rimmon @rimmon@qoto.org

#Python

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. - Mary Oliver

Detect and approach: Close-range #navigation support for people with #blindness and low vision https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-25075-0_41 "based on the 2D video captured by a low-cost monocular camera mounted on in front of the chest of the user"

Someone asked me if this "jailbreaking" of ChatGPT's safeguards is real, so I tried it out (with a more recent iteration of the prompt I found) and yes, it is. I didn't want to try anything too horrific, but it told me the best way to steal a car and bully a teenage girl, and also wrote erotic fanfiction about Batman. (ChatGPT originally refused the latter on the grounds of both explicit content AND copyright infringement...) https://kotaku.com/chatgpt-ai-openai-dan-censorship-chatbot-reddit-1850088408

Happy birthday to the "hemibrain", a #Drosophila #neuroscience data set released by #HHMIJanelia on January 22, 2020. At that time it was the largest synaptic-level #connectome ever reconstructed, the result of years of hard work by the FlyEM team, led by Steve Plaza, and collaborators at Google. (1/3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeyHKdmBpqY

Great talk from Ed Wasserman today on the analogical abilities of different animal species. Prompted a very interesting discussion on how same/different tasks can be solved in different ways. E.g., comprehending differences in perceptual entropy vs conceptual understanding of same/different.

Recording available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p7JL3FTdkw

Seminar schedule: http://www.analogicalminds.com

@cognition @cogsci @psychology #AnimalCognition #ComparativeCognition

A breathtaking view of the Sun's reflection on the Pacific Ocean seen from space.

Nature

Guardians of the brain: how a special immune system protects our grey matter
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01502-8

As part of the new added chapters and upcoming updates to https://juliadatascience.io we have new cheat sheets for plotting Makie functions. Second printed edition is coming soon. However, you can support the project today by donating here: https://opencollective.com/juliadatascience #books #coding #datascience #datavis #julialang #makie

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” — Douglas Adams

Science has an award paradox problem—you often need awards to get awards. 🏆 -> 🏆 -> 🏆

Those that get dumptrucked with awards aren't necessarily more worthy either: “winners just above the funding threshold accumulate more than twice as much funding during the subsequent eight years as nonwinners with near-identical review scores that fall just below the threshold.”

@academicchatter #academicchatter #openscience #science https://medium.com/@erinnacland/the-award-paradox-in-science-11e32c2caf2e
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719557115

5. Graphical Overview

Interested to see what your connected thoughts, notes, and ideas look like?

Obsidian allows you to visualize the connections between notes in a graph like this one.

#xp

Aurora borealis on Jupiter, imaged by the Hubble telescope on Sept 29, 2022.
See the odd, comet-like streak at right? That's the magnetic imprint of Jupiter's moon Io! Its volcanoes spew out fumes that create their own aurora display.
https://www.planetarylightshow.com/jupiter/prop_16193/v54-oef454vrq.html #space #Hubble

Visualizing one year of earthquake activity with depth data.
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2022/11/earthquakes-with-depth.html

How to design a dashboard with @observablehq plot & #bertinjs? #javascript #dataviz #geoviz https://observablehq.com/@neocartocnrs/dashboard-with-bertin-plot