This reminds me of Gestalt. In psychology gestalt means an organized whole is perceived to be greater than the sum of its parts

This reminds me of situations like people getting cancer from certain pesticides or women being exposed to chemicals/substances that can cause birth defects, or the results of housing being too close to facilities that cause air pollution. I think I remember hearing of a town whose population declined due to widespread infertility. Something that falls under the molecular anthropology subfield?

This reminds me of the perspective most colonizing civilizations have of unknown cultures, like with the Native Americans and Caribbean tribes being described as "savages" simply for having different ways of life.

This kinda reminds me of the Oregon Trail where game-like, interactive methods for sharing information with students allows for a better understanding of the topic at hand. It seems like it has trended towards that as access to technology increased and became more normal to see in academic settings.

this reminds me of seaworld and why it was petitioned to shut down

This reminds me of UDL and the videos we watched of teaching to the edges, not the average.

This reminds me of our discussion in class about considering our audience when we write. It's important to anticipate the audience's expectations and response.

This idea from the author reminds me of my personal experiences from duck hunting. One sits in the marsh in the early morning while there is still fog. They can hear the ducks which reminds them that they are not alone.

I feel like this directly correlates to what I learned in AP World. Reminds me of concept of White Man's burden and how white people oversee non-White people's affairs because they thought they were less developed. How it was their "burden" to "save" those who weren't white. 

This reminds me of a the Inkheart series written by Cornelia Funke. At its heart is the idea that the stories continue even after the author has written the last page. In the first book, the fictional author of Inkheart (a book in the book of the same name) but is subject to the same dangers as other characters. He is in no way treated as royalty.

This reminds me of my experience reading fragmented work, such as that of Sappho. The reader is forced to fill out certain parts in their head, collaborating on something that is eventually unique and more particular to the individual.

I like this description of a Text, as often the most transcendent works of art are those that offend or provoke, rather than giving an easy feeling of enjoyment. This reminds me of the Brechtian idea of alienation, creating a piece that distances the audience, in turn getting them to engage and think about it.

Heuristics

This reminds me of writing, in this instance rhetoric and writing is rhetoric and art, as an affective composition in that the context, style, and signification of the art affects how we are both sensitive to and can sense how it feels to be under the stars and ponder the depths in the experience of being under the stars that one might otherwise be unaware of. This makes Gogh's art "matter" because of its style like metaphysical graffiti from Edbauer.

This reminds me of the painting Starry Night by Vincent Van Gough

This reminds me of the Kuch opinion, where the Court viewed civic responsibility as a minimum requirement for something to be considered a "religion." Maybe that sentiment has Puritan/Civic Republican roots.

idea of boundaries reminds me of divided powers

This reminds me of the style guide we looked at for the first assignment, one of the points being about inclusivity in language use. The "liberal feminist" boss obviously had a predisposition to believe that all black people fit a certain mold. Editors need to be careful to ensure that the words written by the author are inclusive and do not come off as limiting or discriminating.

This reminds me of Thanksgiving Day "celebrations" in elementary school. I know my elementary school had students dress up as Native Americans and Pilgrims around Thanksgiving. While I don't think this practice is that common anymore (and of course, I don't agree with it), I don't think we should blame the children for taking part in the "festivities," as they do not know better. This situation, though, is completely different, because these adults have the capacity to make well-thought-out decisions for themselves.

This quote reminds me of the reading "An Introduction to Globalization" from last Thursday's class, in which they describe how "mass media" was able to "radically compress time and space." (Campbell, p. 9) It seems that Protestantism, enabled by the non-traditional use of the German language, was able to strike a mass market of consumers. This mass appeal and accessibility shortened the time expected for the scope of the spread of Protestant messaging.

Anderson argues that nationalism may be an attempt to create a faux immortality; you may die, but your nation will live on. Reminds me of soldiers who sacrifice themselves for their country. Also reminds me of specific laws that apply to people's property after death; inheritance taxes, intellectual property, patents, etc..

This reminds me of that sharkboy and lavagirl movie bro made minus's brain FART!!!!!!!!!

Reminds me of how certain tropes/stereotypes repetitively appear in creative or entertainment media. When making new media, we should use the past history of other media to break these tropes and not pass them down.

Reminds me of the quote: "If you want to know where people stand, look where they sit."

This statement is interesting in the context that it doesn't have to be applied to huge historical narratives; but our own historical narratives. More specifically, it reminds me of when a child goes through an event that they don't understand but are experiencing it first-hand, it is until as they grow older and begin learning the full story, they can look at their own memories from a different light. With victims experiencing horrible global events, at that moment only what they know is the forefront information. As time goes by and the horrible events are becoming exposed to their hidden schemes and executions, the victims can now bring an explanation to why they went through what they did, thus reshaping their memories.

This section reminds me of Disney's The Owl House, an animated series created by a queer woman featuring a bisexual female lead in a same-gender relationship. Found family and rebelling against conformism are some of the central themes of the series; unfortunately, Disney had some issues with how explicitly queer the series was and cancelled it.

This concept reminds me of Happy Feet. Choosing the best singer, the most expressive as a representative mate for the tribe.

How can we better thing of card indexes as positive feedback mechanisms? Will describes it as the "Great Wheel of Positive Feedback" which reminds me a bit of flywheels for storing energy for later use.

