When writing African classical music, composers took their inspiration from African traditional instruments while using characteristic melodies &rhythms - sometimes it’s linked to great proverbs! Ufie music signifies dignity & honour, often played at coronation events in Igboland

Look what arrived today! Glad to have this edited volume at hand on the foundations of computation while I work on a book on collective computation + emergence.

Jack Copeland's expertise is the philosophy + history of computing + he serves as Director of the Turing Archive.…

Eric Topol National Academy of Medicine Presumably it is a violation of conduct in medicine:

1. For a doctor to use AI to hack and gather data to make a diagnosis of depression, for example, without the target individual's knowledge or even solicitation of treatment from said (or any) doctor.

2. For a doctor to do…

As Murray once said to me, 'Mediocrity is not a specter. It is a very real threat.'

Let's honor our founders + luminaries--Murray Gell-Mann, Phil Anderson and Cormac McCarthy, among many others--and return to the path they worked so hard to set.

Nina Simone's Sinnerman. . .one of my all time favorite songs.

youtube.com/watch?v=QH3Fx4…

Yuliya Komska 🇺🇦 Cornell University eBay Santa Fe Institute My interest in fashion is part of a more general interest in aesthetics across domains from dress to sports to art to gardens to wilderness to food culinary culture to literature and of course to science. This interest has little—though not nothing—to do with men or sex even when…

Cause nobody asked for it, here are Rick Owens runway looks as mushrooms:

1/ Trucker FW 2003 and boletus luridiformis (scarletina bolete)

Yuliya Komska 🇺🇦 Love your thread. I've been collecting Rick Owens since my time Cornell University in the late 90's. I started w/ consignment on eBay + have always favored his 'mushroom' colors. I did recently acquire a 'pop pink' column dress. . . He's had a tremendous+unmistakable influence on design.

Yuliya Komska 🇺🇦 Cornell University eBay I'm less of a fan of RO's recent stuff. I like the older, more organic collections. A favorite is Trucker FW03. Cormac (McCarthy) + I used to leave in each other's Santa Fe Institute offices marked up copies of Women's Wear Daily—a tradition he started. Could never get him into RO.

In my talk, I referenced an important 1994 interview w/ Daniel Moynihan in Los Angeles Times. He expresses regret that a law he signed created today's homeless problem, & recommends legislators have own version of Hippocratic Oath 'first do no harm.' latimes.com/archives/la-xp…