Human is the awkward liminal phase between animal and machine

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Paņemt no Švāba “The Fourth Industrial Revolution” tos fragmentus, kur ir runa par “fusion of technologies across the physical, digital, and biological worlds”, “designer beings and nanotechnologies” un “more aggressive funding for ambitious research programmes”, izlaist tos, kur tiek aicināts ieviest globālo egalitārismu un panoptikonu, aizvietot pēdējos ar izpēti decentralizācijas, merkantilu DAO-augmentētu pilsētvalstu, uz brīvu asociēšanos bāzētas diverģējošas ekspansijas un “patchwork” ģeopolitikas virzienos un būs noiets diezgan liels ceļa gabals manu pēdējo gadu uzskatu par tehnoloģijām un politiku virzienā.


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Sound: Угасание - Врастая В Вечность: Северное Одиночество

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Things I want:

  • a PDF of this article

Things I don’t want:

  • an “enhanced” PDF
  • an “interactive” PDF
  • some ReadCube bullshit
  • a PDF of this and some other articles in this issue


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Sound: Dronny Darko - Black Hive: Rivers Of Glass

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I’ve finally reached the stage where Facebook shows me ads for flow cytometry and spike train analysis instead of games or restaurants.

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Sound: Dronny Darko - Neuroplasticity: Electrical Membrane

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Varbūt nākotnē informāciju par dalību pasākumos varētu izziņot reizē ar pasākumu “miroņstrīpu”. Triju dienu laikā varbūt vēl var mēģināt tikt pie sarakstītiem papīriem un sakontaktētiem cilvēkiem, tā taču ir izlaidība.

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Sound: Fields Of The Nephilim - Mourning Sun: Straight To The Light

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That moment when the number of recommended pages in the pre-proposal form exceeds by three the maximum page count allowed in said form.

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Sound: Sabled Sun - 2148: God Is Binary

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I think that, from now on, whenever anyone claims that anthropogenic climate change is a myth or a conspiracy, instead of explaining that increase of CO2 in the atmosphere leads to rise in ambient temperatures, I should say something along these lines:

“The roto-vibrational absorption lines, determined as the eigenvalues of the quantum oscillator model of atmospheric molecules like CO2, interact with specific wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation emitted from the surface and isotropically from the atmosphere. The envelope of actual emission follows the black-body Planck function but with spectral features corresponding to the lines of the emitting gas and surface, collisionally broadened.

For radiation emitted from the surface, Wien’s displacement law dictates that the bulk of the emitted energy falls within a few μm on either side of about 10 μm. CO2 absorbs in this wavelength and, following from Kirchoff’s law, also re-emits at that same wavelength, resulting in an increase of downward infrared flux convergence. The resultant radiative heating is a function of the local atmospheric density and the volumetric heat capacity at a constant pressure, assuming a collisionally-equilibrium gas with a Maxwellian velocity distribution, with the energy being radiated isotropically, including the 2π sr solid angle towards the ground.

Some of that radiation makes it to the surface where it may be absorbed but the precise value of heating must be determined by solving the Schwarzchild equation of radiative transfer, given known spectral properties of all present gases and taking into account the Doppler broadening of the quantum emission line.

Which part of this do you disagree with?”

In so many words, science communication is very important but it requires the public to be able to distinguish evidence from deeply held opinions. Again, teaching the basics of rationality and so raising the sanity waterline seems to be more important than ever.


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Sound: Aegri Somnia - Endtime Psalms: C.A.H.R.

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Back to work.

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Sound: Inade - Antimimon Pneumatos: Canon Of Proportion

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Finally learning HDF5. So far, so terrified.

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Sound: Rome - The Hyperion Machine: Die Mörder Mühsams

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Beers: 6, lines of code written: 1215, lines of code read: no idea, pages read: 40, pages written: 2.5, uptime: 50 h, tired: yes. Good night.

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Sound: Millipede - A Mist And A Vapor: Nothing Certain

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No pēdējā laika labākā populārā līmeņa raksta par cognitive bias tēmu.


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Sound: Rome - The Hyperion Machine: Cities Of Asylum

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A reflection of our ultimate understanding of a complex system is our ability to control its behavior.

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Sound: Kammarheit - The Starwheel: Klockstapeln

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My actual life right now. Courtesy of @ResearchMark.


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Sound: Headscan - Shaper And Mechanist: Body Of Memory

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Sound: Darkmatter - HDEΛTH02: Vexper

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Data are. If you’re lucky. Mostly data are not.

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Sound: Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme: Summer's Glory

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Clear and present future: Verilog to DNA compiler, paper, supplementary material, demo. Not an April Fools joke.

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Sound: Atrium Carceri - Void: Passage

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To destroy the Earth: motivation, numbers.

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Sound: Avaritia - Pulse: To Preserve And Never To Forget

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Gravitācijas viļņibeidzot oficiāli reģistrēti, iespaidīgs LIGO un Virgo komandu sasniegums.


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Sound: Ainulindalë - The Lay Of Leithian: In Menegroth

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Izmantojot plastinācijas un krionikas kombināciju, izstrādāta metode, kas ātri un precīzi saglabā pilnu smadzeņu struktūru līdz atsevišķu sinapšu izšķirtspējai. Izstrādne ieguvusi BPF Small Mammal Prize balvu un projekts tiek ievirzīts nākamajā stadijā.

Focus now shifts to the final Large Mammal phase of the contest which requires an intact pig brain to be preserved with similar fidelity in a manner that could be directly adapted to terminal patients in a hospital setting. [..] This result directly answers a main skeptical and scientific criticism against cryonics – that it does not provably preserve the delicate synaptic circuitry of the brain. As such, this research sets the stage for renewed interest within the scientific community, and offers a potential challenge to medical researchers to develop a human surgical procedure based on these successful animal experiments.

Preses relīze, publikācija “Cryobiology” žurnālā (pilns teksts).


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Sound: Hungry Lucy - Pulse Of The Earth: Balloon Girl

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Kārtējo reizi akūti izjūtu diennakts stundu nepietiekamību (vai iespējas uz laiku pavairot sevi vairākos eksemplāros trūkumu).

BTW, vietējie bio/neiro cilvēki ([info]panacea?) – kā jūs tulkotu “dendritic spines”? “Sariņi”? “Dzelksnīši”? “Izaugumi”? Ja arī eksistē akceptēts latviskais tulkojums, tad līdz šim neesmu tādu atradis. Pats pagaidām sliecos uz “izaugumiem”.


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Sound: Funker Vogt - Blutzoll: My Innermost

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Pilnībā norobežojos no prof. Kalviņa teiktā (ja pārstāstīts korekti) un kā zinātnieks zinātniekam prasu pierādījumus, kas ņemtu vērā pašreizējos datus.


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Sound: Ugasanie - Eye Of Tunguska: Attempt To Contact
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