#c: elif

[cantfightmoonlight]

@lunarcovestarters

Option A:

"What in the-" Bri jumped back, nearly flinging herself up against the person behind her as she let out a sharp hiss. A rash already beginning to form across her skin from just a short amount of sun exposure. "I thought these stupid rings were supposed to work. Isn't that the point of having to wear it for the rest of my life?" She muttered out as she hide under the café's awning that still wasn't entirely stopping her skin from feeling irritated.

Option B:

Elif was a wolf who had always prided herself on her complete and utter control. The last time she lost her grip on her wolf form had been back when she was newly turned, before she had received any proper training as to how to control it. But, since then? Shifting had always felt like a second skin to her. She remembered everything vividly. Until now. Under the rays of the eclipse, Elif had lost any semblance of consciousness. Her wolf self had entirely taken over and she found herself bearing her teeth at the unsuspecting individual who had stumbled into Echo Acres during the midst of the Eclipse.

#lunarcovestarter #lunarcoverstarters #c: elif #c: brielle

[flustrds]

closed starter for my baby, @hypnoticfever from elif demirci.

elif rushed up the stairs of the home and walked inside, "i hate wedding planning, can we elope?!" she called out to danny. a sigh escaped her and once she saw him, she jumped into his arms and ran her fingers through her hair. "i just love you and that's all that matters..." elif murmured and she wrinkled up her nose.

#hypnoticfever #c. elif demirci. #th. elif & danny. #v. bitten.

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 30, 2023

Adult-born neurons inhibit developmentally-born neurons during spatial learning. Ash, A. M., Regele-Blasco, E., Seib, D. R., Chahley, E., Skelton, P. D., Luikart, B. W., & Snyder, J. S. (2023). Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 198, 107710.

Behavioral origin of sound-evoked activity in mouse visual cortex. Bimbard, C., Sit, T. P. H., Lebedeva, A., Reddy, C. B., Harris, K. D., & Carandini, M. (2023). Nature Neuroscience, 26(2), 251–258.

Exploration patterns shape cognitive map learning. Brunec, I. K., Nantais, M. M., Sutton, J. E., Epstein, R. A., & Newcombe, N. S. (2023). Cognition, 233, 105360.

Distinct contributions of ventral CA1/amygdala co-activation to the induction and maintenance of synaptic plasticity. Chong, Y. S., Wong, L.-W., Gaunt, J., Lee, Y. J., Goh, C. S., Morris, R. G. M., … Sajikumar, S. (2023). Cerebral Cortex, 33(3), 676–690.

 An intrinsic oscillator underlies visual navigation in ants. Clement, L., Schwarz, S., & Wystrach, A. (2023). Current Biology, 33(3), 411-422.e5.

Not so optimal: The evolution of mutual information in potassium voltage-gated channels. Duran-Urriago, A., & Marzen, S. (2023). PLOS ONE, 18(2), e0264424.

Successor-like representation guides the prediction of future events in human visual cortex and hippocampus. Ekman, M., Kusch, S., & de Lange, F. P. (2023). eLife, 12, e78904.

Residual dynamics resolves recurrent contributions to neural computation. Galgali, A. R., Sahani, M., & Mante, V. (2023). Nature Neuroscience, 26(2), 326–338.

Dorsal attention network activity during perceptual organization is distinct in schizophrenia and predictive of cognitive disorganization. Keane, B. P., Krekelberg, B., Mill, R. D., Silverstein, S. M., Thompson, J. L., Serody, M. R., … Cole, M. W. (2023). European Journal of Neuroscience, 57(3), 458–478.

A striatal circuit balances learned fear in the presence and absence of sensory cues. Kintscher, M., Kochubey, O., & Schneggenburger, R. (2023). eLife, 12, e75703.

Hippocampal engram networks for fear memory recruit new synapses and modify pre-existing synapses in vivo. Lee, C., Lee, B. H., Jung, H., Lee, C., Sung, Y., Kim, H., … Kaang, B.-K. (2023). Current Biology, 33(3), 507-516.e3.

Neocortical synaptic engrams for remote contextual memories. Lee, J.-H., Kim, W. Bin, Park, E. H., & Cho, J.-H. (2023). Nature Neuroscience, 26(2), 259–273.

The effect of temporal expectation on the correlations of frontal neural activity with alpha oscillation and sensory-motor latency. Lee, J. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 2012.

Describing movement learning using metric learning. Loriette, A., Liu, W., Bevilacqua, F., & Caramiaux, B. (2023). PLOS ONE, 18(2), e0272509.

The geometry of cortical representations of touch in rodents. Nogueira, R., Rodgers, C. C., Bruno, R. M., & Fusi, S. (2023). Nature Neuroscience, 26(2), 239–250.

Contextual and pure time coding for self and other in the hippocampus. Omer, D. B., Las, L., & Ulanovsky, N. (2023). Nature Neuroscience, 26(2), 285–294.

