quantum computing research for a quarter-century---i.e., well over half of the subject's existence. As a direct result, when I feel completely jaded about a new development in QC, it might actually be exciting. When... | ||