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@taylorbeck216

Teacher & Writer. Brain science, Japan.

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New York, New Yorktaylorbeck.contently.comJoined March 2009

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Sara Niksic

@NiksicSara

Aug 8

Canticum Megaptearae II - The Evolution ~ OUT NOW!!! 🥳🎶🐳🌊💙 Follow the links to listen & support: innerchildmusic.bandcamp.com/album/canticum innerchildmusic.bandcamp.com/album/canticum #scicomm #sciart #electronicmusic #remix #Whales #evolution #music #art #Science #Culture

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On minds of amoebas, etc. A great manifesto by former journalist now philosopher of science Pamela Lyon.

aeon.co

The study of the mind needs a Copernican shift in perspective | Aeon Essays

Cognition did not appear out of nowhere in ‘higher’ animals but goes back millions, perhaps billions, of years

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SAINT

@saint

Nov 5, 2021

Kanye West regarding his relationship with Kim Kardashian on “Drink Champs” “We not even divorced”

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Dr. Debby Sneed

@debscavator

Nov 10, 2021

Sometimes people say we don't have any ancient literature by a disabled person, but I just wanna name a few, the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Feel free to add more!

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Michael Levin

@drmichaellevin

Nov 10, 2021

It's way more than double, but still he was on to a deep truth. How awesome would it be to bring those brilliant, prescient people back, to current day, with a bootcamp on the use of modern tools (with or without the baggage of recent theory) and let them loose.

Interesting story.

A Stranger Looked Like My Twin. That Was Just the Beginning.

How a family secret was unraveled by 23andMe.

Taylor Beck

@taylorbeck216

Oct 27, 2021

Only in context does a cell’s behavior have meaning. Existentialism for embryos: we must imagine that Sisyphus was happy. From the prolific bio-hacker

@drmichaellevin

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Michael Levin

@drmichaellevin

· Oct 27, 2021

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An honour to have a writer and illustrator as talented as

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and

@AmeyZhang

telling the story of some of our research on visual cognition and machine learning. Many thanks to both!

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Princeton CS

@PrincetonCS

Oct 25, 2021

To See Like A Human: New research from Princeton's

@cocosci_lab

uses #MachineLearning to study human visual cognition.

@RMBattleday

@joshuacpeterson cs.princeton.edu/news/to-see-li article by

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illustrations by

@AmeyZhang

Illustration in shades of blue. Outlines of different four legged mammals in a forest ranging from dog to bear.

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Taylor Beck

@taylorbeck216

Oct 25, 2021

On Aristotle & AI. My latest, featuring the fascinating work of

@RMBattleday

& wild art by my friend & collaborator

@AmeyZhang

cs.princeton.edu/news/to-see-li

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Carl Erik Fisher, MD

@DrCarlErik

Oct 13, 2021

Announcing some big news: I’ve written my first book, THE URGE: OUR HISTORY OF ADDICTION, an intellectual and cultural history interwoven with my own experiences as an addiction psychiatrist at Columbia and as someone in recovery myself.

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Michael Levin

@drmichaellevin

Oct 8, 2021

#book 1991

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@taylorbeck216

Apr 1, 2021

We categorize; we see analogies everywhere. Can machines learn to do this too?

@RMBattleday

thinks so & he’s on his way to proving it. Woah.

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Ruairidh Battleday

@RMBattleday

· Mar 31, 2021

Can convolutional neural networks be used to extend traditional cognitive models? For natural images, recent studies show they can. In doing so, we find new ways to improve deep learning. With @joshuacpeterson, @cocosci_lab in @NYASciences 1/7 Out here: doi.org/10.1111/nyas.1

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Taylor Beck

@taylorbeck216

Dec 17, 2020

Amoeba university!

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Sam Gershman

@gershbrain

· Dec 14, 2020

Can unicellular organisms learn? We argue yes: gershmanlab.com/pubs/cell_lear joint work with Petra Balbi, Randy Gallistel, and Jeremy Gunawardena, in press at @eLife. In the process, we try to resurrect the neglected contributions of Beatrice Gelber.

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Tim Kaine

@timkaine

Nov 11, 2020

Attempting to undermine a peaceful transition of power is what dictators do. Anyone who’s saying it’s normal has not paid attention to past transitions. This is not normal. The GOP ought to put our country ahead of their boss’s bruised ego.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

Nov 10, 2020

For the Dems who think I’m just being a selfish, divisive bombthrower from a deep blue seat, maybe you’ll listen to Doug Jones in Alabama when he says the same thing ⬇️

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Meredith Shiner

@meredithshiner

· Nov 10, 2020

yo if @AOC AND @DougJones are saying the same thing, maybe the issue with Democrats’ campaign operations is not ideological but structural. politico.com/news/2020/11/1

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How we got funny from apes.

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Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI

@DivIntelligence

· Sep 23, 2020

Fascinating new review paper by DISI Co-Director Erica Cartmill and colleagues! twitter.com/johanna_eckert…

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Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI

@DivIntelligence

Sep 23, 2020

Fascinating new review paper by DISI Co-Director Erica Cartmill and colleagues!

