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header: Cobalt Mirror (Lake Louise), photo by Paul Zizka
Joined Apr 2021
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2 openings for assistant professor and associate professor in the Psychological and Brain Sciences department where I’m currently at at Dartmouth College, USA, in Systems/Behavioral Neuroscience:
Please share to find me great future colleagues :)
“For a complete description of the Assistant Professor position, see http://apply.interfolio.com/130063.
For a complete description of the Associate Professor position, see http://apply.interfolio.com/130080.
Review of applications will begin October 15, 2023 and continue until the position is filled.”
#NeuroJobs #Neuroscience #Neuroscientist
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How the most useless branch of math could save your life.
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Holy moly. The Warning are superb.
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The pamphlet lists this as one of the bad signs, but I'm telling you -- same room #texting rocks for sharing plans without interruption in a room full of kids #HealthyLiving #DigitalDetox #PrivateInPublic
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Just learned there's a guy named Project #Pat ...
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When will AI become sentient?
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#AI #LLM #GPT #ChatGPT #transformer #AGI #intelligence #HAL9000 #sentience #consciousness
#Work is really a curse.
It keeps #accumulating, no matter how much effort you put on it.
Then I decided to create an archive for "all the things I will never be able to do."
Well, guess what... That's more work.
So, I decided to quit and keep doing as usual - meaning, #postponing indefinitely some things *I should do*.
But I'm really #curious about how you're dealing with this. 😅
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New 📄: Rights for Those Who Unwillingly, Unknowingly and Unidentifiably Compute!
People's devices are silently co-opted for collective computation which promises data confidentiality. But what happens when ppl don't agree with the computation's ends? https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/4ugxd 🧵
> Since Pines' Demon is predicted to play an important role in a wide range of phenomena, such as #transitions in particular kinds of #semimetals and #superconductivity , the work has important implications for material #physics .
> Usually in science, a "demon" is a hypothetical opponent for scientists and philosophers to argue against in a thought experiment, but Pines' Demon is quite different.
It's actually a type of #plasmon – a discrete unit of waves among rippling through a population of electrons . Plasmons have been described as the #quantum analogue of an #acoustic sound in a classical gas.
#Physicists Have Observed a 'Demon' Plasmon in Strontium Ruthenate
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-have-observed-a-demon-plasmon-in-strontium-ruthenate
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Thank you mastodon people. You just made me win a dinner.
When I told my friend I was going to post this here she asked me not to do it, because "it would start a war". So, I bet with her a proper dinner (not pizza or burgers) that this post would have 2 comments or less. 
😋
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'New Scientist' is carrying an interesting article this week on gravitational memory, which also has an electromagnetic counterpart.
There are tests planned using "short pulses into very long antennas".
Some background here:
https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/455d39b9-01eb-411a-b47e-be53619cc9a6/content
"The promiscuity between banks and tax administrations is now so complete and shameless that they no longer are able to hide it."
(quoting a journalist friend of mine)
My comment was: "As I see it, money as debt can only be advantageous to the creditors, right?"
Disclaimer 1: I'm not an economist, I only took two semester courses in economics during the first two years of my undergraduate degree.
Disclaimer 2: It is not my wish to start a discussion about 'capitalism' vs 'socialism'. 😅
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Elliot Reid, Peter Sellers and Benny Goodman arrive in Washington to perform at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, April 1962.
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The #BBC Proms is underway and French horn player Felix Klieser will be making his debut on August 2 playing Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 4. The German virtuoso performer was born without arms, so he plays the instrument with his left foot. He spoke to the BBC's Access All podcast about his exceptional career.
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Inside the incredible science of using music to restore the memories of people with dementia
#science #neuroscience #psychology #music
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/dementia-music-healing-brain-neurology/
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Describe myself in 5 tag words:
#mathfolk #programmer #reader #traveller #researcher
header: Cobalt Mirror (Lake Louise), photo by Paul Zizka
Joined Apr 2021
