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Fluent Fiction - Swedish: Bears and Bonding: A Winter Walk Towards Understanding Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sv/episode/2025-01-03-08-38-19-sv Story Transcript:Sv: Snön låg tjock över Skansen.En: The snow lay thick over Skansen.Sv: Vinden bet kallt i kinderna, men tusen små ljus lyste upp gångarna som stjärnor i natten.En: The wind bit coldly at their cheeks, but a thousand small lights lit up the paths like stars in the night.Sv: Emil, Linnea och Erik steg in genom portarna, insvepta i vinterkläder.En: Emil, Linnea, and Erik stepped through the gates, wrapped in winter clothing.Sv: Det var stilla i luften, som om hela världen vilade efter nyårsfirandet.En: There was a stillness in the air, as if the whole world was resting after the New Year's celebrations.Sv: Emil gick med händerna djupt ned i fickorna.En: Emil walked with his hands deep in his pockets.Sv: Hans tankar var tunga och han ville helst gå ensam.En: His thoughts were heavy, and he preferred to walk alone.Sv: Linnea, hans lillasyster, studsade runt med ögon stora som tefat.En: Linnea, his little sister, was bouncing around with eyes as big as saucers.Sv: "Titta, Emil!"En: "Look, Emil!"Sv: ropade hon och pekade på djuren.En: she shouted, pointing at the animals.Sv: Men Emil hörde knappt.En: But Emil barely heard her.Sv: Erik, deras pappa, gick bredvid Emil.En: Erik, their dad, walked beside Emil.Sv: Han såg på sin son med oro i ögonen.En: He looked at his son with concern in his eyes.Sv: "Det här året har varit hektiskt," erkände han plötsligt.En: "This year has been hectic," he suddenly admitted.Sv: "Jag är ledsen att jag inte har varit där mer."En: "I'm sorry I haven't been around more."Sv: Emil ryckte på axlarna.En: Emil shrugged.Sv: Han ville gärna säga nåt, men orden fastnade.En: He wanted to say something, but the words got stuck.Sv: Varför kändes allt så komplicerat?En: Why did everything feel so complicated?Sv: De nådde fram till björnarnas hage.En: They reached the bear enclosure.Sv: Björnarna hade krupit in för att sova hela vintern.En: The bears had gone in to sleep for the whole winter.Sv: Emil stannade upp och stirrade in i grottan där björnen vilade.En: Emil stopped and stared into the cave where the bear rested.Sv: En känsla av samhörighet sköljde över honom.En: A feeling of kinship washed over him.Sv: Precis som björnen ville han dra sig undan, hitta sitt eget space.En: Just like the bear, he wanted to withdraw, find his own space.Sv: Erik la en hand på Emils axel.En: Erik placed a hand on Emil's shoulder.Sv: "Vad tänker du på, Emil?"En: "What are you thinking about, Emil?"Sv: frågade han mjukt.En: he asked softly.Sv: Emil tog ett djupt andetag och öppnade munnen.En: Emil took a deep breath and opened his mouth.Sv: "Jag känner mig... fångad ibland," erkände han.En: "I feel... trapped sometimes," he admitted.Sv: "Jag älskar vår familj, men jag behöver tid för mig själv.En: "I love our family, but I need time for myself.Sv: Förstå du?"En: Do you understand?"Sv: Erik nickade allvarligt.En: Erik nodded seriously.Sv: "Jag förstår," sa han.En: "I understand," he said.Sv: "Och jag vet att jag kan vara frånvarande.En: "And I know I can be absent.Sv: Vi kan bli bättre på att förstå varandra.En: We can get better at understanding each other.Sv: Jag lovar att försöka."En: I promise to try."Sv: Linnea sprang tillbaka till dem, snön yrde runt hennes fötter.En: Linnea ran back to them, snow swirling around her feet.Sv: "Pappa!En: "Dad!Sv: Emil!En: Emil!Sv: Ska vi gå vidare?"En: Shall we move on?"Sv: ropade hon glatt.En: she called happily.Sv: Emil och Erik utbytte en blick och log.En: Emil and Erik exchanged a look and smiled.Sv: Ett nytt band hade knutits mellan dem denna kalla vinterdag.En: A new bond had been formed between them this cold winter day.Sv: Även om det fanns en längtan efter frihet, fanns det också en plats för närhet och förståelse.En: Even though there was a longing for freedom, there was also a place for closeness and understanding.Sv: Tillsammans fortsatte de genom Skansen, ljusen blinkade omkring dem.En: Together they continued through Skansen, lights twinkling around them.Sv: Emil kände för första gången på länge att han skulle kunna hitta balans.En: For the first time in a long while, Emil felt he might find balance.Sv: Hans värld var inte längre svartvit.En: His world was no longer black and white.Sv: Där, mitt bland gnistrande snö och vakande björnar, insåg han att han kunde vara både en del av sin familj och sig själv.En: There, amidst the sparkling snow and watchful bears, he realized he could be both a part of his family and himself.Sv: Det nya året hade verkligen börjat, med ett löfte om förändring och samförstånd.En: The new year had truly begun, with a promise of change and understanding. 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Gambling Addiction SpecialThis week, Clayton hosts another special edition of Towards Understanding, where he chats to three guests with different experiences of gambling addiction.His third guest is former Melbourne Footy Club Champion, David Schwarz. David shared about seeing his Dad be killed in front of him as a youngster, the impact that had on his life and how he started gambling at the age of 15. David also shared about the incredible impact his wife Karen has had in the turnaround in his life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gambling Addiction SpecialThis week, Clayton hosts another special edition of Towards Understanding, where he chats to three guests with different experiences of gambling addiction.His second guest is Joe from New Zealand. Gambling wasn't his main addiction, but it became problematic alongside his other addictions and he chats to Clayton about how God has worked in his life to free him from his addictions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Clayton hosts another special edition of Towards Understanding, where he chats to three guests with different experiences of gambling addiction.His first guest is Rev Tim Costello, who is the Chief Advocate for the Australian Alliance for Gambling Reform, which is the only national peak body working to reduce gambling harm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we have a very interesting discussion with author Erika Howsare, whose recent book, The Age of Deer, The Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors recently caught our attention. It's a fascinating look at the white-tailed deer and its relationship with man over time. She explains, “deer have been an essential part of human life for millennia and today our relationship is still intimate, yet full of contradictions:  we hunt and protect them, we cull them in suburbs while mythologizing them as icons of the wilderness.”  Erika didn't grow up hunting and readily admits she was ambivalent about the whole process. However, through her research on deer and an open mind, she develops a very deep introspective into hunting, hunters, and our view of the world.  If you're a hunter, especially a deer hunter, you need to listen to what she has to say. Listen, Learn and Enjoy.    Show Notes: The Age of Deer, The Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/731239/the-age-of-deer-by-erika-howsare/ When does deer season start? If you want the best deer herd possible this fall - then deer season starts NOW. For a limited time podcast listeners get 10% off with coupon code: GKPOD Support the Show.Stay connected with GameKeepers: Enter the Gamekeeper LS Tractor Giveaway!: https://mossyoakgamekeeper.com/gamekeeper-ls-tractor-giveaway/ Instagram: @mossyoakgamekeepers Facebook: @GameKeepers Twitter: @MOGameKeepers YouTube: @MossyOakGameKeepers Website: https://mossyoakgamekeeper.com/ Subscribe to Gamekeepers Magazine: https://bit.ly/GK_Magazine Buy a Single Issue of Gamekeepers Magazine: https://bit.ly/GK_Single_Issue Join our Newsletters: Field Notes - https://bit.ly/GKField_Notes | The Branch - https://bit.ly/the_branch Have a question for us or a podcast idea? Email us at gamekeepers@mossyoak.com

In light of the tragic and disturbing recent events in Australia and with ongoing global events, Towards Understanding has put together a special edition of the program to encourage people to pursue peace in this time, and to pray. Details of our three guests are below. In addition to this special, a website (PrayAustralia.org) has been set up by Christian Media and Arts Australia, which contains prayer points you can use. If you are struggling, we encourage you to reach out to LifeLine.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Stacy Westfall explores the power of goal-setting and learning in layers, using her own experiences and the upcoming Virtual Tevis Cup as examples.  She explores how breaking down big goals into smaller, achievable tasks can propel us toward our ultimate dreams., discussing how seemingly unrelated goals can complement each other. The Virtual Tevis Cup serves as a focal point, challenging listeners to rethink their capabilities and embrace new opportunities for growth, even in unexpected areas. Stacy emphasizes the importance of self-awareness, learning from mistakes, and maintaining a community-driven approach to equine endeavors.  If you're interested in participating in the Virtual Tevis Cup or exploring layered goals for yourself and your horse, visit Stacy Westfall's website or social media for more information.

