Luis M. Rocha @lmrocha@qoto.org
- Complex Networks and Systems
- https://casci.binghamton.edu/publications.php
- Social and Biomedical Complexity
- https://casci.binghamton.edu/research_interests.php, https://csbc.indiana.edu/
- Politics and Rants
- https://hey-city-zen.blogspot.com/
Post-identity earthling working on complex systems, networks, biomedicine, AI, evolution. Music, politics, DJ as E-Trash. Life through parrhesia. "E se mais mundo houvera, lá chegara".
Professionally, I'm the George J. Klir Professor of Systems Science at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science (Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering), Binghamton University (State University of New York), where I lead the Complex Adaptive Systems and Computational Intelligence (CASCI: https://casci.binghamton.edu/) lab. I'm also Principal Investigator at the Instituto Gulbenkian da Ciencia in Portugal.
Joined Sep 2018
Why Petulant Oligarchs Rule Our World https://nyti.ms/3HO0HsI
#RIP Terry Hall. I was very very young when my brother brought home this track as a 45. From then on I wanted to be #punk, #disco, #reggae, all of it. That's what #ska and #theSpecials meant to me. And I've never been just one thing since then. Thank you and much love.
https://youtu.be/cntvEDbagAw
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A Multifaceted benchmarking of synthetic electronic health record generation models https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35295-1 #ehr #datascience #machinelearning #bioinformatics
Muito me irrita a assunção circular inerente em quase toda a discussão sobre educação: que qualquer sucesso de conhecimento/inteligência advém da educação escolar. Isto é, apenas a escola pode "dar" conhecimento. Não, alguns têm sucesso *apesar* da escola (e.g. Ada Lovelace), e a maioria das pessoas criativas, ou que têm dificuldade em estar passivamente a "receber informação" têm imensas dificuldades na escola. Meti "dar" e "receber informação" entre aspas porque esse é o ponto fulcral do erro do modelo (Cartesiano) de escola que temos: conhecimento não é algo que se dá e se recebe como se fosse empacotado em fardos de batatas e descarregados por instrutores para as cabecinhas de meninos ligados às secretárias, com se fossem baterias na Matrix. O conhecimento é criado por cada um, de uma forma corpórea.
Já que estão a ir buscar parte do modelo da Bélgica, tragam o resto: na Bélgica não há numerus clausus. Os alunos entram para o curso que quiserem. O numerus clausus é que cria as maiores injustiças, enviesando a entrada na universidade a favor dos alunos das escolas privadas e daqueles que se dão melhor na escolinha (com o velho modelo de estar sentado nas cadeirinhas a levar com matéria descarregada de professores, sem espaço para criatividade.)
What Should You Do When the Bear Is Cinnamon? https://nyti.ms/3htlLu2
What if tech journalists decided to cancel Elon in return? Especially because he is known to use them for bullshit announcements maximally important for amassing his wealth.
https://medium.com/radical-urbanist/the-bullshit-company-95e97dc01802
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3551329-trump-elon-musk-another-bulls-artist/
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PhD Students from any field --- are you interested in understanding the nature of intelligence across disciplines?
Apply to join us this summer in Cambridge UK for the SFI's two-week international summer school on *Intelligence & Representation*.
https://santafe.edu/engage/learn/programs/complexity-gains-international-summer-school
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My newest column for @QuantaMagazine:
What Does It Mean to Align AI With Human Values?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-does-it-mean-to-align-ai-with-human-values-20221213?swcfpc=1
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RT @astroehlein
Twitter has also suspended the account of its rival, Mastodon.
⚠️ And look at this tweet I just tried to do but which got rejected - look at the reason: Twitter doesn't even allow you to link to Mastodon in tweets now...
All more reasons for you to join Mastodon...
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Paper on excess mortality associated with the Covid-19 pandemic. “We estimate 14.83 million excess deaths globally, 2.74 times more deaths than the 5.42 million reported as due to COVID-19 for the period” 2020-2021
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05522-2
https://github.com/dkobak/excess-mortality
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This is a tremendous piece of work by Nick Florko at #StatNews. Thousands of people are dying every year from #HCV--a curable viral illness--in American #prisons.
#publichealth
https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/15/hundreds-incarcerated-people-dying-hepatitis-c-despite-simple-cure/
Fico a saber pelo serviço publico de televisão (RTP) que as gripes se apanham por causa do ar-condicionado frio demais.
Aprendizagem não devia ser vista como se conhecimentos e competências cognitivas fossem blocos de informação discretos, descarregados quais fardos de palha. Mas é assim que é medida nestas discussões circulares sobre ”perdas e ganhos" de aprendizagens.
O problema e que esta visão simplista de conhecimento transforma currículos, aulas e professores em descarregadores e alunos em contentores de informação desacoplada, em vez de seres multidimensionais com corpos e emoções físicas.
O mais frustrante do Brasil moderno é a tendência para ser cópia mal-parida de um filme americano foleiro. Em vez de assumir tropicalismo latino, querem fazer-se white American protestants. Só que em vez da Nova Inglaterra, sai cópia fajuta do bible belt.
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For reasons I can't fathom, Internet Archive Scholar got attention today, a mass of it, painting it as a "new" service. Actually, it has been out there for about a year. BUT....
If beautifully structured access to academic citations by the millions is your bag or desperately needed tool, especially ones that are ONLY left in the Wayback Machine, you are in LUCK. And this will be your favorite day. Try it.
About damn time. It is absurd to fight against authoritarians, while keeping political prisoners.
- Complex Networks and Systems
- https://casci.binghamton.edu/publications.php
- Social and Biomedical Complexity
- https://casci.binghamton.edu/research_interests.php, https://csbc.indiana.edu/
- Politics and Rants
- https://hey-city-zen.blogspot.com/
Post-identity earthling working on complex systems, networks, biomedicine, AI, evolution. Music, politics, DJ as E-Trash. Life through parrhesia. "E se mais mundo houvera, lá chegara".
Professionally, I'm the George J. Klir Professor of Systems Science at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science (Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering), Binghamton University (State University of New York), where I lead the Complex Adaptive Systems and Computational Intelligence (CASCI: https://casci.binghamton.edu/) lab. I'm also Principal Investigator at the Instituto Gulbenkian da Ciencia in Portugal.
Joined Sep 2018
