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@plotbot2015

Your Friendly Neighborhood Neuroscientist

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plotbot2015
@plotbot2015 Oct 22, 2018, 2:19 PM UTC

PlotBot: Year 3 Review

Once again, life got in the way of Steemit. My wife had a heart attack in February, and that put quite a damper on blogging. Most of the difficulty came not from the event itself but from the fallout…

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plotbot2015
@plotbot2015 Mar 7, 2018, 6:59 PM UTC

Hybrid Forecasting -- the Legal Stuff

This is the consent form I had to sign to enter the study on hybrid forecasting, which I originally described here. Note that they do not promise to protect my identity, and they do not require me to…

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plotbot2015
@plotbot2015 Mar 6, 2018, 11:53 PM UTC

Crowdsourced metadata via cryptocurrency

I've been reading this book: [image link] A full review will have to wait, but the essence of the book is that markets run on information. Importantly, money is only one form of information, and as t…

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plotbot2015
@plotbot2015 Mar 2, 2018, 11:17 PM UTC

In MY day ...

We didn't have school shootings. We had bomb threats, and we liked it that way. [image link to nbc.com] I'm not kidding, either. Several times a year, never on a rainy day that I can remember, some d…

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plotbot2015
@plotbot2015 Mar 2, 2018, 3:19 PM UTC

Capital Connects 2018 [contest]

This 15-year old business pitch competition is probably the oldest one in the Triad. According to WRAL's TechWire. Capital Connects provides education opportunities for investors and connections to e…

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plotbot2015
@plotbot2015 Feb 23, 2018, 9:06 PM UTC

Hybrid Forecasting of GeoPolitical Events

This is a project by IARPA (like DARPA but for the intelligence community) where they are attempting to combine crowdsourcing with machine learning. https://www.hybridforecasting.com/?utm_medium=GBRP…

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plotbot2015
@plotbot2015 Feb 19, 2018, 6:44 PM UTC

March for Science Triad fundraising series

"In 2017, more than one million people around the world gathered together in the largest event for science advocacy in history. In 2018, we unite again to hold our elected and appointed officials res…

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plotbot2015
@plotbot2015 Feb 19, 2018, 9:45 AM UTC

Our aging election infrastructure

I'm helping to organize our local March for Science (in fact later this week I'm going to launch a Steemit fundraising page for that nonpartisan event). Yesterday's post about voter turnout in young…

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plotbot2015
@plotbot2015 Feb 19, 2018, 2:14 AM UTC

Trek-nicolor

I grew up with a black and white television set, so I was completely oblivious to that famous switch in The Wizard of Oz between sepia Kansas and the Technicolor dream world. The yellow brick road, t…

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plotbot2015
@plotbot2015 Feb 18, 2018, 12:09 AM UTC

What if high schoolers could VOTE?

After this post on the minor moral panic at my kid's school a couple days ago, I noticed this action being planned. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/2018/02/join-us-day-action-stop-gun-violence-…

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