France 2019

Participez en ligne à une nouvelle expérience ludique en sciences cognitives sur la perception de la géométrie: Cliquez ici: private.unicog.org/msm/exp/ (seulement si vous êtes majeurs) L'expérience dure entre 15 et 20 minutes, et 3 gagnants tirés au sort recevront 30 €

Two new sites on-line: lexique.org and chrplr.github.io/openlexicon

DEMAIN DANS LE CANARD Exclusif : François de Rugy justifie sa démission « ça suffit, j’en ai crustacé! »

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Moi quand j'essaie de tuer le moustique qui est dans ma chambre depuis 2h

Baby elephant runs straight to his mum when he trips while chasing birds. The same tendency is found in humans too: Youngsters use their mothers or other attachment figures as a secure base for exploring the world, returning if they get upset or afraid. bit.ly/30Eig8z

J'avais été prodigieusement irrité par un "cours" d'épistémologie de Monsieur Raoult qui était d'une inculture crasse. Merci à Florian Cova de remettre les pendules à l'heure !

MS Excel data files exceeding the maximum size prevents COVID-19 tracing in UK ...

Many journalists and political leaders in France explain that the pandemic is growing faster than expected. Here are the daily new cases in France since May 11th (end of the lockdown), log scale. How could it be more predictable? Where is the surprise?

I could write jokes for 800 years and I'd never think of something funnier than Trump booking the Four Seasons for his big presser, and it turning out to be the Four Seasons Total Landscaping parking lot between a dildo store and a crematorium.

Il n’avaient le droit qu’à une prise.

The efficiency put by institutions in breaking sci-hub seems to dwarf that put in funding science. It reveals how morally bankrupt the institutional elite is. Protecting interests leeching off science is more important than science. (I am failing to find a working sci-hub URL)

Everyone seems to think it's absurd that large language models (or something similar) could show anything like human intelligence and meaning. But it doesn’t seem so crazy to me. Here's a dissenting 🧵 from cognitive science.

Glad to share our #ICML2022 paper “Neural Language Models are not Born Equal to Fit Brain Data, but Training Helps”. In this work, we investigated the factors driving NLM's ability to fit fMRI brain data. With Yair Lakretz, John Hale, @BertrandThirion, Christophe Pallier arxiv.org/abs/2207.03380

Joint work with Yair Lakretz,@BertrandThirion,Christophe Pallier. Thanks to @nilearn, InriaMIND, NeuroSpin, @UNICOG1, Centre Inria de Saclay, Hugging Face, scikit-learn @ La Fondation Inria and the open-source and open-science communities for making this possible!

Predictions in brains and large language models: Our latest and is out at Nature Human Behavior: go.nature.com/3SKb3gX By, once again, our wonderful team Charlotte Caucheteux @ICML24 and Alexandre Gramfort

Large language models change everything for linguistics, starting with Chomsky. Featuring: LLMs as scientific theories, response to prior takes, "why" questions in language, acquisition... and how the field should have seen this coming. Paper is here: lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007180

Happy to share our 7T fMRI paper about reading in bilinguals, with Christophe Pallier , Aakash Agrawal , Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social , and Laurent Cohen. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal imaging-neuroscience.org This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.