Reshaping the full body illusion through visuo-electro-tactile sensations. Preatoni, G., Dell’Eva, F., Valle, G., Pedrocchi, A., & Raspopovic, S. (2023). PLOS ONE, 18(2), e0280628.

Experiencing sweet taste is associated with an increase in prosocial behavior. Schaefer, M., Kühnel, A., Schweitzer, F., Rumpel, F., & Gärtner, M. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 1954.

Cortical encoding of rhythmic kinematic structures in biological motion. Shen, L., Lu, X., Yuan, X., Hu, R., Wang, Y., & Jiang, Y. (2023). NeuroImage, 268, 119893.

Mindful self-focus–an interaction affecting Theory of Mind? Wundrack, R., & Specht, J. (2023). PLOS ONE, 18(2), e0279544.

#science #Neuroscience #computational neuroscience #Brain science #research #cognition #neurons #cognitive science #neural networks #neural computation #neurobiology #psychophysics #scientific publications

[studykac]

🌸06.18.23🌸

Hongdae café study day! We went to a few cafés before realising that a lot in this area have no studying rules on weekends 😭 ended up in the prettiest florist/ cafe hybrid eating some classic Red Bean Bingsu to avoid the 33°c heat 🥵

🎧 Change Up by SVT

📚 The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (164/52)

#studyblr #aesthetic #bujo #bookblr #books #studyspo #study #100 days of productivity #studying #langblr #korean language #korea travel #koreanlearning #korean langblr #linguistics

[pinheadlarryexe]

There is no need for the 'elif' keyword

I've been working on my parser for a little bit now, and I'm stealing following along this amazing article to implement a Pratt Parser. I've written a grammar for my own little language as well, inspired by Python's own grammar.

Inspired by Rust, if-statements are considered expressions. So you can use them like

foo = 1 + if 1 > 0 {1} else {0};

and it would have no problem handling that. However, like in Python, my if-statements use the 'elif' keyword to differentiate between else-if and else-statements.

However, as I'm writing my Pratt Parser, I've come to realize that there is no need for the 'elif' keyword to exist. If you write your grammar something like

expression:

| ...

| if_stmt

if_stmt:

| 'if' expression block else_stmt

| 'if' expression block

else_stmt:

| 'else' expression

it will have no problem handling else-if statements since if-statements are also expressions.

Else-statements do not have to enforce blocks since they do not have a condition body, unlike if-statements. If-statements must enforce blocks since if they didn't, the parser wouldn't know when the condition body ends and the main body started.

For a language like Python however, it uses the 'elif' keyword because it does not treat if-statements as expressions. However, they do have ternaries

A if condition else B

which look very similar to if-statements. These are treated as expressions. Because they're treated as expressions, you don't see the 'elif' keyword. Instead, nested ternaries look like

A if condition else B if condition else C

You might notice that it looks similar to

if condition {

A

} else if condition {

B

}

but just rearranged. You can also notice the 'else if'. The 'elif' keyword has been eliminated.

I didn't put much planning into this post so it probably sounds a little rambly but whatever. cheers.

#programming #codeblr #coding #progblr #python

[rebeccadumaurier]

2023 Books in Review

a tiered ranking of all the books i read in 2023! originally i was going to write up my commentary on each one but then i was like hahaha.....no, so below the cut is just a list of the titles/authors in each tier instead.

changed my brain chemistry

The Idiot, Elif Batuman

Land of Milk and Honey, C Pam Zhang

The Borrowed, Chan Ho-kei (trans. Jeremy Tiang)

My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier

Vagabonds, Hao Jingfang (trans. Ken Liu)

The Membranes, Chi Ta-wei (trans. Ari Larissa Heinrich)

Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeannette Ng

Severance, Ling Ma

He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan

Vita Nostra, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (trans. Julia Meitov Hersey)

Network Effect, Martha Wells

top-tier stuff

Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez (trans. Megan McDowell)

Brainwyrms, Alison Rumfitt

The Door, Magda Szabo (trans. Len Rix)

The Lover, Marguerite Duras (trans. Barbara Bray)

Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

Strange Beasts of China, Yan Ge (trans. Jeremy Tiang)

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers

Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu

Tell Me I’m Worthless, Alison Rumfitt

Bliss Montage, Ling Ma

How to Read Now, Elaine Castillo

Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer

The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin

If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin

My Brilliant Friend and The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante

The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri

good, well-written

Carmilla, Sheridan Le Fanu

Life Ceremony, Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)

Yellowface, R. F. Kuang

A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine

Assassin of Reality, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (trans. Julia Meitov Hersey)

Witch King, Martha Wells

Tokyo Ueno Station, Miri Yu (trans. Morgan Giles)

Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler

Peaces, Helen Oyeyemi

Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi

Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

The Pachinko Parlor, Elisa Shua Dusapin (trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins)

All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Fugitive Telemetry, and System Collapse (Murderbot #1-4, #6-7), Martha Wells

Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee

The Dry Heart, Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Frances Frenaye)

Gods of Want, K-Ming Chang

Paradais, Fernanda Melchor (trans. Sophie Hughes)

