naklonenou rovinou z Marsu na Zem, k vinu a COVIDu



kratucka prednaska, kto pozna BL, tak sa nic nove nedozvie, zdielam pre prijemnu atmo

o velrybach a freedivingu. je to fascinujuce ze az som trochu skepticky voci niektorym tvrdeniam. keby sa tu nasiel morsky biolog alebo niekto kto by vedel lepsie zhodnotit nakolko pop zkresluje science v tomto pripade, would be great.


full: https://theinterval.org/salon-talks/02014/oct/07/humanity-and-deep-ocean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale#Brain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161206-the-people-who-dive-with-whales-that-could-eat-them-alive
http://www.darewin.org
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Freediving-Renegade-Science-Ourselves/dp/0547985525

Výborná prednáška pre každého hejterka. Bez zbytočnych ezoterických drístov ukázaný vplyv ne/odpustenia na imunitu. Tvrdé racio a vedecké informácie...

Published on Apr 12, 2016

When a kid commits a crime, the US justice system has a choice: prosecute to the full extent of the law, or take a step back and ask if saddling young people with criminal records is the right thing to do every time. In this searching talk, Adam Foss, a prosecutor with the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office in Boston, makes his case for a reformed justice system that replaces wrath with opportunity, changing people's lives for the better instead of ruining them.

Postupne už pribúdajú aj video záznamy prednášok z prvého slovenského PyCon-u:
https://2016.pycon.sk/sk/videos.html

V piatok zrejme jedna z top prednášok:

Jedna z najlepších prednášok čo som v poslednej dobe videl.

An Artificial Intelligence exploration into the creation of meaning

Computational theories of the mind seem to be ideally suited to explain rationality. But how can computations be subverted by meaning, emotion and love?

Minds are computational systems that are realized by causal functionality provided by their computational substrate (such as nervous systems). Their primary purpose is the discovery and exploitation of structure in an entropic environment, but they are capable to something much more sinister, too: they give rise to meaning.
Minds are the solution to a control problem: in our case, this problem amounts to navigating a social primate through a complex open environment in an attempt to stave off entropy long enough to serve evolutionary imperatives. Minds are capable of second-order control: they create representational structures that serve as a model of their environment. And minds are capable or rationality: they can learn how to build models that are entirely independent of their subjective benefit for the individual.
Because we are the product of an evolutionary process, our minds are constrained by powerful safeguards against becoming fully rational in the way we construct these models: our motivational system can not only support our thinking and decision making to optimize individual rewards, but censor and distort our understanding to make us conform to social and evolutionary rewards. This opens a security hole for mind-viruses: statebuilding systems of beliefs that manage to copy themselves across populations and create causal preconditions to serve neither individuals nor societies, but primarily themselves.
I will introduce a computational model of belief attractors that can help us to explain how our minds can become colonized and governed by irrational beliefs that co-evolve with social institutions.
This talk is part of a series of insights on how to use the epistemology of Artificial Intelligence to understand the nature of our minds.

Na dovolené jsem dočetl jednu skvělou knihu a dokoukal jeden přednáškový kurz. Obě dvě věci naprosto top, tak jim chci udělat trochu reklamu. (poznámky z nich snad až bude víc času:)

A Short History of Nearly Everything
http://www.amazon.com/A-Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/076790818X

A Brief History of Humankind
https://www.coursera.org/course/humankind
(pripadne v knizni podobe: http://www.amazon.com/From-Animals-into-Gods-Humankind/dp/1478237856 )




Short history of nearly everything řadím k jedné z nejlepších knih, jaké jsem kdy četl. Je to populárně naučná literatura, ale tak čtivá, že jsem měl pocit jako bych četl beletrii. Bryson velmi poutavě a často i vtipně popisuje to co víme, ale především jak jsme na to přišli. Mnohokrát jsem se smál i žasnul. Třeba jak jsme přišli na to kolik váží Země? Nebo jak je stará a jak a kdo na to přišel?
Z čeho se skládá zemská kůra a kdo na to přišel? Věnoval se Newton více matematice nebo alchymii? Proč dělat chemii a biologii bylo útrpné a nevděčné zatímco dělat geologii bylo noblesní a výsostné postavení ke kterému patřilo popíjení dobrého portského vína? Kolik klíčových vynálezů v dějinách vynalezli vzdělaní lidé, kolik šílenci kteří věřili neuvěřitelným podivnostem? Proč tolik zásadních objevů bylo nepochopeno ve své době? A proč Darwin svoji teorii schovával 10 let v šuplíku než ji publikoval? Je v lidském těle víc buňěk nebo bakterií? Jak je možné, že čtyřem největším korporacím v USA se po 40 let dařilo zatajovat že prodávají rakovinotvornou látku? Proč máme ozonovou díru a proč je v biosféře tolik olova? Který nešťastník za tohle může a jaká je jeho story? Proč se do zubní pasty přidávala radioaktivní složka?
Takto by se měli psát učebnice! Ne pouze to jak věci jsou, ale i ty zajímavé příběhy kolem toho.
Dělám si z toho nějaké výpisky



