Robert Volcic

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Actions obey Weber's law when precision is evaluated at goal attainment biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

ZU psych department is hiring assistant/associate profs apply.interfolio.com/142353 good opportunities to set up new labs and contribute to the university research. Pm me if you want to know more

@RuthRosenholtz We 3D printed one.

Vision twitter: How does one make a DIY chin rest?

New article in the Art and Vision Science Issue bit.ly/3EKr6Gs by Jeroen Stumpel, Robert Volcic @NYUAbuDhabi & Maarten Wijntjes @tudelft describes Testing the perception of depth in images with linear, sharp, or blurred contours. doi.org/10.1167/jov.24…

@willjharrison @RuthRosenholtz Or window management (among many other features) with @raycastapp, see: raycast.com/extensions/win…

@RuthRosenholtz I honestly don't know how people use Macs without BetterSnapTool, which is a ~$2 app that is solely designed to make moving windows around not a complete pain in the arse.

On a flex desk yesterday. Nice big monitor. Not being skilled with multiple displays and a Mac, I dragged each of the windows I needed over to the large display. When it was time to go I dragged them back to my Mac to put them away. 🙄😄

Opposable Thumbs... The human hand as an extraordinary tool! Courtney Kessel @courtneykesselar, Metal Pliers, 2011.

@Darren_Rhodes I think that with Tafeln they mean plates (images printed separately by using engraved or etched metal plates).

....With 213 woodcuts printed in the text and 11 panel ? Doesn't seem right.... hence asking :D

Hello Germans (Or Austrians.... or anyone that can speak German)... Can you help me with the second part of the translation for "Handbuch der physiologischen optik: Mit 213 in den text eingedruckten holzschnitten und 11 tafeln" - Handbook of physiological optics and with.... 😅

Deadline on November 15:

@TheHandLab @DrGBuckingham And, using only random intercepts without random slopes is also questionable.

Obsidian Importer now helps you easily convert your Apple Notes data to portable files that you can use with any Markdown app. Supports tables, images, drawings, scans, PDFs, and links introduced in iOS 17. Three months ago, we introduced Importer as an open-source project. Thanks to contributions from the Obsidian community, Importer supports converting your data from Notion, Evernote, Google Keep, Microsoft OneNote, Bear, Roam Research, HTML files, and more. The latest version of Importer tackles the most challenging format to date: Apple Notes. Unfortunately, Apple Notes is one of the few note-taking apps that does not have a built-in export feature. Because Apple Notes uses a proprietary format, it makes data complicated to migrate, and nearly impossible to use in conjunction with other tools. Apple Notes supports content such as tables, images, drawings, scans, and PDFs. As of iOS 17 it also supports links between notes. This breadth of content makes the conversion process more challenging. Here’s the good news: all of these content types can now be extracted using Obsidian Importer. So, how does it work? Apple Notes stores your data in a local SQLite database. This data is in an undocumented format, but it’s possible to decode how it is stored and convert it. Decoding the Protocol Buffers stored in the Apple Notes database was made possible by the work of Jon Baumann from Ciofeca Forensics and its adaptation for Obsidian by Mir Novov. Whether you’re planning to migrate away from Apple Notes or just want to back up your data, the new Obsidian Importer gives you the freedom to easily convert your Apple Notes to portable, durable files.

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@MichaelBach99 This is also related to our best illusion of the year 2008 submission: x.com/volcicr/status…

A new illusion on my site: michaelbach.de/ot/ang-Orbison… Matsunaga, Ito & Kanematsu recently discovered a _kinetic_ variant of the Orbison illusion, which is markedly stronger. Enjoy!

@JBJSmeets @jimmymgoode There are several individuals who switch from high to low and low to high, so there could be a negative correlation. The data can tell.

@VolcicR @jimmymgoode I agree with the positive correlation between B and C, but would expect that there is no correlation between A and B, and also not between A and C

A figure with individual results. Participants behave on average (the planned analysis) the same in three conditions, but based on the individual data, I would conclude that they behave the same in B and C, but different in A. How would you call (and analyse) this phenomenon?

@jimmymgoode @JBJSmeets Correlations between A and B, and A and C will be negative, correlation between B and C will be positive.

@JBJSmeets Perhaps visualize it again as a grid of scatterplots and test the correlation coefficient of the A vs B plot for significance. Don’t know any special names that might apply here though.

Team USA had a slammin' practice in NYU Abu Dhabi last night 😍 @nba @usabasketball @nyuabudhabi

@micahgallen patchwork.data-imaginist.com

How do people actually make these insane multi plots? Is it all done as separate plots and assembled in illustrator/etc? How do you maintain font point sizes?

The below article on Weber’s law in grasping movements is now published in Cognition. Open access here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@TheHandLab Anything that isn’t close to -sqrt(1/2) should be surprising, no?