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Jing Ouyang, co-founder and chief growth officer of Patchwork Health discusses the political pressure on health services to streamline operations, the difficulty in digitising NHS clinics and leaving a career as a medical doctor to launch a tech startup. Patchwork Health is a digital platform for clinics to manage day-to-day operations, organise workflows and reduce agency spending. Ouyang spent years as a resident doctor where he saw first hand the manual processes and bureaucracy needlessly complicating matters. He co-founded Patchwork with another former NHS doctor to directly address the problems the founders had faced in their health careers.
In today's podcast we were delighted to be joined by the presenters of the top scientific abstracts for the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Nurses Association (HPNA). Eric and I interviewed these presenters at the meeting on Thursday (before the pub crawl, thankfully). On Saturday, they formally presented their abstracts during the plenary session, followed by a wonderful question and answer session with Hillary Lum doing a terrific job in the role of podcast host moderator. Our three guests were Marie Bakitas, who conducted a trial of tele/video palliative care for Black and White inpatients with serious illness hospitalized in the rural south; Yael Shenker, for a trial of patient-directed Prepare-for-your-care vs. facilitated Respecting Choices style advance care planning interventions; and, Na Ouyang, who studied the relationship between prognostic communication and prolonged grief among the parents of children who died from cancer. From just the abstracts we had so many questions. We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Marie's tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Does every institution need to get a community advisory board to tailor their rural tele-palliative care initiative (or geriatrics intervention) to the local communities served? Who would/should be on that board? How to be sensitive to the risks of stereotyping based on recommendations from the few members of the board to the many heterogeneous patients served? Advance care planning has taken a beating. For the purposes of a thought exercise, no matter what you believe, let's assume that there are clear important benefits. Based on the results of Yael's study, should resources be allocated to resource intensive nurse facilitated sessions (Respecting Choices), which had significantly better engagement, or to low resource intensive patient-facing materials (Prepare), which had significantly less engagement but still plenty of engagement (e.g. 75% vs 61% advance directive completion)? One interpretation of Na's study is that clinicians can lean on the high levels of trust and high ratings of communication to engage with parents of children with cancer about prognosis. Another interpretation is that clinicians avoided telling the parents prognosis in order to bolster their ratings of trust and communication quality. Which is it? Bonus: Simon says he composed the song Sounds of Silence in a dark echoing bathroom about his concerns that people had stopped listening to each other in the 1960s (still resonates, right?). Garfunkel says Simon was writing about Garfunklel's friend and college roomate Sandy, who was blind. Who's got the right of it? Enjoy! -Alex Smith
Over the past few years, we've heard a lot about artificial intelligence and the algorithms that support public policy, decision making and resource allocations. By processing reams of presumably neutral data, the algorithms are supposed to produce unbiased results. But we've also heard concerns about the algorithms themselves: what unrecognized assumptions go into their construction and how they can produce different outcomes depending on programmer choices about the data that goes into them. Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Professor David Rehkopf of the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Derek Ouyang, Executive Director of City Systems and Senior Research Manager in Stanford University's Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab. We'll be taking about what algorithms are, how they are used to promote environmental justice and guide public funding for disadvantaged communities, and why they can produce different results depending on what goes into them and what comes out.
Current text generators, such as ChatGPT, are highly unreliable, difficult to use effectively, unable to do many things we might want them to, and extremely expensive to develop and run. These defects are inherent in their underlying technology. Quite different methods could plausibly remedy all these defects. Would that be good, or bad? https://betterwithout.ai/better-text-generators John McCarthy's paper “Programs with common sense”: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/mcc59/mcc59.html Harry Frankfurt, "On Bullshit": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001EQ4OJW/?tag=meaningness-20 Petroni et al., “Language Models as Knowledge Bases?": https://aclanthology.org/D19-1250/ Gwern Branwen, “The Scaling Hypothesis”: gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis Rich Sutton's “Bitter Lesson”: www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html Guu et al.'s “Retrieval augmented language model pre-training” (REALM): http://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/guu20a/guu20a.pdf Borgeaud et al.'s “Improving language models by retrieving from trillions of tokens” (RETRO): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.04426.pdf Izacard et al., “Few-shot Learning with Retrieval Augmented Language Models”: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.03299.pdf Chirag Shah and Emily M. Bender, “Situating Search”: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366.3505816 David Chapman's original version of the proposal he puts forth in this episode: twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1576195630891819008 Lan et al. “Copy Is All You Need”: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06962 Mitchell A. Gordon's “RETRO Is Blazingly Fast”: https://mitchgordon.me/ml/2022/07/01/retro-is-blazing.html Min et al.'s “Silo Language Models”: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.04430.pdf W. Daniel Hillis, The Connection Machine, 1986: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262081571/?tag=meaningness-20 Ouyang et al., “Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback”: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02155 Ronen Eldan and Yuanzhi Li, “TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?”: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.07759.pdf Li et al., “Textbooks Are All You Need II: phi-1.5 technical report”: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05463 Henderson et al., “Foundation Models and Fair Use”: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15715 Authors Guild v. Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild%2C_Inc._v._Google%2C_Inc. Abhishek Nagaraj and Imke Reimers, “Digitization and the Market for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project”: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20210702 You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold Original music by Kevin MacLeod. This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.
Helen Ouyang is an emergency physician, associate professor at Columbia University, and contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. She is also a fellow at the Type Media Center. She has written for The Atlantic, Harper's, Los Angeles Times, New York, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. Her writing has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and funded by The Pulitzer Center. Join us for this important conversation about the state of our nation's healthcare and insurance industries. Got somethin' to say?! Email us at BackroomAndy@gmail.com Leave us a message: 845-307-7446 Twitter: @AndyOstroy Produced by Andy Ostroy, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff Design by Cricket Lengyel
In this episode of NEJM AI Grand Rounds, hosts Raj Manrai and Andy Beam interview Dr. David Ouyang, a cardiologist and AI researcher at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The conversation explores Ouyang's journey from medical training to AI research and entrepreneurship, his groundbreaking work in applying AI to cardiology imaging, and the challenges of bringing AI innovations from academia to clinical practice. Ouyang discusses his experience conducting randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for AI algorithms in echocardiography, the process of commercializing research through Y Combinator, and the hurdles in reimbursement for AI-based medical devices. The episode also delves into the future of AI in cardiology, the importance of clinician involvement in AI development, and the potential impact of large language models (LLMs) on medical practice. Ouyang shares insights on balancing clinical value with business considerations in health care AI and offers advice for researchers looking to conduct clinical trials for AI technologies. Transcript.
ParentingAces - The Junior Tennis and College Tennis Podcast
Welcome to Season 13 Episode 38 of the ParentingAces Podcast, a proud member of the Tennis Channel Podcast Network. This week, we take an inside look at Intennse, a new team format that was recently showcased as a junior event in the Atlanta area. Lisa chats with two of the players, Sadira Ouyang and Connor Mowrey, as well as their parents about their experience. NOTE: To watch/listen to our earlier podcast with Intennse (aka Time Tennis) founders, go to https://parentingaces.com/podcasts/its-time-for-time-tennis-ft-charles-allen-yannick-yoshizawa/ Intennse (formerly known as Time Tennis) is a new way to compete in our sport. Per the Atlanta event website, 18 participants (9 boys and 9 girls) were selected by WTN to compete in this event. Participants were divided into 3 teams of 3 boys and 3 girls; each team had a professional coach who was present on court during play. There were round robins in the categories of Boys' singles, Girls' singles and Mixed Doubles. Each team played each other once in each category and accumulated points. The winning team received medals and a trophy. Players from all teams will be invited to attend or participate in the Intennse college level rivalry event to be held October 26th. Matches consisted of two 15 minute halves; there was no second serve and the server continued serving as long as they held serve. Like college matches, lets were played; clean winners count two points, and teams can take one time out and make one substitution per half. Live coaching was allowed. Here is what the one-day event looked like, schedule-wise: 09:00 - 10:00. Arrival 10:00 - 10:30. Presentation / Rules and Schedule overview 10:30 - 10:45 Coaches introduction and Announcement of Teams 10:45 - 11:30 Teams warm up / practice and discuss strategy 11:30 - 12:00. Break 12:00. A Boys v. B Boys 12:30. B Girls v C Girls 01:00. C Mixed v A Mixed 01:30. B Boys v C Boys 02:00. A Girls v B Girls 02:30. C Mixed v B Mixed 03:00. A Boys v C Boy 03:30. C Girls v A Girls 04:00. A Mixed v B Mixed 04:30 Winner Presentations & Prizes 05:00 After Party As you'll hear from both families, this is a format they'd like to see included as a regular option on the junior competition calendar. If you'd like more information on Intennse and how to bring an event to your community, visit their website at https://news.intennse.com/ or reach out to Charles Allen at charles@intennse.com. Their social media channels will be live very soon. And don't forget to register for our upcoming trip to Spain! More info at https://parentingaces.com/articles/join-us-for-10-days-in-spain/. If you're so inclined, please share this – and all our episodes! – with your fellow tennis players, parents, and coaches. You can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or via your favorite podcast app. Please be sure to check out our logo'd merch as well as our a la carte personal consultations in our online shop. CREDITS Intro & Outro Music: Morgan Stone aka STØNE Audio & Video Editing: Lisa Stone Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Follow Jonathan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tumtumsong/ Follow Christy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christyouyang_/ Hi everyone This episode has been planned since Season 1 and I am so honored and thrilled to share this episode with the conversation with Christy Ouyang. As, I was listening through the whole edit, one thing stood out to me and that is that it really don't matter on comparing on everyone's faith walk with Christ. What that means is that I think typically in some point in your walk with Christ, you come across with people who are also in their walk with God but may have disagreements but yet have a fruitful conversation. Each episode is definitely always about learning yet sharing the gospel and how God has impacted myself or the guest. So enjoy, and I catch y'all next time :) As always for Season 2, we are inspired by this scripture: Matthew 5:9 " Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the Children of God" See you all soon and catch you August 3rd at 8PM!!! Please don't forget to like and subscribe :) 00:00 start 1:08 intro 7:00 Finding God in Business 12:30 Christy Going Back Home 18:00 Christy's Journey on her Relationship with God 21:30 What is a Godly Centered Relationship? 36:00 What is a Testimony? 45:00 Christy's Relationship 58:00 What is God Showing Christy Through Relationships? 01:12:40 Christy First Memory of Her Dad 01:15:00 Understanding Our Parents 01:25:00 End TO WATCH THE PODCAST ON YOUTUBE: / @jonathanysong For business inquiries / Ad placement: - email: latethoughtspod@gmail.com Check The Team Instagram Out: - Host/Producer: @jonathanysongg - Sound Operator: @nahtand_ - Social Media Manager: @aeris00 - Videographer: @zeke.barrera | @nahtand_ | @alyssashealy - Editor: @tumtumsong | @zeke.barrera To listen to this podcast, check it out on: - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AWYKLt.... - Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Music by Epidemic Sounds Link: https://www.epidemicsound.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/late-thoughts/support
In this episode, a conversation with Ouyang Yu, author, translator, academic, and renowned poet. Ouyang Yu's first collection of stories in English, The White Cockatoo Flowers, is both assured and tender and at times surprisingly funny. It includes stories set in China and Australia that revel in the truth and candour of lived experience and the joys and constraints of language. In this book Ouyang Yu deftly peels back the layers on what it means to move from one culture to another, and what it means to be a writer, a husband, a parent and a stranger on foreign and familiar ground. Ouyang Yu was joined in conversation by Alice Pung, a writer and editor whose books include the memoirs Unpolished Gem, Her Father's Daughter, and the novel Laurinda.
‘The Cryptic Clue' is a crime novel which puts capable older women in the spotlight and brings laughs about attitudes and happenings from the not so distant past. This is another Tea Ladies mystery written by Amanda Hampson.Ouyang Yu explores the dissonance between cultures which can lead to both comic outcomes and even a sense of loss in his collection of stories, 'The White Cockatoo Flowers'.
Tori and Mabelle talk with award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Anna Ouyang Moench, about grad school, motherhood, and her incredible catalog of plays. Anna shares about juggling life as an MFA Playwriting student at UCSD with teaching assistant work and parenting a newborn. The episode includes in-depth discussions of Anna's plays “Mothers,” “Man of God,” “Birds of North America,” and her most recent play “Your Local Theater Presents: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Again.”
