Pluto needs a server process and simply shows a nice UI, while WebR literally runs R in the browser on your machine with WebAssembly, so it's not the same
It's rather naive to think that newspapers ought to be neutral (or fair) in everything they produce. What kinds of neutral is desirable? There's neutral tone or neutral political bias -- there are many different ways for a newspaper to be or not be neutral.
Assuming neutrality isn't something that we should expect newspapers to value, then I think transparency is an good alternative. A presidential endorsement can be a good thing in that the newspaper staff are being openly transparent about their political bias.
A disclaimer is that I haven't read "Why We Sleep". Nonetheless I recommend the book "Sync" by Steven Strogatz (2003) -- particularly chapter 3 on sleep -- which describes a neat coupling of when we sleep / when we wake up to our body temperature which oscillates with a period of roughly 24 hours. (See figures on pgs 81 and 83.) Much of this discussion on sleep is derived from "isolation" research in the mid 1970's by Elliot Weitzman and Charles Czeisler, experiments in which subjects were isolated from all sense of time including daylight, clocks, and the news, to study their sleep cycles in the absence of external information telling them the time of day.
I'm wondering, does anyone know what are the chances for returning to neurosurgery after an extended hiatus? Person in the video practiced for a decade (edit: nearly a decade of practice, and two decades total including training), I'm sure burnout is common in the field, but I wonder if people that left ever make their way back.
I'm more curious if he could re-specialize in a surgery that he finds more rewarding. I'd think orthopedics could provide very clear and quick resolutions for patients; hip replacement is known as the "surgery of the [previous] century" for having such clear quality of life improvement.
Yeah that was partly my reaction too ... Why not steer your career -- i.e. accept a temporary setback -- instead of walking away from the whole thing?
But it sounds like he already did that once. The first part of the video talked about how he wanted to specialize in brain-machine interfaces, and then he came to the belief that the approach would never work.
It did feel like he had very high expectations for himself. Almost a bit of a hero complex.
But I don't think that's a bad thing. I think we need people like this to tell us the truth sometimes!
It's not the whole truth, but what he's saying is definitely part of the truth.
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As a particular example, I have noticed that doctors and dentists don't talk to each other ... It's not overstating it to say "the system" essentially discourages that. But your body doesn't know anything about these divisions, and I agree with the observation that the mouth is one of the two main openings in the body and is central to health !!
i.e. the condition of your teeth are a good indicator of general health, not just dental health
This relates to the part of the video where he says: "if your body heals, it doesn't just heal the spine -- it heals everything"
It is comforting to know that people can see with what I think of as "blank mind" -- see and think from first principles -- rather than falling back on all the technical jargon that we use to justify ourselves and our jobs
The first time I watched this video I folded a strip of paper into a pentagon as demonstrated. What a surprise! The pentagon looked perfect. With a bit more effort, I next folded a heptagon that looked nearly as good. Haven’t gotten the Miura fold to work yet.
For people who are looking for a book to read and also interested in learning about the immigrant life in Japan, I can highly recommend the historical fiction novel “Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee. It follows the story of multiple generations of a Korean family that moves to Japan sometime after the Japanese annexation of Korea. It describes in detail the struggles mentioned in the above comment across multiple generations of Japanese who don’t have a home in either Korea or Japan. (Another example of such are immigrants from Pyongyang, and returning after the Korean War would mean going back to North Korea.)
We probably think fluently of these mathematical structures in tangible, real world terms. Still it requires some practice translating to the mathematical abstractions, and still further practice thinking in terms of the abstractions altogether. I don’t know how relevant it is that the textbook content can be covered in a single semester.
Though I'm not sure whether they relate this approach to the traditional FSM/PDA/TM models of computing. There seems to be a disconnect between theoretical computer science (which uses the classical models) and more "practical" computer science which uses Boolean and sequential logic circuits as a model of computing .
