Sivaram Arabandi

entrepreneur, surgeon, ontologist

[Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen]

Related Links:

* https://t.co/hwuHAVXVQB -- Presentation by John F. Sowa titled "Without Ontology LLMs are Clueless."

* https://t.co/LrRTSWjvRJ -- Ontolog Forum discussion that inspired my post.

[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

Do babies develop accents even before they can speak conventionally?

The short answer is yes… and these linguistic markers begin even sooner than you might think.

So many of you tagged me in this video yesterday featuring an infant that babbles with the same Scouse accent as his mother.

Other than “no” he doesn’t speak a single conventional word, but listen to how the rhythm and intonation of his vocalizations mirror those to which he is exposed daily.

As hearing becomes functional during the third trimester, infants are exposed to the distinct patterns of their mothers’ native language - with studies suggesting newborns can already distinguish (and prefer) what will become their native tongue only hours after birth.

Incredibly this learning doesn’t wait until the babbling stage to evidence itself.

Research suggests that even the cries of newborns reflect this preference.

That’s right: babies cry with an accent.

One major study on the topic showed that French babies cry with a rising intonation, while German infants favor a falling melody - both reflecting the patterns of their native languages.

We’re only just beginning to understand the deep learning that begins in utero. It’s just more evidence that the period from prenatal to three is the most critical window in all of human development.

This little Liverpudlian was shared to TT by iamcustardpot.

[William Hogan @HoganReflects]

New perspective piece in Standards:

The old maxim “garbage in, garbage out” therefore applies not only—nor even primarily—to users of EHRs, but primarily to their designers and developers.

https://t.co/4atuFjccKc

[Zachary Lipton @zacharylipton]

Compromise is the easiest way to close a debate. It sounds good, can feel good, and often truly is good. But some policy compromises are idiotic incoherent messes. Wisdom of Solomon situations: divide the baby by cutting it in two.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Hedy Lamarr was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s and 1950s, and she was considered "the most beautiful woman in the world" during her time. She began her acting career in Austria and became notorious for being the first woman to simulate an orgasm on screen in 1933. It was during this time that she also got married to Friedrich Mandl, a Vienna-based arms dealer with ties to Mussolini and later Hitler.

The marriage did not last long. In her own words, she wrote, "I knew very soon that I could never be an actress while I was his wife... He was the absolute monarch in his marriage... I was like a doll. I was like a thing, some object of art which had to be guarded and imprisoned, having no mind, no life of its own." According to her autobiography, she disguised herself as one of the maids and managed to flee to Paris. Others say she convinced her husband to wear all of her jewelry for a dinner party and then disappeared afterwards.

She eventually booked a liner to New York, where she met the head of MGM, who was impressed enough to offer her a $500-a-week contract to work as an actress. In 1938, she arrived in Hollywood and went on to star in several movies, working with the likes of Clark Gable and James Stewart.

Beyond her acting career, Lamarr was also a scientist and co-patented spread-spectrum technology during World War II to prevent the Nazis from jamming navy torpedoes. However, her invention was rejected and wouldn't be implemented until the Cold War in 1962. The technology would eventually be used in developing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥WATCH: “Forcing little girls to have babies… I just don’t get it. Such a primitive way of thinking. I urge all men —STAND WITH WOMEN.”

After a Dems presser @GAHardaway asked the media to stay to hear his disgust with the @tnhousegop’s UNANIMOUS, cruel vote. #ForcedBirthState

[Avi Yemini @OzraeliAvi]

This bloke NAILS IT with absolute class.

[JoseF Rosario @josephus77]

I'm struck by the consistent pattern I see with every type of discussion or debate on these topics:

One type of comments focus the mind on words that DENOTE specific things that can be investigated as being true or false by anyone truly interested or curious, while another type of speech bypasses the mind almost entirely, aiming for emotions with words (typically ending in 'ism) that CONNOTE, assume, associate, & project all kinds of shit. The latter sounds not too different from the facts-resistant fatwas shouted by fundamentalist Imams in hardline, socially authoritarian & repressive regimes.

[Sivaram Arabandi @ontomd]

@Apple Mail right click menu - is this good design?
Rarely used options like 'delete mailbox' positioned above more often used options like 'Erase Junk Mail'?
#uiux

[Linux Handbook @LinuxHandbook]

31 years ago Linus Torvalds sent this mail announcing the Linux project

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

A space industry expert on how women are discouraged from pursuing STEM

[The Recount @therecount]

“If this is America First, then America is fucked.”

Take 10 minutes to watch Jon Stewart tear into Republicans for blocking a Senate bill providing benefits to veterans, including for those exposed to burn pits.

[Sivaram Arabandi @ontomd]

Mind the gap

[Paul @pblfc61]

@JonathanPieNews @SykesCharlie British politics is no different!!! Plus @JonathanPieNews is hilarious and sadly spot on! https://t.co/DyXARJuZ4I

[William Hogan @HoganReflects]

AMIA Board endorses American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) statement on Dobbs.

https://t.co/E5mhBCw3an

[Sivaram Arabandi @ontomd]

@jmugan keynote at @DataDayTexas on future of AI with dynamic and composable models including logic and SUMO.

https://t.co/mH3Cb7e4sF

[Linux Handbook @LinuxHandbook]

Linux beginners, remember:

- Find command searches on file name
- Grep command searches on file content

[Melanie Courtot @[email protected] @mcourtot]

New opportunity to work with my team at @OICR_news as Senior Technical PM: https://t.co/uQPFxjuS0G
Welcoming and diverse team of 20 people, working on exciting and impactful projects to cure cancer. Healthy challenging, permanent position, 35h/week, benefits. Please RT!

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

Senator Lana Theis accused me by name of grooming and sexualizing children in an attempt to marginalize me for standing up against her marginalizing the LGBTQ community...in a fundraising email, for herself.

Hate wins when people like me stand by and let it happen. I won't.

[fredtrotter @fredtrotter]

Oracle to buy Cerner https://t.co/r7MlIc5TiL