The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency, Chen Chen

The Hurting Kind, Ada Limon

Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie

An Unauthorised Fan Treatise, Lauren James

Upstream, Mary Oliver

The Art of Death, Edwidge Danticat

Meander, Spiral, Explode, Jane Alison

alphabet, Inger Christensen (trans. Susanna Nied)

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

flawed, but enjoyable

The Wicker King, K. Ancrum

Exit West, Mohsin Hamid

Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters

Flux, Jinwoo Chong

Bang Bang Bodhisattva, Aubrey Wood

The Murder of Mr. Wickham, Claudia Gray

Natural Beauty, Ling Ling Huang

The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson

Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Likeness, Tana French

The Cabinet, Un-su Kim (trans. Sean Lin Halbert)

The Kingdom of Surfaces, Sally Wen Mao

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, Franny Choi

good, well-written, but not my cup of tea

The Good House, Tananarive Due

The Transmigration of Bodies, Yuri Herrera (trans. Lisa Dillman)

Roadside Picnic, Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (trans. Olena Bormashenko)

The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan

At Night All Blood Is Black, David Diop (trans. Anna Moschovakis)

Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Jenny McPhee)

The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo

The Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier (trans. Harriet de Onís)

Against Silence, Frank Bidart

flawed, less enjoyable

Tenth of December, George Saunders

Counterweight, Djuna (trans. Anton Hur)

Authority, Jeff VanderMeer

Comfort Me with Apples, Catherynne M. Valente

Babel, R. F. Kuang

The Genesis of Misery, Neon Yang

Carrie Soto Is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid

not ranking

These are nonfiction and they aren’t literature-related, so it just felt weird trying to rank them.

Visual Thinking, Temple Grandin

On Web Typography, Jason Santa Maria

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo (trans. Cathy Hirano)

#ange.log #ange.book

[lebojohnb]

Elif C

[bpod-bpod]

Hidden Eggs

People describe laptops as ‘black boxes’, with their concealed inner workings hard to understand and impossible to repair. The body is not much different. Our understanding of some essential parts and processes is limited by how hard they are to access and observe. To better understand ovaries, where eggs are formed, researchers have generated artificial replicas in the lab from mouse stem cells – starter cells that can develop into other types such as key ovary components germ cells, which go on to form eggs, and granulosa cells, which support those eggs. Generating granulosa cells from human material has proven harder, but this picture shows the results of a successful attempt (granulosa-like cells in green). With the generated germ and granulosa cells alongside each other, ovary structures began to form, which will provide an easily-accessed testing ground and give a glimpse inside the black box, revealing more secrets of fertility.

Written by Anthony Lewis

Image from work by Merrick D Pierson Smela and Christian C Kramme, and colleagues

Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, February 2023

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#science #biomedicine #ovulation #germ cells #ovaries #organoids #immunofluorescence

[pink-lighter]

chicken feet: what is your emotional "flaw"?

red cheeks: what makes you nervous?

sunflower: what do you love and cherish?

bells: what sounds are your favorite or calm you the most? turnip: what is a food you could eat everyday?

spit: do you get jealous easily?

hiiii i love you sm!!!!

chicken feet: for me, it always boils down to fear. i have a desire to maintain a distance between myself and my emotions, especially as it pertains to communication. it’s so hard for me to express my emotions verbally, and it’s so hard to articulate them in a way that captures their breadth; the only way i can ever do my emotions justice is through writing and written language. writing creates the perfect amount of distance between myself and what i am saying — traces of my soul linger, but only if you look, like the writing stands in for my presence. i guess all of that is the say that honesty scares me, and to express my emotions verbally puts me at the centre of that sincerity.

i’m also afraid that the way i think and feel and think about how i feel is inherently pretentious. sometimes, i feel like i’m so far disconnected from reality that nobody else could possibly relate to my thoughts or feelings. the things i have to say are preposterous, or worse yet, they are clichéd and unoriginal, as if the depths of my emotional undercurrents are that of a stock character. this might also be a driving force in my fear of vulnerability. i’m considerably less scared of this now than i have been in the past, especially after a conversation i had which a friend: he said that making music felt essential for his life, and immediately made a joke that it sounded douchey. i quoted the idiot by elif batuman, and said that saying things you know to be true always sounds a little pretentious.

as mentioned before, i have a very deep-rooted fear of vulnerability. i’m afraid that if i am not constantly performing, or brightening other people’s worlds, they will leave me. i’m learning to accept that in order to meaningfully let someone in, i have to allow them to see the worst parts of me, shine a light on parts that i am scared and ashamed of, and choose to stay. moreover, arguably the worst part of myself — my fear of vulnerability and sincerity — will never go away unless i continually confront it by letting the people i love confront it too.

red cheeks: a lot! i get really flustered in the people i perceive to be very intelligent, or look up to in some way, because i want them to like me and think i’m smart. i get nervous around crushes. i get nervous when i’m ordering food at a place i don’t normally go to, and i’m afraid of asking for something in a stupid way. i’m afraid of asking for my medication at a pharmacy because i never know what to say. “i’m here to pick up my medication.” no shit. it’s a pharmacy.

