Huw Swanborough

@huwroscience

Cognitive neuroscientist at ETH Zurich. Primary interests in the neuroscience of affect processing/perception! Outside of science: Hiking, huts, snow, bluegrass, folk, and all things creative. Everything's a signal, man.... Everything's a signal

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Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· 28d

Look at this badboy I have coming to me. I'm gonna be able to transport so much stuff, I'm so excited. It might be the minivan of bikes but god I am looking forward to it.

electric longtail cargo bike with rear section for transporting goods or people. Feat protective cage.

If you like highly practical city bikes, it's very cool. If not? It's very lame.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· 28d

Villainous aura.

The walrus from Alice in Wonderland that gave everyone nightmares as a kid.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· 29d

while, yes hugely important and culturally significant, the writing style of "and this and then this and this. and this was bad. and this then did this, and...and....and" drives me up the absolute wall. I MEAN COME ON!

Highlighting uses of AND.

King Arthur was at Caerlleon upon Usk; and one day he sat in his chamber; and with him were Owain the son of Urien, and Kynon the son of Clydno, and Kai the son of Kyner; and Gwenhwyvar and her handmaidens at needlework by the window. And if it should be said that there was a porter at Arthur’s palace, there was none. Glewlwyd Gavaelvawr was there, acting as porter, to welcome guests and strangers, and to receive them with honour, and to inform them of the manners and customs of the Court; and to direct those who came to the Hall or to the presence-chamber, and those who came to take up their lodging.

In the centre of the chamber King Arthur sat upon a seat of green rushes, over which was spread a covering of flame-coloured satin, and a cushion of red satin was under his elbow.

Then Arthur spoke, “If I thought you would not disparage me,” said he, “I would sleep while I wait for my repast; and you can entertain one another with relating tales, and can obtain a flagon of mead and some meat from Kai.” And the King went to sleep. And Kynon the son of Clydno asked Kai for that which Arthur had promised them. “I, too, will have the good tale which he promised to me,” said Kai. “Nay,” answered Kynon, “fairer will it be for thee to fulfill Arthur’s behest, in the first place, and then we will tell thee the best tale that we know.” So Kai went to the kitchen and to the mead-cellar, and returned bearing a flagon of mead and a golden goblet, and a handful of skewers, upon which were broiled collops of meat. Then they ate the collops and began to drink the mead. “Now,” said Kai, “it is time for you to give me my story.” “Kynon,” said Owain, “do thou pay to Kai the tale that is his due.” “Truly,” said Kynon, “thou are older, and art a better teller of tales, and hast seen more marvellous things than I; do thou therefore pay Kai his tale.” “Begin thyself,” quoth Owain, “with the best that thou knowest.” “I will do so,” answered Kynon.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jul 11

Howdy, a call for aide for any #entymology nerds out there. What insect am I looking at here? It looks to me like an Asian hornet but it has zero yellow or orange. There's a nest forming in my building and if it's Asian hornets I gotta report it as it's invasive to Switzerland.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jul 10

It's still a thing here in Switzerland! Even has a web app which is just... pure brilliance, like faxing me a QR code to scan.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jul 10

Amazing serendipitous find in town today. Japanese vinyl store..

Japanese pressing of the ventures, surfing USA. Indescribably cool.

Japanese pressing of Willie nelson, the train called new Orleans and inner sleeve. Japanese record aesthetic clashing with willies soft focus album cover aesthetic in the best way.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jul 9

Right now butt, this better be an internet error and not heinous disrespect to our sweet boys :P

The same tweet but the image lane is blank.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jul 5

Video game-esque scoreline.

Brazil 1 - Norway 2

Haaland and neymar scorers, late into the game.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jun 28

Incredible. Algeria scoring in the 93rd minute so they get to face Spain instead of Switzerland, then Austria in the 96th minute, scoring so that no... They get the harder fixtures in facing Spain. Snatching death from the jaws of life!

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jun 27

You wanna fight? Wanna see what I'm made of? You and me, in the boulodrome. Bring your best boule.

Image of an advert for an upcoming boulodrome on a beachfront

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jun 25

Some may in fact have tried to increase the amount of chaos contained within the world. (I know he predates the term, I'm pretty sure he was sweeping the ball, opponents teeth, anything he could get near)

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jun 25

Maybe they sell them and you only have to deal with blinds. Otherwise, you do need a new window. The units like below, they will not fit on 99.99% in DACH. And floor units?

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jun 25

Sorry. No. This is the outer wall of a 1960s build. Across the 4 floors it has 14 rooms. The work required to get external units on that is substantial for one building. It can't be central AC, there's nowhere for the vents to go. Window units?