This reminds me of, during the height of the iPod era, when someone I know was gifted* an non-Apple music player and some iTunes gift cards—their first device for their first music purchases not delivered on physical media. They created an iTunes account, bought a bunch of music on the Music Store, and then set about trying to get it onto their non-Apple device, coming to me when it wasn't going well trying to get it to work themselves. I explained how Apple had (at the time) made iTunes Music Store purchases incompatible with non-Apple devices. Their response was baffling to me:

Rather than rightly getting pissed at Apple for this state of affairs, they did the opposite—they expressed their disdain about the non-Apple MP3 player they were given** and resolved to get it exchanged for credit so they could buy a (pricier, of course) Apple device that would "work". That is, they felt the direct, non-hypothetical effects of Apple's incompatibility ploy, and then still took exactly the wrong approach by caving despite how transparently nefarious it all was.

Returning to this piece: imagine if all that stuff hadn't been locked up in the social media silo. Imagine if all those "comments, posts, and photos from the past 14 years" hadn't been unwisely handed over for someone else to keep out of reach unless you assimilated. Imagine just having it delivered directly to your own inbox.

* NB: not by me

* NB: not as a consequence for mimetic desire for the trendiest device; they were perfectly happy with the generic player before they understood the playback problem

This positivism and anti-positivism debate reminds me of psychology and how things often center around the concept of how so much of the field is dedicated to proving or disproving Freud.

I have taken other education classes before and this reminds me the education segregation back to the 19 Century. The Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board all shown the history process how African Americans are fighting and protect their civil rights. In that case, inequalities in education never achieve real fair --- white race always share the top resources than other races in the United State in my point of view.

This reminds me of the saying that you should choose your friends/close circle carefully. A lot can be said about yourself by examining who you are friends with, so if your friends are academic weapons, you likely have the same goals and mindset as them. The same goes for the opposite, if you have friends who don't take school as seriously as you, you may be influenced by their behavior to do the same. Therefore, by allowing students who are not as privileged access to the same education as those who are, you increase their chances of succeeding due to the influence of others.

This quote reminds me of my high school situation. I come from a low-income school where we needed a lot of supplies. Recently, my high school received a bigger budget due to the interference and advocacy of several members of the community (me included). Thankfully, we received an equitable budget from several schools and were able to obtain better-quality items. But this would have not happened if it wasn’t for the intervention of the community while the courts do nothing.

This reminds me of how history books are so often skewed to include only the "white side" of the story, to put it bluntly. History textbooks usually only talk about all the good that white people have done, ignoring all of the great achievements that people of color have also done. This erasure of history is so discouraging because younger generations only have white people to look up to as role models. Without representation of people of color doing great things, often people try so hard to BE white, and reject their own cultures due to the lack of representation, which is extremely sad and harmful.

This reminds me so much of the model minority myth which has been pushed onto Asian American citizens for decades. For Asian Americans that are attending school, it is the idea that they are 'naturally smarter' or 'are magically gifted in math'. This myth is so harmful because when these students aren't doing so hot in math or performing as well as their peers, there is a lot of pressure that they aren't "living up to their full potential" which causes unnecessary stress. They may be putting 100% effort into doing their best, but still not be accepted by societal standards, because it isn't what they expect from an Asian American who should be the perfect model citizen, and that has caused a lot of mental health problems.

This reminds me of how in the introduction of Style the author points out several confusing quotes making fun of confusing writing. I am sure these writers weren't trying to be confusing, but their models were confusing so that is how they write.

If we come across a scientific article that is really hard to read, we should probably make it a point to NOT write like them in the future. If we aren't careful, we'll probably write like them on accident.

This reminds me of a video I watched that talked about how someone can be paralyzed with endless amounts of choice one person has when it comes to streaming services. You have too much choice and there is so much information out there, that the internet can be overwhelming and paralyzing. You can get millions of Google results in seconds but can feel overwhelmed when trying to figure out what google search to click on. We arguably have access to too much information at all times.

This reminds me of the news coverage during the 2020-2021 racial unrest following George Floyd's murder. While a lot of people responded with the demonstrations and looting as unnecessary and violent, it can that be perceived in the manner that DeBerry had, all of these actions are just visceral reaction to centuries of brutality and enslavement, what is that compared to weeks and days of retaliation?

This quote reminds me of hula and how my Kumu would talk to us about the left side of our bodies being connected to Hina (feminine) and the right side of our bodies being connected to Ku (masculine). I just thought that this was an interesting comparison because in this story the sides and corresponding attributes are switched.

perfect image that Swift had put up is now damaged, despite the pretty appearance, hurt and pain are deep rooted and you're bound to get hurt reminds me of the line about love being torture, picking up a beautiful rose will leave you in pain because of the thorns with it

Kantian ethics reminds me a lot of the golden rule. One issue that I have with this framework is that it does not provide a wide scope of reference for viewing ethical outcomes. Doing things that you would be ok for everyone else to do fails to take in the perspective of others. It only considers what the individual deems acceptable behavior, not other parties involved.

reminds me of a merry go round. this is saying that the cycle of them meeting and then ignoring each other is a cycle that continues. a toxic cycle

Reminds me of the movie Beetlejuice how Lydia can see the "strange and unusual" because she herself is "strange and unusual" and she pays attention to the world.

I like this part because it reminds me of how silly we all are, like he admits to just "playing around".

This sounds way too close to the racial segregation we saw across the US in the 20th century. It reminds me of the old maps of cities and neighborhoods we looked at.

I tried experimenting with analogies towards the end of the semester. In this case, I'm not making a physical comparison between the cube and the camp. This is more of an insight into how the cube reminds me of the amazing community built each year. I feel like this analog gives the reader an insight into what I value most about camp. I've never been good at personalizing my essays, but I think using analogies helped me incorporate my voice into my past few essays. When I feel like my voice is present in my essay I find myself enjoying writing. These two paragraphs were very easy for me to write. I wasn't trying to impress anyone. I wrote freely.

