Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhd Twitter profile

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2 years

Every day, at least once I am haunted by this.

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This, for me, remain the biggest unsolved intellectual question of our era.

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@rorys i am sorry, that is simply too high concept for this post. i also generally, as a matter of principle, would vote to classify this text as undecipherable, lost to time. it is the Voynich manuscript of our times and that is fine by me.

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Twitter: don't read Marx, read Angela davis. Angela Davis: actually please read Marx.

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This is the best theory I've read and even this falls apart if someone imagined like... "very good" or some variation. The op is a queen who left us riddles for the ages: partially correct answers that philologist can fight about centuries later.

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@ranjodhd @lastpositivist i think the implied answer to “how good your life would be…” is “so good”, which after swapping S->N would = “no good”, so its a self-deprecating joke of sorts

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I'd actually argue they are the best at this. This is precisely what *this* is.

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Forbes is really bad at this.

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Finally, someone had the guts to stand up for the real oppressed class. (Light-skinned rich urban nepo kids)

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the most important lesson my mother taught me in life is that for any straight relationship to work, this has gotta be the dynamic

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the most important lesson my mother taught me in life is that for any straight relationship to work, this has gotta be the dynamic

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Unless it isn't clear, please read both. Read everything. Don't try to cancel Marx coz of some weird Twitter representationalism. And please don't try to posit that marx always contained a proper conceptualization of racial capitalism. He didn't,that understanding came via others

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@davidson_dylan literature now series awaits our book proposal,,,

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Fuck you, BBC.

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@ThylacineReport No one does, which is why it is so iconic.

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Got my hands on a pre-release copy of this new translation. Here are three important changes in translation that better capture the original German sense invoked by Marx. 🧵

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6 months

PhD Rejections: Harvard Yale Amity University, Noida Lovely University, Jalandhar. Acceptances: Liberty University Trump University 36 years later, I'm a Ronald Reagan Endowed Professor of Social Exploitation at University of Austin.

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@dee_bee_h derek looked up. "i only want to go cal state chicago. it has been my dream since i was 7," he said earnestly.

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5 months

Getting humanities students to read more than 20 pages per class, apparently.

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What’s harder than this?

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4 years

(also, reading one book over another is a weird way to put it. This isn't a competition. Unless you have a very strong reason to not a read a work of note, read it.)

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4 years

Want to write an academic book that has no history, no readings, no theory, just pure vibes.

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The laborer is now more accurately described as the wannabe "sigma" and his labor power is "rizz." This is vital because it denaturalizes the surplus value extraction under capitalism. The rizz is there to be deployed ("rizzing up") and not merely ontological ("having rizz").

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4 months

Unsuspecting 22 year olds applying for PhD programs:

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Simple trap concept

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4 months

consent manufacturing machine go brrr

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refreshing an article & seeing the change of narrative shift in real time… dystopia is now

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1 year

Just Published: 'What Do We Critique When We Critique Technology?' is a state-of-the-field review essay that asks what does it mean to critique technology today. It is a part of this wonderful, all-star special issue of @amlitjournal @DukePress edited by @ritaraley and @j_s_rhee .

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1 year

"Critical AI: A Field in Formation," a special issue of American Literature (95:2) edited by @ritaraley and @j_s_rhee is now online! Read their introduction for free: Learn more about this issue and buy a copy: @amlitjournal #AI

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Call for Papers. Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology. Special Issue on Aesthetics and Phenomenology.

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4 years

When white people write pilots about Indians.

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2 years

“Wednesday” star Jenna Ortega reveals to New Yorker that "On Addressability, or What Even is Computation?" was her latest read. "It just really blows my mind that computation was always spatial. Reliably linking symbols and material is a fundamental politico-economic operation."

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4 years

I am absolutely thrilled to have won the 2020 @SocLitSciArts Bruns Award for my essay on addressability!! Here, in the words of Kate Hayles, is why you should look forward to this piece.

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4 years

Finally, time to admit that Harvard is just coursera for rich people.

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4 years

JUST IN: Harvard announces all course instruction will be taught online for the 2020-21 academic year. Undergraduate tuition of $49,653 remains the same.

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7 months

Doors.

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7 months

What are the best examples of boring technology that work exceptionally well and aren’t overhyped?

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1 year

Sorry to report but literary criticism peaked here.

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Life Update: I am thrilled to be taking up the new professorship in Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence at @UniBasel , where I will be leading @DHLabBasel starting next year, and working with the departments of Arts, Media, and Philosophy, and Languages and Literatures.

