Alex Thabane

Ph.D. Candidate in Health Research Methodology @McMasterU | Interested in creativity, philosophy, reading & writing (in no particular order)

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Can you walk into more creative ideas?

Our recent meta-analysis of the scientific literature says yes!

https://t.co/2cpV8UEKtd

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ABBA = all hits 0 misses

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Reading this morning:

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Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Leo Tolstoy

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Had a great time at @UofT TASC Creativity & Aesthetics Conference!

We presented our recent study on “Characteristics of Creative Individuals”, an empirical model of creative potential!

@McMasterSurgery

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Thanks to Tanya from the Global Creativity Initiative Podcast for inviting me to talk about our recent work on creativity in @McMasterSurgery !

https://t.co/uajM5Yth4S

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🎨 Can creative arts therapies improve psychological outcomes for cancer patients?

Our recently published meta-analysis says yes!

You can read the paper here:

https://t.co/Vfj3RJL6P4

@McMasterSurgery

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New paper from @McMasterSurgery creativity research team — on how to maximize the creativity of AI!

We found that AI “thinks” differently than humans, as evidenced by lack of serial order effects across the vast majority of the 9 AI models tested.

https://t.co/lTF0ILNYhZ

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New edition of The Time Capsule hot off the press.

https://t.co/vX0cjkfZjA

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📬On self-reliance and the courage to be oneself:

https://t.co/nRqNipBnGR

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Over-reliance of AI = short-term productivity > long-term ability.

https://t.co/v7kueAnjpg

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On high-school reunions & rate cuts.

https://t.co/qloRboSvvh

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New publication in @SciReports from our creativity research group comparing humans vs. AI (& several AI's against each other!) on divergent & convergent thinking tasks, typically used to assess creative thinking ability.

You can read the paper here:

https://t.co/YYrNqXgLq5

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“ I have sometimes dreamt that when the Day of Judgement dawns—the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.”

~ Virginia Woolf

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Tonight’s reading material:

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“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.”

GK Chesterton

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"Creativity" is a buzzword that everyone talks about.

But what exactly does it mean, and why is it valuable -- particularly in the field of surgery?

Read our recent publication defining creativity in surgery:

https://t.co/MlZDSYrSVS

@McMasterU

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GoPlace in Markham has an insanely good book selection and no one takes it in…

Ive been reading the same book when I go for 9+ months, and it’s always in the same place I left it

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How to write an introduction to a non-fiction work Exhibit A — Ellenberger’s History of the Basuto

Solid sentence construction, informative, but most importantly it is vivid and captivating!

I will read on — and thus the primary objective of an intro has been accomplished.

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“I design not to utter any speech, poem, or book that is not entirely and peculiarly my work.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson