Monica Lewinsky (she/her) @MonicaLewinsky Doctors use problematic race-based algorithms every day. Why are they so hard to change? – STAT https://apple.news/AbFJCF8d6TPOLH2lF7TGvZQ Replying to @MonicaLewinsky It is a good thing to aim for “attentive, caring, individual, personalized”. It is not the use of methods or writing things down to help guide one self and others. It
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Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault My weekend project http://ismy.blue is at the top of hackernews and nerds are now arguing about psychophysics and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. What a time to be alive! https://pic.x.com/v3ksycog7d Replying to @patrickmineault I started following psychophysics, psychophysiology and psychometrics in that sharp rise during the 1960s. There are a LOT more. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=psychophysics%2Cpsychophysiology%2Cpsychometrics&year_start=1900&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3
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Adriano Aguzzi @AdrianoAguzzi Some friends, accomplished scientists aged >55 and with H-index >100, gave up tenure and moved to industry. Then, the company’s fortunes changed, they lost their job, can’t go back and are too old to start anew. Academia can be annoying but think twice before leaving. Replying to @AdrianoAguzzi I am 75 this
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Infinite Books @InfiniteB88ks William Faulkner, read read read https://pic.x.com/bbwyfy56ab Replying to @InfiniteB88ks The Internet needs random sampling, lossless storage, open indexes and open processes Read, verify, predict and verify, write, write, write Never throw anything away. File it and review periodically with more read and verify. Randomize so your gathered materials can be statistically combined
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Günter Klambauer @gklambauer Towards Symbolic XAI — Explanation Through Human Understandable Logical Relationships Between Features Abstractions on top of traditional XAI methods are used. These are combined with logical operators to provide explanations… P: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.17198 https://pic.x.com/m6patfa7jz Replying to @gklambauer All knowledge, all human languages, all domain specific languages in an open system – verifiable, accessible
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Positive futures where climate change is a good thing, even a very good thing If all the rain forests are cut down and burned to make farms and ranches, do they need food more than trees? If China can plant billions of trees each year, can the rain forests be replanted in what is todays
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Ricard Solé @ricard_sole How complex can cognition be in brain organoids? Since they do not sense or act on their environments, they lack cognitive complexity or agency. Without the organism, the “spherical brain” (my drawing) is a fascinating window to evolution and disease but not to actual cognition. https://pic.x.com/6r4kshpocm Replying to @ricard_sole Jeff’s brain was
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Prof. Nikolai Slavov @slavov_n Yale has more administrators and managers than undergraduate students. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/11/10/reluctance-on-the-part-of-its-leadership-to-lead-yales-administration-increases-by-nearly-50-percent/ Replying to @slavov_n Note that I am joking here. Do not take this seriously: Your name hints that you are not from the US originally. Please know that you are not supposed to point out such things. Padding staff is
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Peter D Carter @PCarterClimate AMAZON BURNING LIKE NEVER BEFORE at https://x.com/PCarterClimate/status/1830125910017916950 DRAFT: I can only sketch some of the main responses to global climate change shouting. I think I will win my bet that none of the companies or groups will change. Not even when hundreds of millions die. When most lives are cheap, no
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Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation: I try to look closely at every advertisement I see – print, video, logo, phrase, image. I saw a brief video that talked about the difference between democracy and constitutional representative government. It seemed part of some political statement or ideas, but I was in the middle of something else
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