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UACFSF: Who are your advisors? Babylon’s king relied on inadequate advisors

"Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example..." (1 Timothy 4:12)Find online: #UACFSFSome points from the last session: Who are your advisors?, Part 1. We may get that gut feeling the way Nebuchadnezzar had his dream, but we likely can't understand it without...

UACFSF: Discussion notes about assimilation into a system of knowledge

"Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example..." (1 Timothy 4:12)Find online: #UACFSFSome notes from the 1/21/26 gathering, Daniel 2: Daniel, Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael came to Babylon with solid grounding in multiple dimensions: physical, cognitive...

UACFSF: Daniel and the king’s food, 1/21

"Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example..." (1 Timothy 4:12)Find online: #UACFSFOn 1/21, we discussed Daniel's decision about eating the king's food. In Daniel 1:8, Daniel resolved not to eat the king's food in order to preserve his spiritual...

AI and concerns about the workforce

 In an article about her using AI as a tool to help her with her dyslexia, Tabitha Goldstaub offered some ideas and suggestions for adapting to changes wrought by AI.Main point: "We are hurtling towards AI, machine learning and robotics at breakneck speed and...

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AI and dyslexia

 What can't AI do? Check out an article by a successful tech entrepreneur who started out with dyslexia and found AI a useful tool.Main point: "I think it was my dyslexia and my need to see things from a different angle that enabled me to be open to the rewards...

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Why Academics’ Writing Stinks

Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Why should a profession that trades in words and dedicates itself to the transmission of knowledge so often turn out prose that is turgid, soggy, wooden, bloated, clumsy, obscure, unpleasant to read,...

Why Academics’ Writing Stinks

Via Arts and Letters Daily and The Chronicle of Higher Education: Why should a profession that trades in words and dedicates itself to the transmission of knowledge so often turn out prose that is turgid, soggy, wooden, bloated, clumsy, obscure, unpleasant to read,...

Why I Stopped Hating Christian Music

Via Christianity Today: Why I Stopped Hating Christian Music | Third Culture | A Blog by Peter Chin.Key statement: "I realized something that made me have a lot more respect and compassion for people who are in the Christian music industry: they are in a...

Why I Stopped Hating Christian Music

Via Christianity Today: Why I Stopped Hating Christian Music | Third Culture | A Blog by Peter Chin.Key statement: "I realized something that made me have a lot more respect and compassion for people who are in the Christian music industry: they are in a...

Making the lame walk

Via Instapundit: With Spinal Implant, Paralyzed Rats Can Walk Again | MIT Technology Review.Key statement: "...the first closed-loop control system that can really adjust leg movements in real time, despite paralysis."

Making the lame walk

Via Instapundit: With Spinal Implant, Paralyzed Rats Can Walk Again | MIT Technology Review.Key statement: "...the first closed-loop control system that can really adjust leg movements in real time, despite paralysis."

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