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Johanna Eckert

@johanna_eckert

· Sep 23, 2020

Do #apes have a sense of humor? Erica Cartmill, @ScienceSquil, and I wrote an open-access review on playful teasing behavior in nonhuman primates and its implications for theory of mind and the evolution of humor royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs

Taylor Beck

@taylorbeck216

Sep 15, 2020

Great video on the alien bacteria that may be living in Venus’ clouds m.youtube.com/watch?v=dCXF8F

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Los Angeles Review of Books

@LAReviewofBooks

· Sep 5, 2020

"This is how differences between cousins like us get created and sustained." Taylor Beck reflects on Keynes, racial inequality, and BLM, through conversations with his cousin. ow.ly/Uf1550Bhgdu

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Los Angeles Review of Books

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"This is how differences between cousins like us get created and sustained." Taylor Beck reflects on Keynes, racial inequality, and BLM, through conversations with his cousin. ow.ly/Uf1550Bhgdu

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Taylor Beck

@taylorbeck216

Sep 9, 2020

“And it is wealth, a hereditary accident helpful to white people, harmful to black, that needs to change.” My latest for #lareviewofbooks

lareviewofbooks.org

Cousins Like Us: Black Lives and John Maynard Keynes

Taylor Beck, a white writer, is discovered by his black cousin; they are both descended from the same slave owner....

Taylor Beck

@taylorbeck216

Sep 9, 2020

“And it is wealth, a hereditary accident helpful to white people, harmful to black, that needs to change.” My latest for #lareviewofbooks

lareviewofbooks.org

Cousins Like Us: Black Lives and John Maynard Keynes

Taylor Beck, a white writer, is discovered by his black cousin; they are both descended from the same slave owner....

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Scott Simon

@nprscottsimon

Sep 9, 2020

Non-political observation: I find it discouraging both

@realDonaldTrump

and

@JoeBiden

boast about their vigor to go up or down stairs. Truly, who cares? Franklin D. Roosevelt had to be carried up and down stairs, and I wonder how many think someone like him is who we need now.

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Los Angeles Review of Books

@LAReviewofBooks

Sep 5, 2020

"This is how differences between cousins like us get created and sustained." Taylor Beck reflects on Keynes, racial inequality, and BLM, through conversations with his cousin. ow.ly/Uf1550Bhgdu

Taylor Beck

@taylorbeck216

Sep 8, 2020

"The writing that made Keynes famous embodies a duality: cold mathematics in the service of social good.” my latest

@LAReviewofBooks

lareviewofbooks.org

Cousins Like Us: Black Lives and John Maynard Keynes

Taylor Beck, a white writer, is discovered by his black cousin; they are both descended from the same slave owner....

Taylor Beck

@taylorbeck216

Sep 4, 2020

“This is how differences between cousins like us get created and sustained.” My latest for #lareviewofbooks

lareviewofbooks.org

Cousins Like Us: Black Lives and John Maynard Keynes

Taylor Beck, a white writer, is discovered by his black cousin; they are both descended from the same slave owner....

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Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI

@DivIntelligence

Jul 29, 2020

Featuring a star-studded cast of 2019 & 2020 DISI storytellers!

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Many Minds podcast

@ManyMindsPod

· Jul 29, 2020

Episode 12 is now live! What sparks people's interest in minds? It may be facts or findings. But often these sparks seem to come from outside of science—from fiction or art. For this "mini", we asked artists/writers what kindled their interest in minds. manyminds.libsyn.com/what-kindled-y

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Taylor Beck

@taylorbeck216

Mar 24, 2020

Revenge of the nerds! Here’s where fighting covid19 gets fun, if you liked psych better than finance. To predict virus & markets, data needs to get creative.

wired.co.uk

Hidden data is revealing the true scale of the coronavirus outbreak

Satellite images, internet speed and traffic information tell a whole new story about Covid-19

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Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI

@DivIntelligence

Dec 16, 2019

"Humanity has built itself yet another set of wings. Now we’ll try, once again, not to fly too close to the sun." Engaging article by 2019 DISI storyteller,

@taylorbeck216

alumni.berkeley.edu

Meet CRISPR: Humanity’s Shiny New Tool - Cal Alumni Association

A technology we took from bacteria is poised to transform our world. One of biology’s wilder facts is that we’re all family. You and me, sure, but also me and a mushroom. Triceratops shared genes...

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California Magazine

@californiamag

Dec 20, 2019

#Bestof2019: #6 You’ve heard about it on the radio, you’ve seen headlines raving about its potential in agriculture and life-saving medical treatments...But what is #CRISPR anyway? And why is it such a big deal? Allow us to explain. bit.ly/34MfBbH 👏👏👏

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alumni.berkeley.edu

Meet CRISPR: Humanity’s Shiny New Tool - Cal Alumni Association

Gene editing is trippy stuff. My latest at

@californiamag

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Meet CRISPR: Humanity’s Shiny New Tool - Cal Alumni Association

Taylor Beck

@taylorbeck216

Oct 23, 2019

Awesome!

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Steve Stewart-Williams

@SteveStuWill

· Oct 22, 2019

Wow, this is cool: The duck-rabbit illusion apparently works on Google Cloud Vision. The system interprets it one way or the other, depending on the orientation of the image.

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Finchelstein

@FinchelsteinF

Jun 18, 2019

As historian of fascism & Holocaust, I would also call these centers concentrations camps. As a Jewish person who lost family in Holocaust, I regret that some Republicans use memory of the Holocaust to defend racist policies of trumpism.

@aoc

is right. wapo.st/2WTq6v1?tid=ss

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