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Master Your Mind: Proven Techniques for Altering the Brain

8/21/2020

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Who doesn’t dream of taking full control of their brain, becoming a master of their own mind? For tens of thousands of years, individuals from every culture around the world have claimed the ability to focus their thoughts and brain activity to a state of profound one-pointedness, leading to incredible mental feats, deep states of calm, and numerous enhancements to the brain’s day to day functionality. Whether these people are called gurus, yogis, spiritual masters, or even prophets, the recipe for unlocking the brain’s full potential has traditionally involved methods such as years of sensory deprivation, the use of rare and exotic entheogens, praying to a higher power, or even a mixture of all the above. However, studies have revealed that the ability to change the brain, both biologically and psychologically, is already at our fingertips. You don’t need to be a spiritual guru to start hacking and changing your brain this moment; altering your own brain is far simpler than you might think!
Contents
  • 1 Brain Plasticity
  • 2 Natural Human Development and Brain Change
  • 3 Ways You Can Personally Change Your Brain Right Now
  • 4 Learn a Language
  • 5 Go Read a Book!!
  • 6 Sit Down and Meditate!
  • 7 Just Breathe
  • 8 Future Techniques to Alter the Brain
    • 8.1 Brain Implants
    • 8.2 Brain Uploads
    • 8.3 Adding, Removing, or Altering Memories
    • 8.4 Genetic Manipulation
      • 8.4.1 About Heawon Kang
      • 8.4.2 Share:
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Webinar - Firewalking: A Female Perspective on Breaking Barriers

8/21/2020

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Firewalking: A Female Perspective on Breaking Barriers

​About this webinar
In 2018, 20% of all jobs in technology were held by women (Source: Small Business Trends). Fortune 500 companies with at least 3 women in leading positions saw a 66% increase in ROI (Source: Women Who Tech). In this panel, led by Dr. Dawn Beyer, we will share our unique experiences on how we have bypassed firewalls to enter a male dominated field while opening doors for others to do the same.
 
Live online Aug 26 8:00 pm Italy - Rome 
or after on demand 45 mins

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Presented by
Dr. Dawn Beyer, Jacque Blanchard, Tammy McNeley, and Valerie Underwood


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Mise en Place: Bringing Order to Kitchens and Our Digital Life

8/21/2020

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Mise en Place means "everything in it's place."  Chefs practice this to run their kitchens efficiently.  My father managed his tools in the garage this way.

Then why does our digital life seem so disorganized and disoriented?  

In this NPR article, instructor Lipuma at the Culinary Institute of America (the other CIA),:

"The world is a giant gerbil wheel right now," Lipuma says. "I think if we just became a little bit more organized, a little bit more mise-en-place, [understand] what we really need and only do what we really need, I think we'll have more time" — time for what's important, he says.

"You'll be able to sit down at the table with your kids and actually cook a meal. Get up a little bit earlier so you could breathe. You want to greet the day."

And that sounds marvelous!
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Open Sourcing the Technology Management Playbook

8/21/2020

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I recently published the first open source version of my Technology Management Playbook.  The playbook includes the following information:
  • References
  • Models
  • Equations
  • Quotes
  • Maxims
  • Rules
  • Laws
  • Thinkers

The topics range from how to give a speech to decision making, and approaches for estimating, planning, and managing technology initiatives.

The foundation for much of the Playbook was my doctoral study in Technology Management, Communications, Cloud Computing, and Cybersecurity.

If you have any additions, I would love to hear from you!  @jeffdaniels
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How to Speak by Patrick Winston

8/21/2020

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Are you giving a speech or a talk soon?  
Dr. Patrick Winston has a wonderful lecture on "How to Speak."  It's an hour long and worth your time.
I added my notes below for reference.  Enjoy!
HOW TO SPEAK BY PROF WINSTON#How to start a talk? -Don't start with a joke, start with a promise
#Some techniques
  • Cycle on the topic to reinforce it (3x)
  • Build a fence around our ideas, so audiences don't confuse them with the ideas from others
  • Use verbal punctuation to help audiences re-focus
  • Ask questions to audiences
#Time & place
  • 11am is a good time for the 1st lecture of the day
  • The place should have good lighting condition, should be cased and reasonably populated
#Tools: boards, props and slides
  • Chalks and boards are good for informing and teaching, slides are good for exposing
  • Chalks and boards are good for showing graphics. You can control the speed of talk to help audiences absorb contents, and use your hand to point a target on board
  • Empathetic Mirroring is the technique using props to help audiences think about abstract things using i.e. audiences can feel they are doing the writing and demonstration (blackboard, chalk)
  • Bad slides contain too many pages and too many words
  • Audiences can be tired to switch between slides and speaker if they far away from each other
  • How to create good slides: simplification. Audiences will pay less attention to the speaker if their slides contain too many words
  • Font size shouldn't be large enough for easy reading
  • Lazer pointer reduces the speakers' chance to engage (e.g. eye contact) with audiences, using sign-post in the slides instead
  • We humans only have one language processor (visual, reading, listening). Focus is key.
#Informing and Inspiring
  • Show your passion for the topic
  • An example of making a promise and showing passion
  • How to teach people how to think, provide them with:
    • The stories that they need to know
    • The questions that they need to ask about these stories
    • The mechanism to analyse these stories
    • The ways to put together stories
    • The ways to evaluate reliable stories
#Oral exams, Job Talks
  • People usually fail them because they fail to situate the context and fail to practice
  • Practice your talk with people who don't know you work
#Getting famous
  • Why should you care about getting famous because we want our work to be recognised and we need good communication skills to do that
  • How to get your presentation ideas to be remembered, we need to have: symbol, slogan, surprise, salient (ideas) and (tell a) story
#How to end a talk
  • Some examples on final slides, show what you have done (i.e. contributions) and give audiences the time to read them!
#Final words
  • A joke, his colleagues always end a talk with a joke, so people think they have had fun all the time :)
  • The phrase "thank you" is a weak move, "thank you for listening" is even worse, it suggests that people listen to your talk because their politeness
  • Some great endings without saying "thank you"
  • Salute the audiences
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Using Alexa for Business to Securely Access Program Management Status

