Luis M. Rocha @lmrocha@qoto.org

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/05/british-museum-benin-bronzes-nigeria?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

"Sejamos capazes de ajudar a formar estudantes com sentido crítico, cientes e comprometidos com os problemas da humanidade para que sejam capazes de ousar questionar e de sonhar e o mundo avançará." Sem uma reinvenção profunda, não vejo com o sistema universitário português---baseado numa hierarquia bacôca em que o professor é tudo e o aluno nada, em que exames absurdos são a norma de avaliação com notas baixíssimas e reprovações altíssimas, em que o critério de entrada depende imenso da capacidade de estar sentadinho na escolinha 12 anos a "receber aprendizagens" quase sem nenhuma experiência laboratorial ou prática e também do dinheiro dos papás para os meter em escolas privadas---conseguirá produzir alunos que questionem. É um milagre que algumas dessas pessoas consigam sobreviver à experiência educativa portuguesa. Uns autênticos 120 trabalhos de Hércules. #educação #Portugal #pensamentocrítico #chatgpt

["https://www.publico.pt/2037314"]

Updating #EvolutionarySystems and #BioinspiredComputing lecture notes as the semester unfolds:

1. What is #Life? https://casci.binghamton.edu/academics/i-bic/lec01.php

2. The Logical Mechanisms of Life https://casci.binghamton.edu/academics/i-bic/lec02.php

#artificiallife

Since the data shared is only a "simulated data set," can one take this as scientific? Should we not construe this rather as Meta technical report release? #SocialMedia #PublicHealth #Science
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208110120

"Pode-se concluir que no Porto criam-se redes e que em Lisboa fundem-se os nós."
["https://www.publico.pt/2036983"]

#Identitypolitics, like #nationalism, is ultimately nefarious due to the biology of cognition. #Neuroscience tells us action and perception are intertwined and epistemically-driven--to reduce prediction-error and increase confidence in our hypotheses of how the World behaves. This can result in mutually misleading cycles, whereby running hypotheses seek self-validation by selecting appropriate cues (cf Andy Clark ). Our epistemic models of people behavior based on their identity are then very prone to misleading self-validation. All of this is only enhanced by AIs that feed those very hypotheses in our human-social-machine interactions. That is the nature of bias.

@nuthatch thank you :)

"Violence, coercive force, the carry and use of deadly weapons – all of these are central to “proper policing” as the institution of policing in this country currently exists.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/28/the-killing-of-tyre-nichols-was-heinous-and-shocking-it-was-also-not-an-aberration?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The only track worth playing today. The insult to injury on all these tragedies, is that this track is still relevant today. I know there are good cops too, but the whole system of policing in the US rests on violent authoritarianism. It must be reformed.
https://youtu.be/Z7-TTWgiYL4

I really loved going back to live DJing in 2022, mostly at Roterdão Club in Lisbon's Pink Street. Here is a mix of various bits from those sets I collected the bits most inspired-but not exclusively' by 80s #electro-#disco from #NewYorkCity. #DJ #House #Funk
https://on.soundcloud.com/RJxLz

There is much movie taste homophily in those who see my toots :)

"We use this method to show that the model’s assumptions on ancient decision making allow the reconstruction of partially known road networks from the Roman era in good detail and from sparse archaeological evidence" #networkscience
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac313/6992882

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/26/nineteen-massacred-in-three-days-in-one-state-when-will-we-say-enough-is-enough?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@jgg Still, Scott has a number of highly influential films, though not as such a long production as Spielberg. While I do not hate Spielberg at all, I am often bored by his lack of subtlety. I prefer Alien to Jaws, Blade Runner to ET, Thelma and Louise to Schindler's List, Gladiator to Saving Private Ryan, Legend to Hook, and House of Gucci to Catch me if you Can. Still, I really love Indiana Jones, Close encounters, and Tintin!

@jgg Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Gladiator, etc...