Another episode touching on aspects not featured in past episodes. Today playwright Anna Ouyang Moench sits in the Playwright's Spotlight and, thankfully, after botching her name twice, she was nice enough to stick around. In this interview, we discuss the benefits of writers groups, the pursuit of playwriting, and developing a play during rehearsal through a nontraditional writing approach. We also discuss the techniques of structure, working under time constraints and the the practicality and theatricality of producing, transferring from larger markets to smaller markets as well as building your network as you grow. We also talk about how playwriting helps in the arena of film and television, how to take notes and receive feedback and being mindful when receiving it, how to juggle life's responsibilities and finding discipline while writing, the mechanisms of a play, playing with the structure of timeline as well as obtaining theatrical and literary representation and so much more. Certainly a learning experience on my end which I hope you enjoy. Anna Ouyang Moench is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays have been produced across the country and include Mothers, Birds of North America, and Sin Eaters. She has been supported by fellowships and residencies from The Playwrights Realm, New York Foundation of the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Van Lier Foundation, Yaddo, the Tofte Lake Center, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference. Her awards include the Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, the Gerbode Special Award in the Arts, Boulder Ensemble Theater Company's Generations Award, and East West Players' 2042: See Change Award. She is an alum of UCSD's Playwriting M.F.A. program, the Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater, Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Jam at New Georges, and writers groups at East West Players and the Echo Theater Company.To view the video format of this episode, visit -https://youtu.be/HbNX6N4sPaAFor tickets to Birds of North America if you're in the Los Angeles area, visit -https://odysseytheatre.com/whats-on/birds-of-north-america/Links to sites mentioned in this episode - Playwright's Realm -https://playwrightsrealm.org/New York Foundation for the Arts -https://www.nyfa.orgJerome Foundation -https://www.jeromefdn.orgVan Lier Fellowship -https://www.aaartsalliance.org/programs/van-lier-fellowshipYaddo -https://yaddo.orgSawanee Writers Conference -https://www.sewaneewriters.orgLast Frontier -http://www.theatreconference.orgUCSD Theatre Dept. -https://theatre.ucsd.eduWebsites and socials for James Elden, PMP, and Playwright's Spotlight -Punk Monkey Productions - www.punkmonkeyproductions.comPLAY Noir -www.playnoir.comPLAY Noir Anthology –www.punkmonkeyproductions.com/contact.htmlJames Elden -Twitter - @jameseldensauerIG - @alakardrakeFB - fb.com/jameseldensauerPunk Monkey Productions and PLAY Noir - Twitter - @punkmonkeyprods - @playnoirla IG - @punkmonkeyprods - @playnoir_la FB - fb.com/playnoir - fb.com/punkmonkeyproductionsPlaywright's Spotlight -Twitter - @wrightlightpod IG - @playwrights_spotlightPlaywriting services through Los Angeles Collegiate Playwrights Festivalwww.losangelescollegiateplaywrightsfestival.com/services.htmlSupport the show
The active ingredients of ginseng mainly contribute to aging delay through the following mechanisms: (1) the increase in the expression of antioxidant enzymes to achieve a balance between intracellular oxidation and antioxidation, the mitigation of excessive production of ROS, and the reduction in endogenous DNA damage, which prevent cell cycle arrest and delay aging; and (2) the regulation of the activities of DNA glycosylase and sirtuins in the process of DNA damage repair to ensure that the DNA repair pathway can accurately repair DNA damage caused by various factors associated with aging. #ginseng #aging #microbiota Su, J., Su, Q., Hu, S., Ruan, X., & Ouyang, S. (2023). Research Progress on the Anti-Aging Potential of the Active Components of Ginseng. Nutrients, 15(15), 3286. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15153286 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ralph-turchiano/support
The active ingredients of ginseng mainly contribute to aging delay through the following mechanisms: (1) the increase in the expression of antioxidant enzymes to achieve a balance between intracellular oxidation and antioxidation, the mitigation of excessive production of ROS, and the reduction in endogenous DNA damage, which prevent cell cycle arrest and delay aging; and (2) the regulation of the activities of DNA glycosylase and sirtuins in the process of DNA damage repair to ensure that the DNA repair pathway can accurately repair DNA damage caused by various factors associated with aging. #ginseng #aging #microbiota Su, J., Su, Q., Hu, S., Ruan, X., & Ouyang, S. (2023). Research Progress on the Anti-Aging Potential of the Active Components of Ginseng. Nutrients, 15(15), 3286. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15153286 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ralph-turchiano/support
The Infill Podcastâ„¢ - The Place For 3D Printing, Makers, and Creators!
In this episode, we are joined by Dr. James Ouyang, co-founder of 3D Printing industry giant AnyCubic (https://jle.vi/anycubic). This episode is part of an ongoing series of videos and interviews during my tour in Shenzhen - China's technological and industrial hub. AnyCubic was kind enough to sponsor my trip to China, to coincide with a few special events they are hosting and participating in. In this episode, we talk about the 3D Printing landscape as a whole (and the scene here in Shenzhen), the story of AnyCubic as a company, the AnyCubic Kobra 2 series, and much, much more. I particularly appreciated Dr. Ouyang's candidness, and his willingness to also "tease" some new products without giving away information that he cannot give away. I KNOW you'll love this episode, and if you do, don't forget to give a "like" :)
Bem-vindo à Rádio Minghui. As transmissões incluem assuntos relativos à perseguição ao Falun Gong na China, entendimentos e experiências dos praticantes adquiridas no curso de seus cultivos, interesses e música composta e executada pelos praticantes do Dafa. Programa 685: Experiência de cultivo da categoria Autoaprimoramento intitulada: "Vi a inveja ao enviar pensamentos retos", escrita por Ouyang, um praticante do Falun Dafa na China.
Chinese courts have been required to strengthen penalties against those that damage or destroy trees that are more than 100 years old.中国法院被要求加大对破坏或毁坏百年以上树木的违法者的惩罚。The Supreme People's Court, China's top court, issued an interpretation of the Criminal Law on Monday, with clarification on how to handle criminal cases involving forest resources.周一,中国最高人民法院,即中国最高法院,对刑法进行了解释,明确了如何处理涉及森林资源的刑事案件。"We've frequently seen cases in the past few years in which people have cut down, destroyed or even poisoned old trees," said Yu Haisong, an official from the top court's research office.最高人民法院研究室官员喻海松表示:“过去的几年里,我们经常看到有人砍伐、破坏甚至毒害老树的案例。”In one case, three people, surnamed Ouyang, He and Li, were imprisoned and fined after being found to have drilled into camphor trees to inject pesticides from April to December in 2021 in Hunan province to fell them, Yu said.他说,2021年4月至12月,欧阳、何和李在湖南省钻孔灌毒致古樟树死亡,被监禁并罚款。"They poisoned seven such trees in total, and then benefited from the plant sales," he said, revealing that one of the trees was sold at a price of more than 338,000 yuan ($46,600).喻海松说:“他们共毒死古樟树7株并出售牟利”他透露,其中一棵树的售价超过33.8万元(合4.66万美元)。Five of the felled trees were more than 500 years old, and the other two were also over 300 years old, he added.他补充说,被砍伐的五棵树木有500多年的历史,另外两棵也有300多年的历史。The three defendants were convicted of damaging key national protected wild plants.三名被告被法院以危害国家重点保护植物罪判刑。Ouyang was sentenced to five years in prison and fined 20,000 yuan; He was jailed for four and a half years and fined 20,000 yuan; and Li was jailed for three and a half years and fined 10,000 yuan.欧阳被判有期徒刑五年,并处罚金人民币二万元;何有期徒刑四年六个月,并处罚金人民币二万元;李有期徒刑三年六个月,并处罚金人民币一万元。"Ancient trees have special historical, cultural, scientific and ecological value, so it's essential and urgent to increase efforts to protect them and prevent behaviors that harm tree resources," Yu said.喻海松表示:“古树具有特殊的历史、文化、科研、生态价值,因此必须加大保护力度,谨防危害树木资源的行为。”While calling on judges to protect old trees in line with those on the country's list of key protected wild plants, he cited the interpretation, noting that for those that aren't listed, judges are allowed to punish criminals based on research of the species, ages, and the historical and cultural value of the damaged trees.在呼吁法官按照《国家重点保护野生植物名录》保护古树名木的同时,他援引解释,指出,对于不在名单上的,法官可以根据涉案树木的树种、树龄以及历史、文化价值等因素,综合评估社会危害性,依法定罪处罚。The 20-article interpretation will take effect on Tuesday, China's first National Ecology Day.这份20条的解释将在周二,即中国的首个全国生态日生效。Zhou Jiahai, deputy head of the top court's research office, said that such a legal document enables judges to get tough on crimes involving the damaging of forest resources and meet the demand for forest protection.最高人民法院研究室副主任周加海说,这份法律文件使法官可以严厉打击破坏森林资源的犯罪,契合森林保护的要求。"It's the latest move to further implement the central leadership's requirement on the construction of an ecological civilization," he added.他补充说:“这是进一步实施中央领导层对建设生态文明的要求的最新举措。”Data released by the top court on Monday showed that from 2018 to last year, more than 64,000 criminal cases involving the damage or destruction of forest resources were concluded, with punishments handed down to over 82,000 defendants.最高法院周一发布的数据显示,从2018年到去年,已经结案的涉及损坏或毁坏森林资源的刑事案件超过64000件,对超过82000名被告进行了惩罚。Court英/kɔːt/美/kɔrt/n.法院Jail英/dʒeil/美/dʒel/v.监禁
PART ONE (8/15/2022) https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gracedelpino/episodes/NO-EMPTY-SEATS-FT--MICHAEL-OUYANG-e1mhn5v Some topics discussed in todays episode: Why it so important to share the stories of others Imposter syndrome that comes with big life transitions How to not abandoning yourself – figuring out your core values when you don't know where to start How to change the way that you see yourself and shift the perspective and mindset to knowing that this transformation is painful, but you're not falling apart, you're just falling into something different with a new capacity to be beautiful Embodying emotions- how this can help us learn about the emotions we have, and what they mean, not only in relation to the present, but also in relation to our past Pushing past your limits and expanding past your emotional threshold of discomfort And lastly gaining acceptance and confidence in yourself Things I would tell my younger self if I could: Don't drown in comparing yourself to others, you are beautiful and valuable, and no one can take that away. Loving yourself can make life a lot easier. Be gentle with your words because hearts are fragile. It is hard to move forward when you refuse to let go. Your first reaction to a difficult situation is usually not the wisest- pausing to think before acting is empowering. Giving others kindness will be soothing to your mind into your future. Pain doesn't last forever. -Yung Pueblo Cheryl Strayed Quotes: There are some things you can't understand yet. Your life will be great and continuous unfolding but understand that what you resolve will need to be resolved again. And again. We will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of yours. Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room. Many years ago, when I was in graduate school, a few poet friends of mine told me about an assignment they had that require them to listen repeatedly to a poem in a language, they didn't understand, and then translate it into English. Their mission wasn't to know what the words meant, but rather to hear them, to feel them, to imagine them, and then to conjure something from within themselves to translate the impossible mystery of those words into a poem of their own creation in a language they know. It seems audacious and nonsensical as it first seems, the task is ultimately what poetry- and life- asks us to do: attempt to make clarity and meaning out of the incomprehensible. In some ways, what we're all being asked to do right now is to create something beautiful from the unknown languages we've suddenly found ourselves forced to comprehend. We've had to translate the sentence I don't know how I'm going to do this into the opposite of its meaning, and do this, as you have time, and time again. Link to Tiny Beautiful Things Book https://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Beautiful-Things-audiobook/dp/B008J9GE3G/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EXXVVHI64RN8&keywords=tiny+beautiful+things+by+cheryl+strayed&qid=1690504075&sprefix=tiny+be%2Caps%2C127&sr=8-1 As well as Hulu Show based on the book https://www.hulu.com/series/tiny-beautiful-things-0ee8a395-3270-46ef-9ab0-c200f5f9f89d
Welcome back to another episode! Today, Mak and Ashley sit down and talk about the nature of communication within areas of various sports. They focus on weightlifting, swimming, and running as they have experience in these sports and they tend to emphasize an “ideal body” of individuals, directly or indirectly. Through Ashley's experience of being an elite athlete, who competed in the Olympic swimming trials, to then taking on CrossFit and Mak's experience of running a marathon, they offer a unique perspective that will provide beneficial information. All of the resources used in the podcast are cited below for reference. Thank you for listening and make sure to comment, review, and subscribe to this podcast! Have a great day! Sources: (1) Altheide, D. L., & Pfuhl, E. H. (1980). Self-Accomplishment Through Running. Symbolic Interaction, 3(2), 127–144. https://doi.org/10.1525/si.1980.3.2.127 (2) Anderson, L. M., Reilly, E. E., Gorrell, S., & Anderson, D. A. (2016). Running to win or to be thin? An evaluation of body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms among adult runners. Body image, 17, 43–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2016.02.003 (3) Bond, K. A., & Batey, J. (2005). Running for Their Lives: A Qualitative Analysis of the Exercise Experience of Female Recreational Runners. Women in Sport & Physical Activity Journal, 14(2), 69-82. https://proxying.lib.ncsu.edu/index.php/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/running-their-lives-qualitative-analysis-exercise/docview/230669301/se-2 (4) Carson, T. L., Tournat, T., Sonneville, K., Zernicke, R. F., & Karvonen-Gutierrez, C. (2021). Cultural and environmental associations with body image, diet and well-being in NCAA DI female distance runners: a qualitative analysis. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 55(8), 433-437. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-102559 (5) Drake, C., & Radford, S. K. (2021). Here is a place for you/know your place: Critiquing “biopedagogy” embedded in images of the female body in fitness advertising. Journal of Consumer Culture, 21(4), 800–826. https://doi-org.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/10.1177/1469540519876009 (6) Hecht, M. L., & Choi, H. (2011). The Communication Theory of Identity as a Framework for Health Message Design (pp. 137–152). (7) Howells, K., & Grogan, S. (2012). Body image and the female swimmer: muscularity but in moderation. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise, and Health, 4(1), 98–116. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2011.653502 (8) Laynes, I. A., Fagundes, M. G., Barbosa, G. M., de Souza, M. C., & Lombardi Júnior, I. (2022). Exercise dependence, body Dysmorphia, and anxiety in CrossFit practitioners: A cross-sectional study. Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, 32, 77–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbmt.2022.04.013 (9) Moxham, S. (2021). Rejecting the Runner's Body. Fleet Feet. https://www.fleetfeet.com/blog/rejecting-the-runners-body (10) Neilson, S. (2023). Distance runner Lauren Fleshman on the toxicity of elite sports culture. The Seattle Times. https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/distance-runner-lauren-fleshman-on-the-toxicity-of-elite-sport-culture/?fbclid=IwAR2O2voeU2tQbUYv1ubtP6mqS0O0bY22KlDr1lNpYtMtIWarhP0RcKnIznk&mibextid=Zxz2cZ (11) Ouyang, Y., Wang, K., Zhang, T., Peng, L., Song, G., & Luo, J. (2019). The influence of sports participation on body image, self-efficacy, and self-esteem in college students. Frontiers. Retrieved April 3, 2023, from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03039/full (12) Smith, R. A., & Bishop, R. E. (2019). Insights into stigma management communication theory: Considering stigmatization as an interpersonal influence. Journal of applied communication research: JACR, 47(5), 571–590. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2019.1675894 (13) Streno, M. (2022). Why do some athletes struggle with body image? TrueSport. Retrieved April 3, 2023, from https://truesport.org/body-image/athletes-struggle-body-image/ (14) Takano, B. (2023). The body image dilemma for female weightlifters. Breaking Muscle. Retrieved April 3, 2023, from https://breakingmuscle.com/the-body-image-dilemma-for-female-weightlifters/ (15) Walton-Smith, S., & Walton-Smith, S. (2023). Navigating the growing toxicity of gym culture. Varsity Online. Retrieved April 3, 2023, from https://www.varsity.co.uk/sport/22166
In this episode we discuss the paper "Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback" by Ouyang et al (2022). We discuss the RLHF paradigm and how important RL is to tuning GPT.