8/9/2020

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On #ThisisMyArchitecture, learn how Lockheed Martin worked with AWS to solve several business challenges, including pronunciation issues for acronyms by using Amazon #DynamoDB. https://go.aws/2P2zh64
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Libraries of the Future

8/9/2020

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In "Libraries of the Future" Licklider envisioned a digital library with metadata "tagging" with schemas, access, storage, and retrieval. The year was 1961! https://archive.org/details/librariesoffutur00lick… #NationalBookLoversDay
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Data Wrangling: 101 Sources for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

8/9/2020

 
  1. The 50 Best Free Datasets for Machine Learning, Lionbridge AI
  2. Google Cloud Public Datasets
  3. Machine Learning and AI Datasets, Carnegie Mellon University
  4. Big Data and AI: 30 Amazing and Free Public Data Sources
  5. Awesome Autonomous Vehicles Datasets, Github
  6. Fueling the Gold Rush, The Greatest Public Datasets for AI, StartupGrind
  7. Places to Find Free Datasets for Data Science Projects, Dataquest
  8. The Best Datasets for Natural Language Processing, Gengo AI
  9. Awesome Public Datasets, Github
  10. StatLib Datasets Archive, Carnegie Mellon
  11. Institutional Research and Analysis | Common Datasets
  12. Datasets and Project Suggestions | Andrew W. Moore
  13. Datasets | Machine Learning Repository | MIT
  14. Datasets | MIT Lincoln Laboratory  
  15. Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection | Stanford University
  16. Stanford Common Dataset | Stanford University
  17. Datalab | UC Berkeley  
  18. Exploring Datasets | Data Science at Berkeley
  19. DeepDrive | UC Berkeley
  20. Machine Learning Datasets and Project Ideas — Work on real-time Data Science Projects | Data Flair
  21. Government, State, City, Local, public data sites and portals
  22. Data APIs, Hubs, Marketplaces, Platforms, and Search Engines.
  23.  Google Dataset Search
  24. Appen Open Source Datasets.
  25. AssetMacro, historical data of Macroeconomic Indicators and Market Data.
  26.  Awesome Public Datasets on github, curated by caesar0301.
  27. AWS (Amazon Web Services) Public Data Sets, provides a centralized repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications.
  28. BigML big list of public data sources.
  29. Bioassay data, described in Virtual screening of bioassay data, by Amanda Schierz, J. of Cheminformatics, with 21 Bioassay datasets (Active / Inactive compounds) available for download.
  30. Bitly 1.usa.gov data, anonymized clicks on gov links.
  31. Canada Open Data, pilot project with many government and geospatial datasets.
  32. Causality Workbench data repository.
  33. Corral Big Data repository at Texas Advanced Computing Center, supporting data-centric science.
  34. Credit Risk Analytics Data: a home equity loans credit data set, mortgage loan level data set, Loss Given Default (LGD) data set and corporate ratings data set.
  35. Data Source Handbook, A Guide to Public Data, by Pete Warden, O'Reilly (Jan 2011).
  36. Datacatalogs.org, open government data from US, EU, Canada, CKAN, and more.
  37. Data.gov.uk, publicly available data from UK (also London datastore.)
  38. Data.gov/Education, central guide for education data resources including high-value data sets, data visualization tools, resources for the classroom, applications created from open data and more.
  39. DataMarket, visualize the world's economy, societies, nature, and industries, with 100 million time series from UN, World Bank, Eurostat and other important data providers.
  40. Datamob, public data put to good use.
  41. Data Planet, The largest repository of standardized and structured statistical data, with over 25 billion data points, 4.3 billion datasets, 400+ source databases.
  42. Datasets.co, datasets for data geeks, find and share Machine Learning datasets.
  43. DataSF.org, a clearinghouse of datasets available from the City & County of San Francisco, CA.
  44. DataFerrett, a data mining tool that accesses and manipulates TheDataWeb, a collection of many on-line US Government datasets.
  45.  Delve, Data for Evaluating Learning in Valid Experiments
  46. EconData, thousands of economic time series, produced by a number of US Government agencies.
  47. data.world, discover and share cool data, connect with interesting people, and work together to solve problems faster.
  48. Enron Email Dataset, data from about 150 users, mostly senior management of Enron.
  49. Europeana Data, contains open metadata on 20 million texts, images, videos and sounds gathered by Europeana - the trusted and comprehensive resource for European cultural heritage content.
  50. FEDSTATS, a comprehensive source of US statistics and more
  51. FIMI repository for frequent itemset mining, implementations and datasets.