In this episode, Bob Galen and Josh Anderson, alongside discussions on personal challenges, explore the profound impact of compassion in leadership. They delve into self-compassion as a foundational element and how understanding personal and team challenges can lead to a more empathetic leadership approach. The episode emphasizes the importance of caring personally for your team and the reciprocal nature of compassion in fostering a supportive and motivated work environment.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Environmental narratives – written texts with a focus on the environment – offer rich material capturing relationships between people and their surroundings. Situated at the intersection of the environmental and digital humanities, Unlocking Environmental Narratives: Towards Understanding Human Environment Interactions Through Computational Text Analysis (Ubiquity Press, 2022) examines the potential for studying these sources with computational methods. The volume introduces research questions, approaches, and case studies – from glaciers to urban gentrification – that will be of interest to newcomers to the field and experienced researchers. Ross Stuart Purves is Professor of Geocomputation in the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich. Luca Scholz is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Manchester (UK). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Environmental narratives – written texts with a focus on the environment – offer rich material capturing relationships between people and their surroundings. Situated at the intersection of the environmental and digital humanities, Unlocking Environmental Narratives: Towards Understanding Human Environment Interactions Through Computational Text Analysis (Ubiquity Press, 2022) examines the potential for studying these sources with computational methods. The volume introduces research questions, approaches, and case studies – from glaciers to urban gentrification – that will be of interest to newcomers to the field and experienced researchers. Ross Stuart Purves is Professor of Geocomputation in the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich. Luca Scholz is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Manchester (UK). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies

Environmental narratives – written texts with a focus on the environment – offer rich material capturing relationships between people and their surroundings. Situated at the intersection of the environmental and digital humanities, Unlocking Environmental Narratives: Towards Understanding Human Environment Interactions Through Computational Text Analysis (Ubiquity Press, 2022) examines the potential for studying these sources with computational methods. The volume introduces research questions, approaches, and case studies – from glaciers to urban gentrification – that will be of interest to newcomers to the field and experienced researchers. Ross Stuart Purves is Professor of Geocomputation in the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich. Luca Scholz is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Manchester (UK). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

Environmental narratives – written texts with a focus on the environment – offer rich material capturing relationships between people and their surroundings. Situated at the intersection of the environmental and digital humanities, Unlocking Environmental Narratives: Towards Understanding Human Environment Interactions Through Computational Text Analysis (Ubiquity Press, 2022) examines the potential for studying these sources with computational methods. The volume introduces research questions, approaches, and case studies – from glaciers to urban gentrification – that will be of interest to newcomers to the field and experienced researchers. Ross Stuart Purves is Professor of Geocomputation in the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich. Luca Scholz is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Manchester (UK). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/digital-humanities

What if we told you that the biggest and most unlimited resource in our lives is none other than God Himself? That's right! This podcast episode takes a deep and profound look at the concept of God as an abundant source of blessings. We kick off the conversation by acknowledging Him as the ultimate Creator, Provider, and Loving Father, while reflecting upon the multitude of blessings He showers upon us. Our church has been steering the community towards understanding this notion and utilizing these divine resources to make a real difference in society. We're all in this together, and this episode is a reminder of how our faith fuels our community outreach.Does the thought of scarcity scare you? Do you worry about not having enough for yourself and others? Well, let us share a heartening story of how our church rallied together to provide Thanksgiving baskets for families in need, despite initial financial hurdles. We were in awe as God provided in His time and His way. This story, along with a reflection on a Psalm of ascension, paints a vivid picture of God's boundless provision and mercy, especially in troublesome times. Trusting in His kindness and mercy, even when the going gets tough, is a theme we delve into throughout this episode.Lastly, we take a closer look at God's mercy and love, using the compassionate story of the woman caught in adultery from John 8:1-11. This powerful narrative demonstrates how Jesus embodied mercy and forgiveness at a time when it was least expected. We also draw upon the Psalms of Ascension, which continually remind us of God's sovereignty. As we wrap up, we encourage you to ask yourself if your faith aligns with God's promises and if you truly believe in His power. It's a profound conversation that prompts us to trust in God's plan, even when life doesn't make sense. Tune in, and let's explore this journey of faith together.

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Ever found yourself sitting on the judgement seat, doling out unsolicited advice or critiques without realizing it? What if we could disentangle ourselves from the web of judgments and embrace a path of understanding instead? Join me, Bridget, as we demystify the complexities of judgments and uncover if we're merely judging or stating the truth to those we care about. We'll explore why we judge, how to stop the cycle, and how learning from our judgments can become a catalyst for personal growth. Let's commit to stepping off the judgmental seat together, and usher in an era of observing without judgment. But our journey doesn't stop there. As we move forward, we turn toward healing and nurturing connections. Acknowledging judgment is the first stride toward closing the chasm it can dig in relationships. We'll explore how to identify judgment, comprehend its power in realigning us, and foster more meaningful connections by communicating without judgment. Our discourse is not about castigation, but about growth and building healthier relationships. Together, we'll strive to judge less and learn more. Tune in and let's embark on this transformative journey.Book your discovery call here. Bring a relationship struggle to the call, and I will help you see how your stories and judgments for this person are actually about you. Let's Connect.A free e book for busy moms. I will teach you how to get your time back and create a life you love. Download it here.Free guide: 5 ways to Stress Less: Get the guide hereCome find me on Instagram: @bridgetcovillCheck out my website and my offerings here

Today is an old episode that I am sharing with you again. This episode is about binge eating - a behaviour that can be seen across all the eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and OSFED). I see a binge as an end point coping strategy, following a series of cumulative triggers, which are often out of awareness. The binge can offer relief, escape, numbing, fleeting euphoria and more. Of course, these impacts are short lasting and lead to detrimental impacts on mental and physical well-being.  I talk about 5 ways to understand your binge eating better and how to begin to change this.  I explore dietary restraint, physical and mental restriction, regular eating, self-soothing and self-care, body image, low mood and developing deeper awareness of your thoughts and feelings.This episode will support you in understanding and unpacking your binge eating, to empower you to take the first steps towards change. I hope that you enjoy it.   This episode is brought to you by Altum Health - https://www.altumhealth.co.uk/  

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: Towards understanding-based safety evaluations, published by evhub on March 15, 2023 on LessWrong. Thanks to Kate Woolverton, Ethan Perez, Beth Barnes, Holden Karnofsky, and Ansh Radhakrishnan for useful conversations, comments, and feedback. Recently, I have noticed a lot of momentum within AI safety specifically, the broader AI field, and our society more generally, towards the development of standards and evaluations for advanced AI systems. See, for example, OpenAI's GPT-4 System Card. Overall, I think that this is a really positive development. However, while I like the sorts of behavioral evaluations discussed in the GPT-4 System Card (e.g. ARC's autonomous replication evaluation) as a way of assessing model capabilities, I have a pretty fundamental concern with these sorts of techniques as a mechanism for eventually assessing alignment. I often worry about situations where your model is attempting to deceive whatever tests are being run on it, either because it's itself a deceptively aligned agent or because it's predicting what it thinks a deceptively aligned AI would do. My concern is that, in such a situation, being able to robustly evaluate the safety of a model could be a more difficult problem than finding training processes that robustly produce safe models. For some discussion of why I think checking for deceptive alignment might be harder than avoiding it, see here and here. Put simply: checking for deception in a model requires going up against a highly capable adversary that is attempting to evade detection, while preventing deception from arising in the first place doesn't necessarily require that. As a result, it seems quite plausible to me that we could end up locking in a particular sort of evaluation framework (e.g. behavioral testing by an external auditor without transparency, checkpoints, etc.) that makes evaluating deception very difficult. If meeting such a standard then became synonymous with safety, getting labs to actually put effort into ensuring their models were non-deceptive could become essentially impossible. However, there's an obvious alternative here, which is building and focusing our evaluations on our ability to understand our models rather than our ability to evaluate their behavior. Rather than evaluating a final model, an understanding-based evaluation would evaluate the developer's ability to understand what sort of model they got and why they got it. I think that an understanding-based evaluation could be substantially more tractable in terms of actually being sufficient for safety here: rather than just checking the model's behavior, we're checking the reasons why we think we understand it's behavior sufficiently well to not be concerned that it'll be dangerous. It's worth noting that I think understanding-based evaluations can—and I think should—go hand-in-hand with behavioral evaluations. I think the main way you'd want to make some sort of understanding-based standard happen would be to couple it with a capability-based evaluation, where the understanding requirements become stricter as the model's capabilities increase. If we could get this right, it could channel a huge amount of effort towards understanding models in a really positive way. Understanding as a safety standard also has the property that it is something that broader society tends to view as extremely reasonable, which I think makes it a much more achievable ask as a safety standard than many other plausible alternatives. I think ML people are often Stockholm-syndrome'd into accepting that deploying powerful systems without understanding them is normal and reasonable, but that is very far from the norm in any other industry. Ezra Klein in the NYT and John Oliver on his show have recently emphasized this basic point that if we are deploying powerful AI...