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.03.18.533275v1?rss=1 Authors: DeSpenza, T., Kiziltug, E., Allington, G., Barson, D., O'Connor, D., Robert, S. M., Mekbib, K. Y., Nanda, P., Greenberg, A., Singh, A., Duy, P. Q., Mandino, F., Zhao, S., Lynn, A., Reeves, B. C., Marlier, A., Getz, S. A., Nelson-Williams, C., Shimelis, H., Zhang, J., Walsh, L. K., Wang, W., Smith, H., OuYang, A., Deniz, E., Lake, E., Jin, S. C., Luikart, B. W., Kahle, K. T. Abstract: Expansion of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-filled cerebral ventricles (ventriculomegaly) is the quintessential feature of congenital hydrocephalus (CH) but also seen in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and several neuropsychiatric diseases. PTEN is frequently mutated in ASD; here, we show PTEN is a bona fide risk gene for the development of ventriculomegaly, including neurosurgically-treated CH. Pten-mutant hydrocephalus is associated with aqueductal stenosis due to the hyperproliferation of periventricular Nkx2.1+ neural precursors (NPCs) and CSF hypersecretion from inflammation-dependent choroid plexus hyperplasia. The hydrocephalic Pten-mutant cortex exhibits ASD-like network dysfunction due to impaired activity of Nkx2.1+ NPC-derived inhibitory interneurons. Raptor deletion or post-natal Everolimus corrects ventriculomegaly, rescues cortical deficits, and increases survival by antagonizing mTORC1-dependent Nkx2.1+ cell pathology. These results implicate a dual impact of PTEN mutation on CSF dynamics and cortical networks via the dysregulation of NPCs and their interneuron descendants. These data identify a non-surgical treatment target for hydrocephalus and have implications for other developmental brain disorders. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC
Stanford's RegLab designs real-world scientific experiments to test the outcomes of government interventions, figuring out what works — and what doesn't. Derek Ouyang is a research manager there and he also co-founded City Systems, an organization that explores potential fixes to municipal problems. From deploying Spanish-speaking contact tracers to developing a low-cost kit to turn garages into apartments, Ouyang is exploring equitable solutions to local cities' most intractable challenges. And he has some ideas about how to fix San Francisco's problems, too. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Fixing Our City is part of the San Francisco Chronicle's SFNext Project Got a tip, question, comment? Email us at sfnext@sfchronicle.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.02.12.528173v1?rss=1 Authors: Wang, L., Han, Y., Sun, Z., Ouyang, B., Dong, C. Abstract: The potential to combine facts from exceptional senses, and thereby facilitate detecting and localizing events, commonly develops regularly in cat superior colliculus (SC) neurons. Multisensory integration in SC neurons depends on the spatial and temporal relationships of cross-modal cues. Here, we reveal that the parallel process of short-term plasticity during adulthood that would adapt multisensory integration to reliable changes in environmental conditions. The short-term experience altered the temporal preferences of SC neurons, this short-term plasticity was limited to changes in cross-modal timing (a factor commonly induced by events at different distances from the receiver. Nonetheless the plasticity was no evident in response to changes in cross-modal spatial configuration. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC
Can hospital care be delivered at home? Will the hospital of the future only consist of ERs, ORs and ICUs? Dr. Helen Ouyang is an emergency physician, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Columbia University, and contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. She has written for The Atlantic, Harper's, Los Angeles Times, New York, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. Her writing has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and funded by The Pulitzer Center. Helen has worked in 20 countries across five continents in public health and humanitarian assistance. Her publications have also appeared in many academic medical journals, including The Lancet and JAMA, and she currently serves as a reviewer for Annals of Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. She is also a mentor-editor for The OpEd Project. Until 2015, Helen was the Associate Director of Columbia's International Emergency Medicine Fellowship. After graduating with a bachelor of arts from Brown University, Helen went to medical school at Johns Hopkins and studied for a master's in public health at Harvard, where she was also a Zuckerman Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Center for Public Leadership. Upon completing her training at Harvard, at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital, she moved out to the Pacific Northwest before finding her way back to the East Coast. Episode mentions and links: https://helenouyang.com Your Next Hospital Bed Might Be At Home via NY Times Magazine Can Virtual Reality Help Ease Chronic Pain via NY Times Magazine Restaurant Helen would take you to: Bernie's Restaurant Follow Helen: Twitter | LinkedIn Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/107
Today we're joined by Ryan Ouyang, founder & CEO of IYK as we discuss the value of blending digital & physical experiences, proof of proximity as an authentication standard, powering gmoney's 9dcc apparel line, & much more. WATCH ON YOUTUBE --------- Subscribe To Receive Your FREE Gifts! https://tinyurl.com/NativeAssetsGift Grab your copy of "The Blockchain Blueprint"
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.12.27.522022v1?rss=1 Authors: Zhang, Y., Ripley, B. M., Ouyang, W., Sturtz, M., Upton, E., Luhmann, E., Vessely, M., Coloma, R., Schwery, N., Anthony, S. M., Goeken, A., Moninger, T. O., Harty, J. T., Klingelhutz, A. J., Lundberg, E., Meyerholz, D. K., Manicassamy, B., Stipp, C. S., Guerra, S., Radoshevich, L. Abstract: The ubiquitin-like protein, ISG15, can act as a cytokine or can covalently modify host and pathogen-derived proteins. The consequences of ISG15 modification on substrate fate remain unknown. Here we reveal that ISGylation of the Arp2/3 complex slows actin filament formation and stabilizes Arp2/3 dependent structures including cortical actin and lamella. When properly controlled, this serves as an antibacterial and antiviral host defense strategy to directly restrict actin-mediated pathogen spread. However, Listeria monocytogenes takes advantage in models of dysregulated ISGylation, leading to increased mortality due to augmented spread. The underlying molecular mechanism responsible for the ISG15-dependent impact on actin-based motility is due to failed bacterial separation after division. This promotes spread by enabling the formation of multi-headed bacterial bazookas with stabilized comet tails that can disseminate deeper into tissues. A bacterial mutant that cannot recruit Arp2/3 or a non-ISGylatable mutant of Arp3 is sufficient to rescue slowed comet tail speed and restrict spread. Importantly, ISG15-deficient neonatal mice have aberrant epidermal epithelia characterized by keratinocytes with diffuse cortical actin, which could underlie observed defects in wound healing in human patients who lack ISG15. Ultimately, our discovery links host innate immune responses to cytoskeletal dynamics with therapeutic implications for viral infection and metastasis. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC
This week, Rob and Lee look at a short essay where Ouyang Xiu talks about a Mei Yaochen poem that he finds woven into the fabric of a barbarian's bag. Their discussion touches not only on the poem, but also on questions of the materiality of literature.
Programa 467: En esta edición les presentamos una experiencia publicada en la página web de Minghui titulada "Experimenté el poder de una "mente recta y una atención sin división" por Ouyang.
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin's Sophia Chen interviews Bin Ouyang of Florida State University about making a better cathode for lithium ion batteries. The current use of cobalt and nickel in their cathodes causes Li-ion batteries to contract in volume and degrade. Ouyang and his colleagues simulated and then fabricated new cathode materials that do not use cobalt or nickel and also degrade less after being charged and discharged. To achieve this, they found that they needed to design a material with disorder in its crystal structure. They found that replacing cobalt and nickel with vanadium and niobium leads to a battery with a small change of volume. The results provide a model for the further search of viable cathode materials to design lithium-ion batteries that are entirely made of solids. This study is published in Joules (doi:10.1016/j.joule.2022.05.018).
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The Power that Improvements on Supply Chains using Blockchain has on Global Social Impact, with Samantha Ouyang and TKS This is part 2 of a 4 part continuing series on the Knowledge Society Samantha Ouyang, TKS Activator Samantha is a 17 y/o TKS Activator who has been working in blockchain research and development for the past 18 months, taking special interest in the social impact of blockchain. She first started off by researching cryptography, the technical workings behind blockchain, and current limitations, publishing her own articles and videos explaining technical components and reviewing interesting applications. She then moved into blockchain development after teaching herself Solidity, building her own decentralized applications (dApps) and other blockchain-related projects to tackle global issues. This included dApps and frameworks to secure property rights in developing countries, prevent cyberattacks on nuclear power plants, render the pet industry more transparent, combat bias in AI, and reduce blood donation expiry, winning hackathons and other competitions that allowed her to present her ideas to companies such as S&P Global. Her efforts compounded and she was soon presented with a job offer. For 5 months, she worked as a smart contract developer at ViewFin, a global fintech company based in Toronto and Shanghai. As the youngest employee, she integrated a decentralized indexing protocol into the company's token exchange platform and spearheaded her own project there to prevent child labour in the chocolate supply chain. Over the summer, she got to conduct research on smart contract evolution under the guidance of a professor at the University of Waterloo as well. As she grew her network in the blockchain enterprise solutions community, she has also gotten the chance to moderate fireside chats with leaders in the blockchain industry and spark insightful conversations on the potential of blockchain in ESG. She hopes to take her work in blockchain further by delving into IoT, bridging the gap between hardware and software so that she can innovate with the synergized power of both. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crypto-hipster-podcast/support
Today we meet with two South Florida members of the Wolfpack, both of whom are rising juniors in their respective high schools. Theodore Ouyang, a student at Suncoast High School, has been working for several years on his CubeSat proposal, the FlipSat, which seeks to address the mitigation of bit flips in space. When his proposal was not selected by NASA's CSLI for funding, teammate William Mayville, who attends American Heritage, made it his mission to solve the funding issues that preclude many capable students and teams from achieving a launch. Today we will learn how the combination of their efforts may change the way CubeSats can be used as a disruptive educational tool. For information on sponsoring FlipSat and WOLF-C: click here For information on attending the SmallSat Education Conference here: --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shawna-christenson2/support
主播:Sarrah | 翩翩歌曲 : Me&God最近热播的《梦华录》(A Dream of Splendor),is quite popular in China,并且,it has high ratings(评分很高)。It has been trending online. 是上热搜的一部剧。今天,我们就和大家用英语聊一聊这部剧。1. A Dream of Splendor《梦华录》(1) Title名字:官方英文名叫做A Dream of Splendor。To dream of something指的是you greatly wish for it, but you might not get.(梦想得到什么东西,却可能得不到),比如说:to win the lottery(中彩票),这属于daydreaming(做白日梦)。Splendor means riches, wealth and fortune. 就是富丽堂皇,指的就是迷人眼的富贵。所以,《梦华录》的英文译名可以理解为:someone (or many people in the show) are wishing for a better life, a rich life, a comfortable life. 人们想要追寻更好的生活。(2)Genre类型:就像我们看韩剧、日剧、美剧、英剧,欧美人把我们的电视剧统一叫Chinese drama,古偶剧就是historical and romantic genres。(3)Aired更新:It's aired from Thursdays to Saturdays. 周四到周六更新。粉丝调侃说,不够看的,每集都盘出包浆了。(4)Episode剧集:Each episode was 45 minute long and the show has a total of 40 episodes.每集45分钟,一共40集。(5)The original network播出平台:It was released onTencent Video. 腾讯平台播放。《梦华录》已经出口到Youtube上了。(6)Four main stars主演:Zhao Pan'er (刘亦菲Crystal Liu饰)Gu Qianfan (陈晓Chen Xiao饰)Sun San Niang (柳岩Ada Liu饰)Song Yinzhang (林允Jelly Lin饰)2. A brief summary of the show剧情介绍Zhao Pan'er is a teahouse owner in Qiantang. 女主赵盼儿在钱塘开了一间茶楼。忽然收到好消息:her fiancé, Ouyang Xu was ranked third in the national civil examination. 未婚夫喜中探花。但欧阳旭却will now be marring the daughter of a high-ranking official(要另娶当朝高官之女)。不甘心的赵盼儿decides to go to Bianjing(决定前去汴京),想要hear the news from Ouyang himself(听到未婚夫亲口承认)。在去汴京的途中,our heroineZhao Pan'er遇见并救出了两个女人——宋引章和孙三娘,她们are suffering abuse in awful marriages(饱受婚姻的痛苦)。然后她们三个就一起travel to the capital。*heroine /ˈheroʊɪn/ n. 女主人公,女性英雄*abuse/əˈbjuːs/ n. 虐待后来,欧阳旭发现 his ex-fiancé is in the same city as him(前未婚妻和自己同城),he tries his best to make her leave(他想方设法让赵盼儿离开)。然而,赵盼儿三人决定stay in Bianjing and rely on their own skills and abilities to make a fortune(留在汴京,靠自己的的技能来挣前途)。她们open a small teahouse(开了个小茶馆),后来这个茶馆becomes a huge success(大获成功)! In fact, their shop turns into the largest restaurant in Bianjing. 最后,小小茶坊一步步发展为汴京最大的酒楼。这是这个故事比较励志的地方。通过这40集,我们能够看到Zhao Pan'er's struggles(奋斗)是如何give her better insight into her situation(让她更好地了解自己的处境),并且,helps resolve (or fix) her hatred towards Ouyang Xu(帮助解决(或解决)她对欧阳旭的仇恨)的。这些挑战,会让强者更强。*struggle/ˈstrʌɡl/ n. 奋斗,努力*insight /ˈɪnsaɪt/ n. 洞悉*hatred /ˈheɪtrɪd/ n. 憎恨赵盼儿通过努力,带着其他女性一起fighting for more equality(争取更多平等)。这种TV shows with strong female characters(大女主),也深受西方人的喜爱。3. 国外网友有何评价It's uploaded on YouTube.这部剧在YouTube上面上架了。*upload上传*download 下载It can be seen by a wider audience. 受众更广。西方人对这部剧什么反映?Let's look at some of the YouTube comments.[Comment 1]喜欢teahouse by the river, 还有beautiful scenery(美景), 以及喜欢the feel of this drama (这部剧的感觉)。有机智的female lead(女主)。On to the next episodes!(期待后续剧情)全部都是地道的语料。[Comment 2]It also contains a lot of beautiful Chinese cultural elements! 包含了大量优美的中国文化元素。[Comment 3]Main leads are impressive. 主演们很赞!Loving the supporting actors too. 也爱配角。[Comment 4]非常喜欢演员用的原声instead of dubbing over (而不是配音)。*dub /dʌb/ v. 配音[Comment 5]这位说的比较直接:终于能有部剧有 a mature FL(female lead)(成熟的女主)了,而不是the childish one that will annoy you to death(幼稚的让人恼火的女主)。*mature /məˈtʃʊr/ adj. 成熟的These comments are just from the first episode! 第一集就好评如潮。It's great to see so many people fall in love with the drama so quickly. 非常开心我们中国的好剧能够在国外受追捧。It's happy to see that shows like A Dream of Splendor are doing so well. 很开心看到像《梦华录》这样的剧做得越来越好。It's worth a try. 光剧中的中国文化元素,就值得一观。请留言告诉我们:关于这部剧,大家还有什么想要聊的?可以留言告诉我们,下次咱们再聊!