These two paragraphs are from my Meditation on an Object essay. I'm talking about how my Rubik's cube reminds me of the summer camp I work at. The cube was given to me by Wiley, a camper at Tamarack.

I was attempting to show the reader how vivid my memories of camp are when I touch the Rubiks cube. It is easy to say that something reminds you of a place, but you have to prove it to a reader for them to care. Before this semester, I never considered my reader while I was writing. I now see that the reader doesn't know my story so I can't just make empty claims.

For context, this piece is a paragraph from my Meditation on an Object Essay. This piece is especially important to me because this essay was the one reviewed for workshop. I wrote outside of my comfort zone and wrote about my chain that was sentimental to me. I have never written about my feelings about somebody knowing that an audience would read it before this project. It was scary knowing that my feelings would be put on display but I am proud that I could learn to put myself out there.

Reminds me of Nasser's emphasis on Arab identity rather than Egyptian. Now it would seem that the position of the two has been switched

Reminds me of Robin DeRosa's call in her POD conference keynote to "stop letting the problem tell us what the problem is"!

I came to this page after reading the "About the Author (The Second Right Answer)" page of Roger von Oech's "A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative" which was mentioned by Kevin Bowers in his discussion with John Vervaeke titled "Principles & Methods for Achieving a Flow State | Voices w/ Vervaeke | John Vervaeke & Kevin Bowers".

von Oech stated that

I wrote my doctoral dissertation on the twentieth century German philosopher Ernst Cassirer, the last man to know everything. From him, I learned that it's good to be a generalist, and that looking at the Big Picture helps to keep you flexible.

This was a surprising reference since Bowers stated that the book was written for helping entrepreneurs become more creative; the book seems more widely applicable based on the examples and exercises given in the first 20 pages.

Cassirer appears to bridge between the continental and analytic traditions in philosophy. Cassirer's touching on mathematics, aesthetics, and ethics reminds me of - John Vervaeke's work - ie, the process of relevance realization and his neo platonic, transformational reading of ancient texts - Forrest Landry work - ie, his magnum opus "An Immanent Metaphysics" which he purports to be pointing to a foundation between ontology, epistemology, and ethics. Recently, IDM (Immanent Domain Metaphysics) made more sense to me when I attempted to translat the 3 axioms and 3 modalities into language from category theory

The following seem important and related somehow: 1. the symbolic process 2. the process of abstraction 3. the process of representation

Maybe these are related to the means by which one can can transcend their current self? ie, is it through particular symbolic practices that one can more easily shed one identity and acquire another?

Also, are 1., 2., and 3. different aspects of the same thing/event?

This reminds me of how my grand mom told me when I went to night hang out with friends to dress with outfit that cover most parts of my body so that it could be safer.

this is telling about the fans and their true feelings. Reminds me of the Will Smith and Chris Rock slap.

Reminds me with how Cleveland is with their sports. It decides the mood of the city as a collective. But these people had a bigger issue than sports, it was an issue of wanting equality.

Devastating affects, reminds me of protests in America recently. Businesses were damaged, some beyond repair due to mob like protest.

Before Professor Zimmerman reminds me, there was only one sentence: The surprising moment... That means I jumped directly to the big voice instead of earning it through small voices. So I reacalled and wrote down all the feelings I had that day. It was specific and helpful. And this is technically a new problem that I haven't had much time practicing on. But know I should pay more attention in adding details.

It's from the first project "Fluffy Tag". In this essay I wrote a story about my chilhood and how this memory was recalled. I had a dream to my grandma sewing my worn pillowcase, which reminds me of her throwing away my favorite pillowcase with my special smell on its tag when years ago. But I woke up that morning holding the tag on my comforter and caught a trace of the familiar smell, and I finally found my unique smell back.

This reminds of me of that one assignment I wrote in cognitive psych class about the pros and cons about letting Elon musk's invention of implementing a chip inside the human brain. On the one hand, It may be to proven beneficial of enhancing memories that it all correlates to digital technology that rises in this day and age that makes anyone to become more intelligent. On the contrary, It may argued that because of brain implementation ever were happen one day on us, could also mean to suppressed emotions in a way a person will tend to act robotc. Elon Musk's intention as far as I know, would rely on giving it on behalf of people with disability who tend to have cognitive issues.

Author Response

Reviewer #2 (Public Review):

"The cellular architecture of memory modules in Drosophila supports stochastic input integration" is a classical biophysical compartmental modelling study. It takes advantage of some simple current injection protocols in a massively complex mushroom body neuron called MBON-a3 and compartmental models that simulate the electrophysiological behaviour given a detailed description of the anatomical extent of its neurites.

This work is interesting in a number of ways:

• The input structure information comes from EM data (Kenyon cells) although this is not discussed much in the paper - The paper predicts a potentially novel normalization of the throughput of KC inputs at the level of the proximal dendrite and soma - It claims a new computational principle in dendrites, this didn’t become very clear to me Problems I see:

• The current injections did not last long enough to reach steady state (e.g. Figure 1FG), and the model current injection traces have two time constants but the data only one (Figure 2DF). This does not make me very confident in the results and conclusions.

These are two important but separate questions that we would like to address in turn.

As for the first, in our new recordings using cytoplasmic GFP to identify MBON-alpha3, we performed both a 200 ms current injection and performed prolonged recordings of 400 ms to reach steady state (for all 4 new cells 1’-4’). For comparison with the original dataset we mainly present the raw traces for 200 ms recordings in Figure 1 Supplement 2. In addition, we now provide a direct comparison of these recordings (200 ms versus 400 ms) and did not observe significant differences in tau between these data (Figure 1 Supplement 2 K). This comparison illustrates that the 200 ms current injection reaches a maximum voltage deflection that is close to the steady state level of the prolonged protocol. Importantly, the critical parameter (tau) did not change between these datasets.