sunflower: i am filled with so much love, so it’s hard to keep this answer concise! i really love all my friends, and i’d do anything for them. i just feel so incredibly known when i talk to them. my friend was helping me with my homework today, and while she was on call with her mum, her mum said “tell [name redacted] that i love her!” human interaction and connection is just so beautiful. i love when i’m walking and the sun is shining. i love the curve of my lips. i love listening to music and feeling it make a permanent home in my heart. i love existing in the world and seeing all my love and care for other people reflected back at me. i’m listening to elliott smith’s cover of thirteen, and thinking about someone i love and care about dearly. i love writing and reading. i love studying, and i’m so grateful that i’m getting an education. i love architecture, especially architecture that makes you feel like inhabiting it is a perpetual act of discovery. a building on my campus has very decorative vents. i love tea, all the different and enticing flavours i can choose from. i love smiling, and being smiled at. i love fresh fruits and vegetables, and cooking them. i love the sound of laughter. i love learning, and i never wish to stop. i love my eyes. i love curling up underneath my blanket. i love love.

bells: oooh, i love the sound of rain! the sound of a really thunderous rain in the morning or early afternoon on a day when you have nothing to do and nowhere to go is particularly delightful.

turnip: right now, it’s this tomato and aubergine spaghetti i made last night. i think this might just be because i had it so recently. in general, i don’t really want to only have one food for the rest of my life. anyways, here’s how i made the pasta: i cubed the aubergine, salted it to extract the bitterness, and roasted it with olive oil. i semi-caramelised some onions, then added garlic and cubed tomatoes. i salted the tomatoes to extract some water from them, and then i added some pasta water and let them boil in that until the tomatoes softened and i crushed them a bit with the back of the wooden spoon. i added chilli flakes, chilli powder, black pepper, and dried basil. then, i added the boiled spaghetti and roasted aubergine. below is a phot of said tomato-aubergine pasta

spit: i hate feeling jealous, but, yeah, i think i do get jealous easily. i think the thing i get most jealous of is when my friends have parents that treat them like adults. my friend and his girlfriend took a trip a few years back, and i could help but feel so jealous that he could just…go? i know it’s unfair, but i just wished i could also go places without asking for permission.

#ask game #thank you for asking! #pink speaks!

[julideergin]

Londra’da Aylaklık Etmek!

Yazının başlığı üzerine çok düşündüm.

Düşündüm çünkü Londra sokaklarında zaman kısıtlaması olmadan ve herhangi bir amaç gütmeden yapılan yürüyüşler olmasaydı mahalle aralarında bulunan küçük parkları, farklı lezzetler sunan yeme-içme mekanlarını, hayranlık uyandıran ağaçları, o ağaçların tepesinde oynayan sincapları görmek ve gördüklerini bir çocuk şaşkınlığı ve mutluluğuyla karşılamak, sanırım mümkün olmazdı. Bu yürüyüşleri hangi kelime ile tanımlamak doğru olurdu? Çok düşündüm, sonra “Aylaklık” ta karar kıldım. Yine de emin olmak için muhtelif kaynaklardan kelimenin anlamını okumaya başladım.

TDK sözlüğüne göre aylak, “Yapacak bir işi olmayan, boş duran (kimse)” anlamına geliyor. İşsiz, boş duran, avare anlamına gelen bu kelimenin Fransızca karşılığı ise hem kulağa hoş geliyor hem de biraz daha olumlu bir anlam taşıyor; flanör (flâneur.). Flanör, 19. yy’de ortaya çıkmış ve “aylak aylak gezen aydın” veya “kentli aylak” anlamına geliyormuş. “Aylak Sözlüğü Üzerine” başlıklı makalesinde Sevda Kaman, kelimeyi ve kelimenin taşıdığı anlamı çok ayrıntılı bir şekilde ele almış.  Makalenin en önemli katkılarından biri seneler önce okuduğum Yusuf Atılgan’ın Aylak Adam isimli romanını hatırlatması oldu. “Avare” anlamının yanında “düşünür gezgin” anlamını da karşılayan aylaklığı dilimizde en güzel ele alan eserlerden biridir Yusuf Atılgan’ın romanı. Roman boyunca ismini bile tam bilemediğimiz huzursuz, mutsuz, aylak C’nin aylaklığının yanında aşkı arayışına da tanıklık ederiz. Kim bilir belki de zamanında aykırı C. karakterinden de etkilenmiş olmalıyım ki emekli olduğumdan bu yana, son iki yılda gerçekleştirdiğim dördüncü Londra gezisi için aylaklık tanımının doğruluğundan emin oldum. Hemen eklemeliyim ki bir düşünür değilim, hele aydın hiç değilim. Ama toplamda altıncı kez ziyaret ettiğim Londra’yı bu sefer ziyaretimde ifa edilecek bir görev veya iş olmadığı için, kelimenin tam layıkıyla aylak aylak gezdim!