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: Towards understanding-based safety evaluations, published by Evan Hubinger on March 15, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. Thanks to Kate Woolverton, Ethan Perez, Beth Barnes, Holden Karnofsky, and Ansh Radhakrishnan for useful conversations, comments, and feedback. Recently, I have noticed a lot of momentum within AI safety specifically, the broader AI field, and our society more generally, towards the development of standards and evaluations for advanced AI systems. See, for example, OpenAI's GPT-4 System Card. Overall, I think that this is a really positive development. However, while I like the sorts of behavioral evaluations discussed in the GPT-4 System Card (e.g. ARC's autonomous replication evaluation) as a way of assessing model capabilities, I have a pretty fundamental concern with these sorts of techniques as a mechanism for eventually assessing alignment. I often worry about situations where your model is attempting to deceive whatever tests are being run on it, either because it's itself a deceptively aligned agent or because it's predicting what it thinks a deceptively aligned AI would do. My concern is that, in such a situation, being able to robustly evaluate the safety of a model could be a more difficult problem than finding training processes that robustly produce safe models. For some discussion of why I think checking for deceptive alignment might be harder than avoiding it, see here and here. Put simply: checking for deception in a model requires going up against a highly capable adversary that is attempting to evade detection, while preventing deception from arising in the first place doesn't necessarily require that. As a result, it seems quite plausible to me that we could end up locking in a particular sort of evaluation framework (e.g. behavioral testing by an external auditor without transparency, checkpoints, etc.) that makes evaluating deception very difficult. If meeting such a standard then became synonymous with safety, getting labs to actually put effort into ensuring their models were non-deceptive could become essentially impossible. However, there's an obvious alternative here, which is building and focusing our evaluations on our ability to understand our models rather than our ability to evaluate their behavior. Rather than evaluating a final model, an understanding-based evaluation would evaluate the developer's ability to understand what sort of model they got and why they got it. I think that an understanding-based evaluation could be substantially more tractable in terms of actually being sufficient for safety here: rather than just checking the model's behavior, we're checking the reasons why we think we understand it's behavior sufficiently well to not be concerned that it'll be dangerous. It's worth noting that I think understanding-based evaluations can—and I think should—go hand-in-hand with behavioral evaluations. I think the main way you'd want to make some sort of understanding-based standard happen would be to couple it with a capability-based evaluation, where the understanding requirements become stricter as the model's capabilities increase. If we could get this right, it could channel a huge amount of effort towards understanding models in a really positive way. Understanding as a safety standard also has the property that it is something that broader society tends to view as extremely reasonable, which I think makes it a much more achievable ask as a safety standard than many other plausible alternatives. I think ML people are often Stockholm-syndrome'd into accepting that deploying powerful systems without understanding them is normal and reasonable, but that is very far from the norm in any other industry. Ezra Klein in the NYT and John Oliver on his show have recently emphasized this basic point that if we are ...

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: Towards understanding-based safety evaluations, published by evhub on March 15, 2023 on LessWrong. Thanks to Kate Woolverton, Ethan Perez, Beth Barnes, Holden Karnofsky, and Ansh Radhakrishnan for useful conversations, comments, and feedback. Recently, I have noticed a lot of momentum within AI safety specifically, the broader AI field, and our society more generally, towards the development of standards and evaluations for advanced AI systems. See, for example, OpenAI's GPT-4 System Card. Overall, I think that this is a really positive development. However, while I like the sorts of behavioral evaluations discussed in the GPT-4 System Card (e.g. ARC's autonomous replication evaluation) as a way of assessing model capabilities, I have a pretty fundamental concern with these sorts of techniques as a mechanism for eventually assessing alignment. I often worry about situations where your model is attempting to deceive whatever tests are being run on it, either because it's itself a deceptively aligned agent or because it's predicting what it thinks a deceptively aligned AI would do. My concern is that, in such a situation, being able to robustly evaluate the safety of a model could be a more difficult problem than finding training processes that robustly produce safe models. For some discussion of why I think checking for deceptive alignment might be harder than avoiding it, see here and here. Put simply: checking for deception in a model requires going up against a highly capable adversary that is attempting to evade detection, while preventing deception from arising in the first place doesn't necessarily require that. As a result, it seems quite plausible to me that we could end up locking in a particular sort of evaluation framework (e.g. behavioral testing by an external auditor without transparency, checkpoints, etc.) that makes evaluating deception very difficult. If meeting such a standard then became synonymous with safety, getting labs to actually put effort into ensuring their models were non-deceptive could become essentially impossible. However, there's an obvious alternative here, which is building and focusing our evaluations on our ability to understand our models rather than our ability to evaluate their behavior. Rather than evaluating a final model, an understanding-based evaluation would evaluate the developer's ability to understand what sort of model they got and why they got it. I think that an understanding-based evaluation could be substantially more tractable in terms of actually being sufficient for safety here: rather than just checking the model's behavior, we're checking the reasons why we think we understand it's behavior sufficiently well to not be concerned that it'll be dangerous. It's worth noting that I think understanding-based evaluations can—and I think should—go hand-in-hand with behavioral evaluations. I think the main way you'd want to make some sort of understanding-based standard happen would be to couple it with a capability-based evaluation, where the understanding requirements become stricter as the model's capabilities increase. If we could get this right, it could channel a huge amount of effort towards understanding models in a really positive way. Understanding as a safety standard also has the property that it is something that broader society tends to view as extremely reasonable, which I think makes it a much more achievable ask as a safety standard than many other plausible alternatives. I think ML people are often Stockholm-syndrome'd into accepting that deploying powerful systems without understanding them is normal and reasonable, but that is very far from the norm in any other industry. Ezra Klein in the NYT and John Oliver on his show have recently emphasized this basic point that if we are deploying powerful AI...

