Huw Swanborough

I am convinced that the demonisation of 'luvvie' degrees in arts and humanities is just an effort to demonise becoming better at questioning the news and media that they read and consume.

A-Level media studies was crucial to my wider development as my first exposure to critical assesment.

we cannot force greatness to happen, merely allow it to enter when it is ready.

Ramon y Cajal in 1923....

My chevy drove itself to the levy, but the levy was dry after groundwater reserves were used to cool the data centre that the Chevy was using for system updates.

It is so genuinely depressing that the one thing we have control over is how we think and choose to learn/develop that thinking. It's the most important central aspect of us.

And people want to outsource that....

Gonna read the Silmarilion and ask it to refresh me on the lineage of a given character, forcing it to use up all the remaining fresh water in Virginia.

That's a razor sharp observation you've made. You're not just reading this story, you're living it.

Folks with money wondering why their position of influence and financial wealth is not solving every thing they wish they had.

Or just folks in a race to the bottom so they can make it out and leave someone else holding the bag.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

What attracted me to a music degree was the same that attracted me to a neuro PhD so I 100% agree. Both have similar evolving processes from my perspective.

It's odd to me how this can be so cultural specific mind - I knew heaps of artists turned scientists in the UK, but in Switzerland none.

The language is quite flowery, but if you just hold in mind that these are concepts being discussed through analogy, the core message in this is so useful.

I put it up there with reading Ramon y Cajal's non-empirical work like Advice for Young Investigators or engaging with his photography.

Started reading The Creative Act by Rick Ruben yesterday.

I'm 100 pages in and genuinely think this should be required for scientists.

I started becuase I have a creative background that I'm trying to reclaim, but so much of it is directly relevant to me as a scientist.

bsky.app/profile/xkcd...

Well, how timely is this!

"what are you thinking about?"

"Oh..nothing"

"No, really you can tell me"

"No, it was really just emptiness"

A frequent exchange I have lol.

I dont have kids and I nearly added post nominals to my name for building an AC exhaust vent out of cardboard and duct tape.

Can't even go like "ah well in the past discoveries or creativity where easier because there was more stuff to discover" because the Nicomachean Ethics is an extraordinary work by any standards.

On AI art.

Puts it all far better than I could, but exactly as I would like to put it

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

People reading simple/complex as bad/good or easy/hard is genuinely a source of so much friction in the world for me lol.

George Bernard Shaw to The Times after an over zealous editor corrected his use of split infinitives....

"I don't care if he is made to go quickly, or to quickly go—but go he must"

german is in chat entered not!

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a) phenomenal alt text.

b) In terms of metaphorical or literal top? I guess either way, I think the purple-birefringent one could look great with this topper - www.ilnp.com/spaced-out-b...

Okie wokie or wokie dokie?

Obsessed with the idea of seeing a "How to copy her look" page in a magazine.

Misleading account name, but awesome photos!

I guess also other than hosting it I kind of made it lol.

Ah a year ago today that I hosted 'From Womb to Word: Pre-linguistic neurodevelopment of language' at SFN in Chicago.

During what was an outrageously difficult personal period, this was a really enjoyable experience...

Also hey scientists, sit at the front more...

Back to Ushant and it's 5 lighthouses for me!

Welcome! Be sure to get up Uetliberg when it snows! Usually the cloud cover is lower than the observation tower and it's dead clear all the way to the Jura and the Alps, makes for some great photos.
If it's clear, then zurich blanketed it snow looks amazing.

If you need location recommendations!

I don't know enough about greek mythology or wildlife to comment, but I guess I'm glad that whatever problems faced jaguars at least only lasted a year.