Regarding the second question, the two different time constants, we thank the reviewer for pointing this out. Indeed, while the simulated voltage follows an approximately exponential decay which is, by design, essentially identical to the measured value (τ≈ 16ms, from Table 1; ee Figure 1 Supplement 2 for details), the voltage decays and rises much faster immediately following the onset and offset of the current injections. We believe that this is due to the morphology of this neuron. Current injection, and voltage recordings, are at the soma which is connected to the remainder of the neuron by a long and thin neurite. This ’remainder’ is, of course, in linear size, volume and surface (membrane) area much larger than the soma, see Fig 2A. As a result, a current injection will first quickly charge up the membrane of the soma, resulting in the initial fast voltage changes seen in Fig 2D,F, before the membrane in the remainder of the cell is charged, with the cell’s time constant τ.

We confirmed this intuition by running various simplified simulations in Neuron which indeed show a much more rapid change at step changes in injected current than over the long-term. Indeed, we found that the pattern even appears in the simplest possible two-compartment version of the neuron’s equivalent circuit which we solved in an all-purpose numerical simulator of electrical circuitry (https://www.falstad.com/circuit). The circuit is shown in Figure 1. We chose rather generic values for the circuit components, with the constraints that the cell capacitance, chosen as 15pF, and membrane resistance, chosen as 1GΩ, are in the range of the observed data (as is, consequently, its time constant which is 15ms with these choices); see Table 1 of the manuscript. We chose the capacitance of the soma as 1.5pF, making the time constant of the soma (1.5ms) an order of magnitude shorter than that of the cell.

Figure 1: Simplified circuit of a small soma (left parallel RC circuit) and the much larger remainder of a cell (right parallel RC circuit) connected by a neurite (right 100MΩ resistor). A current source (far left) injects constant current into the soma through the left 100MΩ resistor.

Figure 2 shows the somatic voltage in this circuit (i.e., at the upper terminal of the 1.5pF capacitor) while a -10pA current is injected for about 4.5ms, after which the current is set back to zero. The combination of initial rapid change, followed by a gradual change with a time constant of ≈ 15ms is visible at both onset and offset of the current injection. Figure 3 show the voltage traces plotted for a duration of approximately one time constant, and Fig 4 shows the detailed shape right after current onset.

Figure 2: Somatic voltage in the circuit in Fig. 1 with current injection for about 4.5ms, followed by zero current injection for another ≈ 3.5ms.

Figure 3: Somatic voltage in the circuit, as in Fig. 2 but with current injected for approx. 15msvvvvv

While we did not try to quantitatively assess the deviation from a single-exponential shape of the voltage in Fig. 2E, a more rapid increase at the onset and offset of the current injection is clearly visible in this Figure. This deviation from a single exponential is smaller than what we see in the simulation (both in Fig 2D of the manuscript, and in the results of the simplified circuit here in the rebuttal). We believe that the effect is smaller in Fig. E because it shows the average over many traces. It is much more visible in the ’raw’ (not averaged) traces. Two randomly selected traces from the first of the recorded neurons are shown in Figure 2 Supplement 2 C. While the non-averaged traces are plagued by artifacts and noise, the rapid voltage changes are visible essentially at all onsets and offsets of the current injection.

Figure 4: Somatic voltage in the circuit, as in Fig. 2 but showing only for the time right after current onset, about 2.3ms.

We have added a short discussion of this at the end of Section 2.3 to briefly point out this observation and its explanation. We there also refer to the simplified circuit simulation and comparison with raw voltage traces which is now shown in the new Figure 2 Supplement 2.

• The time constant in Table 1 is much shorter than in Figure 1FG?

No, these values are in agreement. To facilitate the comparison we now include a graphical measurement of tau from our traces in Figure 1 Supplement 2 J.

• Related to this, the capacitance values are very low maybe this can be explained by the model’s wrong assumption of tau?

Indeed, the measured time constants are somewhat lower than what might be expected. We believe that this is because after a step change of the injected current, an initial rapid voltage change occurs in the soma, where the recordings are taken. The measured time constant is a combination of the ’actual’ time constant of the cell and the ’somatic’ (very short) time constant of the soma. Please see our explanations above.

Importantly, the value for tau from Table 1 is not used explicitly in the model as the parameters used in our simulation are determined by optimal fits of the simulated voltage curves to experimentally obtained data.

• That latter in turn could be because of either space clamp issues in this hugely complex cell or bad model predictions due to incomplete reconstructions, bad match between morphology and electrophysiology (both are from different datasets?), or unknown ion channels that produce non-linear behaviour during the current injections.

Please see our detailed discussion above. Furthermore, we now provide additional recordings using cytoplasmic GFP as a marker for the identification of MBON-alpha3 and confirm our findings. We agree that space-clamp issues could interfere with our recordings in such a complex cell. However, our approach using electrophysiological data should still be superior to any other approach (picking text book values). As we injected negative currents for our analysis at least voltage-gated ion channels should not influence our recordings.

• The PRAXIS method in NEURON seems too ad hoc. Passive properties of a neuron should probably rather be explored in parameter scans.

We are a bit at a loss of what is meant by the PRAXIS method being "too ad hoc." The PRAXIS method is essentially a conjugate gradient optimization algorithm (since no explicit derivatives are available, it makes the assumption that the objective function is quadratic). This seems to us a systematic way of doing a parameter scan, and the procedure has been used in other related models, e.g. the cited Gouwens & Wilson (2009) study.