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: Towards understanding-based safety evaluations, published by Evan Hubinger on March 15, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. Thanks to Kate Woolverton, Ethan Perez, Beth Barnes, Holden Karnofsky, and Ansh Radhakrishnan for useful conversations, comments, and feedback. Recently, I have noticed a lot of momentum within AI safety specifically, the broader AI field, and our society more generally, towards the development of standards and evaluations for advanced AI systems. See, for example, OpenAI's GPT-4 System Card. Overall, I think that this is a really positive development. However, while I like the sorts of behavioral evaluations discussed in the GPT-4 System Card (e.g. ARC's autonomous replication evaluation) as a way of assessing model capabilities, I have a pretty fundamental concern with these sorts of techniques as a mechanism for eventually assessing alignment. I often worry about situations where your model is attempting to deceive whatever tests are being run on it, either because it's itself a deceptively aligned agent or because it's predicting what it thinks a deceptively aligned AI would do. My concern is that, in such a situation, being able to robustly evaluate the safety of a model could be a more difficult problem than finding training processes that robustly produce safe models. For some discussion of why I think checking for deceptive alignment might be harder than avoiding it, see here and here. Put simply: checking for deception in a model requires going up against a highly capable adversary that is attempting to evade detection, while preventing deception from arising in the first place doesn't necessarily require that. As a result, it seems quite plausible to me that we could end up locking in a particular sort of evaluation framework (e.g. behavioral testing by an external auditor without transparency, checkpoints, etc.) that makes evaluating deception very difficult. If meeting such a standard then became synonymous with safety, getting labs to actually put effort into ensuring their models were non-deceptive could become essentially impossible. However, there's an obvious alternative here, which is building and focusing our evaluations on our ability to understand our models rather than our ability to evaluate their behavior. Rather than evaluating a final model, an understanding-based evaluation would evaluate the developer's ability to understand what sort of model they got and why they got it. I think that an understanding-based evaluation could be substantially more tractable in terms of actually being sufficient for safety here: rather than just checking the model's behavior, we're checking the reasons why we think we understand it's behavior sufficiently well to not be concerned that it'll be dangerous. It's worth noting that I think understanding-based evaluations can—and I think should—go hand-in-hand with behavioral evaluations. I think the main way you'd want to make some sort of understanding-based standard happen would be to couple it with a capability-based evaluation, where the understanding requirements become stricter as the model's capabilities increase. If we could get this right, it could channel a huge amount of effort towards understanding models in a really positive way. Understanding as a safety standard also has the property that it is something that broader society tends to view as extremely reasonable, which I think makes it a much more achievable ask as a safety standard than many other plausible alternatives. I think ML people are often Stockholm-syndrome'd into accepting that deploying powerful systems without understanding them is normal and reasonable, but that is very far from the norm in any other industry. Ezra Klein in the NYT and John Oliver on his show have recently emphasized this basic point that if we are ...

Accretion disks, quasars and cosmology: meandering towards understanding by Bozena Czerny et al. on Wednesday 14 September As Setti & Woltjer noted back in 1973, quasars could be used to construct the Hubble diagram but the actual application was not that straightforward. It took years to implement the idea successfully. Most of the ways to use quasars for cosmology now require an advanced understanding of their structure, step by step. We briefly review this progress, with unavoidable personal bias, and concentrate on bright unobscured sources. We will mention the problem of the gas flow character close to the innermost stable circular orbit close to the black hole, discussed 50 years ago, which later led to the development of the slim disk scenario, but was recently revived in the context of Magnetically Arrested Disks (MAD) and Standard and Normal Evolution (SANE) disk models. We also discuss the hot/warm corona issue, which is still under discussion and complicates the analysis of the X-ray reflection. We present the scenario of the formation of the low ionization part of the Broad Line Region as a mostly failed wind powered by radiation pressure acting on dust (FRADO - Failed Radiatively Driven Dusty Outflow model). Next, we discuss the cosmological constraints that are currently achievable with quasars, mostly concentrating on light echo methods (continuum time delays and spectral line time delays with respect to the continuum) which are (or should be) incorporating the progress mentioned above. Finally, we briefly mention future prospects in this direction. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06563v1

The Field Guide to Particle Physics : Season 3https://pasayten.org/the-field-guide-to-particle-physics©2022 The Pasayten Institute cc by-sa-4.0The definitive resource for all data in particle physics is the Particle Data Group: https://pdg.lbl.gov.The Pasayten Institute is on a mission to build and share physics knowledge, without barriers! Get in touch.The Positron ExcessSpace is not a safe place. Matter and energy take on a totally different form than is familiar from our planetary lifestyle. Radiation is everywhere, and with it we find high energy particles flying all over the place. One of the biggest challenges in a voyage to Mars is shielding the travelers from all that radiation. Our magnetosphere and atmosphere do an outstanding job of filtering out the most of the high energy particles flying at us from all directions.Many energetic particles come from the sun. Fast moving protons and electrons that boil off our friendly plasma ball get trapped in the van Allen belts of our earth's magnetic field. Way above the atmosphere, we can see them sometimes as the Aurora.Other energetic particles come to us from inside the Milky Way galaxy. Exploding stars, neutron stars and other monsterous astrophysical objects can shed or accelerate their own high energy particles. Often these particles have more energy than those put off by the sun, but it's the same story: A lot of protons, a few electrons, and also some heavier nuclei: like alpha particles. Much less often, we see cosmic rays made up of even bigger things, like the nuclei of Carbon, Silicon or even Iron!Some particles come from outside our galaxy. These can sometimes have outrageously high velocities, and are observed as miles-wide particle showers by large, ground based detector arrays. They aren't common. One of the biggest of these was observed by the Fly's Eye camera back in 1991. It had over 50 J of energy packed into a single particle - probably a proton. That's about the same kinetic energy as baseball being thrown around… in a single particle.Fast moving high energy particles - the ones flying in from outside our solar system -  are typically called Cosmic Rays. A tiny fraction of these Cosmic Rays are actually antimatter. Antiprotons and positrons, specifically.  Understanding where all these cosmic rays come from is an important scientific question in its own right, but understanding where the antimatter comes from - and how much of it there is - has been a truly fascinating question. Especially of late.Where does the cosmic antimatter come from?The ratio of matter to antimatter in Cosmic Rays is small, and varies with particle speed. Typical numbers are 1 or 2 antiprotons for every ten thousand protons. The ratio of positrons to electrons is higher, closer to a few parts in a hundred. One thing we haven't seen? Bigger antiparticles. No antideutrons or antialpha particles have been observed - at all - let alone bigger antinuclei. But of course, we see big nuclei in Cosmic Rays all the time.Because Cosmic Rays come from other parts of the galaxy - or even outside of it - these ratios are basically consistent with our typical assumption that all observed antimatter is secondary. It is created - in other words - through collisions or decay of so-called “normal” matter.Really fast Cosmic Rays occasionally interact with other particles in our galaxy: the tiny, sparse bits of gas and dust in the large voids between stars, sometimes called the interstellar medium. Those collisions often generate more particles, and just like in our own atmosphere, antiparticles are part of that collision debris.Just like the proton and the electron, to the best of our knowledge, the antiproton and the positron are stable particles. So unless they annihilate, these particles of antimatter just hang around. The collective effect of all these Cosmic Rays bounding around our galaxy is a very small - but measurable - population of antiprotons and positrons flying at us as secondary cosmic rays.If we were to assume that all antimatter is secondary - that is, if antiprotons and positrons are created only from collisions in the interstellar medium - we can use that assumption to calculate how much of it we expect to see. In these calculations, the number of antiprotons pretty much lines up expectations. While on the high side, the population of antiprotons in our galaxy essentially agrees with what you'd expect from collisions of other cosmic rays in the interstellar medium.While it is possible that antideutrons and antialpha particles can be also created in these collisions, they are rare. The expected number of them is currently far below current experimental sensitivity.Positrons are a different story. What's fascinating astroparticle physicists these days is that the number of positrons observed in Cosmic Rays is noticeably higher than we expect from these calculations. In particular, the number of positrons at higher energies is much bigger than we'd expect if they were only created in collisions, upwards of 10 percent or more!In short, we see too many positrons flying at us as Cosmic Rays and we don't know why!What we do know about Cosmic RaysEarth's atmosphere is much denser than interstellar space, so Cosmic Rays that make it to Earth typically collide dramatically with molecules in our upper atmosphere. With land-based detectors, we can see the resulting showers of particles down on Earth. We can calculate how much energy they had, but we can't exactly say what kind of particle they were.To assess the species of particle that's slamming into the Earth, we need to capture, identify and count them before they strike the atmosphere. We need, in other words, particle detectors on satellites.Older experiments like the Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope and the PAMELA detector were put in orbit around the earth on satellites. The current state of the art, the AMS-02 Cosmic Ray experiment is literally in a box attached to the side of the International Space Station.All these experiments agree: Cosmic Rays follow a somewhat predictable pattern. Most particles come equally from every direction in space, so as a population of particles, they're very likely diffused around the entire galaxy. The number of particles we see depends on their energy. Roughly speaking, the more energy a particle has, less common it is to see. But this trend is also true by particle species. In aggregate, simpler particles are also more common than complex ones. And of course, antimatter is far, far less common than matter.There are a few minor exceptions to these rules, and they have all been explained by various physical phenomena: like the distinction between lower energy cosmic rays from inside our galaxy to higher energy cosmic rays from outside our galaxy. Each of these minor bumps on the otherwise clean plots of counts of cosmic rays is a fascinating story in its own right. But today, we'll focus on one, massive, glaring irregularity:Again, the number of positrons observed as cosmic rays at higher energies is much higher than we'd expect.The Positron “Excess”Check out this plot from a 2019 publication by the AMS-02 Collaboration, Towards Understanding the Origin of Cosmic-Ray Positrons:Fig 4. from the above paper, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.041102Per the most recent AMS-02 data analysis, the spectrum of positrons in cosmic rays can be cleanly represented with a two-component model. The first component, valid at lower energies, is the usual, expected effect of interstellar media collision debris with higher energy cosmic rays. It peaks at about 5 to 10 GeV with a slightly long tail towards higher energies. The second component, valid at higher energies, appears to be associated with a different and stronger source of positrons, whose peak is closer to a few hundred GeV. This model for an as-yet-unknown source of positrons, is skewed in the other direction, with a longer tail towards lower energies, and a sharp cut-off estimated at about 800 GeV.Now, this two component model is just one interpretation of the data. An agnostic, best fit model. The essential point it captures, is the positrons in Cosmic Rays very likely come from multiple sources. The data associated to the second source term in the model is what we refer to as the “excess” of positrons.As noted in the aforementioned publication, there are few possible explanations for that excess. Pulsars - fast spinning husks of recently desceased stars - may well lose some of their rotational energy to radiation and the production of particle/antiparticle pairs. They could be a source for these positrons (see also this).Another, more intriguing explanation, is that the positrons are created as a byproduct of dark matter/antidark matter annihilation. [1] Dark Matter is a theoretical framework for explaining a vast array of astrophysical phenomena, which are all basically consistent with a new kind of stable or very long lived particle. Such a particle would not interact with light at all, hence the name, Dark Matter.Of course, we don't know if Dark Matter really is made up of particles, and if so, we don't know what those particles would be. They would represent new particle physics, a further extension of the Standard Model. Because many such models of new particle physics include particles that could act like Dark Matter, the positron excess serves as a consistency check or constraint on such models.If the annihilation of a new kind of Dark Matter particle were responsible for the excess of positrons [2], the AMS-02 data already highly constrains its properties. In particular, it has to be heavy, like around a TeV or more, and it has to decay through some intermediate state before producing any of those excess positrons. This scenario is at least qualitatively consistent with the fact that we haven't yet seen any evidence for Dark Matter at the LHC or in direct detectionexperiments [3]. In SummaryAntimatter is out there. It's coming in from outer space. Like the antimuons and positrons that appear in our atmosphere from collisions with these high energy particles, antiprotons and positrons are occasionally formed by tiny collisions all over our galaxy.The number of positrons we see are inconsistent with our understanding of how these secondary Cosmic Rays form. In certain energy ranges, we see far too many positrons. Something is definitely going on. Something we haven't yet accounted for.Something, perhaps... perhaps, like Dark Matter.Footnotes[1] Dr. Rebecca K. Leane, the author of that recent review on these kinds of Dark Matter Indirect Detection results, remarks that pulsars are currently favored to explain the excess. Of course, particle physicists remain excited until its ruled out! See also the following footnote.[2] It's worth pointing out that the as-yet statistically insignificant, slight overabundance of antiprotons could come from Dark Matter annihilation, too! Such antiprotons in cosmic rays also present constraints on Dark Matter annihilation models.[3] The usual disclaimer, with a twist! The DAMA/LIBRA collaboration has been claiming the observation of Dark Matter for years now, although it remains unconfirmed by any other experiment. Convention wisdom remains that Dark Matter has yet to be identified. To bolster that conventional wisdom, a recent, second-party analysis of the DAMA/LIBRA data has suggested their signal may result from a kind of systematic, statistical error.

