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
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As the result of many years of work and data collection, we are glad to share a 1-year long RFID contact - language development data involving ~200 kids from a pre-school in France. Read the paper in Scientific Data. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01756-x
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@lmrocha This is a terrible methodology. Our schools and teaching methods are the same as the ones adopted in the XIX century, during the Industrial Revolution. Schools train kids as if they would work in factories: they learn to obey schedules, and orders, copy (repetitive work), not contest the rules, memorize the content, and not suggest any thoughts that are different from those taught by the teacher. Unfortunately, schools kill children's creativity.
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Native Students Face Harsher Punishment Across New Mexico
Native students in New Mexico experience higher annual rates of expulsions and incidents involving police than white students. In Gallup-McKinley, students across the board are punished more harshly than those in the rest of the state, but the large Native student body is still disciplined at higher rates than white students.
#NewMexico #NativeStudents #Schools #Students #Discipline #Education
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My latest clinical pipeline column for Nature Medicine is a look at a drug recently approved by the #FDA to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes.
It's a direct descendant of the very first monoclonal ever approved for clinical use.
#Diabetes #Type1Diabetes #DrugDevelopment #DrugDiscovery #NatureMedicine #Immunology #MonoclonalAntibody
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This is not the dystopia we were expecting https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/opinion/columnists/elon-musk-twitter-oligarchs.html
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A highlight of the year is Barcelona Supercomputing Center participation in the European Center of Excellence in HPC applications.
We participate in 10 of the 13th & lead three (PerMedCoE !)
Showing our commitment to make accesible optimised methods to the end users.
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...
- 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
