At the Vancouver Arts Club on Friday, I attended the emotion-inducing play, Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches. (Its wikipedia page. One of the characters, Louis Ironson, is a Jewish homosexual consumed by anxiety and guilt. Today, I used this character to reflect upon imperfection, the emotions of guilt, and self-directed learning. I wondered in particular how one can use feelings of guilt and fiction/non-fiction to become more effective. This blog post touches briefly on this problem. Continue reading On Using Fiction and Non-Fiction When Feeling Guilty
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Interviewed by Brett Terpstra on Systematic
On Systematic, Brett Terpstra “explores the idea that all work is creative work, welcoming a different guest each week.”
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The Late 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar: Comments on the Mac and My Research to Purchase It
Because so many people have complained that the late 2016 MacBook Pro does not support legacy interfaces (except for the 3.5 mm microphone jack), I thought I should write a blog post to give you my impression of this new notebook, which is on the whole quite positive.
My 2016 Year in Review
Announcing the Somnolence+ Initiative: Bringing Sleep Wellness to Communities and Organizations
CogZest, CogSci Apps Corp and Sheryl Guloy, PhD, Research and Consulting are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of the Somnolence+ initiative, Bringing Sleep Wellness to Communities and Organizations.
Easy on The Inference Trigger, Dear Voting Reader
WARNING! Don’t like or comment on this Rationally Speaking podcast episode unless you’ve listened to it, or read the transcript or the book — and given it some thought; otherwise, it might count as evidence that you shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Continue reading Easy on The Inference Trigger, Dear Voting Reader
Perturbance: Understanding Why Robots Will Have High-Order Emotions Matters to Psychology
Yesterday, Drs. Sylwia Hyniewska, Eva Hudlicka and I submitted a paper for the AISB-2017 Symposium on Computational Modelling of Emotion: Theory and Applications. The title of our paper is “Perturbance: Unifying research on emotion, intrusive mentation and other psychological phenomena with AI”. Continue reading Perturbance: Understanding Why Robots Will Have High-Order Emotions Matters to Psychology
Challenge and Workshop in 12th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2017)
The name, CogZest, is a blend of “Cognition” and “Zest”, where “Zest” representing affect. Here, we believe that deep learning is not merely a matter of acquiring dry knowledge. It also means learning to perceive and act upon value in a well informed manner. As such, at CogZest we also read, research and publish about affect.
If you are particularly interested in emotion, we encourage you to consider attending the following challenges and workshops organized by Dr. Sylwia Hyniewska, an expert in affective science in general and perception of emotions from faces in particular. Continue reading Challenge and Workshop in 12th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2017)
How to Quickly Access Your Pinboard Bookmarks Using LaunchBar, TextExpander and Related Apps
You can use launchers and/or text expansion apps to quickly access Pinboard bookmarks (and Pocket bookmarks, for that matter). This post shows you how. Continue reading How to Quickly Access Your Pinboard Bookmarks Using LaunchBar, TextExpander and Related Apps
Ways in which Ginger Campbell’s Brain Science Podcast has Transformed Me
Congratulations to Dr. Ginger Campbell, whose Brain Science Podcast is about to celebrate its 10-year anniversary! Continue reading Ways in which Ginger Campbell’s Brain Science Podcast has Transformed Me