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Deepmind's Gato: Generalist Agent, published by Daniel Kokotajlo on May 12, 2022 on LessWrong. From the abstract, emphasis mine: The agent, which we refer to as Gato, works as a multi-modal, multi-task, multi-embodiment generalist policy. The same network with the same weights can play Atari, caption images, chat, stackblocks with a real robot arm and much more, deciding based on its context whether to output text, joint torques, button presses, or other tokens. (Will edit to add more as I read. ETA: 1a3orn posted first.) It's only 1.2 billion parameters. (!!!) They say this was to avoid latency in the robot control task. It was trained offline, purely supervised, but could in principle be trained online, with RL, etc Performance results: The section on broader implications is interesting. Selected quote: In addition, generalist agents can take actions in the the physical world; posing new challenges that may require novel mitigation strategies. For example, physical embodiment could lead to users anthropomorphizing the agent, leading to misplaced trust in the case of a malfunctioning system, or be exploitable by bad actors. Additionally, while cross-domain knowledge transfer is often a goal in ML research, it could create unexpected and undesired outcomes if certain behaviors (e.g. arcade game fighting) are transferred to the wrong context. The ethics and safety considerations of knowledge transfer may require substantial new research as generalist systems advance. Technical AGI safety (Bostrom, 2017) may also become more challenging when considering generalist agents that operate in many embodiments. For this reason, preference learning, uncertainty modeling and value alignment (Russell, 2019) are especially important for the design of human-compatible generalist agents. It may be possible to extend some of the value alignment approaches for language (Kenton et al., 2021; Ouyang et al., 2022) to generalist agents. However, even as technical solutions are developed for value alignment, generalist systems could still have negative societal impacts even with the intervention of well-intentioned designers, due to unforeseen circumstances or limited oversight (Amodei et al., 2016). This limitation underscores the need for a careful design and a deployment process that incorporates multiple disciplines and viewpoints. They also do some scaling analysis and yup, you can make it smarter by making it bigger. What do I think about all this? Eh, I guess it was already priced in. I think me + most people in the AI safety community would have predicted this. I'm a bit surprised that it works as well as it does for only 1.2B parameters though. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.
Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Deepmind's Gato: Generalist Agent, published by Daniel Kokotajlo on May 12, 2022 on LessWrong. From the abstract, emphasis mine: The agent, which we refer to as Gato, works as a multi-modal, multi-task, multi-embodiment generalist policy. The same network with the same weights can play Atari, caption images, chat, stackblocks with a real robot arm and much more, deciding based on its context whether to output text, joint torques, button presses, or other tokens. (Will edit to add more as I read. ETA: 1a3orn posted first.) It's only 1.2 billion parameters. (!!!) They say this was to avoid latency in the robot control task. It was trained offline, purely supervised, but could in principle be trained online, with RL, etc Performance results: The section on broader implications is interesting. Selected quote: In addition, generalist agents can take actions in the the physical world; posing new challenges that may require novel mitigation strategies. For example, physical embodiment could lead to users anthropomorphizing the agent, leading to misplaced trust in the case of a malfunctioning system, or be exploitable by bad actors. Additionally, while cross-domain knowledge transfer is often a goal in ML research, it could create unexpected and undesired outcomes if certain behaviors (e.g. arcade game fighting) are transferred to the wrong context. The ethics and safety considerations of knowledge transfer may require substantial new research as generalist systems advance. Technical AGI safety (Bostrom, 2017) may also become more challenging when considering generalist agents that operate in many embodiments. For this reason, preference learning, uncertainty modeling and value alignment (Russell, 2019) are especially important for the design of human-compatible generalist agents. It may be possible to extend some of the value alignment approaches for language (Kenton et al., 2021; Ouyang et al., 2022) to generalist agents. However, even as technical solutions are developed for value alignment, generalist systems could still have negative societal impacts even with the intervention of well-intentioned designers, due to unforeseen circumstances or limited oversight (Amodei et al., 2016). This limitation underscores the need for a careful design and a deployment process that incorporates multiple disciplines and viewpoints. They also do some scaling analysis and yup, you can make it smarter by making it bigger. What do I think about all this? Eh, I guess it was already priced in. I think me + most people in the AI safety community would have predicted this. I'm a bit surprised that it works as well as it does for only 1.2B parameters though. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.
Although e-commerce accelerated during the pandemic, conversion rates still hover at nearly 3%, whereas in-store conversion is more than 20%, says Donny Ouyang, the founder and CEO of Toronto-based Blackcart. To help online merchants boost that KPI, Blackcart runs a risk score on buyers which makes them eligible–or not–for a “try before you buy” option. Donny joins us on this episode of Rise of the Next to tell us how he stumbled on that idea, and some of the trends he sees shaping e-commerce. Subscribe here to episodes of Rise of the Next on major streaming platforms.LEGAL DISCLAIMERTHIS PODCAST IS INTENDED SOLELY FOR GENERAL INFORMATIONAL OR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD ANY CONTENT PROVIDED AS PART OF ANY SUCH PROGRAMS, SERVICES OR EVENTS BE CONSTRUED AS INVESTMENT, LEGAL, TAX OR ACCOUNTING ADVICE BY 500 STARTUPS MANAGEMENT COMPANY, L.L.C. OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES (“500 GLOBAL”). 500 GLOBAL MAKES NO REPRESENTATION AS TO THE ACCURACY OR INFORMATION IN THIS PODCAST AND WHILE REASONABLE STEPS HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO ENSURE THAT THE INFORMATION HEREIN IS ACCURATE AND UP-TO-DATE, NO LIABILITY CAN BE ACCEPTED FOR ANY ERROR OR OMISSIONS AND 500 GLOBAL ACCEPTS NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY LOSS WHICH MAY ARISE FROM RELIANCE ON THE INFORMATION IN THIS PODCAST.UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD ANY INFORMATION OR CONTENT IN THIS PODCAST, BE CONSIDERED AS AN OFFER TO SELL OR SOLICITATION OF INTEREST TO PURCHASE ANY SECURITIES ADVISED BY 500 GLOBAL OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES OR REPRESENTATIVES. FURTHER, NO CONTENT OR INFORMATION IN THIS PODCAST IS INTENDED AS AN OFFER TO PROVIDE ANY INVESTMENT ADVISORY SERVICE WITH REGARD TO SECURITIES BY 500 GLOBAL. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD ANYTHING HEREIN BE CONSTRUED AS FUND MARKETING MATERIALS BY PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS CONSIDERING AN INVESTMENT INTO ANY 500 GLOBAL INVESTMENT FUND. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD ANY STATISTICS, QUOTATIONS OR OTHER CONTENT BE INTERPRETED AS TESTIMONIALS OR ENDORSEMENT OF THE INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE OF ANY 500 GLOBAL FUND BY A PROSPECTIVE INVESTOR CONSIDERING AN INVESTMENT INTO ANY 500 GLOBAL FUND.THIS PODCAST MAY CONTAIN FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS WHICH INVOLVE RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES, AND ACTUAL RESULTS MAY DIFFER MATERIALLY FROM ANY EXPECTATIONS, PROJECTIONS OR PREDICTIONS MADE OR IMPLICATED IN SUCH FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS.THE PODCAST INCLUDES CONTENT DELIVERED BY AN INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY THAT IS NOT RELATED TO OR CONTROLLED BY 500 GLOBAL. ALL VIEWS AND OPINIONS PRESENTED IN THE PODCAST BY SUCH THIRD PARTY ARE THEIR OWN VIEWS AND OPINIONS AND DO NOT REPRESENT THOSE OF 500 GLOBAL. 500 GLOBAL MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS AS TO OR GUARANTEES OF SPECIFIC OUTCOMES FROM ATTENDING OR RELYING ON THE CONTENTS OF THE PODCAST.
Episode 65 is with Harsehaj Dhami and Samantha Ouyang, two International Baccalaureate high school students based in Toronto. Harsehaj is an impact driven student working to bridge the healthcare access gap to low income families and those struggling with their mental health. She is currently helping build a health startup based out of San Francisco that has just raised their seed-round. In her personal projects, she's working on modelling CNN (convolutional neural networks) that uses brain EEG scans to diagnose depression. Samantha is a goal oriented student, passionate about using STEM, design, engineering and innovation to create lasting change in the world. Having started off in competitive programming at an early age, her experiences led her to founding, Superposition Toronto, a non-profit that helps to bridge the gender gap in STEM. Samantha and Harsehaj have both crossed paths in The Knowledge Society - where cohorts of students are encouraged to solve the world's biggest problems using emerging technologies. They have both previously worked together on a project focussed on removing chemical pollutants from drinking water. We talk to Harsehaj and Samantha about their respective journeys in the tech space, the various differences in education and culture between generations, the influence of asian households, and much more. This was such an insightful conversation that brought to light the various evolutions of education, life, culture, and tech through the years. We hope you enjoy! Timestamps 2:45 - Harsehaj Intro & background 6:45 - Samantha Intro & background 11:25 - Early Lessons from their experiences 18:58 - Cultural Influences of an Asian household 27:14 - How can schools encourage more innovation? 30:30 - Challenges of Women in Tech 37:30 - Social Pressures on Millennials & Gen Z 44:42 - Pros/Cons of Social Media for Gen Z 53:19 - Increasing Cost & Competition in Schooling 1:00:12 - What is the current tech focus for Gen Z? 1:03:39 - Lightning Round
This podcasts elaborates on some supplementary materials in the forestry publication by Zhang et al. (2022). Based on this research it briefly presents details of ten Forestation Programs in China and their contexts and objectives. Those are large-scale and long-term landscape projects with various aims and goals, increasing the forest area in China, and sometimes beyond. Grasslands and steeply sloped mountain areas play a specific role. Those programs improve poverty and rural development but are often not so well known abroad, and thus they are presented and discussed here as first pointers and for consideration and debate with the wider global audience. The increase of forest area and carbon sequestration, as well as avoidance of erosion through designed shelterbelts, often stand as main goals. See also the references by Chen et al. (2018), Elvin (2006) and Harris (2006) for wider context. References Zhang, L., P. Sun, F. Huettmann, and S. Liu (2022). Where should China practice forestry in a warming world? Global Change Biology, 00, 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16065 Chen J, R. John, G. Sun3, P. Fan, G. M. Henebry, M. E. Fernández-Giménez, Y.Zhang, H. Park, L. Tian, P. Groisman, Z.Ouyang, G. Allington, J. Wu, C. Shao,A..Amarjargal, G.Dong, G. Gutman, F.Huettmann, R.Lafortezza, C. and J.Qu (2018) Prospects for the sustainability of social-ecological systems (SES) on the Mongolian plateau: five critical issues Environmental Research Letters 13: 123004. DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaf27b Elvin M. (2006) The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. Yale University Press Harris R. (2006) Wildlife Conservation in China: Preserving the Habitat of China's Wild West, East Gate Books. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/falk-huettmann/support
The Power that Improvements on Supply Chains using Blockchain has on Global Social Impact, with Samantha Ouyang and TKS This is part 2 of a 4 part continuing series on the Knowledge Society Samantha Ouyang, TKS Activator Samantha is a 17 y/o TKS Activator who has been working in blockchain research and development for the past 18 months, taking special interest in the social impact of blockchain. She first started off by researching cryptography, the technical workings behind blockchain, and current limitations, publishing her own articles and videos explaining technical components and reviewing interesting applications. She then moved into blockchain development after teaching herself Solidity, building her own decentralized applications (dApps) and other blockchain-related projects to tackle global issues. This included dApps and frameworks to secure property rights in developing countries, prevent cyberattacks on nuclear power plants, render the pet industry more transparent, combat bias in AI, and reduce blood donation expiry, winning hackathons and other competitions that allowed her to present her ideas to companies such as S&P Global. Her efforts compounded and she was soon presented with a job offer. For 5 months, she worked as a smart contract developer at ViewFin, a global fintech company based in Toronto and Shanghai. As the youngest employee, she integrated a decentralized indexing protocol into the company's token exchange platform and spearheaded her own project there to prevent child labour in the chocolate supply chain. Over the summer, she got to conduct research on smart contract evolution under the guidance of a professor at the University of Waterloo as well. As she grew her network in the blockchain enterprise solutions community, she has also gotten the chance to moderate fireside chats with leaders in the blockchain industry and spark insightful conversations on the potential of blockchain in ESG. She hopes to take her work in blockchain further by delving into IoT, bridging the gap between hardware and software so that she can innovate with the synergized power of both. Jamil Hasan is a crypto and blockchain focused podcast host at the Irish Tech News and spearheads our weekend content “The Crypto Corner” where he interviews founders, entrepreneurs and global thought leaders. Prior to his endeavors into the crypto-verse in July 2017, Jamil built an impressive career as a data, operations, financial, technology and business analyst and manager in Corporate America, including twelve years at American International Group and its related companies. Since entering the crypto universe, Jamil has been an advisor, entrepreneur, investor and author. His books “Blockchain Ethics: A Bridge to Abundance” (2018) and “Re-Generation X” (2020) not only discuss the benefits of blockchain technology, but also capture Jamil's experience on how he has transitioned from being a loyal yet downsized former corporate employee to a self sovereign individual. With over ninety podcasts under his belt since he joined our team in February 2021, and with four years of experience both managing his own crypto portfolio and providing crypto guidance and counsel to select clients, Jamil continues to seek opportunities to help others navigate this still nascent industry. Jamil's primary focus outside of podcast hosting is helping former corporate employees gain the necessary skills and vision to build their own crypto portfolios and create wealth for the long-term.