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The University Council has appointed three new professors: Digital Humanities: Professor Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhd Molecular Biology: Professor Claudia Keller Valsecchi @KellerValsecchi Nephrology: Professor Pietro Cippà @pcippa 👉

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And finally, the translators hint at how, in light of these revisions, the "specter" haunting Europe is more precisely rendered as "skibidi toilet." It may be scary but it's also been irreverently cast aside by capitalists for centuries now. A critical change for hauntologists.

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If one were to keep the questions of 'fraud' and the legality of moneymaking aside, who, one might ask, gets to be on the cover of Forbes and why? If your analysis of this socioultural and politicoeconomic phenomenon doesn't convince you what to expect from such a person, sorry.

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It is also worth noting that the chapter on machinery and large scale industry is now refracted through a reading of the gyatt. I reckon this will have important implications for the folks working on the libidinal economy.

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Listen, I can either write grants to write my book or write my book; I can't do both.

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1 year

I'm sorry but spivak remains one of the weirdest (derogatory) academics alive.

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1 year

Excuse me, what???

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1 year

I would like to inform everyone at Notre Dame, including all haters and losers (of which, sadly, there are many) that this is happening later today!

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1 year

i asked chat gpt to write a rap battle between Fredric Jameson and Friedrich Kittler. yall are welcome

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4 years

when will my ability to write return from war

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2 years

He was the buccal fat removal template.

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5 months

Just Published: 'Neural Networks' ( @UMinnPress and @meson_press ), co-authored by Lucy Suchman, @theolr , and yours truly. Examining critically the figure of the neural network, the book puts the neuroscientific back into our conversations about computational neural networks. (1/n)

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5 months

Out today! The newest addition to our In Search of Media series: Neural Networks by Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Théo Lepage-Richer, and Lucy Suchman

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4 years

I AM MAKING PROGRESS ON MY WRITING! ⨂ ᴼᶠᶠᶦᶜᶦᵃˡ ˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉˢ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᶜᵃˡˡᵉᵈ ᵗʰᶦˢ ᵇʳᵉᵃᵏᵈᵒʷⁿ ᵈᶦᶠᶠᵉʳᵉⁿᵗˡʸ

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Re: Disha, there is something to be said about the collective imaginary of Indian bureaucracy as techno-illiterate and what kinds of procedural and policing horrors it can enable under the guise of 'old uncle who doesn't know how Google Docs work and thinks it is dangerous.'

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11 months

Sir, the professor we kicked out of the tenure track has gotten the Nobel.

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Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, Penn’s historic mRNA vaccine research team, win 2023 @NobelPrize in Medicine #nobelprize

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4 years

A student asked me if he could miss my class because he wanted to be on the streets with BLM at that time. I ended up encouraging everyone in my class to go! Give them hell, guys!!!

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2 years

finishing this article

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6 months

I am teaching a pretty intense undergraduate theory class and not a single dude signed up. It's a great room, one that is devoid of theorybros. Every single student is bright & brilliant. May it herald a new of age of theorysisters! Sometimes teaching is a pleasure and an honor.

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1 year

Happy Friday, everyone. If you see me with this tote bag in Berlin, please ignore me, for I have a unique syndrome not yet described in DSM-V.

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2 years

Three whole years of being married to this idiot.

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11 months

When I say I study media, this is what I'm talking about.

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4 years

Happy holidays from the Dhaliwal-Srinivasan household. ☀️ ✨Here's to a happier 2021!✨

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4 years

It took me a while, but I'm finally here in Pittsburgh to challenge my #1 enemy, the @duolingo owl. He has been emotionally harassing me for years now. Our duel is scheduled for later tonight.

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Reading job materials of people who got TT jobs in 1990s, and my dudes, it was a WILD time!!!

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I'm crying.

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For those who don't know, Gandhi's statues are being vandalized because he was insanely anti-black. In fact, many of the core principles of his approach came from his time in South Africa, where he was exploring the racist boundaries, arguing Indians deserved to subjugate blacks.

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maam just make your sasta wes anderson white indian utopia and go na, we will even watch it coz pretty people, but like nobody needs social commentary from you, why you dropping an axe on your foot?

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2 years

Sorry but it is truly over for all you analytic philosophers out there.

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Ben Shapiro has created his own formula to compute governmental legitimacy

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I have way too much time on my hands to be making memes for an audience of two (2) people in the world.

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Full solidarity to all my friends in the UC system striking for a livable wage today! As a graduate student in that system, I have had to miss too many meals for too long to make ends meet. No one can study and research without adequate food and shelter. Give them hell!! ✊✊✊

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No one: First year graduate students in 2010:

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I’ve been studying speculative realism and object oriented ontology and it’s so cool. So much less stressful than thinking abt ppl all the time. Objects are sick!

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Help I am married to a total walnut who, until 5 minutes ago, thought Sauron "evolved into Saruman, Pokémon-style".

