Moengke, Hungry Ghost

Organic, Mechanistic, and Conspiratorial
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[Marion Lepert @marionlepert]

Catching skin cancer early is a home robotics problem.

Melanoma is highly treatable when detected early, yet today’s screening process depends heavily on patients noticing tiny changes across their entire skin surface. This requires patients to solve a near-impossible visual-memory and registration problem.

I built OpenDerm, an open-source 4-DOF robot that captures high-resolution images of the skin and uses them to reconstruct and track the skin surface in 3D over time.

The best way to make skin screening truly routine is to bring it into the home. OpenDerm shows that inexpensive robotic skin imaging is possible, but the path to scale is not a dedicated screening robot in every household—it is to make skin screening one of the many useful things a general-purpose home robot can do.

Read more about why I built OpenDerm and how it works here:
Blog: https://t.co/KYlNIkF3TV
Project: https://t.co/c9d4KuwXUP

[CognitiveMetrics @CognitiveMetric]

Extremely mathematically and verbally precocious kids show three physiological characteristics well above general population rates:

left-handedness or ambidexterity (19 to 21% versus 10%), symptomatic allergies (54 to 57% versus about 10%), and myopia (53 to 76% versus about 15%).

There is a graded pattern, with lower-scoring (but still precocious) kids and their parents and siblings having all three rates elevated as well, though less dramatically (Benbow & Benbow, 1984).

These findings come from the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY), which doesn't rely on self-selected samples the way studies of Mensa members do, since youth were identified through statewide testing.

[Aristo @aristomarinetti]

Carl Jung was right when he said: The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.

[Moengke, Hungry Ghost @moengke]

Our world is guided to some degree by people who aren’t principled in this way. Unless the unprincipled are barred from creative influence and especially from power, your principled action won’t spread outwards (except in the cases where your show of faith infects!)

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

*taps the sign*

[Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 【十】 @sunriseoath]

The magic of older texts is the grammar, which holds together thoughts in foreign ways. By reading the ancients, what we know becomes newer, refreshed by the displacement of seeing how far we have come. It is like how a reflection in a mirror appears at double the distance.

[Moengke, Hungry Ghost @moengke]

@dmesh18 I work on machine vision/computer vision, if that's of use

[Moengke, Hungry Ghost @moengke]

@jumdude Ah I felt that too with map miscalcs leading to huge score loss. Easier to maintain points with timeline.
But I think your strat around decomposition/late-production is just accurate - civilization had several setbacks in the americas and all.

[Moengke, Hungry Ghost @moengke]

@jumdude Most of the america's are tough to grasp for me too

[Moengke, Hungry Ghost @moengke]

@jumdude woah this game is perfect!

[Moengke, Hungry Ghost @moengke]

@junkiyoshi so sick, love toroids always

[JunKiyoshi @junkiyoshi]

Colorful Ring Dance. Source code -> https://t.co/fTSebyVo3q #openframeworks #programming #creativecoding #プログラミング

[shako @shakoistsLog]

grown up life is just learning to be happy under the perpetual sword of Damocles

[犬 @not__dog__]

In those days, a dense layer of fog had bifurcated the Higher World from the Lower.

[Ray Peat HubblyBubbly Emporium ✝️ @RayPeatHeadShop]

In summary, to ensure healthy cholinesterase levels, optimal brain and muscle function +tissue protection

Don’t:
— be isolated
— get traumatized
— eat/breathe pesticides
— be high estrogen
— be hypothyroid
— be high cortisol
— be hypoglycemic
— live in darkness
— be low altitude

[Moengke, Hungry Ghost @moengke]

@janhkirchner I'm a big fan of this line of thinking that prioritizes 'feature engineering' (although I've only just opened the article, I'll see if that's actually the case!)

[Ray Peat HubblyBubbly Emporium ✝️ @RayPeatHeadShop]

The mistake is assuming that there is psychological complexity or meaning to this sort of loserslop.

There isn’t.

Well you have to have your philosophy and assumptions worked out and airtight, choose your God so to speak, but beyond that you just need to get your metabolism up.

[der erlkönig @cvmonakow]

Bankers preferred using slaves despite being equivalent in expense with free labor, because slaves could not take their expertise and relationships and establish competing banks.

This meant banking provided opportunities for slaves to advance significantly.

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

Okay, time to reveal what this says: “The closer you get to the light, the greater your shadow becomes.”

[Matthew Pirkowski @MattPirkowski]

Have no interest in treating organisms as a semantic turf war. The functional relations within life's emergence embody a complex multiscale network that have different topological characteristics depending on how you view them. One functionally meaningful lens is hierarchy as the processual precipitate of organizational centrality.

Those who have issues w/ authority, often because they've been disproportionately exposed to corrupt authority, but also because our lineage to some extent conserves this temperament, bristle at the notion that hierarchical centralization plays an essential functional role. Nonetheless, it's an undeniable aspect of life's emergent coherence.