Version-controlled macOS system settings
Houston is a native macOS app for managing hidden preferences through visual profiles you can save as files and commit to your dotfiles.
May 19, 20262 min read
Hi, I'm Shawn Schwartz, PhD
Senior data scientist & engineer at Slack. Psychology PhD from Stanford. I build open-source research tools, productivity software, and write about data, cognitive neuroscience, and building things.
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Attending to Remember: Recent Advances in Methods and Theory
Shawn T. Schwartz, Haopei Yang, Alice M. Xue, Anthony D. Wagner
This article reviews recent advances in understanding how attention mechanisms shape episodic memory, examining neural substrates, oscillatory rhythms, age-related precision changes, and closed-loop experimental approaches to establish causal attention-memory relationships.
June 4, 2025
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