Posted in learnin' stuff, links, web on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Scholarpedia is in general a good idea. I’m liking the site at the moment as it has some fairly nice information on computational neuroscience and computational intelligence..
I worry that this kind of thing will saturate very quickly due to not enough content added in enough areas for the idea to reach critical mass. However [...]
Posted in controversial..., psychological ponderings, transhumanism on May 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Is it possible to approximate (to some extent or other) a modern day Polymath? I for one would certainly like to, yet I’ve been told on several occasions that this is not possible. Specifically, that the extent of human knowledge is fundamentally too broad and deep for any one human to comprehend. And yes, I [...]
Posted in BCI, cake, quantum computing on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just attended a coffee and cake morning (yes I have a radar for cake) at the Centre for Systems Biology with a theme of HPC. The general topic of the meeting was to discuss the use of the BlueBEAR cluster (1500 core Birmingham cluster) and other HPC centres for biological, microbiological, molecular and genetic [...]
Posted in research blogging on May 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This is so true:
FINANCING SCIENCE – Needed: Professional Research Technicians: Government Funding Is Up, But Professionalism Still Suffers
(via Science Progress)
Often grants cover salaries for postdoc time, PhD student time and tenured academic staff hours. But what we need more often than not (especially in the experimental scenario) are skilled technicians, not just workshop technicians but [...]
Posted in psychological ponderings, transhumanism on May 4, 2009 | 10 Comments »
On saturday I attended a UKH+ (UK Transhumanist Association) meeting. It was really great to meet some like-minded people there.
The talk was about “Cryonics in the UK: Reality and Vision”. I never really realised before that there is so much of a UK effort in this area. It was also rather relevant given that [...]
