Calvin Smith
Berkeley, CA (USA)
a Twine neural implant would be nice
I am a happy resident of Berkeley, CA, where I've lived for most of the last 7 years or so, but I have also lived in many other places, including England (where I was born and raised until 12 years old), Sebastopol & Occidental (Sonoma county, northern California), Santa Barbara (southern California), Hong Kong, and Dharamsala, India.
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Calvin's Interests
computer science, mathematics, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, www, semantic web, functional programming, artificial intelligence, pet rats, science, technology, information, learning, books & reading, science fiction, foreign languages, piano & classical music, sf bay area, geneticsCalvin's Twines
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Revisiting FOXP2 and the origins of language : Not Exactly Rocket ScienceToday, a new paper published in Nature adds another chapter to the story of FOXP2, a gene with important roles in speech and language. The FOXP2 story is a fascinating tale that I covered in New Scientist last year. It's one of the pieces I'm proudest of so I'm reprinting it here with kind ...
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NASA'S LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water In Lunar CraterNASA'S LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water In Lunar Crater MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. The ...
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Overcoming Bias : Pretty Pols WinMore evidence suggesting Politics Isn’t About Policy: Beautiful candidates are indeed more likely to be elected, with a one standard deviation increase in beauty associated with a 1 ½– 2 percentage point increase in voteshare. Our results are robust to several specification checks: adding party ...
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Overcoming Bias : Pride Is About StatusWe used 3 different … [ways] to test whether the nonverbal expression of pride sends a functional, automatically perceived signal about a social group member’s increased social status. Results suggest that the pride expression strongly signals high status, and this association cannot be ...
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Overcoming Bias : Pondering PanspermiaPondering Panspermia Over the last few days I’ve neglected my duties to obsessively browse the last seven years of three journals: Astrobiology, International Journal of Astrobiology , and Origins of Life . In the process I’ve become converted to a more expansive version panspermia – life ...
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A vision lostUnfortunately, the most desirable stuff to export is not available in RDF. For example, the /my-items page is not available in RDF. If you try to navigate to /my-items?rdf via a browser or to access it programmatically with an "Accept: application/rdf+xml" header, you'll get an HTTP 406 ...Calvin Smith added to Aasemoon'z Twine 8 months ago
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Official Public Records - Order ConfirmationThis page appears to be broken. Perhaps it is only a valid URL if you submitted something to that URL beforehand?Calvin Smith added to Berkeley, CA 10 months ago
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Locus Online: Vernor Vinge interview excerptsA sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep is in the works!Calvin Smith added to Science Fiction Depot 10 months ago
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Louis Pasteur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPasteur's birthday was yesterday (Dec. 27).Calvin Smith added to Anniversaries: science, art, ideas of the … 10 months ago