One of the symptoms of approaching nervous break-down is the belief that one’s work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/338…
#quote #quotes #quotation #catastrophizing #collapse #criticality #ego #fatigue #grandiosity #importance #nerves #nervousbreakdown #priorities #work
Is there an authoritative peer reviewed & referenced #OpenAccess dictionary of #tleap (Teaching English for Academic Purposes) with definitions/explanations of common yet slippery concepts eg #AcademicVoice #Criticality #Argument, etc?
#AppliedLinguistics #AcWri #AcademicWriting #AcademicLiteracies
This is the suggestion of David Auerbach, inventor of the emoticon, in this radio 4 series:
Algorithmic and AI components are really shaping that discourses in ways we don’t actually have control over. I think this is only going to increase because we’re going to see that ChatGPT and other chatbots like it can inject themselves into the social discourse and be taken for human pretty easily … The more there is a sense that pen groups can’t be policed, that they are exposed to all sorts of abuse and chaos, there’s going to be great incentive to put back up the soft barriers to membership that have traditionally existed in human society.
Will the early-mid 2010s seem like an anomaly of connectivity in retrospect? A crescendo of publicness which drove a continual retreat into smaller and more private groups, now dispersed and mediated to an unprecedented degree?
#criticality #generativeAI #informationLiteracy #paranoia #propaganda #SocialMedia
Updated 4th Chapter of my "#EvolutionarySystems and #BioInspiredComputing " 2024 Class. #SelfOrganization #Criticality #Robustness #Resilience #Evolvability
https://casci.binghamton.edu/academics/i-bic/lec04.php
@INCF has anyone used this to simulate #criticality or #quasicriticality?
Some neuroscientists believe that our brains constantly sit at the edge of chaos. A new study shows that sleep might be an important part of keeping us there. Joe Stucynski breaks things down in this week's post:
My MSc student Allison (graduated this summer) has had her first manuscript published as a preprint. https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.12.08.570818v1
Next step is to get it peer-reviewed and published in a reputable journal (suggestions?)
We looked at the Hurst Exponent in preterm babies shortly after birth and at term age, and compared to healthy terms. We found the HE started below 0.5 and then crossed the 0.5 line sometime around 39 weeks. Sensory and motor networks developed fastest. And finally, the younger you are born, the slower HE increases
Let me know what you think!
#neuroscience #braindevelopment #criticality #braincriticality
"Musk threatens ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as X ad boycott gathers pace"
:catthinking:
There's only one way I can interpret this.
Elon Musk is going to bring a lawsuit showing such anger that he's going to go critical and engulf the court in a nuclear explosion.
#USNews #Nazi #EtronMuskrat #ElonMusk #GoingCritical #criticality #NuclearExplosion #nuclear #lawsuit #ads #advertisement #marketing
New preprint!:
"Tracking the distance to criticality in systems with unknown noise"
By Brendan Harris, w/ Leonardo Gollo.
We identify new, noise-robust time-series features for tracking the distance to criticality.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.14791
Code: https://github.com/brendanjohnharris/Criticality
Heterogeneity extends criticality
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcpxs.2023.1111486/full
#complexity #phaseTransitions #criticality #IsingModel #randomBooleanNetworks
Nuclear criticality safety
Making "The Blue Flash:" Reconstructing fatal atomic accident
In 1946 radioactive Manhattan Project component killed a scientist when his screwdriver slipped
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230725-making-the-blue-flash-how-i-reconstructed-a-fatal-atomic-accident
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36872955
Demon core: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core#Second_incident
T* ickling the Dragon's Tail: 1946 failed experiment to test exact point at which fissile material becomes critical
#history #DemonCore #LouisSlotin #NuclearEngineering #NuclearCriticality #NuclearSafety #criticality
Maybe I should have said something about the paper in more detail 😅
What we tried here is to investigate a relationship between two neurophysiological correlates of consciousness, i.e., first, the complexity (Lempel-Ziv) of the neurophysiological brain activity, and second, an indirect measure of #criticality in the neurophysiological brain activity using the power-law exponent of the log-log transformed power spectrum with the BCI performance reached in a locked-in patient. :)
Could One #Physics #Theory Unlock the #Mysteries of the #Brain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjGFp7lMi9A&ab_channel=QuantaMagazine
#PerBak #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Neuroscience #Biology #MolecularBiology #Thermodynamics #SellfSimilar #ScaleInvariance #Fractal #Fractals #CriticalPoint #Criticality #Ising #IsingModel #PhaseState #PhaseTransition #PhaseTransitions #Homeostasis #QuasiCrticality
Super happy to have participated on this special issue on the principle of dynamical #criticality. It was really fun to expand our work on effective connectivity, #canalization and #redundancy with Jordan Rozum, Felipe Costa, and Austin Marcus. An a bonus for publishing in #Entropy---makes me feel quite cybernetic! #complexsystems #BooleanNetworks #Dynamics #networkScience #ComputationalBiology
https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/2/374
We're super happy to have contributed the special issue of #Entropy on The Principle of Dynamical #Criticality in #biologicalsystems.
"Effective Connectivity and Bias Entropy Improve Prediction of Dynamical Regime in #Automata Networks"
#redundancy and canalization play major role in predicting #Dynamics, even after accounting for #heterogeneous #complexnetworks structure, in experimentally-validated biochemical regulation models and random networks. Emphasizing role of redundancy in #evolutionary.systems. #complexsystems
@paulpeace @Andy_Scollick Great inputs by both of you, appreciate the conversation we've had.
Random loose ends:
How long until the ocean circulation crosses #criticality & flips in the direction of another mini ice age or such? Imagine having migrated to less hot areas, re-building for a couple generations, and then having to migrate south again, leaving most of it all behind again.
I've spent the last 5-10 years thinking there was still time to engineer 'soft landing' alternatives, but I'm no longer convinced there is time or resources to do this. Again, that doesn't mean stone age level before we rebound, but nothing like the Civ we have now.
Hard line attempts at structural & social civ change will likely also result in violent outcomes in the areas where that succeeds, and their neighbors took a more optimistic route. Same sort of competing our way to the bottom game theory results as now.
That said, I think local solutions are the best ROI in general. I think it is valid that the most advanced nations will suffer the most, measured in change/loss of norms, social disorder, etc. Also mostly coincides with the most dense areas, which are far from #equilibrium in the #sustainable sense.
There is also a great risk of mass #information loss if we cannot maintain the complex set of requirements needed for computer #memory storage device maintenance.
All this with scarce & unaffordable gasoline, as we watch militaries burn up the last of it.
Sadly, it will most likely take the occurrence of many of these things we're talking about before serious efforts are undertaken at the levels needed.
By way of #introduction, I am interested in:
#ComplexSystems, particularly spreading processes on #networks, #synchronization, #criticality in #brain, #NetworkPhysiology, #NetworkNeuroscience #timeseries.
Away from work, I am most likely #triathlon training.
#China’s second #nuclear unit with #Hualong One #reactor reaches #criticality
