Adam J Calhoun

I guess it is time to invest in a water distiller??? Any recommendations??

It turns out my humidifier is trying to kill me

I got an air quality monitor and notice that the small particle pm2.5 count was reaching "hazardous levels" when the humidifier came on with tap water... but stayed totally healthy when I used distilled water

I just got an air quality monitor, so obviously all I am doing is refreshing to check if I am about to be poisoned

this book sounds awesome - heading straight to pick it up right now

Advocacy page created by Stellate

With the upcoming book launch, I wanted a webpage that I am proud of, and @stellatecomms.bsky.social delivered in spades. But not just - when the opportunity arose to partner on #SciAdvocacy efforts, they sponsored this for us all:
www.nicolecrust.com/advocacy

@caitvw.bsky.social and team!d

Whipped tea?? This feels like it should be a thing again?

Favorite book of the year: Love in a Fallen City, by Eileen Chang (1943). Imagine a mix of Wong Kar Wai and Jane Austen set in Shanghai/Hong Kong, but a bit darker maybe?

Great reading year for me - 65 books/21,000+ pages read

Screw good coffee - what's the SF coffeeshop with the best vibe?

I'm pretty convinced that all the places I used to go pre-COVID don't exist anymore

Which is still slow! But presumably your body can do other motor tasks at the same time

Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: Comparable information rates across the human communicative niche Human languages encode similar average information rates (~39 bits/s) despite their remarkable differences.

Counterpoint: human language transmits information at ~40bps

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"I don't want people to be amiable and kindly. I want them to be vital and passionate."
- Somerset Maugham, 'Neil MacAdam'

What Makes Fish Fast? | Harvard Magazine George Lauder investigates nature’s solutions to underwater speed.

from here: www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/01/righ...

What makes fish fast? Can we design robots that make use of designs found in nature (biomimetic)?

-> this article claims that the rough shark skin is more efficient, but it also compares it to the smooth skin of fast tuna or swordfish. So why don't they have rough skin?!

It means every day he's super excited to get up and ask, "Can I get my new words today?!"

My kiddo has shown an interest in learning to read - but is not very interested in those "beginner reading" books.

I've been using @midjourney.bsky.social y every day to generate a new "page" of a collaborative book we've been making together

Thanks @elife.bsky.social for featuring our work with an eLife digest! elifesciences.org/digests/8989...

Disappointing (European) bird fact of the day: Europe is the only continent with no endemic families of birds :(

Why is he wearing an eagle as a hat

New life goal

Child development is crazy - one year ago, my son was putting together nine piece puzzles. Today, he is ploughing through 1000+ piece lego sets with ease

@chethanp.bsky.social ! @andpru.bsky.social ! Someone help me with new, interesting people to follow! Possibly related to neuroengineering!

ahaha... you are right :(

I thought I saw... @chethanp.bsky.social ? @andpru.bsky.social? had a neuroengineering one?

what are some starter packs I should follow?

is there a preprint available? or open access...

So what are the fun things to do in the Bay Area this week? It always seems things are randomly closed during the holiday weeks

I always found this paper kind of nice: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... it shows that if the environment fluctuates then evolution will favor sensors and the mutual info between sensors and env increases fitness. If the env has memory, I suspect organismic memory will provably be selected for also

*tap tap* is this thing on?

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And and that's not all!

Here's another large dataset we just released - emg2pose - focused on hand pose estimation using sEMG. emg2pose has 193 participants over 370 hours & >50 behavioral categories w/ hand motion capture ground truth.

arxiv.org/abs/2412.02725
github.com/facebookrese...