  52. Financial Data Finder at OSU, a large catalog of financial data sets.
  53. GDELT: The Global Data on Events, Location and Tone, described by Guardian as "a big data history of life, the universe and everything."
  54. GEO (GEO Gene Expression Omnibus), a gene expression/molecular abundance repository supporting MIAME compliant data submissions, and a curated, online resource for gene expression data browsing, query and retrieval.
  55. GeoDa Center, geographical and spatial data.
  56. Google ngrams datasets, text from millions of books scanned by Google.
  57. Grain Market Research, financial data including stocks, futures, etc.
  58. HitCompanies Datasets, comprehensive data on random 10,000 UK companies sampled from HitCompanies, updated automatically using AI/Machine Learning.
  59. ICWSM-2009 dataset contains 44 million blog posts made between August 1st and October 1st, 2008.
  60. Infochimps, an open catalog and marketplace for data. You can share, sell, curate, and download data about anything and everything.
  61. Investor Links, includes financial data
  62. JMP Public featured datasets
  63. Kaggle Datasets.
  64. KDD Cup center, with all data, tasks, and results.
  65. KONECT, the Koblenz Network Collection, with large network datasets of all types in order to perform research in the area of network mining.
  66. Linking Open Data project, at making data freely available to everyone.
  67. LoveTheSales data request page, free access to data for editors and academics to mine stats on the retail industry.
  68.  Lyst Fashion Data Trends, tracking 10 million global fashon searches a month, easily and freely accessible to academics as a valuable resource.
  69. Million Song Dataset
  70. MIT Cancer Genomics gene expression datasets and publications, from MIT Whitehead Center for Genome Research.
  71. ML Data, the data repository of the EU Pascal2 networks.
  72. NASDAQ Data Store, provides access to market data.
  73. National Government Statistical Web Sites, data, reports, statistical yearbooks, press releases, and more from about 70 web sites, including countries from Africa, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
  74. National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), NASA data sets from planetary exploration, space and solar physics, life sciences, astrophysics, and more.
  75.  NetworkRepository: Interactive Data Repository, has many collections of graph and networks from social science, machine learning, scientific computing, and other areas.
  76. Open Data Census, assesses the state of open data around the world.
  77. OpenData from Socrata, access to over 10,000 datasets including business, education, government, and fun.
  78. Open Source Sports, many sports databases, including Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Hockey.
  79. Peter Skomoroch dataset Bookmarks
  80. PubGene(TM) Gene Database and Tools, genomic-related publications database
  81. Quandl, a collaboratively curated portal to millions of financial and economic time-series datasets.
  82. Robert Schiller data on housing, stock market, and more from his book Irrational Exuberance.
  83. SMD: Stanford Microarray Database, stores raw and normalized data from microarray experiments.
  84. Jerry Smith dataset collection, with Finance, Government, Machine Learning, Science, and other data.
  85. SourceForge.net Research Data, includes historic and status statistics on approximately 100,000 projects and over 1 million registered users' activities at the project management web site.
  86. Sports Statistics, with data for Soccer, NBA, NFL, NHL, and more.
  87. StatLib, CMU Datasets Archive.
  88. Time Series Data Library
  89. Vhinny, provides fundamental financial information on the website and in .csv datasets for download.
  90. Visual Analytics Benchmark Repository.
  91. UCI KDD Database Repository for large datasets used in machine learning and knowledge discovery research.
  92. UCI Machine Learning Repository.
  93. UCR Time Series Data Archive, offering datasets, papers, links, and code.
  94. UK Open Postcode Geo, UK/British postcodes with easting, northing, latitude, and longitude.
  95. United States Census Bureau.
  96.  Web Data Commons, structured data from the Common Crawl, the largest public web corpus.
  97. Webhose free datasets
  98. Wikiposit, a (virtual) amalgamation of (mostly financial) data from many different sites, allowing users to merge data from different sources
  99. Wolfram Alpha disease and patient level data.
  100. Yahoo Sandbox datasets, Language, Graph, Ratings, Advertising and Marketing, Competition
  101. Yelp Academic Dataset, all the data and reviews of the 250 closest businesses for 30 universities for students and academics to explore and research
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  • ​Medium, Tomorrow AI
  • KDNuggets Data Set
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