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
Such a cool use of PCA (and other viz tech) in art by @schichmax and colleagues!
We did something related applied to Roman wall paintings with
Kelly Mecclinton 's yet unpublished dissertation "Computationally Modeling Roman Domestic Art and Architecture".
https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00397-3
In 🇺🇲 it's a scandal (indeed bad) that migrant girl with medical history dies in custody. Meanwhile, 🇪🇺countries do not rescue (or worse) children locked in a ship's hold. Tell me how much more enlightened than Trump and Biden European leaders are.
The power of life being a code and language being a virus also carries the seeds (or programs) of their own destruction.
Could chatbots help devise the next pandemic virus? | Science | AAAS https://www.science.org/content/article/could-chatbots-help-devise-next-pandemic-virus
Muito obrigado por finalmente alguém dizer o óbvio: a descolonização foi racista. Adotou as categorias do colonialismo mais racista do século XIX: europeus são brancos e só têm lugar na Europa, africanos são negros e só têm lugar em África. Os indianos, tal como no sistema do Apartheid, tinham uma classificação especial. Nunca o regime explicou porque não tiveram todos os cidadãos do ex-império português o direito a escolher a cidadania no (novo) país que entendessem. Refugiados foram criados só pela cor da sua pele. Uma celebração do 25 de Abril que não discuta este racismo abertamente, é uma fantochada lírica de um regime que nunca admite o seu centralismo racista.
@cyrilpedia they could have continued calling it cybernetics, but they wanted to claim and true an entire new field, as academics often do.
@cyrilpedia very cool. Since language is for building predictive models of a dynamical reality, not surprising that verbs are most important. Still, general purpose verbs probably facilitate encoding and transmission.
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'The essential problem is that human language is not just about saying what and where things are and which qualities they harbor, such as being green or tall. Language is about what happened, what’s different, what’s on the move. At its core, language is all about the action — to wit, the verbs.'
@ct_bergstrom many of my German, Swiss and Dutch colleagues, especially those in editorial roles, are very concerned with "paper mills", which they think exist for hire to influence citation measures. If those exist, the best way to get rid of them would be to not use citation measures, or at least reduce their importance, but that is the opposite of what European funding agencies, departments, etc are doing.
@tiago the republican party is now openly a death cult in more ways than one....
A Teresa de Sousa é o Zhao Bentang do establishment Americano. Kissinger é um criminoso de guerra racista, demonstravelmente muito mais à vontade com o aparelho do Apartheid ou qualquer fascista fantoche, do que com democracia e liberdade. https://www.publico.pt/2023/05/27/mundo/analise/henry-kissinger-diplomata-pensador-2051185
Enaltecer este género de criminoso é mais uma contribuição para se denegrir e não se levar a sério as democracias ocidentais---A Hillary Clinton que o diga e o Trump agradece.
https://youtu.be/fCjQbTEuoDU
@tiago from the phone I can't read the whole thing, but I wonder what version of Pascal they used that is slower than Java. Way, way back Borland (object) Pascal (later Delphi/Kylix) produced compiled C++ code.
@ct_bergstrom the substitution of cybernetics by AI in the 50s had a lot to do with that, even though both were looking at the mechanisms of intelligence and Shannon's concepts were clearly cybernetic. But because Wiener and others in cybernetics resisted military funding, the nascent "new field" of AI was happy to respond to that funding niche.
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New postdoc job in AI / CogSci available at the Santa Fe Institute.
Are you a grad student or postdoc interested in working with me on AI systems for abstraction and analogy?
See https://santafe.edu/about/jobs/postdoc-ai for more info. Apply by June 9.
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Am I misunderstanding something?
This appears to be a stunningly irresponsible story in Science, claiming that up to 30% of the scientific literature is fake.
https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common
Below, the first two paragraphs of the story.
h/t @Hoch
Clarence Thomas Can’t Undermine the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court Fast Enough https://nyti.ms/3M1GY9s
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Salvatore's CoCo talk now on Vimeo!
https://vimeo.com/825699260
- 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
