Angel flight booked! (Angelflights is a volunteer organisation that flies patients who live far from treatment centres out to medical appointments). A little perk of cancer! I'm so grateful. Hope it will be sunny those days, as the Kootenay regions are beauty to behold.
Lots of colleagues would greatly appreciate this book. But don't get it yet. A new version is coming out with annotations by Evan Thompson and Ezequiel Di Paolo. I've known for a long time that Varela was amazing, but wow! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...
A new, updated edition of the 1979 classic from one of the foremost authors in cognitive science and theoretical biology, with the original text as well as m...
Did my PhD in that school. I never interacted much with Maggie, but her talks, like all her work, are stupendous.
Did you all know that Margaret Boden founded the first School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences in 1987. No? Well, now you do 😌 Btw, listen to this great talk by her. I'll be adding this to the resources from our 1st year students in Intro to AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRA...
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It is my conviction that people who understand, at a fundamental level, what computers can and cannot do, are less susceptible to AI hype.
Look at this wonderfully accessible introduction to the Theory of Computation youtu.be/SV57Yv8BXBc?... 🌈🎬🍿
What exactly are computers? What are the limits of computing and all its exciting discoveries? Are there problems in the world that computers can never, EVER solve? Theory of computation is the fascinating theoretical study of computer science that explores the limitations of computing—which, of course, anyone can learn. :) _____________________ Additional resources: Michael Sipser. 2006. Introduction to the Theory of Computation (2nd. ed.). International Thomson Publishing. - The main source of my Theory of Computation knowledge (a textbook). De Mol, Liesbeth, "Turing Machines", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2019/entries/turing-machine/ - To learn more about the Entscheidungsproblem, for which Turing originally invented the concept of Turing Machines. _____________________ Finally, this video project could not have been done without the support and guidance of Audrey St. John at Mount Holyoke College, a truly incredible professor-mentor-human.
Nu. Het is nu. Je suis nue. Great art helps. (I have no further comments for now.) (I don't want to not share. I don't want to share. I want all of us, our vulnerabilities, to be able to just be. I want us to be able to care for each other, mightily.) youtu.be/8aJw4chksqM?...
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🧵 This is hugely important work from Haaretz, Israel's paper of record. "Residents, military officials and journalists describe scenes of vast devastation. 'It's like after an atomic bomb,' one of them reported in Haaretz after visiting northern Gaza."
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In clinical trials of new treatments, when the treatment is clearly and obviously immediately effective it is sometimes considered unethical to continue to withhold it from the control group. Pretty sure we passed that milestone about a decade ago with basic income experiments.
Based on my feed this morning, it seems that the two most successful things ever discovered are UBI and gender-affirming care. Both shown to be nearly 100% reliable in test after test and survey after survey.
Biggest ever survey of trans Americans finds 94% happier after transition
The 2022 US Trans Survey of 92,000 transgender adults, finds continued discrimination, harassment and even violence at work