A Brief History of Humankind je první kurz historie který mě fakt bavil. Dějepis ve škole jsem nesnášel, učit se kdy který král udělal to nebo ono a kdy kdo s kým válčil mě vůbec nebralo. Zato tyto přednášky jsem hltal stylem "tak jo dám ještě jednu... ok tak ještě, ale už poslední..."
Je to historie od začátku lidí - kde se vzali, jak se stalo že se ze středu potravního řetězce přesunuli na jeho vrchol a stali se nejdůležitějším zvířetem planety? Co to skutečně byla zemědělská revoluce a byla pro nás výhodná? Jakými společenkými uspořádáními lidské civilizace prošli? Co mají společného peníze, náboženství a impérium? Co je to kapitalismus? Co způsobilo rozmach Evropy? A kam to všechno směřuje?
Doporučuji velmi, jsou to možná pro sečtělého člověka známé věci, ale složeté dohromady způsobem, který má potenciál poupravit pohled na všechno kolem nás.

Jinak ty materiály z coursery mám postahované, kdyby to někdo chtěl v době kdy to tam nebude přístupné...

EDIT: here you go http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/9674761

prepis
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/30/we-need-to-talk-about-ted


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So what is TED exactly?

Perhaps it's the proposition that if we talk about world-changing ideas enough, then the world will change. But this is not true, and that's the second problem.

TED of course stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and I'll talk a bit about all three. I Think TED actually stands for: middlebrow megachurch infotainment.

The key rhetorical device for TED talks is a combination of epiphany and personal testimony (an "epiphimony" if you like ) through which the speaker shares a personal journey of insight and realisation, its triumphs and tribulations.

What is it that the TED audience hopes to get from this? A vicarious insight, a fleeting moment of wonder, an inkling that maybe it's all going to work out after all? A spiritual buzz?

I'm sorry but this fails to meet the challenges that we are supposedly here to confront. These are complicated and difficult and are not given to tidy just-so solutions. They don't care about anyone's experience of optimism. Given the stakes, making our best and brightest waste their time – and the audience's time – dancing like infomercial hosts is too high a price. It is cynical.

Also, it just doesn't work.
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DON’T PANIC — The Facts About Population

http://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-population/#b01g07t20w14

Tento talk nie je BANNED, ani CENSORED, skôr CONTROVERSIAL.

Odporúčam vypočuť s otvorenou hlavou a prečítať si text pod videom...


K téme ešte zaujímavý článok
Václav Šmejkal: Krize newtonovsko-karteziánské vědy
http://nb.vse.cz/kfil/elogos/science/smejkal.htm

Dokument, ktorý nabúrava starú dogmu o tom ako má fungovať DNA.

Som velmi prekvapeny nad kvalitou takejto konfery vo vychodnej Europe (Belehrad, Srbsko.)

Share 2 gathered more than two thousand activists, bloggers, engineers, programmers and artists from Serbia and internationally, in three days of interesting lectures, workshops and meetings at central venue. The lectures were given by leading international stars in the field of Internet activism and social changes, cyber dissidents and world-class bloggers, who gave their thoughts on new forms of activism and approaches in use of new media and advanced technologies. Discussions dived deep into the underground of the Internet movements and explored groups that fight for digital rights, protecting the privacy of fellow residents. With progressive music and culture, Internet is glorified as an open and free territory for all.

Share.mov II from SHARE Conference on Vimeo.

Sharing is caring, tak zazdielajte aj so znamymi. :)

Foto: http://goo.gl/k0c7h8

Learnist makes sharing what you know and learning from others fast and easy by remixing anything on the web like videos, ebooks, maps, blogs, podcasts, surveys and more into a simple and elegant learning resource on any topic that you can share with anyone. Learnist is like a collaborative, multimedia and interactive ebook from the future.

Celkom pekny prehlad veci, ktore stoja za to.
http://quoreddit.quora.com/The-Best-Online-Learning-Centers

"Explore free courses from edX universities (MIT, Harvard, Berkeley)"
https://www.edx.org/

The last lecture in the course wraps up the discussion of clinical psychology with a discussion of treatment efficacy. Does therapy actually work? Professor Bloom summarizes the different types of influences that clinical interventions might have on people who receive therapy.Professor Bloom ends with a review of one of the most interesting research topics in "positive psychology," happiness. What makes us happy? How does happiness vary across person and culture? What is happiness for? Students will hear how the most recent research in psychology attempts to answer these questions and learn how people are surprisingly bad at predicting what will make them happiest.

#education #deschooling #trust #future