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Attractive people had higher-rated communication skills than unattractive people.

“Physical attractiveness raises social and communication skills, which in return raise an employer’s estimate of the worker’s productivity,” researchers Mobius and Rosenblat write. “We assume that the employer is unaware of these biases and hence does not correct for them.”

This has a major impact over the course of a career. Research shows that raising kids’ social skills is a better predictor of lifetime earnings than raising their intellectual ability.

Research on an ancient spiral galaxy reveals crucial insights into early galaxy formation, highlighting rapid star formation and unique structural features compared to contemporary galaxies.

A new snapshot of an ancient, far-off galaxy could help scientists understand how it formed and the origins of our own Milky Way.

Continue reading “Galactic Archaeology: Astronomers Discover Seismic Ripples in Oldest Spiral Galaxy” »

A MIT research group has demonstrated the ability to mind-control a 4-legged Boston Robotics Spot. Participants wore a pair of AttentivU smart glasses with built-in electrodes that can mind-read. They were able to tell the robotic dog to fetch items and move about by thoughts alone.

Hollins is a veterinarian who has cared for the elderly tortoise and three other land tortoises on St. Helena Island since 2009.

Last year, St. Helena’s governor, Nigel Phillips, gave Jonathan an unofficial hatch date of Dec. 4, 1832, but Hollins still celebrates on New Year’s Day.

“It’s not his birthday, but celebrating his year of age, whatever that may be,” Hollins said.

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DOES AI HAVE AGENCY? With Professor. Karl Friston and Riddhi J. Pitliya\
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Agency in the context of cognitive science, particularly when considering the free energy principle, extends beyond just human decision-making and autonomy. It encompasses a broader understanding of how all living systems, including non-human entities, interact with their environment to maintain their existence by minimising sensory surprise.\
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According to the free energy principle, living organisms strive to minimize the difference between their predicted states and the actual sensory inputs they receive. This principle suggests that agency arises as a natural consequence of this process, particularly when organisms appear to plan ahead many steps in the future. \
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Riddhi J. Pitliya is based in the computational psychopathology lab doing her Ph.D at the University of Oxford and works with Professor Karl Friston at VERSES. \
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THE FREE ENERGY PRINCIPLE—A PRECIS [Ramstead]\
https://www.dialecticalsystems.eu/con…\
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Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior [Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo, Karl J. Friston]\
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monog…\
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The beauty of collective intelligence, explained by a developmental biologist | Michael Levin\
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Growing Neural Cellular Automata\
https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca\
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Carcinisation\
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcini…\
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Prof. KENNETH STANLEY — Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned\
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On Defining Artificial Intelligence [Pei Wang]\
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/j…\
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Why? The Purpose of the Universe [Goff]\
https://amzn.to/4aEqpfm\
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Umwelt\
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umwelt\
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms [Yong]\
https://amzn.to/3tzzTb7\
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What’s it like to be a bat [Nagal]\
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pd…\
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COUNTERFEIT PEOPLE. DANIEL DENNETT. (SPECIAL EDITION)\
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We live in the infosphere [FLORIDI]\
• WE LIVE IN THE INFOSPHERE [Prof. LUCI… \
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Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398\
• Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in t… \
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Black Mirror: Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too | Official Trailer | Netflix\
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Prof. Kristinn R. Thórisson\
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin…

Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets outside of the solar system to date. The grand question is whether any of these planets are home to life. To find the answer, astronomers will likely need more powerful telescopes than exist today.

I am an astronomer who studies astrobiology and planets around distant stars. For the last seven years, I have been co-leading a team that is developing a new kind of space telescope that could collect a hundred times more light than the James Webb Space Telescope, the biggest space telescope ever built.

Almost all space telescopes, including Hubble and Webb, collect light using mirrors. Our proposed telescope, the Nautilus Space Observatory, would replace large, heavy mirrors with a novel, thin lens that is much lighter, cheaper and easier to produce than mirrored telescopes. Because of these differences, it would be possible to launch many individual units into orbit and create a powerful network of telescopes.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) has spearheaded revolutionary research unveiling groundbreaking strides in cancer treatment and understanding disease mechanisms.

Their discoveries include CAR T cell therapy targeting specific antigens in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), insights into the genetic element LINE-1, revelations on blood stem cell regulation, and a promising immunotherapy technique targeting CD47, showcasing potential breakthroughs in cancer therapy.

In the battle against acute myeloid leukemia (AML), traditional CAR T cell therapies faced hurdles due to varying antigens in AML cells and their similarity to normal blood stem cells, risking broader immune system damage.

The mysteries of space have always intrigued us and following through with this intrigue, ISRO set out on its most ambitious mission till date, Chandrayaan-2…

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