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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Harry Nilsson:
🎵 Coconut
#HarryNilsson
https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/track/coconut
https://open.spotify.com/track/4o5GyaeGMgDsrclBsL3au7

The Human Mind Revealed: A Biological Perspective - Michael Sharwood-Smith
https://www.routledge.com/The-Human-Mind-Revealed-A-Biological-Perspective/SharwoodSmith/p/book/9781032971292

The Human Mind Revealed: A Biological Perspective
This book provides readers with a new working model of the human mind  based on contemporary trends in cognitive science. Taking a distinct biological approach, the book presents mind and brain as two sides of the same coin while at the same time emphasizing the need for separate accounts.  The reader is introduced step by step to the mind account showing how it operates. The text explores the mind's basic architecture examining how its family of eleven systems interact flexibly and collaborat

#LaVCa: LLM-assisted visual cortex captioning https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13606 using "large language models (LLMs) to generate natural-language captions for images to which voxels are selective"; to be presented a…

LaVCa: LLM-assisted Visual Cortex Captioning
Understanding the property of neural populations (or voxels) in the human brain can advance our comprehension of human perceptual and cognitive processing capabilities and contribute to developing brain-inspired computer models. Recent encoding models using deep neural networks (DNNs) have successfully predicted voxel-wise activity. However, interpreting the properties that explain voxel responses remains challenging because of the black-box nature of DNNs. As a solution, we propose LLM-assiste…

🛏️ Social standing and isolation shape sleep quality in mice, study finds
#sleep

Social standing and isolation shape sleep quality in mice, study finds
While some factors that improve or reduce the quality of sleep are relatively well understood, many are not. Given the impact that sleep is known to have on matters such as stress, concentration and cognitive abilities, it is an important topic of study.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Chaos In The CBD:
🎵 Phantom Melodies
#ChaosInTheCBD
https://churchofficial.bandcamp.com/track/phantom-melodies
https://open.spotify.com/track/0vuzmdB13scpNzJpvtIEQM

🔥 RIVIÈRE DE FEU — Soirée de soutien aux Chardons Bleus #ChardonsBleus #Justice #Cagnotte #Metoo

🔥 RIVIÈRE DE FEU — Soirée de soutien aux Chardons Bleus
📅 SAMEDI 6 décembre🕕 18h📍 ZK, 23 avenue de la Verrerie, 1190 BruxellesLe 6 décembre, transformons l'obscurité en lumière, et le silence en cri.Entre le ...

In a conversation at this year's
Billionaire's convention
—aka the World Economic Forum
—Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI will lose public support
unless it's used to "do something useful that changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries."
"We will quickly lose even the social permission to take something like energy,
which is a scarce resource,
and use it to generate these tokens,

Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it
Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt (Margaret-Anne Storey)
https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/

How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder and more costly to understand, modify, or extend over time...

Since this year I have massive trouble accessing anything hosted on AWS during the evening hours like these.
My ISP is Deutsche Telekom AG (AS3320) and it looks like the only route to AWS (AS16509) leads through Cogent (AS174). MTR is showing more than 30% packet loss through Cogent to an AWS target.
I know peering between DTAG and Cogent has been historically bad, but I never noticed issues until now. What happened? Do any BGP nerds know more?