This episode is about binge eating - a behaviour that can be seen across all the eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and OSFED). I see a binge as an end point coping strategy, following a series of cumulative triggers, which are often out of awareness. The binge can offer relief, escape, numbing, fleeting euphoria and more. Of course, these impacts are short lasting and lead to detrimental impacts on mental and physical well-being.  I talk about 5 ways to understand your binge eating better and how to begin to change this.  I explore dietary restraint, physical and mental restriction, regular eating, self-soothing and self-care, body image, low mood and developing deeper awareness of your thoughts and feelings.This episode will support you in understanding and unpacking your binge eating, to empower you to take the first steps towards change. I hope that you enjoy it.   This episode is brought to you by the National Centre for Eating Disorders: - https://eating-disorders.org.uk/  

Bhrigupada das - Towards understanding difficult parts of the Bhagavatam

Towards Understanding the Question “How Can the First Commandment Be to Believe In G-D?” | Yesodei haTorah 1:6 | Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Wolberg

In this episode, Carvana lays off approximately 2500 workers to align staffing and expenses with sales. VW is bringing back the iconic Scout as an SUV and a Pickup. And, how do you discover your customer's personal value points? Mike Talks Cars is a daily sales training podcast addressing current news, quick updates on new vehicles, and something from this Automotive Trainer that you can do to take your Sales skills to the next level. New mini-episodes, like this one, will be available Monday, Wednesday, and Friday by 1 PM Eastern time. Subscribe and join me for this quick run through the Automotive world. I am your host, Mike Little, and I have spent my career training Sales Consultants and Managers on how to create and deliver world-class Customer Experiences. You can find more from me on my website protraininggroup.ca and YouTube. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mike-talks-cars/message

Ever look around you, questioning so many decisions you made or didn't make along the way, and  feel as if everyone else has it somehow figured out better than you? Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it's rough out there, and we have to help each other through.Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese. Additional music composed and performed by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry.  Today's poem, Allegiance, by Hannah Marshall, is featured here with kind permission of the poet. Check out more of her gorgeous work here: https://hannahmarshallpoet.com/.Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

We sat down to talk to author Mrs. Lillian Brummet about her books she and her husband Dave wrote Trash talk vol.1 and vol.2, Rhythm and Rhyme, Towards Understanding, Purple Snowflake Marketing and her newest book From One Small Garden. This was a very deep, emotional, and inspirational episode as Lillian tells us her journey and trials she faced in becoming a author. If love Lillian story make sure to get her book in the link https://amazon.com/author/lillianbrummet and reach out to her info in the link https://linktr.ee/LillianBrummet  

In July 2021, the journal Frontiers in Neurology reported on "groundbreaking research" out of Tulane pointing to the relationship between Lyme disease and Alzheimer's dementia.  But since the 1980s our guest on this episode, Dr. Alan MacDonald, was stirring up the scientific debate by publishing and presenting data from his pathology laboratory that the bacteria - Borrelia Burgdorferi  often synonymous with what's called Lyme disease, because of its association with its US origins in the town of Lyme, Connecticut. Dr. MacDonald graduated with an MD from Columbia University.  He has completed 35 years of research in Borrelia and Lyme disease and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on the pathology of Lyme and its role in Alzheimer's, dementia, and other diseases. This show is dedicated to my mother, Susan Bergman MD, the #1 fan and supporter of the show - who was the first and coolest pathologist I've ever known. For more information on how you can prevent or push back against Alzheimer's and other dementias visit Kemperwellness.com or call (216) 337-1400.  We have support programs, virtual classes, and many other options. Consider supporting the Evolving Past Alzheimer's podcast at patreon.com/evolvingpast so we can continue to bring you the information most helpful to you.   3:00 - What is a pathologist?  9:35 - Why Alan believes some of Alzheimer's cases have microbial origins  15:07 - Why has it taken so long to recognize chronic Lyme disease?  24:34 - What percentage of Alzheimer's patients have microbes like Lyme in their body?  28:42 - How to get a diagnosis with Lyme  42:12 - The possibilities for the treatment of Lyme disease 

Women have been long ignored in scientific research. Many would argue that the reason for this is because of the hormonal cycle females experience that could vary the results. So I guess this means we should just ignore half of our population in scientific research? Welcome to Boiling Point, this week we are chatting Womens Health! And to answer that question, no, we are certainly not going to ignore half of our population in scientific research and our guest in this episode is Jodie Pestana. Jodie is a PhD Candidate at UNSW in the school of Psychology. She studies how the female brain changes with hormonal cycles and pregnancy. In this weeks show your hosts Anastasia and Cat will be chatting with Jodie on topics surrounding women's health, mental health, and Jodie's start-up company, Cuura (email Curra: info@cuuraapp.com). Be sure to follow Jodie on Twitter and Jodies winning 3 Minute Thesis You can keep up with all the Boiling Point news and podcast episodes through Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Women have been long ignored in scientific research. Many would argue that the reason for this is because of the hormonal cycle females experience that could vary the results. So I guess this means we should just ignore half of our population in scientific research? Welcome to Boiling Point, this week we are chatting Womens [...]Read More... from A Step Towards Understanding Womens Health

