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Complex three-dimensional rearing environments amplify compensatory plasticity following early blindness https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651847v1 "underscoring the role of experience in directing compensatory plasticity following early sensory loss.&q…

Complex three-dimensional rearing environments amplify compensatory plasticity following early blindness
The neocortex has a remarkable capacity to alter its functional organization and connectivity in response to sensory loss, particularly if this loss occurs early in life. A key question is whether this cross-modal reorganization is driven by sensory deprivation itself or through enhanced use of the spared senses. We investigated how different rearing environments shape neural responses in primary somatosensory cortex (S1) of short-tailed opossums ( Monodelphis domestica) , following elimination…

1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/

LinkedIn tips:
1. You don't have to read the posts.
2. If you don't like a post from someone you follow, then stop following them. You can keep a connection without following them!
3. If you don't like a post from someone you don't follow, then mark it as not interested. Send the signal to inform both the recommendation algorithm, and the people who design the recommendation algorithm, what content you don't want to see.
Whatever other people are…

Sources: senior BBC executives are considering charging US consumers for access to its journalism to boost revenues amid falling UK license fee incomes (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

Constant Time with Minimal Preprocessing, a Robust and Extensive Complexity Class
\'Etienne Grandjean, Louis Jachiet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10188 https://

Constant Time with Minimal Preprocessing, a Robust and Extensive Complexity Class
In this paper, we study the class $\mathtt{cstPP}$ of operations $\mathtt{op}: \mathbb{N}^k\to\mathbb{N}$, of any fixed arity $k\ge 1$, satisfying the following property: for each fixed integer $d\ge 1$, there exists an algorithm for a RAM machine which, for any input integer $N\ge 2$, - pre-computes some tables in $O(N)$ time, - then reads $k$ operands $x_1,\ldots,x_k

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1972, construction begins on Canada’s largest single-site #Hydroelectric project at Churchill Falls, Labrador. To commemorate this minor historical event in our country's impressive record of hydroelectric technology and power generation, let's focus on one of the newest projects. The controversial Site C in British Columbia will begin filling its reservoir this summer in preparation for starting operations.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://youtu.be/gZARb7pLQeo?si=Wo5iEWE9ushqGBaS

Just received a friend request on Facebook by someone named Peter Waldmeier.
https://www.facebook.com/peter.waldmeier.865
He seemed such a nice person, I think he is a model in a Scandinavian country.
When I asked him why he was sending me a friend request he go…

As usual we watched the "Stoertebekker" stage play at Ralswiek on Rügen Island. The stage setups and wardrobes were as awesome as always. They really try to improve on that every year and come up with clever mechanisms to transform the building for the various acts of the play. The script this year left room for desire ;) Nevertheless a happing worth attending
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Inverse design of drying-induced assembly of multicomponent colloidal-particle films using surrogate models
Mayukh Kundu, Michaela Bush, Chris A. Kieslich, Michael P. Howard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10645

Inverse design of drying-induced assembly of multicomponent colloidal-particle films using surrogate models
The properties of films assembled by drying colloidal-particle suspensions depend sensitively on both the particles and the processing conditions, making them challenging to engineer. In this work, we develop and test an inverse-design strategy based on surrogate modeling to identify conditions that yield a target film structure. We consider a two-component hard-sphere colloidal suspension whose designable parameters are the particle sizes, the initial composition of particles, and the drying r…

Apparently conductive materials can have a dielectric constant. How do you polarize a material if it has a non negligible current flowing through it? Doesn't make sense to me.