Holly A. Gultiano / is on Nostr

Studying mathematical/theoretical/computational neuroscience & data science in dᶻidᶻəlal̓ič (Seattle) -- more interested in studying nervous systems through abstraction than studying neurons to improve artificial systems

⚧ ND (ASD/mTBIs/cPTSD/ET/probably some more letters) ⬛

Long time musician, now slowly inching my way thru academia as first in my immediate family to go this route. Grew up unschooled, which gave me a heavy autodidactism habit

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2024-08-16 04:38:30

In a 1922 paper called "Natural Selection as a Physical Principle", Alfred Lotka rephrased "survival of the fittest" as simply "persistence of stable forms." Seems like way less loaded of a term. Stable forms persist in biology until they become unstable in a way that makes them unable to persist, then they change and continue as new forms.
10.1073/pnas.8.6.151

2024-06-30 19:00:44

Woke up today before #Pride thinking about the word "orientation," and how my pansexuality feels more like a non-orientable surface, like a Möbius strip (but higher dimensional). I wonder if anyone else thinks this is an apt analogy.

2024-06-05 19:23:24

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@npub1j4v…p4ys Really into it, but I've only read the first book in the series and watched the series. Do you know if the other books get farther into the details of the San-Ti?

2024-06-05 02:31:50

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@npub16w5…dxft I just passed Octavia Butler Ave in Lake Forest Park. I've read Parable of the Sower and Dawn. Any others you'd recommend for the above reasons?

2024-06-05 02:03:02

Looking for sci-fi where the aliens are unlike any being on Earth. I've always been weary of humanoid aliens with misspelled Arabic word names, maybe they're green, or half-human, half-fish people on a planet lightyears away that should have drastically different evolutionary paths. Any recs?

2024-05-24 21:48:27

I have a weirdly good memory for number strings, getting 100% of them right on the WAIS forward digit span test, which the examiner said they never seen before. This is helpful mostly because I can memorize license plates of cars that seem like they're about to hit me while riding my bike, and it's dangerous because I remember all my credit card info and can buy stuff online really fast lol

2024-03-13 00:40:15

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@npub1skv…aky3 I believe I'll always be deeply interested in a lot of different things and weave them together, I 100% can't turn that part of my mind off, nor do I want to. I'm mostly amazed at people's ability to focus on one research topic, even if it's just for a year or two before going to the next, making some really solid work happen. Even DaVinci finished paintings.
When everything's interesting or all the champagne on the shelf looks good, usually the best thing to do is to pick whatever one you're drawn to and go and enjoy it. That's the most important part anyways in "no wrong choices" situations, the unique experience the choice results in.

2024-03-12 23:56:49

In this society that emphasizes competition and mastery to create value, so many people say you have to focus on one thing to be successful, but no one really says how to do that.. When I was younger I heard that advice, I decided to focus on neuroscience, but even within this field there's actually millions of potential things to focus on.
If anyone wants to share their method/s of deciding what to devote serious time to, feel free to reply