Aylaklığa eşlik eden yol arkadaşım Cemil ile önceden planladığımız bir şey olmaması bizi çok rahat ettirdi. Hem şehrin hem de bizim havamıza göre ayaklarımızın bizi taşıyabildiği yerlere kaybola kaybola gittik. Yağmurlu günlerde sığındığımız kafelerde içtiğimiz sıcak kahvelerle gücümüzü topladıktan sonra bu kez farklı rotalar kullanarak döndüğümüz evde yol boyu gördüğümüz güzellikleri konuştuk. Gidenler bilir kentin hemen hemen her noktasına yürüyerek ulaşabileceğiniz bir yer Londra. Kaldırımlarda aniden karşınıza motosiklet veya Martı denen scooter kullanan biri çıkmıyor. Bebekleri, yaşlıları, engellileri düşünerek tasarlanmış yollarda yaya geçitleri güvenli; trafik ışıkları hata vermeden çalışıyor. Arabalar ters yöne girmiyor, olmadık yerlere park edip yayanın yürüme hakkını elinden almıyor.

Yürüyüşlerde yağmura yakalanmadığımızda ise mutlaka bir parkın içine dalıp ahşap banklarda soluklandık. Belli ki yerleşim yerlerinin metrekaresine göre planlanmış bu parklar hemen her yerde karşınıza çıkıyor. Hyde Park, Regent’s Park veya Hampstead Heat gibi Londra’ya mal olmuş muhteşem güzellikte, devasa yeşil alanların yanı sıra son derece sıradan bir mahalle veya sokakta, kocaman ağaçlar veya küçük çalılıklardan oluşan, irili-ufaklı mütevazi parklarla karşılaşmak, çölde bir vaha bulmuşçasına beni mutlu etti. Hiç istemediğimiz halde yaşadığınız kent ile karşılaştırma yaptık. İmar planında park ve yeşil alan olarak görülen yerlerin nasıl olup da AVM ve çok katlı devasa binalara dönüştüğüne bizzat tanıklık etmiş bireyler olarak biraz yüreğimiz burkulsa da gördüğümüz kırmızı bir çınar yaprağı veya daldan dala sıçrayan bir sincap neşemizi hemen yerine getirdi.  

Sürprizlerle dolu olan Londra’da aylaklık ederken ağaçları ayrı bir hayranlıkla gözlemledim. Sonbahardan etkilenmiş kızıl-kahverengine dönmüş yapraklıların yanında, ona direnen ve halen yemyeşil yapraklarıyla göğe yükselen ağaçlara dokunmadan duramadım. Gelmeden hemen önce okuduğum Elif Şafak’ın “Kayıp Ağaçlar Adası” isimli romanında mıdır bilmiyorum ağaçlar bir başka ilgimi çekti bu sefer Londra’da. Londra ve Kıbrıs’ta geçen; savaş, göç, yas, kimlik ve sevgi üzerine yazılmış olarak kısaca tanımlayabileceğim bu romanın teşekkür bölümünde Elif Şafak şöyle yazmış: “İstanbul'dan son kez ayrıldığımda, bir daha dönmeyeceğimi bilmiyordum. Bilseydim bavuluma ne koyardım diye merak ediyorum” yazmış ve kökleriyle bir Akdeniz ağacı getirebilseymiş yanında çok hoşuna gideceğini eklemiş.  Okuduğumdan bu yana yeni bir yere gitsem, yeni bir başlangıç için ben hangi ağacı seçerdim diye düşündüm.  Belki Defne, belki Begonvil, belki Nar, belki Limon, belki de Zeytin… Karar vermesi çok zor. İstanbul’daki evimizin küçük terasında Nar ve Limon hariç (limon olmasa da Kumkuat var) bunların hepsi var. Ama sadece ve sadece tek bir seçim hakkım olsa, oyumu Zeytin’den yana kullanacağıma karar verdim. Evet, evet… Nereye gidersem gideyim kökleriyle birlikte bir zeytin ağacını yanımda götürmek, onun büyütmek, meyve vermese de bana yoldaşlık etmesini isterdim.

İstanbul’da bıraktığım bu düşünceler haliyle Londra sokaklarında tekrar aklıma düştü.  Bodrum katını da sayarsak en fazla üç katlı evlerin sıralandığı bir yolda aylaklık ederken bir de ne görelim; bir evin bahçesinde hem zeytin hem begonvil bana el sallıyor! Bir kez daha nasıl mutlu oldum anlatamam. Böyle küçük şeylerden sık sık mutlu olan bir insan değilimdir ben. Ama ne olduysa bu gezide, gördüğüm hemen her şeye hayranlık duydum, içim şükranla doldu. Aylaklığın hediyesiydi bence bu duygu ve düşünceler.

Şimdi ise çok uzağa gitmeden, yaşadığım yerde Ataşehir’de aylaklık etmeye niyet ettim. Bakalım Ataşehir’i aylak aylak gezmek bana ne hediyeler getirecek?

