Heat diffusion vs. wave equation on a surface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%E2%80%93Beltrami_operator

@anneurai that would be handy!

@Samuelmoore you can surely do something good with their money, but unlikely you'd be chosen to be the recipient of their money if they thought you'd undermine their business. There's a great Noam Chomsky interview with Andrew Marr where Marr says nobody tells him what to say, and Chomsky simply replies, I'm sure you believe everything you say but if you didn't believe those things you wouldn't be in the job you are now. Same thing here.

@jonny @jordan realistically I'm never going to have time to learn enough ruby to contribute myself but would be happy mocking up a few variants of the UI on fake data to see what works. (In January.)

@jonny @jordan idea for neuromatch.social. How about experimenting with better thread views? I never liked Twitter much for this but to be honest masto is no better and maybe even worse. I'd like a block that shows the first message in the thread to remind me what it was, the number of messages and participants (and maybe list the most active participants), and a vertical scroll list by recency with message being replied to on left, replies on right. Or something like that. Feasible?

@jonny neuromatch is still unblocked right?

Scientific-Inkscape plugin is a life saver.

@Samuelmoore it's also worth keeping in mind that a very real strategy used by the powerful to maintain their interests is to give resources and power to those who have a perspective that seems critical but is actually non threatening to them. (You see this in journalism all the time btw.) If there are two "open science" advocates, one with a flashy website, social media team, etc, and the other a small group of curmudgeons, guess whose ideas everyone ends up talking about.

@Samuelmoore let's put it this way: they wouldn't be giving someone money to do work that they think would undermine their position and profits. So obviously they think it's clear enough, and I'm inclined to believe them on this. They seem to pursue their own interests quite effectively.

@lili definitely good to have more instances I think. Better not to have a single point of failure, diversity is good, we'll learn from each other, etc.

@tdverstynen @kordinglab matching you say? 😃

Agreed. And I'd add in a penalty term for predictions an algorithm would have made using only generic demographic information.

@jordan @kordinglab @jonny yeah I've talked about it with a few people, including @jonny I think. It could be a core part of https://nmop.io too I reckon.

@kordinglab @jordan @NicoleCRust indeed! And @jonny and other volunteers.

@kordinglab I think people see it as a bad idea because recommendation engines from tech companies are built to maximise ad views, and that gives them very bad dynamics. If we built a recommendation engine aimed at scientists it could be quite a positive force. Imagine one that you could individually tune to show you a mix of stuff including some that was surprising and outside your usual interactions but without showing you nasty fascist stuff, etc.

This is the PsychoPy team's #introduction to Mastodon.

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@bwyble @auditoryJoel @neuralreckoning @Samuelmoore @GunnarBlohm
BioRXiv does its part with that COVID19 un-reviewed preprints warning. The attached should be a common notice on journal websites.

@bwyble @albertcardona @GunnarBlohm @Samuelmoore @richardsever peer review only for papers that journalists write about? Sure, why not. The journalists can pay for it.

@albertcardona @bwyble @GunnarBlohm @Samuelmoore @richardsever obviously I can't say why they put it there, but I'd have put that warning there too just to avoid any liability (legal or reputational).

@bwyble @GunnarBlohm @Samuelmoore are you actually arguing that they're equivalent?

@bwyble @GunnarBlohm @Samuelmoore wow, you must think even less of peer review than I do if you think a note on a website is equivalent to a whole load of peer reviewed articles.