Questions I have:

• Computational aspects were previously addressed by e.g. Larry Abbott and Gilles Laurent (sparse coding), how do the findings here distinguish themselves from this work

In contrast to the work by Abbott and Laurent that addressed the principal relevance and suitability of sparse and random coding for the encoding of sensory information in decision making, here we address the cellular and computational mechanisms that an individual node (KC>MBON) play within the circuitry. As we use functional and morphological relevant data this study builds upon the prior work but significantly extends the general models to a specific case. We think this is essential for the further exploration of the topic.

• What is valence information?

Valence information is the information whether a stimulus is good (positive valence, e.g. sugar in appetitive memory paradigms, or negative valence in aversive olfactory conditioning - the electric shock). Valence information is provided by the dopaminergic system. Dopaminergic neurons are in direct contact with the KC>MBON circuitry and modify its synaptic connectivity when olfactory information is paired with a positive or negative stimulus.

• It seems that Martin Nawrot’s work would be relevant to this work

We are aware of the work by the Nawrot group that provided important insights into the processing of information within the olfactory mushroom body circuitry. We now highlight some of his work. His recent work will certainly be relevant for our future studies when we try to extend our work from an individual cell to networks.

• Compactification and democratization could be related to other work like Otopalik et al 2017 eLife but also passive normalization. The equal efficiency in line 427 reminds me of dendritic/synaptic democracy and dendritic constancy

Many thanks for pointing this out. This is in line with the comments from reviewer 1 and we now highlight these papers in the relevant paragraph in the discussion (line 442ff).

• The morphology does not obviously seem compact, how unusual would it be that such a complex dendrite is so compact?

We should have been more careful in our terminology, making clear that when we write ’compact’ we always mean ’electrotonically compact," in the sense that the physical dimensions of the neuron are small compared to its characteristic electrotonic length (usually called λ). The degree of a dendritic structure being electrotonically compact is determined by the interaction of morphology, size and conductances (across the membrane and along the neurites). We don’t believe that one of these factors alone (e.g. morphology) is sufficient to characterize the electrical properties of a dendritic tree. We have now clarified this in the relevant section.

• What were the advantages of using the EM circuit?

The purpose of our study is to provide a "realistic" model of a KC>MBON node within the memory circuitry. We started our simulations with random synaptic locations but wondered whether such a stochastic model is correct, or whether taking into account the detailed locations and numbers of synaptic connections of individual KCs would make a difference to the computation. Therefore we repeated the simulations using the EM data. We now address the point between random vs realistic synaptic connectivity in Figure 4F. We do not observe a significant difference but this may become more relevant in future studies if we compute the interplay between MBONs activated by overlapping sets of KCs. We simply think that utilizing the EM data gets us one step closer to realistic models.

• Isn’t Fig 4E rather trivial if the cell is compact?

We believe this figure is a visually striking illustration that shows how electrotonically compact the cell is. Such a finding may be trivial in retrospect, once the data is visualized, but we believe it provides a very intuitive description of the cell behavior.

Overall, I am worried that the passive modelling study of the MBON-a3 does not provide enough evidence to explain the electrophysiological behaviour of the cell and to make accurate predictions of the cell’s responses to a variety of stochastic KC inputs.

In our view our model adequately describes the behavior of the MBON with the most minimal (passive) model. Our approach tries to make the least assumptions about the electrophysiological properties of the cell. We think that based on the current knowledge our approach is the best possible approach as thus far no active components within the dendritic or axonal compartments of Drosophila MBONs have been described. As such, our model describes the current status which explains the behavior of the cell very well. We aim to refine this model in the future if experimental evidence requires such adaptations.

Reviewer #3 (Public Review):

This manuscript presents an analysis of the cellular integration properties of a specific mushroom body output neuron, MBON-α3, using a combination of patch clamp recordings and data from electron microscopy. The study demonstrates that the neuron is electrotonically compact permitting linear integration of synaptic input from Kenyon cells that represent odor identity.

Strengths of the manuscript:

The study integrates morphological data about MBON-α3 along with parameters derived from electrophysiological measurements to build a detailed model. 2) The modeling provides support for existing models of how olfactory memory is related to integration at the MBON.

Weaknesses of the manuscript:

The study does not provide experimental validation of the results of the computational model.

The goal of our study is to use computational approaches to provide insights into the computation of the MBON as part of the olfactory memory circuitry. Our data is in agreement with the current model of the circuitry. Our study therefore forms the basis for future experimental studies; those would however go beyond the scope of the current work.

The conclusion of the modeling analysis is that the neuron integrates synaptic inputs almost completely linearly. All the subsequent analyses are straightforward consequences of this result.

We do, indeed, find that synaptic integration in this neuron is almost completely linear. We demonstrate that this result holds in a variety of different ways. All analyses in the study serve this purpose. These results are in line with the findings by Hige and Turner (2013) who demonstrated that also synaptic integration at PN>KC synapses is highly linear. As such our data points to a feature conservation to the next node of this circuit.

The manuscript does not provide much explanation or intuition as to why this linear conclusion holds.

We respectfully disagree. We demonstrate that this linear integration is a combination of the size of the cell and the combination of its biophysical parameters, mainly the conductances across and along the neurites. As to why it holds, our main argument is that results based on the linear model agree with all known (to us) empirical results, and this is the simplest model.

In general, there is a clear takeaway here, which is that the dendritic tree of MBON-α3 in the lobes is highly electrotonically compact. The authors did not provide much explanation as to why this is, and the paper would benefit from a clearer conclusion. Furthermore, I found the results of Figures 4 and 5 rather straightforward given this previous observation. I am sceptical about whether the tiny variations in, e.g. Figs. 3I and 5F-H, are meaningful biologically.

