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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
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In some fields of research it’s not too unusual for amateurs to make discoveries. Science is now complex, involving groups of highly trained people & special equipment but the universe is large & they can’t be searching everywhere. Amateur astronomers still sometimes find comets, or even supernovae before any professionals. Amateurs can still happen to find exciting fossils for instance. But it’s less expected in #mathematics, especially for problems like ‘how can we tile the Euclidean plane?’
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@kristinHenry why the CW?
@izaya shower timer? a self-imposed water conservation thing? I've only seen shower timers in a college dormitory shower.
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Finally done with developing the booklet that comes along with the anatomical snail model. Tomorrow I'll check if my Dunglish is acceptable (..) and if every infographic is consistent and perfectly outlined.
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I'm still figuring this all out, but I'm experimenting with posting my #ArtForSale over on my @KristinHenry@artatomic.social account. And sometimes boost them here.
That way my promotional posts won't be on the local vis.social but folks who follow me will see them.
I'll still post my daily #inkyDays drawing here on vis.social, but I was feeling like posting my art here was just too much all in one place...to me.
Of course, I may change my mind again.
@eqe who's the spider freak? I could use more spider pics
@bornach
I remember hearing about Weizenbaum's reaction in (I think) a RadioLab episode. The cool aspect about Eliza to me, which they explored in the episode, is the ability for people to treat themselves, to an extent, by having their own words replayed to them, but from an external agent.
@gordoooo_z @adventofcomputing @George_Kimberly @darius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodendrocyte
> Myelination is only prevalent in a few brain regions at birth and continues into adulthood. The entire process is not complete until about 25–30 years of age.
That's a really neat fact I didn't know.
#neuroscience #neurobiology
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/model
isn't the idea in the hover text the setup for a Black Mirror episode? Like, you had these people (actually computer simulations of people) in some weird "colony" (or something like that) where you just hung out and dated people a computer told you to date. If two people chose to escape the colony together in X% of trials, they'd be a "match" in real life.
@OldHound Thanks for your response. I don't think other companies aren't developing similar devices. I've read about a few over the years. I'm looking forward to seeing more from Synchron, for instance since they got approved for clinical trials.
I think that higher electrode density may or may not be major factor in how effective future devices are. I was hoping you could share your thoughts since you have industry experience.
@OldHound what do you think of the mission though? Higher spatial resolution than EEG, higher temporal resolution than fMRI, and on free-moving animals is, I think, their goal. For neuroscience as a field, I've understood the central problems to require a model of a system of systems to integrate the massive amounts of data we already have. I'm not sure how much Neuralink helps there, though being able to get the devices on free-moving animals seems useful.
For technology, Neuralink could be useful in some prosthetics for paralyzed folks, right?
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Remember that time that Worf witnessed the Second Coming of Klingon Jesus? And then the first thing he did was scan him with a tricorder?
@blender nice to see all the Blender folks :)
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So few cis people seem to appreciate just how hard it is to obtain puberty blockers and hormones because conversations about "regret" frequently rely on the built-in assumption it's quick and easy and kids especially are being "rushed" through the process without adequate safeguards, which is untrue, but it's exactly the idea being planted in people's heads by these anti-trans moral panic "just asking questions" concern troll articles in mainstream media.
@reneestephen
isn't it still the way things are done? yeah, you need to make a spec and propose it, but if you come with working code that just cuts down on so much variation from underspecified parts of the system to have a reference implementation
@aburka @dragosr
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From @pluralistic
I see this a lot from Tesla stans, who probably don't appreciate the way Musk is further enshittifying the industry, and not just through snake-oil over promising (which they already did). He's cut manufacturing costs by making cars that are less repairable and more likely to be total write-offs in accidents. There's no good corporate reason for legacy automakers *not* to follow suite (1/2) https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/passive-income/#swiss-cheese-security
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I can't wait till 2032 when it will no longer be ambiguous which part of an abbreviated date is the year.
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I'm reminded of this famous @mcc tweet: https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/425734652892958720
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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