KMRTH
@kmrth.bsky.social
Medical student (among other things).
An eclectic assortment of ideas I’m striving to learn, understand, and possibly apply. I’ll make mistakes along the way.
Consider it a journal (of sorts).
An eclectic assortment of ideas I’m striving to learn, understand, and possibly apply. I’ll make mistakes along the way.
Consider it a journal (of sorts).
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I greatly enjoyed Anaximander, by Carlo Rovelli. "Anaximander opened the doors of Nature", said Pliny.
In the sixth century BCE he proposed that the Earth is a stone floating in the void. And set the ball rolling for scientific instead of mythical cosmogonies.
In the sixth century BCE he proposed that the Earth is a stone floating in the void. And set the ball rolling for scientific instead of mythical cosmogonies.
July 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I greatly enjoyed Anaximander, by Carlo Rovelli. "Anaximander opened the doors of Nature", said Pliny.
In the sixth century BCE he proposed that the Earth is a stone floating in the void. And set the ball rolling for scientific instead of mythical cosmogonies.
In the sixth century BCE he proposed that the Earth is a stone floating in the void. And set the ball rolling for scientific instead of mythical cosmogonies.
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An interesting thing in ethnobotany is that everywhere humans have lived, they figured out what plants are edible and how to process plants to *edible*
Multiple times. This knowledge would be periodically lost, learned again through trial and error, for countless generations.
Multiple times. This knowledge would be periodically lost, learned again through trial and error, for countless generations.
November 23, 2024 at 11:26 AM
An interesting thing in ethnobotany is that everywhere humans have lived, they figured out what plants are edible and how to process plants to *edible*
Multiple times. This knowledge would be periodically lost, learned again through trial and error, for countless generations.
Multiple times. This knowledge would be periodically lost, learned again through trial and error, for countless generations.
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I worry a little bit that too many people think that science fiction type technology is going to swoop in and save the day with respect to climate change
November 23, 2024 at 9:51 PM
I worry a little bit that too many people think that science fiction type technology is going to swoop in and save the day with respect to climate change
Maybe this is just my roundabout way of asking where I can learn more about the leading hypotheses about what’s mapped onto the premotor and supplementary motor areas.
#neuroscience
#neuroscience
November 22, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Maybe this is just my roundabout way of asking where I can learn more about the leading hypotheses about what’s mapped onto the premotor and supplementary motor areas.
#neuroscience
#neuroscience
Are there any great books or academic papers that explain how the body might be conceptually represented within the central nervous system? I already have a basic understanding of the somatotopic mapping of the body onto the motor and sensory cortices.
November 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Are there any great books or academic papers that explain how the body might be conceptually represented within the central nervous system? I already have a basic understanding of the somatotopic mapping of the body onto the motor and sensory cortices.
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MIT announced that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible. nyti.ms/3V6GVia
November 22, 2024 at 3:58 AM
MIT announced that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible. nyti.ms/3V6GVia
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And secondly a deep dive into what historians of future ages will make of us, living as we do right now, surrounded by ephemeral data. Will there be anything left to know what we cared about/how we lived? And who gets to decide what gets saved? www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/19/1...
The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age
We’re making more data than ever. What can—and should—we save for future generations? And will they be able to understand it?
www.technologyreview.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:09 PM
And secondly a deep dive into what historians of future ages will make of us, living as we do right now, surrounded by ephemeral data. Will there be anything left to know what we cared about/how we lived? And who gets to decide what gets saved? www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/19/1...
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I am thrilled to share our new paper which investigates the role of continuous measures in linguistic diversity research. We found that children who are exposed to more linguistic diversity (e.g., language, dialect, accent) are perceptually more flexible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Linguistic diversity shapes flexible speech perception in school age children - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Linguistic diversity shapes flexible speech perception in school age children
www.nature.com
November 21, 2024 at 10:40 AM
I am thrilled to share our new paper which investigates the role of continuous measures in linguistic diversity research. We found that children who are exposed to more linguistic diversity (e.g., language, dialect, accent) are perceptually more flexible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Under the hood, generative AI tools are still prediction engines, enabled by improvements in computational statistics and large amounts of data. New from Harvard Business Review by our Profs. Ajay Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social and Avi Goldfarb hbr.org/2024/11/gene...
Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine
To understand the strategic implications of AI’s new capabilities, managers need a framework for when AI will be helpful and when it might fail. Under the hood, generative AI tools are still predictio...
hbr.org
November 18, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Under the hood, generative AI tools are still prediction engines, enabled by improvements in computational statistics and large amounts of data. New from Harvard Business Review by our Profs. Ajay Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social and Avi Goldfarb hbr.org/2024/11/gene...
Found out today that caffeine’s effect on wakefulness might be specifically mediated by adenosine receptors in the shell of the nucleus accumbens rather than by those more widely distributed throughout the CNS. Pretty cool!
November 19, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Found out today that caffeine’s effect on wakefulness might be specifically mediated by adenosine receptors in the shell of the nucleus accumbens rather than by those more widely distributed throughout the CNS. Pretty cool!
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Carl Jung on our lack of involvement in nature.
November 19, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Carl Jung on our lack of involvement in nature.
Far above and beyond professional and material success, the purpose of an education should be to enhance the observations your mind and soul can make about, and the interactions they can develop with, the world (in the broadest sense possible).
Libraries, providing free information to everyone, are the bedrock of a free society.
And a shoutout to all the librarians out there! Thank you for all you do!!!
#ILoveLibraries
And a shoutout to all the librarians out there! Thank you for all you do!!!
#ILoveLibraries
November 19, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Far above and beyond professional and material success, the purpose of an education should be to enhance the observations your mind and soul can make about, and the interactions they can develop with, the world (in the broadest sense possible).
I don’t yet know enough about neuroscientific literature to say this with conviction, but it seems to me that our collective fascination with the operations of the CNS is centred on the computational prowess of grey matter rather than on the unspeakably complex mediations undertaken by white matter.
November 19, 2024 at 5:37 PM
I don’t yet know enough about neuroscientific literature to say this with conviction, but it seems to me that our collective fascination with the operations of the CNS is centred on the computational prowess of grey matter rather than on the unspeakably complex mediations undertaken by white matter.
In many ways, this new chapter of my life is inaugurated by Paul Lockhart’s lamentations about the way mathematics are taught.
November 19, 2024 at 5:32 PM
In many ways, this new chapter of my life is inaugurated by Paul Lockhart’s lamentations about the way mathematics are taught.
One doesn’t learn about logarithms by first mastering a series of interdependent but fundamentally ungrounded and arcane operations. Instead, one finds solid ground by first appreciating that a logarithmic scale is a non-linear scale where each interval represents a multiplication by a fixed factor.
For example, trivial as it sounds, this new chapter of my life is inaugurated by the realisation that effective learning has so much less to do with innate ability than it does with the teachable ability to systematically and coherently organise information.
Personal growth doesn’t always need to be innovative and revolutionary. I’m finding that my own personal discoveries of simple, time-tested ideas, whose historical origins stretch back further than I can discern, have catalysed what feels like a fundamentally new life.
November 19, 2024 at 5:30 PM
One doesn’t learn about logarithms by first mastering a series of interdependent but fundamentally ungrounded and arcane operations. Instead, one finds solid ground by first appreciating that a logarithmic scale is a non-linear scale where each interval represents a multiplication by a fixed factor.
For example, trivial as it sounds, this new chapter of my life is inaugurated by the realisation that effective learning has so much less to do with innate ability than it does with the teachable ability to systematically and coherently organise information.
Personal growth doesn’t always need to be innovative and revolutionary. I’m finding that my own personal discoveries of simple, time-tested ideas, whose historical origins stretch back further than I can discern, have catalysed what feels like a fundamentally new life.
November 19, 2024 at 5:21 PM
For example, trivial as it sounds, this new chapter of my life is inaugurated by the realisation that effective learning has so much less to do with innate ability than it does with the teachable ability to systematically and coherently organise information.
Personal growth doesn’t always need to be innovative and revolutionary. I’m finding that my own personal discoveries of simple, time-tested ideas, whose historical origins stretch back further than I can discern, have catalysed what feels like a fundamentally new life.
November 19, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Personal growth doesn’t always need to be innovative and revolutionary. I’m finding that my own personal discoveries of simple, time-tested ideas, whose historical origins stretch back further than I can discern, have catalysed what feels like a fundamentally new life.