“It sounds like a food additive, or at least thats the look I get when I ask some people about it” he said. I was talking with Dr. Ghanem about governance - at the board level and the conversation naturally turned towards ESG. “Some parts of it don't really concern the safety professional, like whether the company engages in bribery practices, but other parts do. The environment part is obvious, if you have HSE or EHS in your title, but some of the social is more than just traditional health and safety.”The net result of the conversation was that we both decided that there were probably a lot of questions that HSE professionals would like to ask about ESG, so we decided to do the show. About our guest:Dr. Waddah S. Ghanem Al HashmiBEng (Hons), MBA, MSc, DipSM, DipEM, AFIChemE, FEI, FIEMA, MIoD, F.GCCBDIGlobal Health and Safety Governance and Leadership ExpertChairman, Federal Occupational Health & Safety Committee, ESMA, United Arab EmiratesHon. Chairman, Energy Institute - Middle EastChairman, Professional Engineering Chapter – UAE Society of Engineers"Towards Understanding better; Environment, Social and Governance Factors..."The HSE practitioner is expected more and more to multi-task and understand so many more and new things as the developments in the corporate world change rapidly. In this episode Dr Waddah Ghanem Al Hashmi will give a brief overview of ESG to introduce this subject of fast-growing importance in the industry. From large corporates to start-ups and small companies, ESG indicators, voluntary and integrated reporting has become an important thing to understand. Many of the indicators that should be reported in live integrated and sustainability reports come from various integrated EHS key performance indicators.Waddah is considered one of the global authorities on governance and leadership in EHS. Waddah holds several academic and vocational qualifications including a Degree in Engineering, two Post Graduate Diplomas from the UK an MSc in Environmental Sciences from UAE University, an Executive MBA and a Doctorate from the University of Bradford in the UK and specialises in Corporate Governance and Leadership. He has received several awards in his career, most notably, the Rashid Prize for Scholarship Excellence in 2007 (Dubai), and the IEMA Sustainability Leader of the Year (UK) in 2019.Waddah has worked for the ENOC Group as EHSQ Director, Executive Director EHSSQ & Corporate Affairs and then Senior Director – Sustainability, Operational & Business Excellence. He had spent the last 24 years from being a consultant to an EHS Supervisor at the refinery to assistant EHS Advisor in the Group, later to grow the EHS Compliance function until he become Director, EHSQ Compliance. He now works in Marine Assurance and Logistics.

Dr Elena Netchiporouk of the McGill University Health Centre joins Kirk Barber to discuss her article in the March/April issue of the Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery titled: "Towards Understanding of Environmental Risk Factors in Systemic Sclerosis." As Kirk notes at the start of the interview, "It sounds like a very dry subject, but when I sat down and went through the article in detail, some really fascinating things come up," and with that, their journey through the background and findings of the article begins. It's a subject that Dr Netchiporouk describes as a passion, and it includes research that dates back to 1914. Dr. Elena Netchiporouk is an assistant professor of dermatology at the McGill University Health Centre and the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Dermatology at McGill. You can find Dr Netchiporouk's article in JCMS below. It is available free for three weeks after this interview is posted: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1203475420957950 JCMS Author Interviews is produced by David McGuffin of Explore Podcast Productions in Ottawa. Our theme music was composed by Lee Rosevere.

Dr. John Morris is the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Professor of Physical Therapy, and Professor of Occupational Therapy at Washington University in St. Louis. He also is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, as well as the Memory and Aging Project. Much of Dr. Morris’s research has been focused on understanding the process of the development of Alzheimer’s disease compared to the process of normal brain aging. One of his major goals is to understand the causes of Alzheimer’s disease so that we can develop therapies to treat and prevent this disease. When he isn’t working, Dr. Morris enjoys spending time with family, reading a wide variety of books, and cycling on some of the fantastic bike paths in the St. Louis area. Dr. Morris received his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and completed his Residency in Internal Medicine at Akron General Medical Center and his Chief Residency in Neurology and Residency in Neuropathology at the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital. He then spent some time in private practice and later as an emergency room physician. Dr. Morris first came to Washington University for a postdoctoral fellowship and joined the faculty soon after. Dr. Morris has received many awards and honors during his career, including the Distinguished Achievement Citation from Ohio Wesleyan University where he completed his undergraduate education, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alzheimer’s Association, the Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick’s Alzheimer’s, and Related Disease from the American Academy of Neurology, the Carl and Gerti Cori Faculty Achievement Award from Washington University, the Peter Raven Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Science St. Louis, and the Washington University School of Medicine Second Century award. In this interview, he shares stories about his life and science.

In this episode of On Listening, I have the distinct privilege to interview Michel Zaken, secondary education professional and Deaf woman. She engaged with me via Zoom along with her interpreter Nicole Lupinetti. Michel helped me understand the experience of listening for the d/Deaf and hard of hearing population with the caveat that she does not speak for all d/Deaf people. We discuss American Sign Language - a strictly visual language - and how it differs from American English. She exposes myths around deafness and discusses the experience from the lens of having a “deaf gain” as well as living with a disability. We also explore “audism” which is the bias that d/Deaf people are in some way less than. I learned more in this podcast than any other and so appreciate her thoughtfulness and connection on this topic.

In this episode, Zach talks with Tao Moran, a special educator and play therapist who was inspired to switch careers by her autistic son. Tao shares the importance of early intervention and how the pandemic led to her finally understanding the benefits of embedded practice. They also discuss the importance of parent involvement and how technology can be effective, or dangerous, depending on how it is used. To close, Tao shares best practices for therapy and explains why the development of social emotional skills is more important than ever. Send the AAK Podcast an Email: hello@aakcares.com Follow All About Kids Here on Instagram 

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.10.04.325662v1?rss=1 Authors: Biswas, S., Saha, S., Bandyopadhyay, S., Bhattacharyya, M. Abstract: With an increasing number of SARS-CoV-2 sequences available day by day, new genomic information is getting revealed to us. As SARS-CoV-2 sequences highlight wide changes across the samples, we aim to explore whether these changes reveal the geographical origin of the corresponding samples. The k-mer distributions, denoting normalized frequency counts of all possible combinations of nucleotide of size upto k, are often helpful to explore sequence level patterns. Given the SARS-CoV-2 sequences are highly imbalanced by its geographical origin (relatively with a higher number samples collected from the USA), we observe that with proper under-sampling k-mer distributions in the SARS-CoV-2 sequences predict its geographical origin with more than 90% accuracy. The experiments are performed on the samples collected from six countries with maximum number of sequences available till July 07, 2020. This comprises SARS-CoV-2 sequences from Australia, USA, China, India, Greece and France. Moreover, we demonstrate that the changes of genomic sequences characterize the continents as a whole. We also highlight that the network motifs present in the sequence similarity networks have a significant difference across the said countries. This, as a whole, is capable of predicting the geographical shift of SARS-CoV-2. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

In the 21st Chapter of Matthew, the religious authorities try to catch Jesus in a trap. Jesus turns the tables on them and asks all to look at the conflict from another perspective. We are challenged to adopt this model for conflict in our own lives.Other ways to engage:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVWQGHpO3YV4aOKXH6ZK6QwPodcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/456382Twitter: https://twitter.com/LiftedYeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/beyelifted/Website: https://kingofkingslutheran.org/?page=HomeSupport the show (https://kingofkingslutheran.org/?page=Stewardship)

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Dan goes more in depth in response to The Wall's (formerly 4thWallCast) discussions over the past two weeks regarding the unfortunate death of George Floyd and the violent protests that followed. Dan shares his thoughts on the subject as well as his experiences in hopes to help educate and differentiate between the solution and the problem. Dan and everyone at the FourthWall POP! Network stand in solidarity with the Black Community. We offer our sincere condolences to the family of George Floyd and the families of countless others who have lost their lives due to senseless violence. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fourthwallpop/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fourthwallpop/support

