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A recent talk: 1 hr for an audience into data science, software, and information in the context of biomedicine
Here is a talk I gave to an audience working on data science approaches to biomedical discoveries. They were into computer science, and concepts related to software in biology and how to infer interventions and control mechanisms.
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A few quotes on top of my nature photos:
A few select science and philosophy related quotes on a background of an image.
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A taxonomy of my public material: what goes where and why
A brief breakdown of the public material I make available and what exists at each location.
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Starter Pack: introductory materials to my lab’s academic work
A set of introductory links for people to begin get familiar with the work that my lab and I do.
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Cancer and Cellular Voltage: the amazing slide I never show anymore
I no longer use this amazing slide showing how cell voltage (resting potential) distinguishes between plastic, proliferative cells and quiescent mature ones. It’s true, but it distracts from the bigger picture of bioelectricity as a collective organ-wide phenomenon.
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A Short Dialog between an Applicant who doesn’t believe in free will and a hiring manager at a software company
A humorous dialog (written by GPT-4 and I) about how a determinist (doesn’t believe in free will because of the closure of physics and chemistry) would fare at a job interview in a software company.
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But Where is the Memory?! A Discussion of Training Gene-regulatory Networks and its Implications
A video and discussion of where memory is stored when networks are trained without changes in structure. Implications for memory and basal cognition, and the difference between 1st and 3rd person access to a memory medium.
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My Reference lists: whole Endnote library and bibliography on bioelectromagnetics
A downloadable BibTex export of my Endnote library (23,700 references) and a fairly complete list of work on bioelectromagnetics up to about 2010.
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Some Favorite Quotes
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. — Max Planck To reconcile those who hope to explain mechanically the formation of … an animal…