Elektronik Kaynaklar:

Türk Dil Kurumu, (Güncel Türkçe Sözlük), https://sozluk.gov.tr/

Kaman, Sevda (2020), Aylak Sözcüğü Üzerine, https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1014530

#aylaklık

[alifeincoffeespoons]

a random long-ish list of media and characters that have given me persistent brainworms

• the raven cycle (thank u dalia i love u) — adam parrish my beloved • sirius black and remus lupin. and by obvious extension wolfstar • conversations with friends by sally rooney • dabihawks. and also hawks just like. by himself. this is despite me yelling at the screen every time i even attempt to watch MHA anymore • stranger things despite me like. not actually watching the show. and just consuming fanfiction • me and my dog by boygenius • fleabag • the idiot by elif batuman • this specific essay by c pam zhang • everything weike wang has ever written but especially chemistry • everything i never told you by celeste ng • crying in h mart by michelle zauner • “wife” by ada limón • this essay by leslie jamison • this essay by rayne fisher-quann • semi-embarrassingly, the social network • check please! (nurseydex my beloved) • little women (2019) — amy march is So Real • the harley quinn series • all of chen chen’s poetry ever but especially this one. everyone should read when i grow up i want to be a list of endless possibilities and your emergency contact has experienced an emergency • good omens • all of preacher’s daughter by ethel cain anyway if u have any suggestions for media that u think i would like based on this.......very random list pls send them to me !!

#about me #i guess #the raven cycle #wolfstar

[cantfightmoonlight]

@lunarcovestarters

Option A:

"No, no, no, no," A curse broke from Jas' lips as her fingers curled into fists around the paper in hand. Her face scrunched up as she tried to keep her heart beat steady as a wave of anger and fear hit her at once like a ton of bricks. Silas was out. After all these years, he was fucking free which could only mean one thing. He'd be coming for her and it was finally time for him to collect on that favor she owed dear old dad. If Silas was coming, she couldn't stay here. She couldn't- she couldn't endanger all of the people in this town. All of the people she cared about. She couldn't- she couldn't breath. Fuck. "Out of my way," She mumbled out as she pushed past another, barely registering that they were there as the words from the paper she had picked up from the news stand played in her mind, over and over again.

Option B:

"Were you reading that? No? Okay," Elif snatched the paper clean out of the other person's hand as she continued to go around collecting every newspaper she saw in sight. She might not have known of who Silas Chamberlain was herself, but she knew the basics and knew that the last thing Jasmine and the Reeds needed was the entire town gossiping about their family when they were likely only just finding out about the news themselves. " 'cuse me," She flashed the unsuspecting civilian a smile as she plucked their paper out of their hand as well to join the huge stack she had bought out from the news stand. She wasn't quite sure what she was going to do with a hundred copies of the same paper, but she figured, worse come to worse, Nico and her could always start a pack bonfire or something.

Option C:

"No comment," Meena flashed the reporter an eased smile as she made her way down the steps of Town Hall that had been abuzz ever since the Lunar Cove Times had scooped them on the fact that the notorious criminal, Silas Chamberlain, had escaped from prison. It had been a while since she had last heard that name and while her thoughts laid elsewhere she knew the council would only be able to avoid this new elephant in the room for so long before a game plan as to how to deal with the threat that was the dark magic tyrant who was now roaming around. "You," She said, slowing to a halt as she caught a familiar face across the street from the crowds. "Walk with me?"

#lunarcovestarters #c: meena #c: jasmine #c: elif

[thediverismylove]

my top 10 books of 2022

1. the world cannot give by tara isabella burton

2. vladimir by julia may jonas

3. somebody’s daughter by ashley c ford

4. win me something by kyle lucia wu

5. hamnet by maggie o’farrell

6. the namesake by jhumpa lahiri

7. book lovers by emily henry

8. the margot affair by sanaë lemoine

9. either/or by elif batuman

10. ghosts by dolly alderton

#a good reading year! #this list is in no particular order btw

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 10, 2024

Children seek help based on how others learn. Bridgers, S., De Simone, C., Gweon, H., & Ruggeri, A. (2023). Child Development, 94(5), 1259–1280.

Dopamine regulates decision thresholds in human reinforcement learning in males. Chakroun, K., Wiehler, A., Wagner, B., Mathar, D., Ganzer, F., van Eimeren, T., … Peters, J. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 5369.

Abnormal sense of agency in eating disorders. Colle, L., Hilviu, D., Boggio, M., Toso, A., Longo, P., Abbate-Daga, G., … Fossataro, C. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 14176.

Different time scales of common‐cause evidence shape multisensory integration, recalibration and motor adaptation. Debats, N. B., Heuer, H., & Kayser, C. (2023). European Journal of Neuroscience, 58(5), 3253–3269.

Inferential eye movement control while following dynamic gaze. Han, N. X., & Eckstein, M. P. (2023). eLife, 12, e83187.

Dissociable roles of human frontal eye fields and early visual cortex in presaccadic attention. Hanning, N. M., Fernández, A., & Carrasco, M. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 5381.