Ken W. Dick was born in Leamington, Ontario on a fruit and vegetable farm which led to experiences close to nature that have influenced his health philosophy. His family was part of a close knit Mennonite farming community which stressed principles of simplicity, ethics and discipline. Ken pursued kinesiology studies in the co-operative program at the University of Waterloo and graduated in 1979. His work experience centered around jobs as a tennis professional as well as positions in 3 different hospital settings as a kinesiologist. This led him to studies at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto from which he graduated cum laude in 1983. He was awarded athlete of the year honours upon graduation as well as the award of honour and the award of merit for his accomplishments as a clinic intern. Ken spent a year providing locum tenens in clinics in Toronto, Ottawa, Sudbury, and Copenhagen before establishing the Britannia Chiropractic Clinic Clinic in Ottawa, Ontario. He has thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of offering a community-based, preventive, wholistic health care practice for over 9,000 patients for more than 30 years. He has developed an area of expertise in athletic injuries while caring for many local, national and international athletes. Ken is also a certified Level 2 Hockey Trainer. Continuing educational interests have included studies in laser and needle acupuncture, Parker Research seminars and naturopathy. His present practice approach consists of a combination of diversified chiropractic techniques plus nutritional and exercise counselling. Ken is trained in neuroemotional technique (NET) which involves treating the relationship between traumatic emotional events and physical health and he has also done graduate studies in Cranial Adjusting Technique Turner Style. Ken has recently developed many low force techniques with the implementation of Impulse adjusting with astonishing results. Related travel involvement includes pursuits of healing insights to Europe, Russia and Australia. A major concern of Ken's is to foster a co-operative spirit amongst health professions. He has been a faculty member of the Canadian College of Natural Healing and has also given lectures to the University of Ottawa medical school, Environmental Health Association, Fitness Canada and the Canadian Coaching Association. He has also appeared on numerous television and radio talk shows. Ken is the Eastern Ontario representative for the Ethics and Discipline Committee of the Ontario Chiropractic Association. Avocational interests include public speaking, writing, travel and athletic pursuits in the form of tennis, running, golf and cross-country skiing. Organizations of which he is a member include the Ontario, Canadian and Canadian Chiropractic Associations and the Wholistic Health International Association. He is past-president of The Eastern Ontario Chiropractic Society. Future plans include more involvement in natural-based healthcare alternatives as a writer and speaker. Balance in lifestyle is a major tenet of Ken's health philosophy and family life will always maintain a place of priority as well as continuing to enjoy the privilege of relating to patients on a one-to-one basis in a clinic setting that is constantly evolving. In 2017 Ken authored his first book Healing Satori. Healing Satori is literary medicine without any negative side effects. Your health will improve just by reading it. To purchase your copy of Healing Satori please visit www.drkenhealingsatori.com/. Click here to email Dr. Dick. Bio obtained from: https://www.britanniachiro.com/us/  

People often learn complex computational content most easily and deeply when they have “creative agency” – the social network, ability, skills, resources, and support to collaboratively and playfully make creative computational content in feedback-rich environments. This talk will present a lens on how we can create environments where learners are supported in developing creative agency, and how we might assess or evaluate success. Matthew Berland covers his projects in museums, computer science classrooms, after-school clubs, and universities, showing how we can use design-based research, learning analytics, and games to enable creative agency towards more equitable outcomes and better understand how, why, and when people make and learn complex computational content together. Matthew Berland is an Associate Professor of Design, Informal, and Creative Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, spending 2019-2020 as a visiting scholar in CMS/W at MIT. In addition, he is the director of the UW Games Program and the Complex Play Lab and Affiliate Faculty in Computer Sciences, Information Studies, STS, and the Learning Sciences. He uses design-based research and learning analytics to design, create, and study learning environments that support students’ creativity in learning computational literacies, systems literacies, and computer science & engineering content.

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi discusses the conclusion of Surah Yusuf and the relevance of the Surah in the context of the story. Verses 105 to 111 of Surah Yusuf are recited. How many miracles and signs are present in front of us to ascertain the bounties given to us by Allah SWT, yet we completely ignore? ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi recites the verses 99 to 104 of Surah Yusuf which is the conclusion of the story of Yusuf AS. The return of Yaqub AS with his family to Egypt and the reunion with his beloved son, Yusuf AS was a beautiful one. Yusuf AS hugged his parents tight and it was an ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi discusses verses 92 to 98 of Surah Yusuf where we gather information on how Yusuf AS is finally reunited with his parents. Yusuf AS informs his brothers that no blame is on them in order to avoid hurting them which depicts the solid character of Yusuf AS. This brings the Shaykh to ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi sheds light on what the brothers did after giving such a strict and solemn oath to their father of protecting Bin Yameen against all odds by reciting verses 71 to 82 of Surah Yusuf. The brothers dissociated themselves from Bin Yameen on learning of the theft and also, compare him to their ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi now discusses from verse 83 of Surah Yusuf about the moving passage of Yaqub AS on what he did after being confronted by the brothers and their divulging of information of the capture of Bin Yameen and the self exile imposed by the oldest brother upon himself. Yaqub AS responds to the ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi now moves on to discuss verses 68 to 76 of Surah Yusuf in which he divulges details on how Yusuf AS manages to keep Bin Yameen with him. Hospitality was at its fore on the part of Yusuf AS in the form of a banquet for his brothers. On some pretext, Yusuf ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi talks about how Yusuf AS asks his brothers to bring Bin Yameen to him and how Yusuf AS manages to keep his youngest brother with him in Egypt. Verses 62 to 67 are recited of Surah Yusuf. Yusuf AS tells his slave to place the merchandise that he brought back in the ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi discusses Verses 44 to 62 which are recited from Surah Yusuf and explanations are provided in the video ahead. We are acquainted with the three types of souls of human beings:  Righteous and pious soul Soul that rebukes itself and amends itself Corrupt soul that deviates from the worship of Allah. The ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi now discusses the king finding about who Yusuf AS was and his backstory. He also discusses dreams and their interpretations as this forms the backbone of Surah Yusuf. The concept of dream interpretation is a blessing given by Allah to His chosen servants. How does one get this knowledge? Simply by being ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi discusses at length the tafseer of Surah Yusuf which is the 12th chapter of the Quran and contains 111 verses. This Surah was revealed in Mecca during a depressing and difficult time for the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. This was because he had lost both his uncle and wife in the same year. ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi welcomes us to yet another fascinating part of this amazing series and discusses what transpired in the king’s palace that prompted the king to have an interaction with Yusuf AS while in prison. Verses 42 to verse 53 of Surah Yusuf are recited in the same context. In these verses, Yusuf AS ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi now divulges details on the dream of Prophet Yusuf AS And how his father Prophet Yaqub AS (nicknamed Israel) interpreted the meaning of this dream. The most noble and blessed of lineage is that of Prophet Yusuf AS. His father had 12 sons.  When did he see the dream? This was when ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi now discusses the event of the journey of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ to the city of Taif to spread the message of Islam hoping they would be more welcoming to accept the religion of Islam more than the Quraysh. To his complete misery, the people of Taif were brutal in their dealings with ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi discusses about what transpired in verses 13 to 20 and how Yusuf AS was deserted in a far away land.  The brothers of Yusuf AS throw him into the depths of the well. He was completely taken by surprise but the brothers ridiculed him,tortured him. They showed no pity for the six ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi provides an explanation of the first few verses of Surah Yusuf which deal with the Noble Qur’an being a source of greatness, majesty, clarity and guidance for mankind. The first verse begins with Huroof Al-Muqatta’at which are to show the miraculous nature of the Qur’an. The Qur’an is composed of words that ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi discusses Verses 21 to 29 of Surah Yusuf where we gather information about him growing up in the house of a very famous minister in Egypt and what happened to him over there. The person who purchased him as a slave was a kind and gentle person who wanted to adopt him ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi discusses a few verses in Surah Yusuf where he shares details on how the wife of Azeez attempted to seduce Yusuf AS yet again and how he threw her back and repelled her and how he was punished for his innocence. There is much benefit and wisdom in this story – we ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi now discusses the second plot hatched by the wife of Azeez to seduce Yusuf AS. The second attempt was a brazen and open plot. The news of the beauty of Yusuf AS spread through the town and all the women were very keen to catch a glimpse of him. The sins of ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi discusses the story of the da’wah of Yusuf AS within the confines of prison in Verses 36 to 41 of Surah Yusuf. Two young lads entered the prison with Yusuf AS who were the bread maker and winemaker in the palace and both were tried with trying to poison the king. They ... Read more

