| orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2648-4790 |
| github | https://github.com/mstimberg |
| website | https://marcel.stimberg.info |
| Brian | https://briansimulator.org |
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/1
10 years today.
London #neuroscience people you may like this. We're hosting a series of talks at Imperial & Crick on how to get experiment and theory working together better. Each session will have a talk around this and extended networking / group discussion on the questions raised. Plus, free food!
I think the time is right for us to do this seriously. The growth of "NeuroAI", large scale experimental projects and a steady stream of papers showing that earlier papers in both experiment and theory made overly strong conclusions because they didn't do this right.
Rewatching the Star Wars films. It seems Palpatine has no problem finding Jedis to turn to the dark side: Dooku, Annekin, Maul(?) I feel that the Jedi organisation lacks sufficient workplace training about the risks of the dark side.
A one-day workshop with a six-monthly online refresher course (with a PDF certificate they can download) should do it!
A regional train passes a railroad crossing between flooded fields in Nidderau-Eichen, near Frankfurt
Photograph: Michael Probst/AP
New preprint: “A dynamical perspective on biological reproduction”
https://hal.science/hal-05491732
I replace von Neumann's self-reproducing machine with a dynamical model of reproduction, in which invariant reproduction occurs as a result of convergence to a fixed point - ie, an emerging property. The genome then becomes a transmissible developmental constraint, not a representation of the organism. With many examples from Paramecium biology ;)
Classically, biological reproduction is explained as the building of a new organism from replicated genomic instructions. The corresponding theoretical model is von Neumann's self-reproducing machine, which relies on an invariant universal constructor that can build any machine from instructions. However, the reproductive incompatibility of species and the diversity of developing processes speak against the existence of a universal constructor. Without a universal constructor, the genome as representation of the organism is circularly defined: what the genome represents is specified by the developmental processes represented by the genome.<p>I propose to take invariant reproduction not as a premise, but as an emergent dynamical property.</p><p>Reproduction is seen as the iteration of a transform that maps one generation to the next, a transform shaped by the genome. Invariant reproduction then occurs when a reproductive sequence converges to a fixed point. A reproductive sequence may also diverge, converge to a cycle (multigenerational life cycle), or to one of several fixed points (non-genomic inheritance). When it does converge, it is necessarily to a stable point, implying that development is robust to perturbations. Finally, speciation can be understood as a process by which reproductive transforms become mutually incompatible, that is, the basins of attractions of the fixed points do not overlap any more. In this view, the genome is an inheritable constraint on development, not a representation of the organism. I suggest that this dynamical framework is a more coherent model of biological reproduction than von Neumann's computational framework.</p>
If a journal asks me to do a peer-review for them, which I accept, then it makes a decision before the review deadline, without waiting for my review, and without letting me know that I do not need to do the review.. while I use my spare time to complete the peer-review by the deadline... then I am not going to do any more peer-review for that journal 🤷
(#PLoSOne in this case 🫤)
#AcademicChatter #PeerReview
Today, let’s all try to have the confidence of Arthur Eddington, who said the following at a lecture at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1938:
"I believe there are 15747724136275002577605653961181555468044717914527116709366231425076185631031296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.”
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ResearchSoftEng/115927224749651988
📋 Reminder: the International RSE Survey is live. 📋
The results will help us shape the future of the RSE movement worldwide. Please take part and share with your networks!
“pandoc for the people”, the pandoc wasm web-app, is now available at https://pandoc.org/app/
It allows to run any kind of document conversion that pandoc supports in the browser. The documents never leave the computer, thus ensuring *full privacy*.
Conversions to pdf are done via Typst.
Ned Batchelder
Eugen Rochko
Dan Goodman
Stephen Royle
earthling
Romain Brette
El Duvelle
Brian Marick
Society of RSE
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