@Hamptonism Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) by hand https://pic.x.com/9sji7rd0fv Replying to @Hamptonism I did it that way in high school in 1966, but I had to extend the diagram properties, and the diagrams were also circuit specifications. A thousand hours on a problem, worked out “by hand” instills a kind of brain “muscle memory” and experience that
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Peter D Carter @PCarterClimate IPCC AR6 MITIGATION: 1.5C TOO LATE 2C IMMEDIATE DECLINE AR6 projections confirms 1.5C too late & 2°C requires immediate global emissions decline. 2°C planet catastrophe. For your Kid’s sake End Fossil Fuel Subsidies https://ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/figures/summary-for-policymakers/figure-spm-5/ #CO2 #climatechange #globalwarming https://pic.x.com/fxzu0iwxos Replying to @PCarterClimate I am fairly certain that if all the deserts are
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Deep Prasad (yug-cybera) @Deepneuron I should crack anti-gravity. https://pic.x.com/uuoe4njrnq Replying to @Deepneuron It is not “anti-gravity” it is “a synthetic acceleration field” that you design and apply for real tasks. Not magic, just plain old “gravitational engineering”. No cheating, no magic, no smoke and mirrors and false promises. Just “move it with fields”. And lots
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway “We studied 230 fisheries around the world. We found populations of many overfished species are in far worse condition than has been reported, and the sustainability of fisheries was overstated” We need a global treaty to end all industrial fishing https://theconversation.com/investigation-reveals-global-fisheries-are-in-far-worse-shape-than-we-thought-and-many-have-already-collapsed-237306 Replying to @whittledaway If you produce “fish” from other sources that
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Noah Whiteman @NKWhiteman Professor Ben Blackman has asked me to broadcast this search for a tenure-track Assistant Professor at UC-Berkeley in Plant Developmental Biology within in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04554 Replying to @NKWhiteman One of the schools that offered me a full scholarship in 1967 was Berkeley. I have wondered how
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Frank Nielsen @FrnkNlsn Thermodynamic process viewed as a trajectory on a statistical manifold satisfying laws of thermodynamics Entropy and informational energy have opposite variations “Onicescu’s Informational Energy and Correlation Coefficient in Exponential Families” https://doi.org/10.3390/foundations2020025 https://pic.x.com/w5butqtmry Replying to @FrnkNlsn Sometimes adding noise helps. Sometimes two noises with identical metrics – one produces an outstanding result, and
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Brianna Bibel @biochem_bri I added another one of my charts to Zenodo. Here’s the link & citation. As always, hope it helps! Bibel, B., & The bumbling biochemist. (2024). Expanded TCA cycle (TriCarboxylic Acid Cycle, aka Citric Acid Cycle, aka Krebs cycle). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13369827 https://pic.x.com/rhcovhzwd9 Replying to @biochem_bri Make it a living tool to share
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Flowers, there are whole “food production” technologies that can make edible materials for humans and related species. Taking wood and stems to make alcohol for fuel, there are industrial and sustainable industries to make sugars, starches – pretty much whatever you want. Perhaps what you are struggling with is “Is photosynthesis necessary?” or “Do
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Now Queegle Multitask had a girl-friend Freena, and Freena reminded him constantly of his promise to take her to the Moon for a week in orbit there. The rates were cheap now, because after the initial glamour of “orbit the moon”, everyone realized that the synth was better, cheaper and much more convenient. Synthetic experiences
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Patrick Piantadosi @ptpiantadosi any calcium imaging folks have a good pipeline for correcting (or otherwise dealing with) rather severe motion in 1p miniscope recordings? https://pic.x.com/dr3cmdmywy Replying to @ptpiantadosi Many groups use registration, stacking, “lucky images” and “flow”. It is growing fast, and nearly impossible to follow completely. I label it as a “solved problem where
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