Please see the comment above as to the ’why’ we believe the neuron is electrotonically compact: a model with this assumption agrees well with empirically found results.

We agree that the small variations in Fig 5F-H are likely not biologically meaningful. We state this now more clearly in the figure legends and in the text. This result is important to show, however. It is precisely because these variations are small, compared to the differences between voltage differences between different numbers of activated KCs (Fig 5D) or different levels of activated synapses (Fig 5E) that we can conclude that a 25% change in either synaptic strength or number can represent clearly distinguishable internal states, and that both changes have the same effect. It is important to show these data, to allow the reader to compare the differences that DO matter (Fig 5D,E) and those that DON’T (Fig 5F-H).

The same applies to Fig 3I. The reviewer is entirely correct: the differences in the somatic voltage shown in Figure 3I are minuscule, less than a micro-Volt, and it is very unlikely that these difference have any biological meaning. The point of this figure is exactly to show this!. It is to demonstrate quantitatively the transformation of the large differences between voltages in the dendritic tree and the nearly complete uniform voltage at the soma. We feel that this shows very clearly the extreme "democratization" of the synaptic input!

Reviewer #2 (Public Review):

"The cellular architecture of memory modules in Drosophila supports stochastic input integration" is a classical biophysical compartmental modelling study. It takes advantage of some simple current injection protocols in a massively complex mushroom body neuron called MBON-a3 and compartmental models that simulate the electrophysiological behaviour given a detailed description of the anatomical extent of its neurites.

This work is interesting in a number of ways:

- The input structure information comes from EM data (Kenyon cells) although this is not discussed much in the paper<br /> - The paper predicts a potentially novel normalization of the throughput of KC inputs at the level of the proximal dendrite and soma<br /> - It claims a new computational principle in dendrites, this didn't become very clear to me

Problems I see:

- The current injections did not last long enough to reach steady state (e.g. Figure 1FG), and the model current injection traces have two time constants but the data only one (Figure 2DF). This does not make me very confident in the results and conclusions.<br /> - The time constant in Table 1 is much shorter than in Figure 1FG?<br /> - Related to this, the capacitance values are very low maybe this can be explained by the model's wrong assumption of tau?<br /> - That latter in turn could be because of either space clamp issues in this hugely complex cell or bad model predictions due to incomplete reconstructions, bad match between morphology and electrophysiology (both are from different datasets?), or unknown ion channels that produce non-linear behaviour during the current injections.<br /> - The PRAXIS method in NEURON seems too ad hoc. Passive properties of a neuron should probably rather be explored in parameter scans.

Questions I have:

- Computational aspects were previously addressed by e.g. Larry Abbott and Gilles Laurent (sparse coding), how do the findings here distinguish themselves from this work<br /> - What is valence information?<br /> - It seems that Martin Nawrot's work would be relevant to this work<br /> - Compactification and democratization could be related to other work like Otopalik et al 2017 eLife but also passive normalization. The equal efficiency in line 427 reminds me of dendritic/synaptic democracy and dendritic constancy<br /> - The morphology does not obviously seem compact, how unusual would it be that such a complex dendrite is so compact?<br /> - What were the advantages of using the EM circuit?<br /> - Isn't Fig 4E rather trivial if the cell is compact?

Overall, I am worried that the passive modelling study of the MBON-a3 does not provide enough evidence to explain the electrophysiological behaviour of the cell and to make accurate predictions of the cell's responses to a variety of stochastic KC inputs.

https://youtu.be/r9idbh-U2kM?t=3544

Stefan Zweig (reference? his memoir?) apparently suggested that students translate authors as a means of becoming more intimately acquainted with their work. This is similar to restating an author in one's own words as a means of improving one's understanding. It's a lower level of processing that osculates on the idea of having a conversation with a text.

tk: track this reference down. appropriate context?

This reminds me of Eliot’s “April is the cruelest month.” Hope here is a hallucination just as much as it is for those living in the wasteland.

What caught my attention from this paragraph was how optimistic Zhu Lianxiu was towards Guan, since he was experiencing a hardship. It was interesting to note that later on in the paragraph, it talks about how Guan and Zhu collaborate in a song that incorporates romanticism and realism. The ideas of romance and showing the reality of life, reminds me of how in real life, there are sometimes challenges to overcome, and many times, people fall in love, which is showcased in this paragraph particularly.

"Neither living nor dead" is a line that immediately strikes me and reels me in, It reminds me of the lyric: "I believe I can see the future 'cause I repeat the same routine". This lyric to me describes a zombie like routine in which one feels neither alive nor dead "I could not speak, and my eyes failed" remind me of the lyric: "I think I use to have a voice Now I never make a sound." Moreover, the line "and I knew nothing" reminds me of the lyric "then again that might have been a dream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysFxrPNjvNA

Nice visualization of how a river can be equated to a living being as it gives and spreads life. Also reminds me of how Native Americans ( in texts I have personally read) view land as a partner, not as an object to be conquered or sold.

This reminds me of how in school, I would never want to read books that were assigned and I was essentially being forced to read. When we were given the option to choose a book to read, I would read it all the way through and enjoy it. Autonomy is essential in fostering a comfortable learning environment.

Reminds me of our last module commentary on race and the idea of code-switching language to fit into the professional world. Art doesn't have one language.

Reminds me of Malice in the Palace, Ah good ol' Ron Artest. Well now it's Meta World Peace, or is it The Panda's Friend? (Look it up he started playing in China and changed his name again!!!)

Reminds me of Beckham.

