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Beyond The Crime: A Psychological Analysis
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/beyond-the-crime-a-psychological-analysis/

Beyond The Crime | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Beyond The Crime: A Psychological Analysis Host: Dr Lars Madsen, Shay Addison, and Dr Rob Brockman Category: Science Sub-Category: Mental Health & Well Being, Social Sciences, True Crime &

A look at the costs of a smartphone-based childhood, as Gen Z struggles with poor mental health and lags behind previous generations on many important metrics (Jonathan Haidt/The Atlantic)
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"Shutdowns are often the result of someone feeling so frustrated that they could melt down, but knowing that to do so would be even worse, but that they can avoid dealing with other people’s reactions to that if they manage to stay in control enough to do nothing but bottle it up.
Whichever way they go, meltdowns and shutdowns take a huge mental and physical toll, and require substantial recovery time. Some autistic people report feeling their after-effects for days afterwards, and in some cases losing abilities they previously had for even longer.
Autistic burnout is something like a long-term counterpart to a shutdown: the cumulative effects of pushing beyond your capacities for too long, usually because you don’t feel like you have much of a choice. Society demands that we carry on, however hard it is – often while insisting that it’s easy, and we’re surely just not really trying. At some point, we just… can’t, any more. We find ourselves perpetually exhausted, our cognitive abilities chronically impaired – often with heightened sensitivities and a reduced a ability to socialise."
From https://monotropism.org/wellbeing/

Corruption-Robust Offline Two-Player Zero-Sum Markov Games
Andi Nika, Debmalya Mandal, Adish Singla, Goran Radanovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07933

Corruption-Robust Offline Two-Player Zero-Sum Markov Games
We study data corruption robustness in offline two-player zero-sum Markov games. Given a dataset of realized trajectories of two players, an adversary is allowed to modify an $ε$-fraction of it. The learner's goal is to identify an approximate Nash Equilibrium policy pair from the corrupted data. We consider this problem in linear Markov games under different degrees of data coverage and corruption. We start by providing an information-theoretic lower bound on the suboptimality gap of any lear…

The ocean has now broken temperature records every day for more than a year. And so far, 2024 has continued 2023’s trend of beating previous records by wide margins.
Last month, the average global sea surface temperature reached a new monthly high of 21.07 degrees Celsius, or 69.93 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, a research institution funded by the European Union.
The whole planet has been hot for months, according to many different data s…

Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening?
There have been record temperatures every day for more than a year. Scientists are investigating what’s behind the extraordinary measurements.

I AM SILENCED spelled out in the first letter of each sentence of Miss USA's resignation letter. Good on the BBC for reporting it. Miss Teen USA resigned as well. These pageant shows should be banned.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68973924

NO on Prop 1
This is extremely important. It has massive cuts to mental health services and will be disastrous if it passes
Mental health, disability rights, and civil rights groups are against it
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/02/me…

Decades of progress are at stake. California voters must reject mental health ballot measure
Proposition 1, a mental health funding reform and bond measure, is a taxpayer giveaway to private facilities and will gut effective programs.

"No writer has ever thought about the exact percentage of italics in a line of type, but Word is reduced to this kind of arbitrary principle because its Platonic model—like all Platonic models—is magnificent in its inner coherence but mostly irrelevant to the real world. (…)
Intelligent writers can produce intelligent prose using almost any instrument, but the medium in which they write will always have some more or less subtle effect on their prose."

Escape from Microsoft Word | Edward Mendelson
When I work in Word, for all its dazzling prowess, I can’t escape a faint sense of having entered a closed, rule-bound society. When I write in WordPerfect, with all its scruffy, low-tech simplicity, the world seems more open, a place where endings can’t be predicted, where freedom might be real.

Corruption-Robust Offline Two-Player Zero-Sum Markov Games
Andi Nika, Debmalya Mandal, Adish Singla, Goran Radanovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07933

Corruption-Robust Offline Two-Player Zero-Sum Markov Games
We study data corruption robustness in offline two-player zero-sum Markov games. Given a dataset of realized trajectories of two players, an adversary is allowed to modify an $ε$-fraction of it. The learner's goal is to identify an approximate Nash Equilibrium policy pair from the corrupted data. We consider this problem in linear Markov games under different degrees of data coverage and corruption. We start by providing an information-theoretic lower bound on the suboptimality gap of any lear…

Together with @… I'm facilitating a panel on #OpenScience in #BioAnth on 10 April!
We will hear from Dr. Siân Halcrow, Dr. Sam Leggett, Dr. Krystal Tsosie and Dr. Trudy Turner and their vision (and challenges) regarding Open Science!
Registration: https://bioanth.org/meetings-and-webinars/aabas-monthly-webinar-series/