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		<title>Lecture: Principles of Neural Representation (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am reviewing my lectures on Principles of Neural Representation, so I decided to post a video of the first one from last year.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thermaltoy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33818963&#038;post=778&#038;subd=thermaltoy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My 10,000th tweet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomhartley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is great but (perhaps because) you only get 140 characters. So this post mentions some of the highlights of my twitter experience so far. If you don&#8217;t know twitter at all or you don&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; it, don&#8217;t start here with my 10,000 tweet. Start with my post on &#8220;What is the point of twitter?&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thermaltoy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33818963&#038;post=770&#038;subd=thermaltoy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The White Dot: A Parable</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomhartley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted anonymously at the-white-dot.posterous.com in Sept 2011. It had 563 views in March 2013. Posterous is now closing down, so I am reposting here. Not my normal style! Enjoy this parable of academic publishing and look forward to the time when the white dot comes to Science! Dear cousin, I feel I must relate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thermaltoy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33818963&#038;post=565&#038;subd=thermaltoy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science v Philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomhartley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any friendly philosophers or scientists fancy getting together for a discussion on G+ Hangouts in the next few days? UPDATE: The Hangout is planned for 21/2/2013 1730 GMT. Comment here or tweet @tom_hartley for an invitation. You will need to provide your preferred gmail address (but you should do this privately, e.g., by twitter DM [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thermaltoy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33818963&#038;post=753&#038;subd=thermaltoy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Convince Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post, I explained why I sometimes feel that reason is greatly overrated; people often leave unnoticed gaps in an explanation and are not good at spotting these. In addition we are all prone to various cognitive biases which incline us to believe things when we shouldn&#8217;t and not to believe things when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thermaltoy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33818963&#038;post=593&#038;subd=thermaltoy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Who or Professor Who? On Academic Email Etiquette</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was provoked by a discussion with a UK-based professor (let&#8217;s call her Rebecca Smith, not her real name) who mentioned on twitter that she had received an inquiry about a PhD application by email from someone addressing her as &#8220;Hey Rebecca!&#8221; Was this a faux-pas on the applicant&#8217;s part? You may think it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thermaltoy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33818963&#038;post=543&#038;subd=thermaltoy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Balls of Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 08:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a fireball or meteor last night. I was watching TV with the light on in my living room with the curtains on the North-facing window open. The fireball was bright enough to catch my eye in my peripheral vision. I live just South of York, and at this point it would have been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thermaltoy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33818963&#038;post=417&#038;subd=thermaltoy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is the point of Google+?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomhartley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago on this blog, I tried to explain the point of twitter. This week I turn to Google+ a relatively new social network which hasn&#8217;t yet quite taken off in the way facebook and twitter have.Facebook is estimated to have over 600 million users worldwide, so it&#8217;s a fair bet that most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thermaltoy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33818963&#038;post=519&#038;subd=thermaltoy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Devil&#8217;s Advocate: Uncorrected Stats and the Trouble With fMRI</title>
		<link>http://thermaltoy.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/devils-advocate-uncorrected-stats-and-the-trouble-with-fmri/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 14:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This rather technical post is a response to a recent Observer article by Vaughan Bell. In it he follows up on a recent internet discussion around the validity or otherwise of fMRI methods. A blog post by StokesBlog responded.  I must admit I hesitate to step into the fray. I think &#8220;flaws&#8221; in neuroimaging methods [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thermaltoy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33818963&#038;post=509&#038;subd=thermaltoy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Identifying a Hidden Talent &#8211; Remembering Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomhartley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In previous posts, I described the science behind the Four Mountains Test, a memory test which we developed using computer generated landscapes to assess the ability to recognize places from their layout even when the viewpoint changes. The test was designed from the outset to depend on a part of the brain, the hippocampus, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thermaltoy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=33818963&#038;post=434&#038;subd=thermaltoy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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