Neural tuning instantiates prior expectations in the human visual system. Harrison, W. J., Bays, P. M., & Rideaux, R. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 5320.

Acute exercise has specific effects on the formation process and pathway of visual perception in healthy young men. Komiyama, T., Takedomi, H., Aoyama, C., Goya, R., & Shimegi, S. (2023). European Journal of Neuroscience, 58(5), 3239–3252.

Locating causal hubs of memory consolidation in spontaneous brain network in male mice. Li, Z., Athwal, D., Lee, H.-L., Sah, P., Opazo, P., & Chuang, K.-H. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 5399.

Development of multisensory processing in ferret parietal cortex. Medina, A. E., Foxworthy, W. A., Keum, D., & Meredith, M. A. (2023). European Journal of Neuroscience, 58(5), 3226–3238.

Optimal routing to cerebellum-like structures. Muscinelli, S. P., Wagner, M. J., & Litwin-Kumar, A. (2023). Nature Neuroscience, 26(9), 1630–1641.

In vivo ephaptic coupling allows memory network formation. Pinotsis, D. A., & Miller, E. K. (2023). Cerebral Cortex, 33(17), 9877–9895.

Sex-dependent noradrenergic modulation of premotor cortex during decision-making. Rodberg, E. M., den Hartog, C. R., Dauster, E. S., & Vazey, E. M. (2023). eLife, 12, e85590.

Propagation of activity through the cortical hierarchy and perception are determined by neural variability. Rowland, J. M., van der Plas, T. L., Loidolt, M., Lees, R. M., Keeling, J., Dehning, J., … Packer, A. M. (2023). Nature Neuroscience, 26(9), 1584–1594.

High-precision mapping reveals the structure of odor coding in the human brain. Sagar, V., Shanahan, L. K., Zelano, C. M., Gottfried, J. A., & Kahnt, T. (2023). Nature Neuroscience, 26(9), 1595–1602.

The locus of recognition memory signals in human cortex depends on the complexity of the memory representations. Sanders, D. M. W., & Cowell, R. A. (2023). Cerebral Cortex, 33(17), 9835–9849.

Velocity of conduction between columns and layers in barrel cortex reported by parvalbumin interneurons. Scheuer, K. S., Judge, J. M., Zhao, X., & Jackson, M. B. (2023). Cerebral Cortex, 33(17), 9917–9926.

Acetylcholine and noradrenaline enhance foraging optimality in humans. Sidorenko, N., Chung, H.-K., Grueschow, M., Quednow, B. B., Hayward-Könnecke, H., Jetter, A., & Tobler, P. N. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(36), e2305596120.

Rats adaptively seek information to accommodate a lack of information. Yuki, S., Sakurai, Y., & Yanagihara, D. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 14417.

Beta traveling waves in monkey frontal and parietal areas encode recent reward history. Zabeh, E., Foley, N. C., Jacobs, J., & Gottlieb, J. P. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 5428.

#neuroscience #science #research #brain science #scientific publications #cognitive science #neurobiology #cognition #psychophysics #computational neuroscience #neural computation #neural networks #neurons

[robinallender]

Books I read in 2022

Normally I try to write an individual post about every book I read, but I didn’t manage that this year. So here is a montage of all the books I didn’t manage to post about!

I loved John Higgs’ book about The Beatles and James Bond and it was a real highlight to interview him this year for Your Own Personal Beatles. I also read John’s book William Blake vs the World, which was totally revelatory and made me feel like I understood Blake for the first time; I love the idea of Blake wandering around London and coming across the ‘large and pleasant’ village of Camberwell.

I reread Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm and Coming Up for Air for the Moon Under Water special we recorded for this year’s Orwell Festival. (I only noticed this time around that the appendix of Nineteen Eighty-Four is in the past tense, but apparently everyone has already spotted that.) I also read Dorian Lynskey’s ‘biography’ of Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Ministry of Truth, which brilliantly reckons with Orwell’s contradictions and explores the ways in which the novel has been misinterpreted and co-opted since it was published.

R. C. Sheriff’s The Fortnight in September is absolutely wonderful. A kind of Zen-like ambient novel in which a family goes on holiday to Bognor Regis – and that’s it. Similarly peril-free is Leonard and Hungry Paul, a hugely uplifting novel which is a welcome antidote to, well, everything.

I read some brilliant books about music: The Sound of Being Human by Jude Rogers is part memoir, part analysis of why music means so much to us. I found it incredibly moving. Denim and Leather by Michael Hann is an hilarious, rollicking account of a folk culture unique to our isles: The New Wave of British Heavy Metal. 

We interviewed William Boyd for the Moon Under Water (episode coming soon) and it was a pleasure to read two of his ‘whole life’ novels, Any Human Heart and The Romantic.

2022 was the year in which I finally finished Finnegans Wake (started it in 2018 and kept a Twitter thread going for four years, in case you ever get really bored). Did I understand it? No, but I loved its musicality and glimmers of meaning in the dream-like gloom. Don’t we all? 

