Maria Munaro

exIBMer. exMember, IBM Academy of Technology. #blockchain #mainframe #women My tweets are my own.

[BowTiedMara @BowTiedMara]

An Argentinian car mechanic was messing around with his employees. He came up with an idea, and ended up creating a device to help women during childbirth. It's the biggest advancement in the field since 1950.

Aguante Avenida Warnes

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

I really enjoyed Apoorva's essay. It's rare these days to hear what a *student* thinks about what's going on in AI and Math, and I highly recommend you take a look at her piece – it's thoughtful, curious, idealistic, and unmistakably human.

[Maria Munaro @MariaMunaro]

Veo muchos tweets de tengan hijos. Mucha gente viendo The Handmaid? #gilead #tenganhijos

[Maria Munaro @MariaMunaro]

@hernanber_ @BurgerFcts @PabloSanchez No, una amiga q vive en usa con tarjeta master usa tampoco podia pagar online con su tarjeta. Yo puse mi Amex de Amex y paso.

[Maria Munaro @MariaMunaro]

@BurgerFcts @La_Prima_Lejana @PabloSanchez En esos casos la que si pasa es Amex, pero no de banco, sino de Amex directo. Cuando las demas no pasan Amex si :-).

[Maria Munaro @MariaMunaro]

@OdiseaArgentina El problema con los jóvenes es que si le preguntas eso muchos no te saben responder con lo cual no es que no están haciendo lo que quieren hacer … es que ni saben que quieren hacer

[Maria Munaro @MariaMunaro]

@kalipolis Eso es xq los que desarrollaron la app no están siguiendo las buenas prácticas y estándares para accesibilidad …

[Maria Munaro @MariaMunaro]

@lunatika_shd @majogm Y por donde con Pia? Yo le digo que quiero descuento y me dice que esta perdida???

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Maria Munaro @MariaMunaro]

@hipolitacalmate Pero, mas que especies, xq no se come casi nada de pescado o mariscos? Y no me digan que es la distancia xq Madrid es el mejor puerto de mar en tierra. Cómo los españoles que vinieron no trataron de mantener eso …

[Maria Munaro @MariaMunaro]

@Grady_Booch I think he is wrong in his first assumption that writing code was expensive … it wasn’t the writing that was expensive … it was the running. The scarcity of resources that made you need to think of the best way to use them efficiently and that they weren’t cheap.

[Maria Munaro @MariaMunaro]

@rarayencendida Ah nnnooo pero ni vos raru ni Germán ponen cuál es el tweet al que se refieren … se pierde uno lo suculentoso!!! Jajajaja

[alpha man @alphaman_111]

On day 1 of my high school history class, our professor got up and said

You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago people your age were married, planted crops, had children, and built a cabin by winter. You can do your homework. The bar set for you historically is embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies. You have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe, air-conditioned room. You have no excuses.

[Eugenia Munaro @lacordobensis]

@IngSierraEdu Recuerdo sus frases celebres.”No resiste analisis”, una excelente docente, y persona. Tuve la suerte de tenerla como profesora !! QEPD

[Maria Munaro @MariaMunaro]

@tomashdg @miles_flow_ Si tenes el nombre de alguien y su información de contacto entonces ya tenes datos sensibles …

[Maria Munaro @MariaMunaro]

@danyscht Esta bien q aclares q es el dolar oficial, pero el titulo de la obra es equivocado. La mayoria no vivia al dolar oficial sino al blue, con lo cual lo unico q estas consiguiendo al publicar algo q la mayoria sin siquiera tener un titulo universi sabe q no es asi, es desacreditarte

[Maria Munaro @MariaMunaro]

@rarayencendida Como la serie Love on the Spectrum

[Maria Munaro @MariaMunaro]

@Chinocastro62 @BalaguerEmi @sonripink En Google aparece que uno puede gastar entre 10 y 20mil pesos … necesita +30 cubiertos para cubrir el gasto

[Maria Munaro @MariaMunaro]

@dzapatillas La mía pone en YouTube las ceremonias de los evangélicos a todo volumen. Vive con la puerta abierta y cuando lava, ropa, platos, you name it, lo pone en el pasillo “a secar”. Cuando yo llego paso y sea lo que sea q este se cae sin piedad

[Maria Munaro @MariaMunaro]

@MagnaCarp @alecook99 Pobres perros, que te hicieron para que los metas en el medio?