James Zou & David Ouyang join eBioMedicine to discuss issues around deep learning and hidden clinical correlates.Continue this conversation on social!Follow us today at...https://twitter.com/thelancethttps://instagram.com/thelancetgrouphttps://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournalhttps://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancethttps://youtube.com/thelancettv
Today, there are about 27 million app developers worldwide, it's a big, diverse and dynamic community of mobile software developers who build apps for iOS and Android. If you ever watched the Apple's keynote presentations at WWDC, you saw some of them talking about apps they pour their heart into. It's remarkable to see the commitment of these people to develop an app that will make a difference in somebody's life. Now, at the same time they develop apps to make a living. What is the state of app monetization today? To answer this question we've invited Linda. Today's Topics Include: The Linda's background spans from being a part of the Yahoo team, moving to MoPub team and ultimately becoming a part of the Twitter team and finally joining Fyber - a Digital Turbine company Fyber if the leading monetization platform helping app businesses grow revenue How app publishers adopting to the Apple's SKAdNetwork The impact of COVID-19 to the app publishers business in 2020 and 2021 What should be the focus of app publishers right now, in the midst of this Holiday season Challenges app publishers are facing right now Android or iOS? iOS What features would Linda miss most? Spotify :-) What's missing from mobile app technology? Widely adapted IoT support, being able to manage multiple sensors at home via a smartphone Links and Resources: Linda Ouyang LinkedIn profile. Fyber website. Quotes from Linda Ouyang: "I grew up in a very entrepreneurial mobile tech-forward household. So the apple didn't fall very far from the tree actually. It's become more and more interconnected but specifically on the publisher side, I think the privacy changes with Apple, while the grilling stuff must be faced together, it's causing some innovation. It's a little bit like Renaissance. I think a lot of what we've seen is coming into fruition this Holiday season." Follow the Business Of Apps podcast Linkedin | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube
Today, there are about 27 million app developers worldwide, it’s a big, diverse and dynamic community of mobile software developers who build apps for iOS and Android. If you ever watched the Apple's keynote presentations at WWDC, you saw some of them talking about apps they pour their heart into. It's remarkable to see the commitment of these people to develop an app that will make a difference in somebody's life. Now, at the same time they develop apps to make a living. What is the state of app monetization today? To answer this question we've invited Linda. Today's Topics Include: The Linda’s background spans from being a part of the Yahoo team, moving to MoPub team and ultimately becoming a part of the Twitter
Li Ouyang is a mother, salsa dancer, former VP at Chase, and engineer at Coinbase. You can learn more about her from episode #15 of the show. In this show we discuss:Li's favorite new NFT! Crypto Covenhttps://www.cryptocoven.xyz/witches/546https://www.cryptocoven.xyz/witches/547https://www.cryptocoven.xyz/witches/548How to get involved with NFT communities and participate in first mintsHow NFT's are made uniqueHow NFT's are expanding using games, drops, and moreWill buying a Bored ApeHow Will thinks about it as an investmentBored Ape Yacht Club: https://opensea.io/collection/boredapeyachtclubRarity tools: https://rarity.tools/boredapeyachtclub/traits/view/9058?trait=HatHow to purchase an NFT off of an exchange like OpenSea: https://opensea.io/Buying an NFT immediatelyMinimum bidBiddingFloor pricesDerivatives on Bored ApeNFT road mapsUtilizing https://gallery.so/ to curate and show NFT'sHow the Solana protocol is fueling games since it's cheaper to transactPhantom - Solana - wallet https://phantom.app/https://www.guildofguardians.com/POTENTIAL investment avenuesBlue chips like ETH and BTCGenesis Block - https://genesisblock.com/How early Will got into Crypto, what happened, and the lessons he learnedWe're introducing a new series where Will, Lee, and Andrew Learn about Web3. This is a pivotal moment in time where Web3 has exploded and a lot of smart people we know are dropping their careers to transition into Web3. This is a series where we bring friends on to learn about what's happening.Previous Will, Lee, and Andrew Learn about Web3 Episodes:Will, Lee & Andrew Recap After 25 Episodes and Starting a Learning Web3 Series#27 Yoshi Luk: Exploring DeFi (Decentralized Finance)#28 Evan Lai: How to Get Started Learning About Web3#31 Jay Chang: Cofounding Genopets. A Play-to-Earn NFT Game on Solana.#32 Shalin Pei: Coinbase Designer. Unlocking a Playground for Creativity.#33 Howie Zhang: Designing an NFT Game Economy as a Quant AnalystResources to learn more:Read Chris Dixon: Why Web3 MattersListen to Tim Ferriss' episode with Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant on Web3Listen to #14 Elliot Chun: Making the World a Better Place with Blockchain
We thought we were done with the Song, but we just cannot get enough of it. Now, we are going back to Ouyang Xiu with a poem that features in a translation of a late Qing thinker that Rob is working on. The poem is by Ouyang Xiu, and Rob and Lee disagree about how to read it...no surprises there.
On this Episode of QLN, we have the pleasure of hearing a story that is not only about sobriety, but it's also about self empowerment, self trust, and, most importantly, self love. Christina Ouyang is a queer ally, a nightlife enthusiast, and a sober person, exuding inspiration to people who want to start their sober journey. By night time you find her at New York City's newest queer night club, The Q, and by day she helps cultivate the colorful world of fashion. In this conversation Christina opens up about the importance of cultural representation, trusting yourself, being present, and more importantly the power in knowing and understanding your triggers. Sobriety doesn't mean isolation or the absence of thrill. Sobriety is a new beginning to a life of fulfilling your goals, chasing your dreams, and having fun while being present for the ones you love.
What was your college computer science experience like? Did it have helpful levels of collaboration and teamwork? Were you able to learn from other students? Or was it like mine where it was mostly divide and conquer in isolation? What would it be like if a computer science course were designed to not only teach you how to code but also how to have healthy collaboration, vulnerability, kindness, consideration, and respect? Join Chris and Austin as they discuss with their former professor Youwen Ouyang about her past and current applications of #MobProgramming in Intro Comp-Sci Courses where she shares challenges, strategies, and benefits of this approach. FYI: Video and show notes to be posted here in the next day or so.
Today is the last in our podcast series on the Song (we think...). Our subject, Ouyang Xiu is one of the most famous literatis of the 11th century, and he helped inspire the turn towards antiquarianism in Chinese culture. He was obsessed with collecting old stuff, particularly epigraphs (writing carved into rocks or other medium). This is a short prose passage/poem where we see Ouyang Xiu beginning to develop this obsession. The passage is taken from Stephen Owen's Anthology of Chinese Literature.
In Episode 22, we discuss a paper by Cangiano, Parker, and Ouyang (2021) that explores how proactivity and taking charge at work can make it hard to detach and recover at home. They found people who did take charge found it harder to detach and recover at night unless they were people who were motivated to be autonomous.
Erasing Shame co-hosts talk with Tim Ouyang (singer and songwriter of Tim Be Told) about living in the multiple dimensions and layers of life as an Asian American of Chinese descent, and how he's navigating the intersectionality of sexuality, ethnicity, and faith, finding a way of healing and meaning, and telling a better and more beautiful story through it all. Show Notes Tim Be Told www.timbetold.com + Instagram @timbetold Tim Be Told on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/6L0mxhIWyV5ySKJvWrD70h "The Dark Voice," article by Tim Ouyang (Inheritance Magazine, 2017)
Sometimes, taking charge or being proactive at work can reap some amazing benefits. However, there are times where it isn't the healthiest thing to do. Today, we discuss when taking charge at work is bad for you and when you should be saying ‘no'. Links: Cangiano, Parker, & Ouyang (2021) Article Taking Charge at Work […] The post When to be Proactive appeared first on Workr Beeing | The Science Of Thriving Workplaces.
After her parents divorced, Li Ouyang took it upon herself to make money for her mom and younger brother. She hustled her way into finance and soon became rising star as a VP at JP Morgan Chase. After realizing that the finance industry was shrinking, she started her career over in tech.Today, Li is a software engineer at Coinbase, which recently IPO'd. In this episode we ask Li about:Growing up Chinese in rural New HampshireHow she hustled her way into finance from a non-Ivy League universityHow she became a VP at JP Morgan ChaseWhy she left finance and how she became a software engineerHer experience in startups in Silicon ValleyWhy she she works at CoinbaseBeing a mother during COVIDHer passion for salsa dancingFind Li online :Twitter - @styliiiPlease subscribe to our podcast! You can find the latest episodes and notes at: Website: willandlee.showInstagram: @will.and.lee.show
We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers brings together fiction and poetry by more than 70 women over a span of more than 1500 years. Editor Selma Dabbagh talks about why it's hard to write about sex, and the difficult balance of reaching readers. Show Notes: The digital launch of We Wrote in Symbols, published by Saqi Books, is scheduled for April 29, hosted by the Arab British Centre. Hanan al-Shaykh, Yasmine Seale, Saida Rouass, lisa luxx, and collection editor Selma Dabbagh will be there. There will also be a workshop launch with Marina Warner, Wen-chin Ouyang, and Emily Selove at Birbeck in June, as part of their Arabic in Translation series. The collection drew classic works from, among other places, two anthologies: Classical Poems by Arab Women: A Bilingual Anthology, edited and translated by Abdullah al Udhari, and The Poetry of Arab Women from the Pre-Islamic Age to Andalusia, edited and translated by Wessam Elmeligi. Shereen El Feki's Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World was published in 2013. Leila Slimani's Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World was translated by Sophie Lewis and came out last year. Lina Mounzer's “Going Beyond the Veil” talks about navigating the rocky territory of writing about sex as an Arab woman.
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=31723331 How has colonialism influenced Arabic and Chinese literature? Wen-chin Ouyang is a professor at SOAS University of London where she specialises in Arabic and Comparative Literature. She has written extensively on classical and modern Arabic narrative and literary criticism. In this episode of The Know Show, Wen-chin gives us a brief insight on how colonialism left an impact on Arabic and Chinese literature. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL to get the latest and most fascinating research!!! Get the latest episodes and videos on www.theknowshow.net The Know Show Podcast makes the most important research accessible to everyone. Join us today and be part of the research revolution. Follow Us On Social Media: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/theknowshowpod/ Twitter https://www.instagram.com/theknowshowpod/
Xiaoli introduces us to silver in the Sumerian city of Umma. She explains where it came from and how people got hold of it. Who was able to use it and what for? She tells us how we might understand whether it could be called money. And explains the physical form in which silver circulated. 5:42 What is money?8:46 Who used silver?13:00 How they got silver16:55 Did silver actually circulate?22:26 How was value set?Music by Ruba Hillawi Website: http://wedgepod.orgYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSM7ZlAAgOXv4fbTDRyrWgw Email: wedgepod@gmail.com Twitter: @wedge_pod Patreon: http://Patreon.com/WedgePod
Mary Beard, Homi Bhabha and Seán Williams join Shahidha Bari to look at the etiquette of talks on zoom and the history of lectures. Lecturing someone can be a negative: you’re patronising or boring or telling them what to think. And yet, today we have TED talks, university staff are routinely recording lectures using video conferencing technology, and the history of thought is a history of persuasive speakers setting out their ideas before audiences. Dr Seán Williams is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker who lectures in German intellectual and cultural history at the University of Sheffield. Mary Beard is a Dame and Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and has given various lectures at universities, the British Museum and the London Review of Books, the Society for Classical Studies, the Gifford Lecture Series. She also presents on TV and has authored many books. Homi Bhabha is a Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and is the author of many books. He considers Memory and Migration in this Free Thinking Lecture recorded in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005gt9 Readings: Ewan Bailey Other programmes exploring aspects of language: What is Speech : Matthew Sweet's guests include Trevor Cox and Rebecca Roache https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b1q2f3 The Impact of Being Multi-Lingual: John Gallagher talks to Katrin Kohl, Rajinder Dudrah and Wen-chin Ouyang https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mq6k Language and Belonging: Preti Taneja's guests include Michael Rosen, Guy Gunaratne and Momtaza Mehri https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07fvbhn The Free Thinking Festival Lecture on Feelings from Professor Thomas Dixon https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003rsw The Free Thinking Festival Lecture on Knowledge from Karen Armstrong https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02tw41j Producer: Eliane Glaser
There is a lot to think about when designing trading algorithms, especially in the world of cryptocurrency, where prices can be extremely volatile and limited liquidity means a single trader moving big volume can have a hefty influence on price.Bitcoin is at a record breaking price these days, but investing in it is not for the faint of heart. To learn more, we chat with Li, who is a software engineer at Coinbase. You can find her on Twitter here.If you're interested in learning more about Bitcoin, we would have to recommend Bitcoin Developer. After all, they were kind enough to recommend our Bitcoin Stack Exchange as a key resource.
There is a lot to think about when designing trading algorithms, especially in the world of cryptocurrency, where prices can be extremely volatile and limited liquidity means a single trader moving big volume can have a hefty influence on price.Bitcoin is at a record breaking price these days, but investing in it is not for the faint of heart. To learn more, we chat with Li, who is a software engineer at Coinbase. You can find her on Twitter here.If you're interested in learning more about Bitcoin, we would have to recommend Bitcoin Developer. After all, they were kind enough to recommend our Bitcoin Stack Exchange as a key resource.
What does the Far East have to do with Israel Mosaic: Land People Story? Well, together, hopefully we will be able to answer that question by the end of today’s episode. Listening to yesteryear's personal family stories, biblical accounts and modern immigration plights you will get a clearer understanding and appreciation for the phenomena that has happened throughout history and that is happening in Israel right now.Music: Peaceful Asian River; Photo: Courtesy of the Ouyang and Lee Family
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Guitarist Mo Ouyang is here with us today, discussing Jane's Addiction and their 1988 major label debut, Nothing's Shocking! Over the course of an hourlong discussion, we cover... Mo's long residence in Shanghai, China, and the types of guitars you can get there Jane's Addiction's surge in late-80s Los Angeles and their cultural influence Who Jane was, and why it was probably not great for Perry Farrell to write a song that uses her name The hippy vibe of "Summertime Rolls" The influence of Jane's on Mo and his friend MC Frontalot What it was that Ted should "Just admit" on "Just Admit It, Ted..." Whether the lyrics in "Standing in the Shower... Thinking" really say "The water is a-piping hot" or something less wholesome What the "Pigs" represent in "Pigs in Zen"... and for that matter, what "Zen" is in that song, too Our key tracks and a preview of next week's episode! Come join us for an hour of thoughtful and good-humored commentary, and we'll catch you on the B-side! The spreadsheet Request Lottery picks and their associated numbers can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xOiYNZduLxz7L2CtNUPK1YOu63ni2XTWpcy1cdB6EQw/edit?usp=sharing You can get your request on this list by donating to our Patreon account at the $5 level or above. Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/PlayDiscPodcast Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/PlayDiscPodcast/ Follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/PlayDiscPodcast Email us at playdiscpodcast@gmail.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Special Guest: Mo Ouyang.
