Sam (ABeardedPanda)

abeardedpanda.bsky.social

18 October 2026 05:01

It's almost universal for teaching skill to be inversely correlated with the accolades and credentials of the instructor

Sam (ABeardedPanda)

abeardedpanda.bsky.social

18 October 2026 05:01

The worst professor I have ever had was a leading expert in GPU architecture and the development of ray tracing The best professor I have ever had went to community college in Compton and then did a masters at night school at CSU East Bay

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒

eugenevinitsky.bsky.social

18 October 2026 01:17

a car doing aerial flips is neat AND it's not that hard algorithmically AND the person behind it is an immensely bad person

Shahab Bakhtiari

shahabbakht.bsky.social

13 October 2026 22:33

We can probably isolate most cognitive processes in experimental designs, but how ecologically valid is that? If our tasks force artificial independence between processes, do the conclusions neatly generalize to real-world scenarios where those processes are deeply entangled?

Grace Lindsay

neurograce.bsky.social

13 October 2026 22:25

Now I would also argue that trying to divide up what the brain does in terms of words like 'memory' and 'attention' is ill-guided, so maybe the task names aren't really the problem here after all...