Elif Batuman’s The Idiot was the best novel I read this year. The title character, Selin, a student at Harvard in the 1990s, is not an idiot – but she is a kind of holy fool. She’s actually incredibly perceptive at spotting other people’s idiocies and pretensions (of which student life has its fair share). Above all, The Idiot is really a novel about language; the way it conceals and reveals – and is full of glowing passages like this:

I kept thinking about the uneven quality of time – the way it was almost always so empty, and then with no warning came a few days that felt so dense and alive and real that it seemed indisputable that that was what life was, that its real nature had finally been revealed. But then time passed and unthinkably grew dead again, and it turned out that that fullness had been an aberration and might never come back.

Peter Doggett’s You Never Give Me Your Money is a superb Beatles book, and perfect if you watched Get Back and want to know what happened next. Why did The Beatles break up? Doggett has a 300-page answer for you.

The Plot is an engrossing literary thriller – although I did guess the twist. Reading Four Thousand Weeks felt like a waste of time (ironic for a time management book). I found it a bit trite, but some people loved it! More edifying was the children’s classic Carrie’s War, which is absolutely brilliant and surprisingly dark.

I ended the year by reading Salinger (again). As always, I’m amazed by how it feels like I’m back in a real place with real people whenever I read his books. I want to write something longer about The Catcher in the Rye because I think it’s one of the most profound books ever written. This time I wondered if it isn’t, in some way, about nostalgia. Holden is recalling the events of the novel a year after they happened and ends it by saying, ‘Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.’

I finally got around to reading Actual Air. David Berman was a genius. His poems feel like the (mis)apprehensions of childhood – full of dream logic, strange familiarity and familiar strangeness. He was also incredibly funny, as in the poem where he meets a choreographer in New York who claims that blue jeans are ‘pretentious nineteenth-century gold rush period’ outfits.

Speaking of strangeness, I loved The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher, a brilliant study of unsettling art, from Lovecraft to Lynch. Via this book I read what I think is one of the best short stories ever written, ‘The Door in the Wall’ by H. G. Wells – an extraordinary tale of lost childhood and unattainable desire:

‘That is as well as I can remember my vision of that garden – the garden that haunts me still. Of course, I can convey nothing of that indescribable quality of translucent unreality, that difference from the common things of experience that hung about it all; but that – that is what happened. If it was a dream, I am sure it was a daytime and altogether extraordinary dream…’ 

On top of these, I read the following books:

Eclipse – John Banville Pond – Claire-Louise Bennett (again) Dance Move – Wendy Erskine Send Nudes – Saba Sams Piranesi – Susanna Clarke The Way by Swann’s – Marcel Proust Unexhausted Time – Emily Berry Transformer – Ezra Furman Some Answers Without Questions – Lavinia Greenlaw Adventures in the Skin Trade – Dylan Thomas Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan When We Cease to Understand the World – Benjamín Labatut Leave the World Behind – Rumaan Alam A Short Stay in Hell – Steven L. Peck The Apparition Phase – William Maclean

So, a total of 37! Not bad going. Next year, I plan to do things a little bit differently and will probably say farewell to this Tumblr blog (which I started in 2011!). I'm hoping to write more long-form posts, so you may see me on Substack.

Thanks for reading and happy holidays.

#books of 2022

[lilikags]

hellooo i saw you ask about that one code snippet you rbed and as the local compsci student let me answer your question ^^ i think what you saw was python! i learned c first too and the syntax change is kind of weird? but many newer languages are starting to use this kind of style where you ommit the whole () {} and even the ; at the end. the scope of your if is everything that you have indented after it. as soon as you go back to the normal indentation, it stays outside of the if. kiiinda like this

python depends on how deep you tab your stuff, if i'm not mistaken. it lets you code faster but it's easy to get lost if you have many ifs inside of each other buuut they say it's really good for beginners! i'm still learning python tho

so yeah, this was your local coding nerd rant (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ) if you ever have any doubts about it feel free to ask <3

YEEE TY NYA i have never seen python so it was like me seeing this cute little animal for the first time that i know is similar to the ones i have (c & html) but its so different. look so different,... craz

i immediately went onto w3schools and discovered le python (not that i haven't heard of it before)

ALSO I SAW THAT ELSE IF BECAME ELIF BUT THAT LITERALLY IS ONE OF MY FRIENDS NAMES gosh

will need to get used to no ; and () and {} and instead tabbing ?! thats so crazy to me like how do how how how how eats that (its simple. just weird to me)

though i do know how ANNOYING it is to miss a semicolon and never realize it go what feels like forever before you find it and you hit your head on the wall because thats the worst thing ever \

OR NOT KNOWING HOW MANY BRACKETS TO HAVE.... when you have }}}); on one line or something its like. what is that whats wrong wheres my error whats unmatched (screeeeeeeches)

#i self learned html css + a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle bit of js #then i learned c (plain c. not c++ or c sharp) it was weirdge fs #so like i stay within my little languages and never learned anything new and seeing syntax like this my mind explods #thanku nya #celestine #heirs.nya