How German argument differs from English, the links between Arabic and Chinese and different versions of The 1001 Nights to the use of slang and multiple languages in the work of young performers and writers in the West Midlands: John Gallagher looks at a series of research projects at different UK universities which are exploring the impact and benefits of multilingualism. Katrin Kohl is Professor of German Literature and a Fellow of Jesus College. She runs the Creative Multilingualism project. https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/about/people/katrin-kohl https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/creative-multilingualism-manifesto Wen-chin Ouyang is a professor of Arabic literature and comparative literature at SOAS, University of London. Her books include editing an edition for Everyman's Library called The Arabian Nights: An Anthology and Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition. You can hear more from Wen-chin in this Free Thinking discussion of The One Thousand and One Nights https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052gz7g Rajinder Dudrah is Professor of Cultural Studies & Creative Industries at Birmingham City University. His books include the co-edited South Asian Creative and Cultural Industries (Dudrah, R. & Malik, K. 2020) and Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia (Dudrah, R. & Dawson Varughese, E. 2020). Saturday, 26 September is the European Day of Languages 2020 and Wednesday, 30 September is International Translation Day 2020 which English PEN is marking with a programme of online events https://www.englishpen.org/posts/events/international-translation-day-2020/ You might also be interested in this Free Thinking conversation about language and belonging featuring Preti Taneja with Guy Gunaratne, Dina Nayeri, Michael Rosen, Momtaza Mehri and Deena Mohamed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07fvbhn Here is a Free Thinking episode that looks at the language journey of the 29 London bus https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00014qk Steven Pinker and Will Self explore Language in this episode of Free Thinking https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04hysms Arundhati Roy talks about translation and Professor Nicola McLelland and Vicky Gough of the British Council look at language learning in schools https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b5hk01 This episode of Free Thinking is put together in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI as one of a series of discussions focusing on new academic research also available to download as New Thinking episodes on the BBC Arts & Ideas podcast feed. You can find the whole collection here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90 Producer: Karl Bos
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.08.28.270652v1?rss=1 Authors: Li, K., Ouyang, Z., Lin, D., Mingueneau, M., Chen, W., Sexton, D., Zhang, B. Abstract: To meet the growing demands from scientists to effectively extract deep insights from single cell RNA-seq datasets, we developed cellxgene VIP, a frontend interactive visualization plugin to cellxgene framework, which directly interacts with in-memory data to generate a comprehensive set of plots in high resolution, perform advanced analysis, and make data downloadable for further analysis. It makes large scale scRNA-seq data visualization and analysis more accessible and reproducible with the potential to become an ecosystem for the scientific community to contribute even more modules to the Swiss knife of scRNA-seq data exploration tool. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info
The United States has been conducting the census for some two centuries, but Donald Trump and his cronies have a new idea of how to do it that involves screwing it up entirely in service to a racist, nativist project.
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.07.25.221093v1?rss=1 Authors: Zhu, T., Peng, Q., Ouyang, A., Huang, H. Abstract: Purpose: To investigate the neuroanatomical underpinning of healthy macaque brain cortical microstructure measured by diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) which characterizes non-Gaussian water diffusion. Methods: High-resolution DKI was acquired from 6 postmortem macaque brains. Neurofilament density (ND) was quantified based on structure tensor from neurofilament histological images of a different macaque brain sample. After alignment of DKI-derived mean kurtosis (MK) maps to the histological images, MK and histology-based ND were measured at corresponding regions of interests characterized by distinguished cortical MK values in the prefrontal/precentral-postcentral and temporal cortices. Pearson correlation was performed to test significant correlation between these cortical MK and ND measurements. Results: Heterogeneity of cortical MK across different cortical regions was revealed, with significantly and consistently higher MK measurements in the prefrontal/precentral-postcentral cortex compared to those in the temporal cortex across all 6 scanned macaque brains. Corresponding higher ND measurements in the prefrontal/precentral-postcentral cortex than in the temporal cortex were also found. The heterogeneity of cortical MK is associated with heterogeneity of histology-based ND measurements, with significant correlation between cortical MK and corresponding ND measurements (P
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.07.20.213124v1?rss=1 Authors: Saeed, A. F. U. H., Chan, C., Guo, H., Gong, B., Guo, P., Cheng, X., Ouyang, S. Abstract: Biological motors, ubiquitous in living systems, convert chemical energy into different kinds of mechanical motions critical to cellular functions. Most of these biomotors belong to a group of enzymes known as ATPases, which adopt a multi-subunit ring-shaped structure and hydrolyze adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to generate forces. The gene product 16 (gp16), an ATPase in bacteriophage {square}29, is among the most powerful biomotors known. It can overcome substantial resisting forces from entropic, electrostatic, and DNA bending sources to package double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) into a preformed protein shell (procapsid). Despite numerous studies of the {square}29 packaging mechanism, a structure of the full-length gp16 is still lacking, let alone that of the packaging motor complex that includes two additional molecular components: a connector gp10 protein and a prohead RNA (pRNA). Here we report the crystal structure of the C-terminal domain of gp16 (gp16-CTD). Structure-based alignment of gp16-CTD with related RNase H-like nuclease domains revealed a nucleic acid binding surface in gp16-CTD, whereas no nuclease activity has been detected for gp16. Subsequent molecular dynamics (MD) simulations showed that this nucleic acid binding surface is likely essential for pRNA binding. Furthermore, our simulations of a full-length gp16 structural model highlighted a dynamic interplay between the N-terminal domain (NTD) and CTD of gp16, which may play a role in driving DNA movement into the procapsid, providing structural support to the previously proposed inchworm model. Lastly, we assembled an atomic structural model of the complete {square}29 dsDNA packaging motor complex by integrating structural and experimental data from multiple sources. Collectively, our findings provided a refined inchworm-revolution model for dsDNA translocation in bacteriophage {square}29 and suggested how the individual domains of gp16 work together to power such translocation. ABSTRACT (SHORT)Biological motors, ubiquitous in living systems, convert chemical energy into different kinds of mechanical motions critical to cellular functions. The gene product 16 (gp16) in bacteriophage {square}29 is among the most powerful biomotors known, which adopts a multi-subunit ring-shaped structure and hydrolyzes ATP to package double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) into a preformed procapsid. Here we report the crystal structure of the C-terminal domain of gp16 (gp16-CTD). Structure-based alignment and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations revealed an essential binding surface of gp16-CTD for prohead RNA (pRNA), a unique component of the motor complex. Furthermore, our simulations highlighted a dynamic interplay between the N-terminal domain (NTD) and CTD of gp16, which may play a role in driving DNA movement into the procapsid. Lastly, we assembled an atomic structural model of the complete {square}29 dsDNA packaging motor complex by integrating structural and experimental data from multiple sources. Collectively, our findings provided a refined inchworm-revolution model for dsDNA translocation in bacteriophage {square}29 and suggested how the individual domains of gp16 work together to power such translocation. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info
What do you give an injured lemon? LEMON-AID! Today’s podcast is all about saving the citrus, protecting the OJ, rescuing the grapefruits and pomelos: we are talking about citrus greening disease! Learn all about this insect vector sucking up tree phloem like a goshdarn juice box and how it spits out dangerous bacteria. Hear Lindsay discuss why we need citrus in our diet and why you’ve seen so many non-Navel orange fruits in your local supermarket. Get comfy. Pour a glass of orange juice or lemonade. This is Infested. Links to our Social Media Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @Infestedpodcast Follow Lindsay on Twitter @Baxter.Lindsay Email us at Infestedpodcast@gmail.com This Podcast is produced and edited by Lindsay and Bailey. Their views and opinions are theirs and do not reflect the institution for which they are employed Literature Cited (Asian citrus psyllid - Diaphorina citri Kuwayama) . 2020. Asian citrus psyllid - Diaphorina citri Kuwayama. (http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/citrus/acpsyllid.htm). Grafton-Cardwell, E. E., and V. F. Lazaneo. 2010. Asian Citrus Psyllid: Integrated Pest Management for Home Gardeners and Landscape Professionals. Yang, Y., M. Huang, G. A. C. Beattie, Y. Xia, G. Ouyang, and J. Xiong. 2006. Distribution, biology, ecology and control of the psyllid Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, a major pest of citrus: A status report for China. International Journal of Pest Management. 52: 343–352. Citrus Greening Disease Canales, E., Y. Coll, I. Hernández, R. Portieles, M. R. García, Y. López, M. Aranguren, E. Alonso, R. Delgado, M. Luis, L. Batista, C. Paredes, M. Rodríguez, M. Pujol, M. E. Ochagavia, V. Falcón, R. Terauchi, H. Matsumura, C. Ayra-Pardo, R. Llauger, M. del C. Pérez, M. Núñez, M. S. Borrusch, J. D. Walton, Y. Silva, E. Pimentel, C. Borroto, and O. Borrás-Hidalgo. 2016. ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’, Causal Agent of Citrus Huanglongbing, Is Reduced by Treatment with Brassinosteroids. PLOS ONE. 11: e0146223. (Citrus greening is killing the world’s orange trees. Scientists are racing to help) Chemical & Engineering News. 2020. Citrus greening is killing the world’s orange trees. Scientists are racing to help. (https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/biochemistry/Citrus-greening-killing-worlds-orange/97/i23). Dala-Paula, B. M., A. Plotto, J. Bai, J. A. Manthey, E. A. Baldwin, R. S. Ferrarezi, and M. B. A. Gloria. 2019. Effect of Huanglongbing or Greening Disease on Orange Juice Quality, a Review. Front. Plant Sci. 9. Ghanim, M., D. Achor, S. Ghosh, S. Kontsedalov, G. Lebedev, and A. Levy. 2017. ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ Accumulates inside Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Vacuoles in the Gut Cells of Diaphorina citri. Sci Rep. 7: 16945. Hansen, A. K., J. T. Trumble, R. Stouthamer, and T. D. Paine. 2008. A New Huanglongbing Species, “Candidatus Liberibacter psyllaurous,” Found To Infect Tomato and Potato, Is Vectored by the Psyllid Bactericera cockerelli (Sulc). Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74: 5862–5865. (ASIAN CITRUS PSYLLIDS (STERNORRHYNCHA: PSYLLIDAE) AND GREENING DISEASE OF CITRUS: A LITERATURE REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT OF RISK IN FLORIDA) . 2020. ASIAN CITRUS PSYLLIDS (STERNORRHYNCHA: PSYLLIDAE) AND GREENING DISEASE OF CITRUS: A LITERATURE REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT OF RISK IN FLORIDA. (https://bioone.org/journals/florida-entomologist/volume-87/issue-3/0015-4040(2004)087%5B0330%3AACPSPA%5D2.0.CO%3B2/ASIAN-CITRUS-PSYLLIDS-STERNORRHYNCHA--PSYLLIDAE-AND-GREENING-DISEASE-OF/10.1653/0015-4040(2004)087[0330:ACPSPA]2.0.CO;2.full). ASIAN CITRUS PSYLLIDS (STERNORRHYNCHA: PSYLLIDAE) AND GREENING DISEASE OF CITRUS: A LITERATURE REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT OF RISK IN FLORIDA. (n.d.). Retrieved March 15, 2020, from https://bioone-org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/journals/Florida-Entomologist/volume-87/issue-3/0015-4040(2004)087[0330:ACPSPA]2.0.CO;2/ASIAN-CITRUS-PSYLLIDS-STERNORRHYNCHA--PSYLLIDAE-AND-GREENING-DISEASE-OF/10.1653/0015-4040(2004)087[0330:ACPSPA]2.0.CO;2.full Batool, A., Iftikhar, Y., Mughal S, M., Khan M, M., Jaskani M, J., Abbas, M., & Khan I, A. (2008). Citrus Greening Disease – A major cause of citrus decline in the world: A Review. Horticultural Science, 34(No. 4), 159–166. https://doi.org/10.17221/1897-HORTSCI Singerman, A., & Rogers, M. E. (2020). The Economic Challenges of Dealing with Citrus Greening: The Case of Florida. Journal of Integrated Pest Management, 11(1), pmz037. https://doi.org/10.1093/jipm/pmz037
Revenue Generator Podcast: Sales + Marketing + Product + Customer Success = Revenue Growth
Today we're rebroadcasting our conversation with Jeffrey Ouyang, who is the Manager of Paid Acquisition at Zumper, a real estate rental search engine. Prior to working at Zumper, Jeffrey has worked in a variety of different marketing roles for various startups in Silicon Valley, building out his toolkit along the way. Show NotesConnect With: Jeffrey Ouyang: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Today we're rebroadcasting our conversation with Jeffrey Ouyang, who is the Manager of Paid Acquisition at Zumper, a real estate rental search engine. Prior to working at Zumper, Jeffrey has worked in a variety of different marketing roles for various startups in Silicon Valley, building out his toolkit along the way. Show NotesConnect With: Jeffrey Ouyang: Website // LinkedInThe MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterBenjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn // Twitter
Ep 509 | Original Air Date: March 25, 2019 Public understanding of healthcare is driven principally by our own personal experience—and that of our loved ones—with doctors, nurses, and hospitals—and for many, it can feel overwhelming. Dr. Helen Ouyang is an emergency room doctor at one of America’s best hospitals, but admits she found it difficult to access the healthcare system when she had her own health scare. Helen Ouyang, M.D., M.P.H., is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University Medical Center, where she works full-time as a practicing emergency physician.