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi discusses the next story in the Surah where the brothers start to plot and plan to kill their brother, Prophet Yusuf AS. He will also recite Surah Yusuf from Verse 7 to Verse 14. In what happened between his brothers and Yusuf AS, are many signs that will benefit and profit mankind. ... Read more

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this presentation are solely those of the interviewer/interviewee and do not in any way represent the views of the Holywell Trust, its partners or their funders. Roisin McLaughlin and Gerard Deane return with a new addition of the Holywell Podcast, providing news on the work of the Holywell Trust Diverse City Community Partnership and its partners. In our previous episode back in March, Roisin had just assumed her new role with the North West Community Network. She updates us on her first 7 months in post and discusses the upcoming events the Network will be hosting in the coming week and months. Events such as a Big Lottery Fund's Empowering Young People Funding Information Session", a Funding Presentation for Diversity Groups hosted by the Heritage Lottery Fund and marking International Making Bread for Peace Day (in partnership with Towards Understanding & Healing). Gerard updates the listeners on the launch of the Holywell Trust's New Future Leaders Programme and the application details, news on the future of the Holywell Stew and the Theatre Peace Building Academy, building on the legacy of the Theatre of Witness. Earlier in the month, plans had been unveiled for a £60 million project aimed at transforming Derry's River Foyle into a global visitor attraction. Known as the Foyle River Gardens Project, our guest Eamonn Deane (chairman of the project) explains that it would involve regenerating the entire River Foyle bank north of Derry as far as Culmore Point offering play, relaxation, entertainment and learning. Never miss an episode of the Holywell Trust Podcast, the Holywell Trust Testimony series or Brexit Focus Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/holywell-podcast/id1229484179?mt=2 Follow us on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/user-743120821 And you can now listen to the Holywell Trust Podcast and Testimony series on Stitcher Radio http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/dee-curran/holywell-podcast Please feel free to comment on our Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Soundcloud pages and don’t forget to rate the programme. Thanks for listening and sharing the links.

Today we have a particularly challenging topic for me, as the disease we're going to discuss hit my immediate family—twice. We're talking about a condition so complicated and confusing that it goes by different names: ME or Myalgic encephalomyelitis, and CFS or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. But, regardless of the name, it's a chronic, complex, systemic disease, that profoundly limits the health and productivity of the 2.5 million American patients it affects, as well as those who love them and who care for them. Here to give voice to the millions of people affected by ME/CFS are two wonderful Wellesley women: Carol Head and Julie Rehmeyer. Carol Head is the president of the Solve ME/CFS Initiative, and has over 25 years of experience as an executive in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Also joining us is author Julie Rehmeyer. Julie is an award-winning freelance math and science journalist, and is the author of Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey Into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand. Both of my guests directly experienced the affects of ME/CFS, and have gone on to share their stories and help others struggling to overcome the ME/CFS.

Roisin O’Hagan and Gerard Deane return with a new edition of the Holywell Trust Podcast updating you on the work of the Holywell Trust and their partners. Since our last Holywell Podcast Roisin has taken over the role of Co-Ordinator at the North West Community Network. She discusses the work she has been undertaking since taking up the role, why local community groups should get behind the Community Network and upcoming events the NWCN will be hosting in the next few weeks. Eamonn Baker of Towards Understanding and Healing speaks with Gerard about a series of events the organisation will be hosting through the Holywell Trust Building including Darach MacDonald's book launch titled "Hard Border- Walking Through a Century of Irish Partition", The City of Jazz Festival, Good Relations Week events and a lunch time Testimony event featuring Victor Montgomery. Plus there is news regarding the most recent Brexit Focus Podcast and the application process for the next Holywell Stew. Never miss an episode of the Holywell Trust Podcast, the Holywell Trust Testimony series or Brexit Focus Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/holywell-podcast/id1229484179?mt=2 Follow us on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/user-743120821 And you can now listen to the Holywell Trust Podcast and Testimony series on Stitcher Radio http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/dee-curran/holywell-podcast Please feel free to comment on our Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Soundcloud pages and don’t forget to rate the programme. Thanks for listening and sharing the links.

Scripture Reading: II Timothy 3 : 16-17 Message: Revelation 1:1-3

Dr. John Morris is the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Professor of Physical Therapy, and Professor of Occupational Therapy at Washington University in St. Louis. He also is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Charles F. and Joanne Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, as well as the Memory and Aging Project. Dr. Morris received his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and completed his Residency in Internal Medicine at Akron General Medical Center and his Chief Residency in Neurology and Residency in Neuropathology at the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital. He then spent some time in private practice and later as an emergency room physician. Dr. Morris first came to Washington University for a postdoctoral fellowship and joined the faculty soon after. Dr. Morris has received many awards and honors during his career, including the Distinguished Achievement Citation from Ohio Wesleyan University where he completed his undergraduate education, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alzheimer's Association, the Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's Alzheimer's, and Related Disease from the American Academy of Neurology, the Carl and Gerti Cori Faculty Achievement Award from Washington University, the Peter Raven Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Science St. Louis, and the Washington University School of Medicine Second Century award. Dr. Morris is with us today to tell us about his journey through life and science.

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Saturday, August 21, 2010 starting at 11:00 a.m. (EST) on “Off The Shelf Radio” (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Denise-Turney-) Denise Turney sits down with Lillian Blummet, co-author of the books Trash Talk, Towards Understanding and Purple Snowflake Marketing. Turney and Blummet will talk about steps we can take to respect and restore our environment. The two literary artists will also talk about the ways that creative artists can better market and promote their products. Listeners who tune into the one-hour feature interview will learn how to use music to tap into their own creative ideas. They will also learn how simple everyday activities can help to restore our planet. Writers who are seeking ways to earn a full-time living at their craft, will come away with nuggets of advice and insight that they can use to land clients and extend their writing career. Lillian Blummet’s followers who tune into the live interview will be made aware of the author’s upcoming events, book signings and speaking engagements. Book lovers who tune into the show live can have their questions answered directly by Lillian Blummet or/and Denise Turney. On Saturday, August 21, 2010 beginning at 11:00 a.m. (EST) author and environmentalist, Lillian Blummet, and Denise Turney will connect for an hour during the live on-air feature radio interview at “Off The Shelf.“ Listeners can connect to the interview live by dialing 347-994-3490. They can also connect to the live feature interview thru the Internet at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Denise-Turney-

Each month, we feature a BlogTalkRadio host on our show In the Limelight. This month, we spotlight Lillian Brummet who along with her husband Dave hosts two successful shows on BlogTalkRadio, Conscious Discussions and The Authors Read. Conscious Discussions is an hour-long talk radio show that celebrates individuals from all over the globe who are working to make the planet a better place. The Authors Read is a 15-minute radio program offers authors, storytellers and poets a chance to read from their published work. Dave and Lillian are freelance writers of various genres ranging from environment, gardening, music, nature and recreation and have co-authored books including Trash Talk, Towards Understanding, and Purple Snowflake Marketing.In Christina Blodgett's interview with Lillian, we discuss how she started and how she prepares for her BlogTalkRadio show, the marketing techniques she uses to expand her listener-base, and her advice for other BlogTalkRadio hosts to help you achieve success on your online journey.

Each month, we feature a BlogTalkRadio host on our show In the Limelight. This month, we spotlight Lillian Brummet who along with her husband Dave hosts two successful shows on BlogTalkRadio, Conscious Discussions and The Authors Read. Conscious Discussions is an hour-long talk radio show that celebrates individuals from all over the globe who are working to make the planet a better place. The Authors Read is a 15-minute radio program offers authors, storytellers and poets a chance to read from their published work. Dave and Lillian are freelance writers of various genres ranging from environment, gardening, music, nature and recreation and have co-authored books including Trash Talk, Towards Understanding, and Purple Snowflake Marketing.In Christina Blodgett's interview with Lillian, we discuss how she started and how she prepares for her BlogTalkRadio show, the marketing techniques she uses to expand her listener-base, and her advice for other BlogTalkRadio hosts to help you achieve success on your online journey.