The author of this source, really emphasizes the importance of the river and water. It reminds me of the Seed Keeper and how Rosalie's friend had been fighting to protect it. It also reminds me how Rosalie named her child Wakpá which means river or water.

reminds me of Rosalie's connection to the river in the seed keeper

This reminds me of something I often say because of certain experiences I've had: "Anyone is capable of anything."

This also reminds me of scripture that refers to a "searing of the conscience".

Finally, this also reminds me of our tendency to take things for granted. It reminds me that "familiarity breeds contempt."

We forget about the miracle of life in general, take it all for granted, and even become contemptuous of it all.

The protection leads to preservation of their culture, language, and customs. This reminds me of other cultures in America that do the same in the name of preservation.

This reminds me of the importance of a collective classroom library, sharing students stories with each other and incorporating these stories into our classroom libraries.

This reminds me of the importance of incorporating stories that our students can relate to in the classroom environment. However, sometimes stories can be more harmful than we think rather than good. So it is important for educators to research the authors that they are presenting

This reminds me of how people are brainstorming ideas to keep theatre relevant against films/movies since theatre doesn't have any technology involved whereas films/movies do.

This immediately reminds me of Napster because of the name. This was created before I was born, and I have never even heard of it, which foreshadows a potentially unsuccessful history.

This just reminds me of new technology and websites, like Napster, Netflix, etc. sparking new industries (streaming, etc.)

This reminds me of the ideas of "white washing" history among so many other aspects of this ideology. Through retelling a classic story, through the lens or perspective of nondominant groups, adjusts the lens and experience for all cultures.

It's so sad that policing begins in the early elementary years. This connection reminds me of the school-to-prison pipeline which studies the connection between minority students ending up in prison from our public schools.

This reminds me to author Angela Valenzuela's uncovering internalized oppression piece, in which she describes how not being able to express herself, not being understood at school built up a sense of internalized fear, oppression and powerlessness. Students' voices should be heard and the opportunities to express themselves should be given in classroom spaces. In this way they are not only heard, but also, valued.

This reminds me of the school-to-prison pipeline. The national trend where youth are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal legal systems.

This reminds me of how we could shift voice into classrooms. This would also be framing of the students counter-narratives as something valuable with knowledge

This in an odd way reminds me of the early controversies with Kanye West. What he says seems to be so sideways but it's his truth. With the exemption of his recent antisemitic comments which clearly just spread hateful messages.

This reminds me of a student who only enjoyed writing raps. I changed all of his assignments to be a rap. We need to value our student's interests.

The author's definition of 'radical' reminds me of the scholarship of Dr. Schubert, who highlights the different ways to 'teach the knowledge that is worth knowing for WHOM it is intended to.' In this regard, the definition of radical, inspired by Freire is a reminder of the importance of being involved and experience the world so it can be transformed in different, but positive and impactful ways through literacy. #CI45022

this is so powerful!! These are all things out of students' control. This also reminds me of the over-representation of bilingual students in special education.

This reminds me of gentrification. The people of color fighting to stay in their neighborhoods as it continues to get whiter and more expensive.

This definition still seems confusing. What I'm getting from it though is justice is more than where you live on a map? Or it is talking about how where you live on a map can effect your justice. This reminds me of the way our schools are funded. Even though they are all Chicago Public Schools the resources are vastly different on the north side compared to the south side.

Yes! This reminds me of project that I did during my undergrad years at UIC where we examined food deserts.

This reminds me of seeing students as makers, and recognizing that students are people with their own lives, identities, as well as funds of knowledge. It is important that we empower our students in the classroom.

This reminds me of the importance of remembering the names of black directors and artists, because it is a way of acknowledging and reclaiming the 'taking up of space'

Reminds me of something Carl Sagen said - I think it was Sagen though might have been Feynman - in the context of quantum physics, that the universe is under no obligation to observe our rules, or something like that.

The description of elements through the use of other elements reminds me of circular thinking in philosophy like the Cartesian Circle and brings to light how intricate and complex some of these ideas are to describe and how their origins must have been a bit murky as they arose early on.

Once more, this reminds me of the case in a previous reading. There was the initiative of having smart big data, as it gets the best of both worlds. In this case of archives, having both preservation and access (including certain refined collections) also gets the best of sides and results in archives being dynamic.

Distributed verification, or "What is Journalism?"

The admins of the journa.host server are now taking on the verification task. The example Davidson uses is a beer blog; the blog is more than opinion, so for the moment that person is added.

So what is the role of professional organizations and societies to create a fediverse home for recognized members? This doesn't seem sustainable...particularly since people set the dividing lines between their professional and personal interests in different places.

Spit-balling here...this reminds me somewhat of the Open Badges effort of Mozilla and IMS Global. If something like that was built into the Mastodon profile, then there would be transparency with a certifying agency.

Reminds me of Cornell's Bill Gates building lecture halls - but those had university seating rather than the pews of a church.

This reminds me of a poem: https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=2535

Dr Seward reminds me of an old family friend that once showed us how he could hold his breath long enough to pass out and told us how he did that to fall asleep sometimes original post

Tracy Durnell comments on a quote that divides internet users in 'word people' and 'image people' by by position the entire internet as a modern form of oral culture. The only reason in that perspective for the abundance of text is early bandwidth and technology limitations. Nowadays presentations, streaming, videos and podcasts make a much direct version of distributing oral expressions. When Durnell talks about oral culture is that because of the style more than the format? Blogs, IRC chats, microblogging and messaging are more oral in tone. Whereas ;'serious' texts are still in document shape. Reminds me of annotation as conversation and as social interaction.

