So I’ve been gone for a lot longer than I meant to. I finished the thesis and defended it, I’ve taken my last class here, and now all that’s left is finals. And graduation. And finding a job. And a new apartment.
As this blog is hosted by the Charles Center, I suppose I should give [...]
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Steven Novella loves me back:
The brain processes sensory information so that it is a useful, and not necessarily accurate, depiction of the world. This sensory input is also highly selective, giving us that slice of reality that proved to be most evolutionarily adaptive. That part of our brain that pays attention then attends to a [...]
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I have been told twice today that it’s time to schedule my thesis defense.
Ugh.
I went to our old lab today. All that’s left is the furniture, and it makes me kind of sad to think that my first real contribution to the world of empirical research occured in this lonely cinderblock box [...]
Donald Hoffman, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine
April 3, 2009 (Friday), 4 PM
The User-Interface Theory of Perception
A goal of perception is to estimate true properties of the world. A goal of
categorization is to classify its structure. Aeons of evolution have shaped
our senses to this end. These three assumptions motivate much work on human
perception. In this talk I [...]
Friday, February 13, 2009
So I was in Tampa last week. It was pretty crazy. Continental sent me to Orlando instead of Tampa, I got a James Bond rental car, watched 40 grown women quack while doing the duck dance, and then Tampa got invaded by pirates with cannons.
I’m not making this up.
I presented my poster and got some [...]
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Mon affiche et les titres ont fini, et j’irai a Tampa dans une semaine. Apres Tampa, le monde. Maintenant, je dois ecrire l’introduction pour ma dissertation honorifique des neurosciences. Il y a beacoup d’articles scientifique pour va lire. Beacoup de travail.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edjx_yYpyOQ
In other news, leave it to Lovelock to tell it like it is again. New [...]
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I am almost done with my poster, and let me tell you, she is a beauty (mostly pictures and not words so much, but I think that’s for the best).
Now I get to lug it through the airport.
Another edition of DIY science experiments:
The next time you fly anywhere, wear a baseball cap (preferably a fitted [...]
Between conferences and interviews, it looks like I will be out of town every other week this semester. To be fair, I was warned, but still, that’s a lot of time in absentia especially considering I still have class and whatnot.
Three cheers for empathetic professors.
Oh, yeah. My abstract got accepted to EPA, but I missed [...]
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Good news: it looks like I have just one more day crunching numbers in the lab before I can start writing it all up. I have 112 participants and solid p values (and what else do you really need?).
Bad news: I was under the impression that I was to produce an 8 to 10 page [...]
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Friday, December 19, 2008
My lab:
My jug of coffee:
And some music to analyze data to:
Time to go science.