Luis M. Rocha @lmrocha@social.cleverlibre.org
- Complex Networks and Systems
- https://casci.binghamton.edu/publications.php
- Social and Biomedical Complexity
- https://casci.binghamton.edu/research_interests.php, https://csbc.indiana.edu/
- Politics and Rants
- https://hey-city-zen.blogspot.com/
Post-identity earthling working on complex systems, networks, biomedicine, AI, evolution. Music, politics, DJ as E-Trash. Life through parrhesia. "E se mais mundo houvera, lá chegara".
Professionally, I'm the George J. Klir Professor of Systems Science at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science (Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering), Binghamton University (State University of New York), where I lead the Complex Adaptive Systems and Computational Intelligence (CASCI: https://casci.binghamton.edu/) lab. I'm also Principal Investigator at the Instituto Gulbenkian da Ciencia in Portugal.
Joined Sep 2018
I could not agree more! In our PhD program the introductory course I teach, students have to solve a black-box problem that use open-ended, without a single obvious solution. The only way you approach it is 1) collectively, 2) creatively, and 3) by making mistakes. After decades trained to passively receive knowledge and being told what the correct solution is, many students really have a hard time coping. I wish students at much earlier grades were allowed to engage in more open-ended, learn by mistake, creative and constructive knowledge contributions (not knowledge reception) .
@franciscorodrigues tell that to the crowd that wants to maximize time spent in schools where students have to sit at desks, passively receiving "knowledge" for hours on end...
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Native Students Face Harsher Punishment Across New Mexico
Native students in New Mexico experience higher annual rates of expulsions and incidents involving police than white students. In Gallup-McKinley, students across the board are punished more harshly than those in the rest of the state, but the large Native student body is still disciplined at higher rates than white students.
#NewMexico #NativeStudents #Schools #Students #Discipline #Education
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@hirokisayama suggestions:
A new circle for ML, data and computational science
The evolution circle could be become a circle for theoretical and systems biology (could also need be called biological complexity or biomedical complexity). It would get some topics currently in other circles.
The circles could overlap, but it can easily get multidimensional ;)
Somewhere in the bio/evolution areas, there could be such topics as origin of information and codes, canalization, network medicine, connectomics and systems neuroscience, epidemic modelling (maybe also in computational science).
Just suggestions :)
@BLMG eles também têm muita resistência à vacinação por parte dos idosos. Não vai ser bom para o mundo inteiro uma onda assim tão grande lá.
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My latest clinical pipeline column for Nature Medicine is a look at a drug recently approved by the #FDA to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes.
It's a direct descendant of the very first monoclonal ever approved for clinical use.
#Diabetes #Type1Diabetes #DrugDevelopment #DrugDiscovery #NatureMedicine #Immunology #MonoclonalAntibody
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This is not the dystopia we were expecting https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/opinion/columnists/elon-musk-twitter-oligarchs.html
@tiago I agree. It almost made me vomit. Could not watch the show. Nothing encourages sympathy for MAGA more than putting these two together to pontify...
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A highlight of the year is Barcelona Supercomputing Center participation in the European Center of Excellence in HPC applications.
We participate in 10 of the 13th & lead three (PerMedCoE !)
Showing our commitment to make accesible optimised methods to the end users.
Why Petulant Oligarchs Rule Our World https://nyti.ms/3HO0HsI
@marcelsalathe nope. Has it ever?
#RIP Terry Hall. I was very very young when my brother brought home this track as a 45. From then on I wanted to be #punk, #disco, #reggae, all of it. That's what #ska and #theSpecials meant to me. And I've never been just one thing since then. Thank you and much love.
https://youtu.be/cntvEDbagAw
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A Multifaceted benchmarking of synthetic electronic health record generation models https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35295-1 #ehr #datascience #machinelearning #bioinformatics
Muito me irrita a assunção circular inerente em quase toda a discussão sobre educação: que qualquer sucesso de conhecimento/inteligência advém da educação escolar. Isto é, apenas a escola pode "dar" conhecimento. Não, alguns têm sucesso *apesar* da escola (e.g. Ada Lovelace), e a maioria das pessoas criativas, ou que têm dificuldade em estar passivamente a "receber informação" têm imensas dificuldades na escola. Meti "dar" e "receber informação" entre aspas porque esse é o ponto fulcral do erro do modelo (Cartesiano) de escola que temos: conhecimento não é algo que se dá e se recebe como se fosse empacotado em fardos de batatas e descarregados por instrutores para as cabecinhas de meninos ligados às secretárias, com se fossem baterias na Matrix. O conhecimento é criado por cada um, de uma forma corpórea.
Já que estão a ir buscar parte do modelo da Bélgica, tragam o resto: na Bélgica não há numerus clausus. Os alunos entram para o curso que quiserem. O numerus clausus é que cria as maiores injustiças, enviesando a entrada na universidade a favor dos alunos das escolas privadas e daqueles que se dão melhor na escolinha (com o velho modelo de estar sentado nas cadeirinhas a levar com matéria descarregada de professores, sem espaço para criatividade.)
@BLMG há muito tempo, é preciso manter-me jovem ;)
- Complex Networks and Systems
- https://casci.binghamton.edu/publications.php
- Social and Biomedical Complexity
- https://casci.binghamton.edu/research_interests.php, https://csbc.indiana.edu/
- Politics and Rants
- https://hey-city-zen.blogspot.com/
Post-identity earthling working on complex systems, networks, biomedicine, AI, evolution. Music, politics, DJ as E-Trash. Life through parrhesia. "E se mais mundo houvera, lá chegara".
Professionally, I'm the George J. Klir Professor of Systems Science at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science (Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering), Binghamton University (State University of New York), where I lead the Complex Adaptive Systems and Computational Intelligence (CASCI: https://casci.binghamton.edu/) lab. I'm also Principal Investigator at the Instituto Gulbenkian da Ciencia in Portugal.
Joined Sep 2018