photo by Lani Trock. Catalina Ouyang has had solo and two-person exhibitions at Selena Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Make Room (Los Angeles, CA), Trestle Projects (Brooklyn, NY), PLUG Projects (Kansas City, MO), the Millitzer Gallery (St. Louis, MO) and fort gondo compound for the arts (St. Louis, MO). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Kravets Wehby Gallery (New York, NY), ART021 Fair (Shanghai, China), Helena Anrather (New York, NY), the Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT), Anonymous Gallery (Mexico City, Mexico), fffriedrich (Frankfurt, Germany), like a little disaster (Polignano a Mare, Italy), projects+ gallery (St. Louis, MO), SPRING/Break Art Fair 2018 (New York, NY), Make Room (Los Angeles, CA), No Place (Columbus, OH), Rubber Factory (New York, NY), Gallery 400 (Chicago, IL), COOP Gallery (Nashville, TN), and Field Projects (New York, NY). She has attended residencies at the NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), OBRAS (Evoramonte, Portugal), Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyrna Beach, FL), Mary Sky (Hancock, VT), and North Mountain (Shanghai, WV). Her writing has appeared in River Teeth, Cura Literary Magazine, the Blueshift Journal, and Little Fiction, with two Pushcart Prize nominations. She is a 2019 MFA candidate in Sculpture at Yale University. The books mentioned in the interview were Ghostly Matters and Salt Fish Girl. DEATH DRIVE JOY RIDE, 2018 Warlord in a Minivan, 2017
Dr Carolyn Lam: Welcome to Circulation on the Run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and it's editors. I'm Dr Carolyn Lam, associate editor from the National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore. And I am so privileged to be joined by Senior Associate Editors whom I respect and admire so much. And they are Dr Biykem Bozkurt from Baylor College of Medicine and Dr Sana Al-Khatib from Duke University. And we have three woman discussing the Go Red for Women issue. Yes! The current issue is the third Go Red for Women issue and boy, is it a bonanza issue. It tackles a wide spectrum of topics relating to cardiovascular disease in women, including prevention, risk stratification, myocardial infarction, pregnancy, heart failure, cardiac arrest, sudden cardiac death, and in so many wonderful formats; from original papers to systematic reviews, state-of-the-art papers, in-depth reviews, a research letter, and even frame of reference papers. So, let’s get digging into this issue, shall we? And Biykem, we could start with you because I'd like to start with three original papers that really set the scene. The first discussed temporal changes and the very contemporary data from 2001 to 2016, describing cardiovascular risk factors and their treatment. And then the second focuses on young females with acute myocardial infarction. And the third on older women. Could you take us through these papers Biykem? Dr Biykem Bozkurt: Lets first start looking at the sex differences through the Anne Haines Survey which enrolled more than 35000 patients. And they examined the trend all the way back from 2000 to 2016. Now the good news is the improvement in hypertension diabetes hyperlipidemia in woman were similar to men. So that's the good news. But BMI increased more in women than in men and overall, the ability to control blood pressure and diabetes hyperlipidemia appear to be a little bit better for women than in men. But the concerning trend becomes apparent when we look at another paper that examined the twenty-year trend in young adults. Now, the first message is, and this is important for both genders, the proportion of the hospitalizations that are attributable to young patients, and young patients are defined as ages between 35 and 54 in this study, and this study was from Erik, increased from 1995 to 2014. So young patients appear to be having more in life compared to before, compared to 1990s and the 2000s. And that was actually partly due to the increasing prevalence of comorbidities, such as hypertension diabetes among young patients. Now, interestingly among young patients, young women presenting with [inaudible] had a lower likelihood of receiving guideline directed therapy which, of course, sound familiar to our audience because we have the disparities of lower treatments and lower access to care in women with MI presentation compared to men. And unfortunately, again this will sound like the former news, the pre-hospital mortality was quite high in young women and has declined less in young women, compared to men. So, the Erik study highlights the disparity for young women compared to young men. And then we have to recognize that most young patients in my hospitalization attributed to young patients is increasing. So this is probably a population that we need to be aware of. Regarding the older patients, there is a publication from the Opach Study looking at the sedentary behavior and cardiovascular disease in older women. And they looked at more than 5500 patients aged between 63 and all the way up until 97. And they looked at sedentary time and they looked at the duration of sedentary time all the way over eleven hours in some of the patients. And of course the higher the sedentary time was, the worse the cardiovascular disease risk was amongst the older women. So now we are recognizing that among older women, the post-menopausal or elderly women, the risk of cardiovascular disease rises with sedentary lifestyle. And I think these three papers highlight the overall trend that we tend to see, maybe, better emphasis for comorbidity control. But at the same time we are now starting to recognize that in younger patients, especially in younger women the risk of MI is on the rise. And in older women, activity and remaining active and not having too much sedentary time are important to prevent cardiovascular disease. Dr Carolyn Lam: Oh, Biykem, thank you for framing that so beautifully. So some good news, some bad news, and certainly some things we should be looking out for. You know, in another patient group that we always need to touch on when we talk about the Go Red for Women issue is pregnant women, or post-pregnancy. Could you comment, perhaps, on the systematic review that we have? Dr Biykem Bozkurt: This is a very comprehensive, systematic review looking at the cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality in women with a history of pregnancy complications. And they provide detailed systematic review and method analysis. It's becoming more apparent that the spectrum of cardiovascular disease ranges all the way from preeclampsia to arrythmia to pericardial myopathy. And we're recognizing this continuum both in the peripartum period, at the same time as the future risk. So those with preeclampsia and premature birth and delivery are associated with lifetime risk of cardiovascular disease. So, I think this paper is providing the right overview and a very comprehensive meta-analysis recognizing that pregnancy led to complications and morbidity and mortality in women. Dr Carolyn Lam: Indeed. And it does just add so nicely to this issue, you know? Letting us know that we should watch out for the young women. We should watch out for the sedentary older women. And we should watch out for women with a history of pregnancy complications. But let’s switch tracks now. Sana, there was an amazing autopsy paper, actually, relating to sudden death in women. And as well as another original paper focusing on out of hospital cardiac arrest that is really very interesting. Would you like to tell us about those two? Dr Sana Al-Khatib: Oh absolutely. I would love to. As someone who has devoted her life to the study of sudden cardiac death and you know, identifying factors, prevention. I really like that the paper looking at the risk of cardiac death in women and men. This study, Carolyn, was conducting in Finland, and the aim of the study was to determine autopsy findings and causes of death among women in a large population of sudden cardiac death. They also were able to classify some EKG characteristics in men and women cardiac death victims. That really added helpful information. To do that, they systematically collected clinical and autopsy data from sudden cardiac death victims in Northern Finland between 1998 and 2017. So they actually had data on close to 5870 SCD victims. The findings were very interesting because they found that victims were significantly older than that. You know, so when they provided the median age it was 70 years for women versus 63 for men. So that was a significant difference there. And when they looked at the most frequently identified cause of death, they found that it was ischemic heart disease in both factions. Seventy two percent in women verses seventy six percent among men. And what was really striking about this was that the seventy two percent presence among women was higher than what had been reported in other theories. They also reported that women were more likely to have lung ischemic cause of sudden cardiac death than men. It commented on the fact that primary myocardiac fibrosis was more likely to be found in woman victims rather than in men. And then they were able to identify some EKG factors stating that, in general, women were more likely to have a prior normal EKG than men. But that it increased the marker for sudden cardiac death with the presence of MDH with the polarization changes that were more commonly seen in women. So, I thought that the findings were really interesting. They sure to be advance the field. Dr Carolyn Lam: I couldn't agree more. Sex differences in sudden cardiac death. I don't think many people could tell you they knew much about it at all before this paper. And what about at a hospital cardiac arrest? Dr Sana Al-Khatib: So, the other paper, which was really interesting, was a study that really looked at the public perception on why women receive less bystander CPR than men in out of hospital cardiac arrest. And this was an observation that was made a long time ago, Carolyn. So what's interesting for these investigators to be able to shed some light on this observation. What they did was they conducted a national survey of members of the public. And they were able to get 548 people to respond. Not a very high response rate, but pretty good for getting qualitative research studies. About fifty percent of the responders were women, so it was important to note that. And there was a good geographic distribution of the people; this was done in the U.S. And after they corrected their data, and they analyzed their data, the major thing emerged in terms of why the public perceived that women received less bystander CPR. The findings were really interesting. The first finding was that people were concerned about being accused of sexual assault if they were to do CPR on the woman, which was interesting. Some actually were concerned that women were too weak or too frail. If they were to ever do CPR, might they cause any bone fractures, any injuries to the woman because they're more fragile, so to speak, than men. And their last theme was misperceptions about women in medical distress. What that meant was they felt that, well, you know, are women actually victims of sudden cardiac death? Yes, definitely, women can have sudden cardiac arrest and some people said, "Well, sometimes women can be overly dramatic and so maybe those presentations were not real presentations of sudden cardiac arrest," which I thought was really interesting. I felt these were really interesting insights into why women don't receive CPR as much as men, and hopefully future interventions can be targeting these misconceptions or these concerns that the public has about doing CPR on women. Dr Carolyn Lam: Isn't that so intriguing. The misconception that women are either too shy, too frail, or too dramatic. Oh my goodness. Anyway, that was all the original papers, which were fantastic. But I have to admit that one of the things that I love most about the Go Red for Women issues is that it talks about women in cardiology. And Biykem, you've always been such a huge mentor to me. And what I love about this issue is that there are a few papers, aren't there, that actually focus on the importance of this mentorship. Could you tell us about that? Dr Biykem Bozkurt: It's a very important concept that I think is underlying a few papers in our issue. The first one is women in cardiology and perhaps the lack of increase in the representation of women in cardiology. Even though women make up about half of our medical graduates, among practicing cardiologists women comprise less than about twelve to fifteen percent of the population. That perhaps disparity hasn't changed in the last two decades. We tend to sometimes compare our profession to the surgical field, and I think gender inequality appears to be a little bit similar to general surgery and orthopedic. But the paper by Ziman underlines the following: Even though our gender inequality is similar to the surgical field, to look at the temporal trends there has been a significant rise in female representation in general surgery. And actually, among medical trainees, about one third of the medical trainees, not fifty percent like us, one third of the medical trainees are in surgical fields after they go to medical school. But the female representation has been steadily increasing in the surgical fields; about three-fold out of cardiology. Whereas female representation cardiology has the main slot, so the surgical fields are doing a better job in either welcoming, supporting, and mentoring their female trainees than the cardiology field. This is an important concept for us to recognize, and usually the disparity reasons are perceived to be gender and lifestyle and/or personal preferences. That doesn't appear to be the case. Perhaps the better role models and better mentorship could eliminate this disparity and this is underlined in the Olmein Mein paper by Ziman. Another paper by Sharon Hunt also underlines this concept. She portrays the woman needed in cardiac transplantation from a historical and personal perspective, and underlines the following: We tend to have a large number of woman leaders in advance heart failure and cardiac transplantation. And part of this may be attributed to the fact that women have been part of the fabric, part of the readership, part of the group that has developed the field and has been practicing. And thus, there has not been a nation or incorporation of the women in the field. And thus, since they've been involved in the practice from the beginning, they have been seen as a natural partner. Even though cardiac transplantation is quite demanding, requires bedside presence, and hours which are usually used as a reason for women not to go into certain fields, such as interventional. In transplant, we don't seem to have that much disparity for women. Women tend to select this field on one of the reasons in Sharon Hunt's piece is identified as being part of the team from the beginning, and having good role models and mentors. And finally, there is a research letter that identifies if the corresponding author is a female author. There is a large representation of co-authors. This is a very interesting finding by Ouyang stating that even though the female to male senior authorship rates have not been different over the years, if the senior author or the corresponding author is a female there tends to be a higher number of co-authors. This may suggest that female corresponding authors are able to mentor or include their partners or team members. Or vice versa, female co-authors may feel more invited and incorporated as a team. So, this paper also underlines that women in leadership positions connected to cardiology may serve as positive role models to recruit and retain talented junior female investigators. Dr Carolyn Lam: Ah, indeed, indeed, indeed. So many topics that come close to my own heart. But Sana, among the numerous other papers here, we have two state of the art papers, two in-depth reviews, there are three frame of reference papers. Which one, or ones, stood out to you? Dr San Al-Khatib: One important paper, Carolyn, you certainly mentioned is an online paper that was titled "Why are Young Black Women as High Risk for Cardiovascular Disease". I personally like this paper a lot because it highlights such an important issue that has great impact on public health. And sometimes the population of young black women may go unrecognized in terms of their risk of cardiovascular disease and what have you. So really the On My Mind paper tackles what are these things that are driving the worsening cardiovascular disease trends in this patient population. And what can we do about it? And they talk about how the awareness of heart disease and the leading cause of death among these women is actually more among black patients. And so, they talk about the need to really implement multi-level strategies to try to address this, raise awareness, identify disparities in care. They even also call for really investing in black women scientists. And so, this was such a really good paper and I'm sure that the readers will enjoy it as much as I have. Dr Carolyn Lam: Oh, thank you so much for that, Sana. That really, really makes for such a rich issue with such a lot of different papers. We're running out of time, so we don't even have the opportunity to really discuss, but I want to mention these so that the listeners will look out for them. Beyond the papers we've already discussed, we have state-of-the-art papers on cardiovascular care in women veterans and the management of cardiovascular disease in women with breast cancer. We even have two in-depth reviews. One on sex differences in advance heart failure therapies and a second on the role of breast arterial calcification in cardiovascular risk stratification in women. And finally, there's a research letter on the size of thoracic aortic aneurysms in women. So many papers, such a beautiful, beautiful issue. I just want to thank you both Sana and Biykem for leading this beautiful Go Red for Women issue. Thank you, listeners, for joining us today. You've been listening to Circulation on the Run. Don't forget to tune in again next week. This program is copyright American Heart Association 2019.
