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neuroscientist, cybernetics aficionado, ex-fed, sci in tech, desci author, adjunct psych prof, sculler
Call for papers - Systems Thinking for Machine Intelligence in Biology and Medicine!
Describe what you have done or would like to see for the future. From practice to policy, how do we improve our application of machine intelligence to biology and medicine.
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Found these in my university library recently
14.03.2025 18:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Amazing visualization of cognitive disorders
14.03.2025 18:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We have been using it for half a semester, and I have only good things to say. The content was developed with undergrad feedback, and there are learning materials for students. The instructor material includes slides for each chapter and a test bank.
Highly recommend (and OpenStax has other books)!
FREE textbooks!
I rejoined academia this year after 15yrs away, as an adjunct teaching undergrads for a Brain, Behavior and Cognition class.
To my (and my students') delight, OpenStax rolled out an open-source Behavioral Neuroscience textbook in November.
openstax.org/details/book...
Great archive of Astounding SciFi here
www.luminist.org/archives/SF/...
Wandering the stacks at a used bookstore is my favorite approach
14.03.2025 15:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The first predictive computer model and part of the inspiration for Shannon's information theory
14.03.2025 15:50 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Scientists!
We've built this digital space where brilliant minds can connect, share ideas, and support each other through transitions—whether they're dealing with relocations, institutional changes, or other disruptions that might otherwise slow their research momentum.
praxsci.com
You never know what treasures you'll find in the library (took this pic of a mind-bending series at the Duquesne U library).
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The first ever AI-before-it-was-AI conference took place in Jan 1945 at Princeton. They didn't even have a name for it yet. (Teleology was Wiener's term at the time, but it was in the process of being rejected by the group).
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Next library borrow
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Happy Brain Awareness of Pi Day!
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And here she is not too long before passing in 2021 - with some of the wisdom she developed in over 60 years as a writer and futurist in the AI world.
I'm working on a documentary of her and the 1979 book with some professors at CMU. It's a story that needs to be told.
And no, that's not her in the pic, that's an AI version of Ada Lovelace we used for a Cybernetics talk at Fungus Books in Pittsburgh last year and was too good not to use again.
Here's Pamela McCorduck in her 70s glory.
If you don't know who Pamela McCorduck is, you should. She may have single-handedly ended the first AI winter in the 1970s with her oral history project and 1979 book "Machines Who Think".
I've captured a bit about her in this essay series, "Machine Intelligence is not Artificial."
This recent systematic review from the Data Sharing and Harmonization working group at the Society of Critical Care Medicine took a while but was worth it.
I highly recommend being involved in big group projects like this, even if sometimes challenging.
journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/a...
We set this place up to give scientists a place to go when they have none. Terminus is not the end of the line, but the beginning of the Foundation of the future of science.
praxsci.com
I wrote this to help shape the future of science and technology
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