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@pre@boing.world
2025-05-31 12:24:33
Content warning: Medical stuff / MRI selfie

On the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie

@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-03-31 14:19:45

Mal dormir accroit le risque d'accepter des récits complotistes.
theconversation.com/how-poor-s

How poor sleep could fuel belief in conspiracy theories
By prioritising good sleep we may be able to boost our ability to think critically and resist misinformation.

@ThatHoarder@mastodon.online
2025-05-30 10:34:22

So what's the difference between self-care and self-nurture? Here's why I'm trying to embrace self-nurture and am leaving self-care behind.
I talked about it in episode 187 of the podcast.

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-05-30 07:19:20

Self-driving technologies need the help of the public: A narrative review of the evidence
Jonathan Smith, Siddartha Khastgir
arxiv.org/abs/2505.23472

Self-driving technologies need the help of the public: A narrative review of the evidence
If public trust is lot in a new technology early in its life cycle it can take much more time for the benefits of that technology to be realised. Eventually tens-of-millions of people will collectively have the power to determine self-driving technology success of failure driven by their perception of risk, data handling, safety, governance, accountability, benefits to their life and more. This paper reviews the evidence on safety critical technology covering trust, engagement, and acceptance. …

@padraig@mastodon.ie
2025-05-29 21:50:46

So the Arc browser is officially dead, with Dia replacing it.
It's the same browser, but "AIified" and that doesn't sound good. I'll be staying away from it, so.
#arc #ai #slopai

@cheryanne@aus.social
2025-05-30 09:24:35

Words On Wednesday
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Words On Wednesday Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website

Words On Wednesday | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Words On Wednesday Host: Sylvia Rosenblum Category: Arts Sub-Category: Commentary & Conversations First Episode: 2019 Sylvia Rosenblum, Presenter of Arts Wednesday…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-05-31 00:25:49

Sources: Elon Musk is pushing lawmakers to help clear a path for driverless vehicles and has been weighing in on revisions of a bill on autonomous vehicles (Bloomberg)

@arXiv_condmatsoft_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-05-30 07:30:15

Polymer-modulated evaporation flow enables scalable self-assembly of highly aligned nanowires
Liyiming Tao, Zechao Jiang, Shiyuan Hu, Lin Du, Qiuting Zhang, Jiajia Zhou, Masao Doi, Xiaojun Wu, Xingkun Man, Ye Xu
arxiv.org/abs/2505.23227

Polymer-modulated evaporation flow enables scalable self-assembly of highly aligned nanowires
Highly aligned nanowire networks are essential for enabling anisotropic optical, electrical, and sensing functionalities in next-generation devices. However, achieving such alignment typically requires complex fabrication methods or high-energy processing. Here, we present a simple and scalable self-assembly strategy that uses a viscosity-enhancing polymer additive to modulate fluid flows during solvent evaporation. The addition of carboxymethylcellulose sodium (CMC-Na) reshapes the evaporation…

@arXiv_qbioQM_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-05-30 07:37:28

Information-Theoretical Measures for Developmental Cell-Fate Proportioning Processes
Michael A. Ramirez-Sierra, Thomas R. Sokolowski
arxiv.org/abs/2505.23659

Information-Theoretical Measures for Developmental Cell-Fate Proportioning Processes
Self-organization is a fundamental process of complex biological systems, particularly during the early stages of development. In the mammalian embryo, blastocyst formation exemplifies a self-organized system, involving the correct spatio-temporal segregation of three distinct cell fates: trophectoderm (TE), epiblast (EPI), and primitive endoderm (PRE). Despite the significance of this class of processes, quantifying the information content of self-organizing patterning systems remains challeng…

@ThatHoarder@mastodon.online
2025-05-29 15:17:16

It can be very surface level, the concept of self-care. overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.