Ein Podcast von ENOUGH – das Magazin für Sinnsucher Zum Start von You Better Believe It! ein ausführliches Interview mit Sänger, Songwriter, Produzent und Interior-Designer Tim Ouyang von Tim Be Told. Er spricht über seinen Aufstieg vom Shootingstar der christlichen Popmusik in den USA, vom schmerzhaften Absturz nach einem folgenreichen Bekenntnis zu sich selbst – und vom glorreichen Neuanfang, diesmal nach eigenen Regeln. Außerdem erzählt Enough-Mitbegründer und Moderator Siems Luckwaldt von seiner eignen bisherigen spirituellen Reise und der Motivation hinter You Better Believe It! Mit spröden Anfängen, ernüchterter Abkehr und einem Erweckungserlebnis in Arizona. Links & Shownotes: enough-magazin.de/podcast Podcast-Gast werden (Kontaktformular) Wir freuen uns, von euch zu hören – schreibt uns! Auch reinhören: Schlecht, danke der Nachfrage!, unser zweiter Podcast Theme Song: vintagetrouble.com
In this episode, we speak with Richard Ouyang live from the Midwest Digital Marketing Conference's (MDMC18) opening night party at Momentum Worldwide. We touch upon big data, idea sharing, startup collaboration, and IBM Watson. Host: Taylor Caputo Produced: Brian Borgstede, James Brandt, Taylor Caputo, Khadijah Johnson, Blake Rudloff and Gus Wehmeier Guest: Richard Ouyang About MDMC: the MDMC is the largest Digital Marketing Conference in the Midwest, and it boasts speakers annually from companies such as BuzzFeed, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google, including some local talent. The conference was held in St. Louis Union Station on March 27-28 2018, featuring over 120 speakers, and offering about 80 sessions for more than 1,700 attendees. About the Speaker: Richard Ouyang is Senior Managing Consultant, Media and Entertainment at IBM. He is also the IBM services strategy and delivery lead for advertising focused on IBM Watson cognitive solutions. Ouyang has more than 20 years’ experience in media and entertainment driving solutions across content, tech, and communications, including a decade with top-tier agencies. Prior to IBM, Richard led digital at Reed Exhibitions driving digital transformation for three of its top B2B trade shows by bringing tech startup innovation to the live event experience. He started his career in Hollywood developing some of the first advertiser-backed branded programming on network TV, and is an avid supporter of the NY Tech startup community.
Revenue Generator Podcast: Sales + Marketing + Product + Customer Success = Revenue Growth
Today we're going to discuss career development in marketing and technology with Jeffrey Ouyang, who is the manager of paid acquisition at Zumper, a real estate rental search engine. Prior to working at Zumper, Jeffrey has worked in a variety of different marketing roles for various startups in Silicon Valley, building out his toolkit along the way. Episode Transcript Connect with: Jeffrey Ouyang: Linkedin // Website The MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // Twitter Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn// Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Today we're going to discuss career development in marketing and technology with Jeffrey Ouyang, who is the manager of paid acquisition at Zumper, a real estate rental search engine. Prior to working at Zumper, Jeffrey has worked in a variety of different marketing roles for various startups in Silicon Valley, building out his toolkit along the way. Episode Transcript Connect with: Jeffrey Ouyang: Linkedin // Website The MarTech Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // Twitter Benjamin Shapiro: Website // LinkedIn// Twitter
In this episode, Hope talks hydrogen storage with her mom (Gloria) and her sister (Dana)! (Ana isn't in this one because it was the holidays and we weren't in the same state.) We've got space flight, we've got submarines, we've got van der Waals forces, and we've got lots of questions about whether hydrogen could be a useful fuel for everyday applications like cars. Brass quintet version of our theme song arranged by Hope's dad (Bill Wilson) and featuring Bill on the tuba, Gloria and Dana on French horn, Alex (Hope's brother) on trumpet, and Hope on trombone. Sources: hydrogen vs. gasoline: Schlapbach, L.; Züttel, A. Hydrogen-Storage materials for mobile applications. Nature 2001, 414, 353–358. (density of liquid hydrogen (71 kg/m3) and gasoline (~720 kg/m3) obtained from Google) density of gaseous hydrogen at 800 bar: Züttel, A. Materials for hydrogen storage. Materials Today 2003, 6, 24–33. density of solid hydrogen: Density and Compressibility of Solid Hydrogen and Deuterium at 4.2K, https://www.nature.com/articles/138244a0 more info on NASA + liquid hydrogen: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ultra-cold-storage-liquid-hydrogen-may-be-fuel-of-the-future van der Waals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_Waals_force, http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/biology/bio4fv/page/van_der.htm MgH2 destabilization with decreasing particle size: Wagemans, R. W. P.; van Lenthe, J. H.; de Jongh, P. E.; van Dillen, A. J.; de Jong, K. P. Hydrogen Storage in Magnesium Clusters: Quantum Chemical Study. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 16675–16680. (oops this source says that bulk MgH2 releases hydrogen at 300C at 1 bar hydrogen, but that is contradicted by this next source ...) Vajo, J. J.; Mertens, F.; Ahn, C. C.; Bowman, R. C. J.; Fultz, B. Altering Hydrogen Storage Properties by Hydride Destabilization Through Alloy Formation: LiH and MgH2 Destabilized with Si. ChemInform 2004, 35, 13977–13983 (... which says that it's 275C at 1 bar hydrogen; also this is where i got my info for LiH) extracting hydrogen from cyclohexane: Li, L.; Mu, X.; Liu, W.; Mi, Z.; Li, C.-J. Simple and Efficient System for Combined Solar Energy Harvesting and Reversible Hydrogen Storage. Journal of the American Chemical Society2015, 137, 7576–7579. info about a range of complex hydrides: Ley, M. B.; Jepsen, L. H.; Lee, Y.-S.; Cho, Y. W.; Colbe, J. M. B. V.; Dornheim, M.; Rokni, M.; Jensen, J. O.; Sloth, M.; Filinchuk, Y.; et al. Complex hydrides for hydrogen storage – new perspectives. Materials Today 2014, 17, 122–128. info about nanoconfinement of hydrides (scroll down to "Nanomaterials as functional support for hydrides"): Yu, X.; Tang, Z.; Sun, D.; Ouyang, L.; Zhu, M. Recent advances and remaining challenges of nanostructured materials for hydrogen storage applications. Progress in Materials Science2017, 88, 1–48. info on the inefficiency of using hydrogen as fuel: Bossel, Ulf. “Does a Hydrogen Economy Make Sense?” Proceedings of the IEEE. Vol. 94, No. 10, October 2006. summary of above: https://phys.org/news/2006-12-hydrogen-economy-doesnt.html Hydrogen-powered submarine: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/02/22/hybrid.submarine/index.html
Children need to feed their body and their brain. Drs. Ouyang and Corbo-Puffer do an excellent job explaining the importance of early childhood reading as well as nutrition. Learn about infant formulas and how to feed a picky toddler. It is possible! Our parenting tip tells you how to pack a nutritious school lunch. These are real challenges; you are not alone! Topic Times! Health News - Early Childhood Reading 1:35 Infant Formula and Initiating Solid Foods 4:30 Feeding a Picky Toddler 14:17 Parenting Tips - Packing a Healthy School Lunch 22:45 Trivia 25:22 This episode was recorded in July of 2014.
The bridge isn't the only thing that has broken in 'All Fall Down', Cassandra Austin has set her book about broken relationships in outback Australia.Ouyang Yu provides an unique insight into Australia's past in his novel 'Billy Sing', a Transit Lounge release.
You would think that finally quelling the largest rebellion on Earth would bring the realm back into peaceful harmony. Unfortunately for the Tang, you'd be wrong. While China was forced to spend every waking moment in the Northeast desperately trying to drive back An Lushan for the past 7 years, the Tibetans went ahead and moved in from the West, cutting off Chinese access to the Far West Protectorate, and by 763 poised to deliver a devastating broadside to the already-devastated Tang Empire. And as if that's not enough, in the middle of all this, a loyal military commander has false accusations of treason leveled against him by a paranoid regional official, but then through a series of zany happenstances is forced to actually rebel against the government for fear of being convicted and killed for the initial false charges. This is why we can't have nice things… Time Period Covered: 763~770 CE Major Historical Figures: Tang Empire: Emperor Daizong of Tang (Li Yu) [r. 762-779] Crowned Prince Li Kuo General Guo Ziyi, Guard Commander of Chang'an General Pugu Huai'en [d. 765] Luo Fengxian, Imperial Eunuch Official Xin Yunjing, Governor of Hedong Yu Chao'en, Commander of the Army of Divine Strategy [d. 770] Tibetan Empire: Tsenpo Trisong Detsen Uyghur Khaganate: Tengri Bögü Khagan (Qutlugh Tarqan Sengün) Major Works Cited: Chamney, Lee (2012). “The An Shi Rebellion and Rejection of the Other in Tang China, 618-763.” University of Alberta. Dalby, Michael T. (1979). “Court Politics in Late Tang Times” in The Cambridge History of China, vol. 3. Liu, Xu. (945). Jiu Tang Shu. Ouyang, Xiu (1060), (tr. Colin Mackerras, 2004) “The History of the Uyghurs” in Xin Tang Shu. Sima, Guang. (1084). Zizhi Tongjian. Wang, Bing-Wen (2012). “A Tragedy of Marriage and Politics: the Puku Huai'-en Rebellion” in New History Journal (新史學雜誌).
Reeling from the loss of both capital cities to the rebel army, Emperor Xuanzong and his heir Li Heng split up. Three days later from the northern garrison at Lingwu, the Crowned Prince declares himself the new emperor, Suzong – surprise, Dad! Newly enthroned, Suzong will be forced to cobble together an unlikely coalition of China's neighbors in order to have any hope of turning the tide of the civil war that threatens to drown the Tang Dynasty in blood. Arabs, Transoxianans, Ferghanans, and even Uyghur Stepperiders will join forces with a corps of Han Chinese soldiers willing to die to the last man if it means stopping An Lushan and his Yan rebel army in its tracks. Time Period Covered: July 756 – December 757 CE Major Historical Figures: Tang Dynasty: (Retired) Emperor Xuanzong [Li Longji] (r. 712-756, as retired emperor 756-762) Emperor Suzong of Tang [Crowned Prince Li Heng ] (r. 756-762) Crowned Prince Li Yu [b. 727] General Guo Ziyi Yan Dynasty Rebels: An Lushan [d. 757] An Qingxu [r. 757-759] General Yan Zhuang Uyghur Khaghanate: Bayanchur Khan [r. 747-759] “The Viceroy” (Yagbu), Field Commander of the Uyghur Cavalry Major Works Cited: Chamney, Lee (2012). “The An Shi Rebellion and Rejection of the Other in Tang China, 618-763.” University of Alberta. Dalby, Michael T. (1979). “Court Politics in Late Tang Times” in The Cambridge History of China, vol. 3. Inaba, Minoru. (2010). “Arab Soldiers in China at the Time of the An-Shi Rebellion” in The Memoirs of the Toyo Bunko, 68. Liu, Xu. (945). Jiu Tang Shu. Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1976). “The An Lu-Shan Rebellion and the Origins of Chronic Militarism in Late T'ang China” in Essays on Tʻang Society: The Interplay of Social, Political and Economic Forces. Ouyang, Xiu (1060), (tr. Colin Mackerras, 2004) “The History of the Uyghurs” in Xin Tang Shu. Twitchett, Denis. (1979). “End of the Reign” in The Cambridge History of China, vol. 3. Sima, Guang. (1084). Zizhi Tongjian. Wang, Qinruo, et al. (1013). Cefu Yuangui.
This month, Ryan talks to the Australian poet, Ouyang Yu. Born in China, Yu is a controversial figure within Australian literature, often exploring the dilemmas of transnational artists caught between different literary, cultural and linguistic traditions in a raw, uncompromising style that he has made his own (Yu himself refers to the ‘polished’ poem as “an arse wiped clean”). In this interview, Ryan and Ouyang discuss language barriers, mis-prints and the importance of making 'creative mistakes'. Plus, more poetry sparks! Listeners to The Line Break can also join the The Line Break group on CAMPUS, the Poetry School’s free online community for poets. http://campus.poetryschool.com Produced by Culture Laser Productions http://www.culturelaser.com @culturelaser
Celebrated poet, author, translator, academic and critic Ouyang Yu discusses the challenges of operating in 2 languages with Canberra poet Melinda Smith.
It's three hundred years since the death of Antoine Galland, a French orientalist and archaeologist, whose translation of The One Thousand and One Nights kick-started its adventures in the West via the works of English orientalists, Richard Burton, Edward Lane and John Payne. Philip Dodd asks a panel of experts on these hugely influential tales, plus story-tellers who continue to wrest new life out of them. He talks to Scholars Robert Irwin and Wen-chin Ouyang, the theatre director Tim Supple and Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh.
The Rev. Boon Lin Ngeo (Ouyang Wen Feng) | Feb 23, 2014 | The 11:00 AM Celebration Service message from Metropolitan Community Church of New York. | www.mccny.org
We discuss translation, identity, the value of mistakes and the virtues of bad poetry with the prolific novelist, translator and poet Ouyang Yu, who Ryan interviewed in Darwin, Australia earlier this year. Ouyang reads a number of his poems and discusses the experience of being a Chinese poet who has been living and working in Australia for the past 20 years and how this affects his practice. Presented by Ryan Van Winkle @rvwable and produced by Colin Fraser @kailworm of Culture Laser Productions @culturelaser http://www.culturelaser.com
The Rev. Boon Lin Ngeo (Ouyang Wen Feng) | "No one is an island, entire of itself; everyone is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." -John Donne | Oct 27, 2013 | The 11:00 AM Celebration Service message from Metropolitan Community Church of New York. | www.mccny.org
The Rev. Boon Lin Ngeo (Rev. Ouyang Wen Feng) |Feb 10, 2013 | The 11:00 AM Celebration Service | Metropolitan Community Church of New York (MCCNY). | www.mccny.org
The Rev. Boon Lin Ngeo (Ouyang Wen Feng) | Faith: The Victory that Conquers the World! | The 11:00 AM Celebration Service | Metropolitan Community Church of New York (MCCNY). | www.mccny.org
The Rev. Boon Lin Ngeo (Ouyang Wen Feng) | Faith: The Victory that Conquers the World! | The 11:00 AM Celebration Service | Metropolitan Community Church of New York (MCCNY). | www.mccny.org
Now that we have Deng Xiaoping out of the way, we're back looking at random topics throughout the ages. This week we look at the great Song Dynasty statesman and sage Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072). In this episode we'll review aspects of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) and Ouyang Xiu's place in this amazing age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Now that we have Deng Xiaoping out of the way, we’re back looking at random topics throughout the ages. This week we look at the great Song Dynasty statesman and sage Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072). In this episode, we’ll review aspects of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) and Ouyang Xiu’s place in this amazing age in Chinese history.
The Rev. Boon Lin Ngeo (Ouyang Wen Feng) | Christmas morning sermon | The 11:00 AM Celebration Service | Metropolitan Community Church of New York (MCCNY). | www.mccny.org
The Rev. Boon Lin Ngeo (Ouyang Wen Feng) | Christmas morning sermon | The 11:00 AM Celebration Service | Metropolitan Community Church of New York (MCCNY). | www.mccny.org