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4 years

Reminder that Hera Pheri was a movie about the social paradoxes of rentier capitalism in a post-liberalization India. Its basic premise indicated an ideological rift that urban centers were dealing with as rural populations came to terms with a loss of livelihood to banks & MNCs.

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star kids walking into karan johar's office

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As my wife put it, seeing this in the bookstore is perhaps Hilaria Baldwin's origin story.

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1 year

Happy end of semester everyone!

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4 years

It's my birthday 🎈🎂!

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2 years

I have two cats. They are twin sisters. One is the charismatic lead in an Animal Planet documentary and the other appears in America's funniest home videos.

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4 years

Really thankful for my academic twitter shitposting fam. Y'all keep academic twitter from becoming an endless stream of announcements.

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Got a revise and resubmit:

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4 years

Thrilled, again, to have won this year's best graduate student paper award from the Media, Science and Technology Scholarly Interest Group at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies ( @SCMStudies ) for this work! #SCMS21

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I am absolutely thrilled to have won the 2020 @SocLitSciArts Bruns Award for my essay on addressability!! Here, in the words of Kate Hayles, is why you should look forward to this piece.

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Who are the primary theorists of "style" in literary/art/film/media criticism?

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7 months

Announcing the Spring-Summer 2024 lineup for the third and final season of 'Life in Pixels,' featuring a fantastic group of scholars in conversations about all things media, culture, and technoscience. More at !

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Announcing the CFP for the conference 'Urban Speculations: Cities, Technologies, Futures,' from 4-6 February at Lüneburg, Germany. A fantastic lineup ft. keynotes by @Laurenebridges and @LizaCirolia , among others. More at .

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This is what some of y'all sound like ngl. Have some shame.

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2 years

truly cursed position

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Me: :( *An email from Japan starting with 'Dear Ranjodh san,'* Me: :))))

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From Akhand Bharat to Toot-Gya-Ghamand Bhrat.

NDTV

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India does not want land of China or Pakistan: Nitin Gadkari

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Before I start citing Latour, here is my thread on reading him this weekend as he advocates a depoliticized STS while being a rich, problematic, French white man. While I don't necessarily "owe" anyone this thread, it is important to me to take my public scholarship seriously.

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Counterpoint: not iconic. Universities need to be fighting this tooth and nail, not trying to find trivial loopholes that can be plugged by another executive order any moment.

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It's only a new hypothesis if you do not know how to read words written in the past.

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Sam Altman says we have stumbled on a new fact of nature: that intelligence is an emergent property of matter

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STOP PUBLISHING There's already too much to read. Y'all need to take a break or something,,,

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#NewProfilePic

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TIL that before potatoes came into Indian cuisine, about 170 years ago, purple yam was the most common native starch source. I'm planning to recreate some Punjabi recipes before the 19th century introduction of tomatoes/potatoes/chillies soon!

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Happy Diwali from the Dhaliwal-Srinivasan household! Hope you and your loved ones all have a bright and brilliant year ahead!✨

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You either die an immigrant or you live long enough to see your kids become a diaspora stereotyper.

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Obama in college. Same energy.

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The worst thing about my wife having her birthday a few weeks before mine (we were born in the same year) is that for 6 odd weeks, she tags anything annoying I do as elder abuse.

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If I die, I want y'all to blame my enemy, Priya from bon apetit

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As if bad GRE scores were what's stopping people...

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Graduate schools are waiving GRE requirements for 2020. GO GET YOUR MASTERS!!!!

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The open-access version should be out soon (though it is easy to locate online already), so here is a short (but slowly unfolding over the next few days) thread detailing what this book is about. (1/n)

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Just Published: 'Neural Networks' ( @UMinnPress and @meson_press ), co-authored by Lucy Suchman, @theolr , and yours truly. Examining critically the figure of the neural network, the book puts the neuroscientific back into our conversations about computational neural networks. (1/n)

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this is not big if true. this is truest and biggest. feminist sts papacy leading the globe into a situated cyborgian multispecies theocracy that stays with the trouble. confirmed,,,

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Good morning everyone, the Pope cited Donna Haraway

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2 years

Announcing the Spring 2023 season of Life in Pixels @ ND! Bringing together some of the finest thinkers who have recently published books on science, culture, and society, this series will host continuing conversations about living with technologies today.

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I have not yet physically seen it in actual paper, but I am led to believe that this 𝓪𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓬 image by @UMinnPress is real and not generated using neural networks. You can order a hard copy via today or wait a hot second for a downloadable PDF!

Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal

@ranjodhd

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Just Published: 'Neural Networks' ( @UMinnPress and @meson_press ), co-authored by Lucy Suchman, @theolr , and yours truly. Examining critically the figure of the neural network, the book puts the neuroscientific back into our conversations about computational neural networks. (1/n)

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