Move the human story forward!™ Founder & CEO Andrea Macdonald #ideaxme #movethehumanstoryforward #science #tech #arts #space #health #inspire #richconnectedness

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1 May 2024
Episode 2, Level 1 of #ideaXme's Demystifying AI series.Learn about AI in simple steps. Watch & subscribe now: youtube.com/playlist? list=PLiznoHgKclrZIkUyp8XtJl8V6-3CmJwc_&si=6v_AcCCUcrqDdvBo With thanks to AI advisors @stevenumbrello and @nitendrar #ai #aieducation #learnai
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Don’t try easy things, try hard things. We support charitable projects with a high probability of failure because they have the greatest probability of significant impact. #PermissionToFail #STEM #conservation #ECD #philanthropy
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Everyone deserves the opportunity to study. That's why we’re actively working to break down barriers, particularly in the STEM fields, by supporting projects that focus on early childhood development. Our aim: provide tools to improve education quality and increase access.
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29 May 2024
So much misunderstanding of this comment! Here is a list of things I am *NOT* saying: - you need a PhD to do Science. You don't. A PhD teaches you to do research, but you can learn that on your own (though it's much easier with a mentor). - you need to get papers accepted by a journal or conference to publish: you don't. You can just post it in ArXiv.org . Many influential papers never went through the formal peer review process, or went through it after they became influential. - engineering is not science: it can be, depending on your methodology. I'm a scientist *and* an engineer. These activities are complementary and need each other. - science requires formal papers: it doesn't. A clear explanation on a website and a piece of code on a public repo will do. What I *AM* saying is that science progresses through the collision of ideas, verification, analysis, reproduction, and improvements. If you don't publish your research *in some way* your research will likely have no impact.

28 May 2024
To qualify as Science a piece of research must be correct and reproducible. To be correct and reproducible, it must be described in sufficient details in a publication. To be 'published' (to receive a seal of approval) the publication must be checked for correctness by reviewers. To be reproduced, the publication must be widely available to the community and sufficiently interesting. If you do research and don't publish, it's not Science. Without peer review and reproducibility, chances are your methodology was flawed and you fooled yourself into thinking you did something great. No one will ever hear about your work. No one will pick it up and build on top of it. No one will build new technology and products with it. Your work will have been in vain. You'll die bitter and forgotten. If you never published your research but somehow developed it into a product, you might die rich. But you'll still be a bit bitter and largely forgotten.
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For @UnreportedWorld, Amelia Jenne follows the conservationists risking their lives to stop Romania’s illegal logging business.
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4 Apr 2024
Ep 1, Level 1 of ideaXme's Demystifying AI Series. Subscribe to learn about AI - watch short videos from beginner➡️advanced levels. #ai advisors; Dan Mapes @VERSESAI, @stevenumbrello author Technology #Ethics & @nitendrar SVP & Hd AI Garage Mastercard. youtu.be/M6_FPRbO1Gk?si=dVQj…

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25 Mar 2024
These simple "rules" will help you build a better life: 1. If you're avoiding something hard, remind yourself how you'll feel after doing it. 2. Always do what you say you're going to do. 3. When you think something nice about someone, tell them right then. 4. Go for a 15 minute walk every morning and leave your phone at home. 5. Reread your favorite books every single year (your experience with the book will change as you do). 6. Every now and then, do something crazy that you'll be excited to tell your grandkids about someday. 7. Tell your partner one thing you appreciate about them every single day. 8. Take yourself out for a meal alone once each month. 9. If you're trying to learn something new, attempt to teach it to a friend or family member. 10. If someone puts down your accomplishments, cut them out of your life immediately (and if you can't do that, at least don't give them your energy).
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Given that short AGI timelines may be possible, we're regranting $1M per year for supporting under-explored approaches to this area, in the areas of Cryptography/Security, Neurotech (WBE/Lofi), and Multipolar Approaches.Information and to apply: foresight.org/ai-safety
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18 Mar 2024
Hi I am ideaXme's AI Avatar! Welcome to ideaXme's Demystifying AI series. cc @stevenumbrello Ethics of AI expert advisor on this series. Subscribe: youtube.com/@ideaXme?si=s5#demystifyingai #ai #contentcreatedbyhumans #ideaXme #ideaXmeAIAvatar #movethehumanstoryforward
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We don't leave our doors and windows wide open when we go out because 'thieves will find a way in, anyway.' Strangely, I've never heard anyone say 'let's stop background checking teachers, because paedophiles will always find a way to interfere with kids.' When men - all men, however they identify - are banned from women's spaces, those who disregard the ban can be challenged, inside the space and out. They mark themselves out as suspicious by breaking a rule decent men respect. Nobody claims the rule has successfully kept out every single man who wants to commit voyeurism or sexual assault. What we're saying is that allowing males into female only spaces on the basis of their claim to be a women removes an obstacle that has hitherto been *proven* to increase women and girls' safety. 88% of sexual crimes committed in changing/locker rooms happen in those that are unisex. Why? Because malign men don't have to justify their presence near unclothed women and girls. They can't be challenged. They don't stand out. This is obvious to all but the terminally naive. It is too seldom noted that every single man arguing for the removal of single sex spaces is arguing for his *own* right to enter those spaces. I know from experience that they feign outrage when this point is put to them, gibbering that they're just being good, virtuous progressives who're standing up for trans women, that they *personally* won't be availing themselves of the new opportunities afforded them. The fact remains that instead of calling out male violence against trans women, and working to make male spaces safer, these men have thrown their energy into the fight to remove women's and girls' rights to safety, privacy and dignity. And if anyone genuinely believes none of these enthusiastic heterosexual, non-trans-identified male 'allies' aren't personally enthralled by the idea of women and girls losing basic protections, I have several bridges to sell you.
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After troubleshooting communications, flight controllers have confirmed Odysseus is upright and starting to send data. Right now, we are working to downlink the first images from the lunar surface.
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22 Feb 2024
LIVE NOW: NASA science is landing on the Moon aboard @Int_Machines’ uncrewed Nova-C lander, named Odysseus. This is the first time an American commercial lunar lander has made it to orbit around the Moon. x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWYvdX…
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22 Feb 2024
Your order was delivered… to the Moon! 📦 @Int_Machines' uncrewed lunar lander landed at 6:23pm ET (2323 UTC), bringing NASA science to the Moon's surface. These instruments will prepare us for future human exploration of the Moon under #Artemis.
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20 Feb 2024
Glad to be hosting a 3-episode miniseries on the ethics of technology with @ideaxm - subscribe to their YouTube channel to watch the following episode. @politybooks youtu.be/UIw-W93UBIs?si=1oeY…
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🛠️ Engineers, philosophers, policymakers – your blueprint for ethical technology design is here! “Technology Ethics” (@politybooks) is available for pre-order: shorturl.at/iO689 Dive into the conversation. #EngineeringEthics #TechPolicy
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Cancer evolution is mathematical – how random processes and epigenetics can explain why tumor cells shape-shift, metastasize & resist treatments buff.ly/3EMwJDj @ConversationUS by Andrew Feinberg @JohnsHopkins #BioTech #AI Cc @IrmaRaste @ahier @EvanKirstel @3itcom
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