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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Data is the fuel of our digital economy, boosting #innovation and helping #SMEs develop new products and services.
This is why the European Commission defines a list of high-value public datasets to be made available free of charge for the benefit of all.
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First CoCo seminar of Spring 2023 by Jordan Rozum on Jan. 25th
I just came to Mastodon on my lunch break to say that my guilty pleasure du jour é Matias Damasio. Adoro. Obrigado e Boa tarde.
https://youtu.be/-h_5VnvE2SE
"Isto, porque a tipologia das provas é pouco utilizada como método de avaliação/selecção no sistema educativo e no mercado de trabalho [português], onde o conhecimento teórico/técnico tende a ser mais valorizado".
A escolinha portuguesa, incluindo universidade, seleciona as pessoas que aguentam estar sentadinhas à secretária horas a fio a levar com fardos de teoria na cabeça. É uma escola muito hierárquica, sem interesse pelas--aliás menosprezando-- competências criativas, práticas e de inteligência social. Estas competências desejadas noutros lugares, obtêm-se construindo (não "recebendo") conhecimento de forma material, com o corpo, na prática, em contexto social onde criatividade não é rejeitada. No meu caso---com carreira feita fora de Portugal---só desenvolvi essas competências fora da escolinha. Por isso sempre me oponho em Portugal a enfiaram as criancinhas tempo de mais na escola.
["https://www.publico.pt/2032755"]
A praia de #Carcavelos está cheia de manchas de óleo além da espuma que a assola há vários dias. Não sei se a origem é a lavagem ilegal de depósitos de barcos na barra, ou o rio que ainda desagua na praia a céu aberto quando chove?
#BestOf2022 #music that made my radar. Top 40 Albums, Top 100 Tracks, Top 20 Remixes/Edits (from E-Trash's #DJ sets): https://bit.ly/CityZen22. The top tracks and remixes are assembled in a Spotify List as well: https://spoti.fi/3PSimS6.
2022 was a hardworking year, though full of fun travel and reconnection with friends and family---thank you vaccines! I was particularly delighted to get back to DJing to full clubs again. Every year is a great year for music, with such amazing tracks, even if perhaps fewer great albums. I am sure I missed really excellent stuff.
Quem a festa do avante não convida são as @pussyrrriot. Aliás, seria excelente algum outro festival @NOS_Alive, @sbsr @Primavera_Sound ou outros convidassem. #PunkRock #protestsong
https://youtu.be/W4IsdnlbOr8
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How does modern AI work, what is its history, and how does it compare with human intelligence? My book gives an in-depth, accessible guide for lay people & experts alike.
Coming in 2023: new chapters on transformers, generative AI, and AI "alignment".
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Fresh off a victory against workers demanding sick days as part of recent contract negotiations, two major railroads are pursuing a merger and a third, owned by billionaire Warren Buffett, is retaliating against one railroader who helped lead the push for better working conditions. https://theintercept.com/2022/12/22/railroad-workers-retaliation-merger/
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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.
- 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
