Category: All knowledge

Chaos at Cambridge

You really ought to think, not in terms of “publication in 90 days” but “enabling real time collaboration globally”. The “90 days” was fine in the 1800’s, but today adding quarter year delays into global critical developments is like adding a mlll stone to a Formula 1 race car.   If authors are chasing after
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XFinity, like all organizations now, has a lossy fragmented distributed information system.

#XfinitySupport I had to rest for a while, but did go over my experiences with XFinity in recent days and weeks and years. It is typical of what most large corporations face now – trying to piece together many divisions and workers with a bewildering variety of computers and information systems, rules and automated systems.
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Global open resources – discussions, suggestions, links, knowledge – where all share in exploring

https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/oldest-neanderthal-cave-engravings-france/ Cosmos offers newsletters, but still seems to separate the whole world into publishers, authors, readers in a strict hierarchy. The articles are difficult to read, not using explicit references with title, authors and affiliations. Just hyperlinks hidden under fairly generic words like “recent studies”, “published”. The users experience is jarring. Going from Cosmos style
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Give AIs large mandates, and not waste them on tiny micromanaged computers tasks

Kaiser Lab @DKaiserlab Our official ad for a PhD position is out. We’re looking for someone conducting fMRI and EEG work on the neural representation of visual beauty / visual preferences. Link: https://uni-giessen.de/karriere/stellenangebote/ausschreibungen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiter/369-07-e Kaiser Lab @DKaiserlab We’ll soon advertise a 3-year PhD position on a project that explores the brain processes underlying visual aesthetics using
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