Concrete and brick wall, substantially wider than my hand span.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jun 18

These are people who are deeply detached from reality

One of the overarching themes of the 21st century will be the expanding reach of intelligence and what we choose to do with it. We talk to artificial intelligences every day - and increasingly we talk to them about our health.

Whether we’re talking to doctors or AIs, what we do with our health comes down to having data and an awareness of our bodies.

You want as much data as you can get about your health as quickly and as cheaply as possible. In other words, you want a technology optimized for getting as many “megabytes per second per dollar” of information about your body.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jun 18

Oh well at least they have the core personal in place already... Just needing... The people to make it not a concept.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jun 9

If you see this, post an eye.... (Or two)

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jun 9

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jun 5

and even since canada and mexico fell to the wild hog sea, it's a more pressing danger than ever.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jun 5

Chef 1: "This is the name we're going for?" Chef 2: "Sure, I see literally no reasons why not"

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jun 4

Ah we're keeping the catholic and protestant parking separate are we now lads?

Elevator floor label. Floor B - Parking Orange. Floor A - Parking Green.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jun 2

Even more so is that this touches on some of the coolest foundational work in perception and the basis for many visual illusions such as bistable images (can be seen as two objects, swapping which you see). See alt text for more details.

Broad Description: a series of examples of visual illusions demonstrating gestalt principles of perceptual object formation.

Bottom left: This shows a series of dots that, if they had no cutouts, may not have particularly strong coherent properties that would make you percieve them as a single object, likely a collection of objects.

However, the cutout lines giving the ilusion of a wire-frame cube because they have shared properties, in this case edges oriented in specific angles and relationships to each other that allow us to "see" a white cube, despite there being no cube drawn. This is almost the opposite of disruptive pattern materials, rather than disrupting object formation by breaking coherence, you're creating the illusion of an object by creating a pattern that it would otherwise have, where it present.

This illusion in particular is so strong that the gut reaction is to say "but the cube is there, it's just drawn in white on black", but no lines are drawn between the corners, only the corners themselves are presented. We still percieve these black circles as being present, equal sized, and the same distance away from us, yet the cutouts imply an object that would be masking them in a way that is impossible (they could not be equally sized and distance away while also being behind the white lines like this).

We percieve two objects featuring properties that cannot co-exist, because of pattern properties that our perceptual system relies on for stimuli features together to perceive "a single object".

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· Jun 1

A throwback to when I turned my balcony into a farm

Bland concrete balcony, absolutely festooned in plants. Including an aggressively creeping pumpkin plant about 3 meters in length.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· May 28

"Oh I'll just go look that game up.... sorry what the fu...."

a fish with a man head....the head has a....dongle? I dont even know man, just the most cursed man-headed fish thing.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· May 26

Ah, man I absolutely adore Pacific Drive for the photos you can get in that game. Waiting for the return of the spooky season to get stuck into the DLC

A road tunnel bathed in blue light with a red escape light reflecting off the wet tarmac on the right of the scene.

The car, shining light towards the screen, sits behind supernatural growths resembling hands, made out of manakins.

Black and white picture looking into a retro station wagon festooned with casset-punk style tech.

Cell-shaded image of the same prior station wagon, driving across a bridge from right to left of the screen in pouring rain. At night, grim, bleak.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· May 26

Kambucha girl meme, left 'no thank you' panel: "They're transitioning".

Right "oh, this works" panel: "They're crossing the rubicon primaris"

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· May 22

The world had discovered Burn and Multiply effects in image processors, and was not about to let that (and stock 'exotic' typesets) go to waste!

Pan Pipe Moods album cover. Papyrus typeset and that garish, oversaturated, velvetty colour palette.

Sensuous PanPipes. Red and gold colours, again with too much range in vibrancy, looking like wordart in all the wrong ways.

a glowing set of panpipes. Everytihng about the colours is unsettling.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· May 21

I refuse to believe there could be any predisposition to health issues here. (note, I think Devon Rex's are truly adorable and full of character, if just a little bit...gremliny)

A Devon Rex looking as weird as Devon Rexes look.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· May 19

When you forget to put "super_secret_codes_v2.txt" in the gitignore file.

Headline

"Worst leak I've ever seen" us cyber agency accidentally exposed secret access keys on GitHub"

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· May 19

Genuinely a career highlight lol. Fixing a ~6 year bug in psychtoolbox.

Huw Swanborough@huwroscience· May 18

This in particular reads more like "we need people to act more like the model parameters" which is odd because the intent of this article looks great.... But I would have thought the translation of that intent is "how can we better model?" not "how can we get model compliant data"