• Origins of our current crises in the 1990s, the great malformation, and the illusion of race.

    Updated: 2023-12-28 15:52:00
    : , , . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Thursday , December 28, 2023 Origins of our current crises in the 1990s , the great malformation , and the illusion of race . I'm passing on three clips I found most striking from David Brooks , recent NYTimes Sydney awards column I generally don’t agree with the arguments of those on the populist right , but I have to admit there’s a lot of intellectual energy there these days . The Sidneys go to essays that challenge readers , as well as to those that affirm . With that , the first Sidney goes to Christopher Caldwell for his essay The Fateful Nineties in First Things . Most people see the

  • New Oral Drug Zuranolone (Zurzuvae) for Postpartum Depression is Now Available

    Updated: 2023-12-28 14:16:03
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  • Large Language Models are not yet providing theories of human language.

    Updated: 2023-12-25 06:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , December 25, 2023 Large Language Models are not yet providing theories of human language . From Dentella et . al open source Significance The synthetic language generated by recent Large Language Models LMs strongly resembles the natural languages of humans . This resemblance has given rise to claims that LMs can serve as the basis of a theory of human language . Given the absence of transparency as to what drives the performance of LMs , the characteristics of their language competence remain vague . Through systematic testing , we demonstrate that LMs perform nearly at chance in some

  • Three common assumptions about inflammation, aging, and health that are probably wrong

    Updated: 2023-12-22 15:50:00
    : , , Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , December 22, 2023 Three common assumptions about inflammation , aging , and health that are probably wrong The abstract of a recent PNAS article by Thomas W . McDade motivated readers can obtain the whole article from me Significance Inflammation is one of the most important , and potent , physiological systems in the human body . It is widely assumed that levels of inflammation increase with age and that chronic inflammation contributes to cardiovascular diseases . This understanding of inflammation is based on studies of people living in affluent , industrialized settings with low

  • Who can benefit most from long-term care insurance CBS News

    Updated: 2023-12-21 19:44:06
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  • In Search of Hardness - Protocol studies, the next crypto cycle, and the next age of the world

    Updated: 2023-12-20 16:57:00
    : , , Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , December 20, 2023 In Search of Hardness Protocol studies , the next crypto cycle , and the next age of the world I’m using this posting to save for myself some clips of text from Venkatesh Rao’s most recent piece to continue mulling over where I place it on the trivial versus sublime spectrum some of his jargon you will only understand if you have followed the previous installments on Rao I've put in MindBlog . note the link at the end to The Summer of Protocols Here are the clips : Protocols are engineered hardness , and in that , they’re similar to other hard , enduring things ,

  • Cannabis Exposure and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes, Possibility of Placental Insufficiency

    Updated: 2023-12-20 00:00:10
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  • Can We use the Electronic Health Record to Predict Risk for Postpartum Depression?

    Updated: 2023-12-19 00:00:19
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  • Traumatic Memories Are Processed as Present Experience

    Updated: 2023-12-18 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , December 18, 2023 Traumatic Memories Are Processed as Present Experience Ellen Barry points to work by Perl et . al showing that different patterns of brain activity underlie sad versus traumatic autobiographical memories . nbsp The Perl et al . : abstract For people with post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD recall of traumatic memories often displays as intrusions that differ profoundly from processing of regular’ negative memories . These mnemonic features fueled theories speculating a unique cognitive state linked with traumatic memories . Yet , to date , little empirical evidence supports

  • The ebb and flow of physical and cognitive fatigue

    Updated: 2023-12-15 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , December 15, 2023 The ebb and flow of physical and cognitive fatigue Matthews et . al Have investigated moment-to-moment fluctuations in fatigue using behavioral experiments and computational modeling to offer a precise account of how fatigue waxes during physical and cognitive effort and wanes during rest From Bijleveld's review of the work : A key insight from this work is that there are important parallels between physical and cognitive fatigue . Specifically , for both types of fatigue , the best-fitting computational model parsed fatigue into two components : a recoverable component i.e

  • Toward a better framework for postmarketing reproductive safety surveillance of medications

    Updated: 2023-12-14 00:00:12
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  • AI is a camera, not an engine.

    Updated: 2023-12-13 06:00:00
    : , . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , December 13, 2023 AI is a camera , not an engine . Yet another brilliant essay from Venkatest Rao on how modern AI puts us into an age of exploration of computational reality . I got halfway through my usual gig of extracting clips from the article to archive the main points in a post for later look up by myself or others . Halfway through this chore , I realized the material was so deep and dense that my clips were containing more than half of the original text . So , I have halted the editing down and suggest that readers have a go at the entire original . article I also presented

  • Optimizing Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Perinatal Depression

    Updated: 2023-12-13 00:00:29
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  • There are more living cells on Earth than stars in the universe: ~ 10^30 vs. ~ 10^22

    Updated: 2023-12-11 06:00:00
    : : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , December 11, 2023 There are more living cells on Earth than stars in the universe : 10^30 vs . 10^22 These numbers come from a fascinating piece by Dennis Overbye summarizing work by a team of biologists and geologists Selected clips : According to the fossil record , geology and evolution have been engaged in a dance for 3.8 billion years , since our planet was only 700 million years old . It was then that the first single-celled creatures appeared , perhaps in undersea volcanic vents , feasting on the chemical energy around them . The population of cells has been growing exponentially

  • Goggle's Bard and Chat GPT-4 on using AI to explore beyond language and words...

    Updated: 2023-12-07 16:03:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Thursday , December 07, 2023 Goggle's Bard and Chat GPT-4 on using AI to explore beyond language and words . I show first the prompt I addressed yesterday afternoon to both Bard and ChatGPT-4. The more nuanced response I received from Bard makes me wonder if Google has already started to use the new Gemini AI algorithms announced yesterday to power Bard . nbsp Here is the prompt , followed by the Bard and ChatGPT-4 : responses Exploring beyond language and words starting a conversation : Let us suppose that increasingly sophisticated LLMs , generative pretrained transformers , will become superior

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