🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

bad news fedibros, you are very likely terrorists

https://www.nzsis.govt.nz/assets/media/Know-the-signs.pdf

@freemo It definitly is. Sorry I didn’t respond at the time. I lost my login and couldn’t be bothered. Now I’m giving Mastodon another shot and am slowly getting the hang of it.

I am a liar & a sorcerer
I am so fickle that I scorn the bridle.
I am unchaste, voluptuous and idle.
I am a bully & a tyrant crass,
I am as dull & as stubborn as an ass;
I am untrusty, cruel & insane,
I am a fool & frivolous & vain.
I am a weakling & a coward; I cringe,
I am a catamite & cunnilinge.
I am a glutton, a besotted wight;
I am a satyr & a sodomite.
I am as changeful & selfish as the Sea.
I am a thing of vice & vanity.
I am not violent & I vaccilate,
I am a blind man & esmasculate.
I am a raging fire of wrath no wiser!
I am a blackguard, spendthrift & a miser.
I am obscene & devious & null.
I am ungenerous & base & dull.
I am not marked with the white Flame of Breath.
I am a Traitor! die the traitor's death!

-- Aliester Crowley, Liber DCLXXI

Also called: A Ritual of Self Initiation based upon the Formula of the Neophyte.

This was just an exceprt.

#Occult #Thelema #OTO #Crowley #magic #magick

It's fun that QOTO is a techie place, because a few people will read about the adventures with an AS400 and realize the state of a lot of the worlds' computer systems.

The collarary to that is that 25% of America LITERALLY doesn't know how to use a computer even in this day and age.

Hi, Mastodon!

Admittedly, I'm here not because of a deep interest in the Fediverse, but because I'm repulsed from Twitter by the Elon takeover. But hopefully I'll enjoy it here in its own right!

Time for my #introduction!

Hello, Mastodon! My name is Alan Johnson. I have a deep interest in many topics, including tech, management, business, politics, music, history, econ, education, etc. I expect I'll probably use Mastodon in a similar way as I use Twitter -- a place to put thoughts from my very scattered brain out into the world, so that I can learn from the feedback I get. Hopefully I occasionally inspire people with some of my better thoughts, too.

My current profession is running the Data department for an insurance company, and I'm more broadly interested in tech strategy.

The fact that there's even a culture of #introductions here is pretty cool, and different from Twitter.

@freemo

Hold on a minute...

He called it a toot in his toot. Referring to his own toot, he said post or toot.

That's what he said in his toot. Or post, as I won't call it.

"Post-embryonic remodeling of the C. elegans motor circuit" by Ben Mulcahy et al. 2022 (Mei Zhen's lab https://zhenlab.com/)

... in which the authors show, using #vEM and #connectomics, that while the nematode #celegans nervous system grows from ~200 neurons in the hatchling to ~300 in the adult, the addition of new neurons doesn't disrupt existing motor function, but new circuits are formed that endow the animal with new behaviors such as bending.

Interestingly, in the course of larval maturation one neuron type inverts its polarity: what was the dendrite becomes the axon, and viceversa. And this is accomplished not with retraction and regrowth of the arbor, but rather, by flipping the synapses in situ.

URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.065

#readingpapers #science #neuroscience #development

In my course MCB111 "mathematics in biology", we just learned about Hopfield networks and the Hebbian learning. Can anyone give a critical reading of this paper for us?