March 15, 2023 —
Occipital place area supports visually guided navigation, but only when walking; not crawling.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/visually-navigating-foot-uses-unique-brain-region
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XYlU8OGurc
Overview:
00:25 - Definition of convex conjugate
01:40 - Convex conjugate is always convex
03:29 - f**(x) less than or equal to f(x)
06:50 - if f(x) is convex, proper and closed, f**(x) = f(x)
09:00 - Review of epigraph
10:20 - Definition of closed function
11:00 - Definition of proper function
13:30 - Proof of that f**(x) = f(x) for convex, proper, and closed f(x)
23:40 - Recall of internal energy of ideal gas in thermodynamics
25:00 - Legendre transform in thermodynamics
28:10 - Example: convex conjugate of log-partition function in energy based model
33:46 - Convex conjugate of log-partition function is the negative entropy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88pVhXSO8WA
May 22, 2023 —
NIH-funded study shows preliminary results that could lead to new pain treatments.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/brain-signatures-chronic-pain-identified-small-group-individuals
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdu-THTqmQs
This week, network operators and vendors, academia, federal agencies and public interest representatives gathered at the Federal Communications…
https://beta.nsf.gov/news/week-nsf-director-panchanathan-29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-DxlNUnZqo
September 27, 2023 —
Findings suggest that many cancers were not being diagnosed in a timely manner.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/annual-report-nation-part-2-new-cancer-diagnoses-fell-abruptly-early-covid-19-pandemic
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYhl4M-uM1o
April 11, 2023 —
Premature heart disease and other chronic conditions have emerged as leading causes of morbidity and mortality.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/daily-statin-reduces-risk-cardiovascular-disease-people-living-hiv-large-nih-study-finds
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxEf3IdwPCc