This reminds me of the approach used in Barbara and Karen Field's Racecraft.

Uses the ethos of "Ethos of Others" (Ross 93) in order to build credibility. In order to help support the certain position that Strossen is in, she mentions a quote from a Supreme Court Member in order to rely on ethos of outside people to help her appear to be trustworthy.

https://reclipped.com/

• [ ] Reminder to check out video annotations using Reclipped

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'> Jan Knorr</span> in "@reclipped seems to be the best video annotating tool at the moment. It reminds me of @hypothes_is a lot. @ChrisAldrich what do you think about it as a https://t.co/iEahoO0Cly power user? How do you annotate videos? https://t.co/DP7WFaDKd9" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>11/16/2022 13:46:27</time>)</cite></small>

This is really helpful guidance for thinking about how to incorporate UFE into all evaluations--what needs to be included as a minimum. I appreciate that he goes back on the 17 steps a bit here--they felt overly prescriptive. * Honor the personal factor. Identify and engage primary users. Who is the evaluation for? * Be purpose driven. Focus on priority intended users. What is the purpose of the evaluation? * Facilitate process use. Be active-reactive-interactive-adaptive in engaging users in all aspects of the evaluation. * Take a full journey stance. Focus on use from beginning to end and every step along the way. How will everything that is done from beginning to end affect use? * Monitor and adapt to context changes. When the context for an evaluation changes, the evaluation may need to change. This also reminds me of the APF project management framework and USAID's adaptive management approach.

At some point I'd like to watch the full hour webinar on UFE min specs.

This reminds me of an often repeated conversation between Arvay and Jim

Reminds me of how Hurston described her own childhood

This reminds me of that young boy who went viral for the video of him screaming hateful scripture at such a young age. When he went on T.V, they asked him what his scriptures meant. He had no idea, and you could see his parents trying to justify it but he really was just a young boy angrily reciting words he didn't understand

The setup of this reminds me of the courtroom scene in Their Eyes Were Watching God, where Janie is tried for killing her husband

https://analogoffice.net/2022/10/28/a-life-in.html

@Guy Reminds me instantaneously of this collection of farm themed pocket notebooks which inspired Field Notes: https://fieldnotesbrand.com/from-seed 📓

This whole section reminds me of the book we were reading this year in CI 450 "Vulnerable Heart of Literacy" by Elizabeth Dutro. As educators we need to make sure that we are using our classrooms as places of heeling trauma, and how this shouldn't just be us taking the time to talk about it in class, but going beyond it and intertwining assessments and activities in the classroom to be a form of heeling traumas.

This reminds me of the SNL skit that happened a few days after this election. A lot of people felt some type of way about the election results, but its always good to laugh about it to make us feel better. I know I've heard this before the idea that we have to laugh so that we wont cry. With that said here is the link to the video https://youtu.be/SHG0ezLiVGc

This section reminds me of "Linguistic Justice Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy" by April Baker-Bell when she discusses the importance of Black students understanding Black English and it's history, and the nuances of "flava" in speaking AAVE that do not exist in White Standard English.

This section reminds me of the book 'En Comunidad' by España and Herrera (2020) Both authors emphasize the importance of centering the voices and experiences of bilingual students. Their focus is on latinx students, but the narrative applies to the diversity of a classroom. They highlight the importance to understand that our students live in the intersections of many cultural practices and identities, hence, this piece in the article makes it clear how having students connect with different realities can help spark interest and help them thrive as intellectuals and producers of their own knowledge. #CI45022

This reminds me of a unit that I am currently teaching on civil responsibility. Our central text is Elie Wiesel's memoir night. A major theme of his novel was that he did not blame the Nazis that were in the concentration camps individually, rather he placed both blame and shared a warning that indifference and dehumanization were the real culprits. Just like this comment by ridding black people of their humanity, having indifference toward their suffering, and denying their rights leads to incidents like this one.

This reminds me of people at schools not tryng to get caught doing drugs and stuffing their pants so they dont get caught by teachers.

Reminds me of how there's a whole business around commodifying celebrities

The language used in this poem reminds me of topics I'm learning in one of my other classes about using standard English when writing. Unlike the other texts we have read this year, “Ma Rainey” does not use standard English. By using words like "dey" and "de," readers can hear the narrator speak instead of imagining a sound for the narrator. Although it does not use standard English, the meaning of the poem is still there, and I am still able to understand it perfectly.

That's the entire topic, my guy!

"We should be optimising Mastodon so it incentivises more serve[r]s with fewer people." is the very premise of the conversation!

Mastodon "push[ing] the direction of the protocol or make it harder to cultivate an ecosystem of smaller ones."? "it needs to be easier to start smaller ones"? Are you just not paying attention to the conversations you're responding to?

Reminds me of:

What fascinated me was that, with every single issue we discussed, we went around in a similar circle — and Kurt didn’t seem to see any problem with this, just so long as the number of 2SAT clauses that he had to resolve to get a contradiction was large enough.

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=232

While watching Figure 2, even though the image is pretty, a human cannot possibly comprehend what is being displayed. This image reminds me of an ECG scan result; the only difference is that an ECG scan is readable. "Topic modeling tools are fallible, and if the algorithm isn't right, they can return some bizarre results." So basically, there are some limitations when it comes to topic modeling, and since we are humans, we may have a rather difficult time reading the results. In order for us to get clear, precise results, we need to at least be able to interpret the pretty image with accuracy.

This line reminds me of the term collective memory, which is a shared pool of memories, knowledge and information of a social group that is closely connected with the group's identity. Although the speaker may not have physically experienced each of these moments, these moments are a part of the collective memory of Black people.

which is why structural reform should be the way we approach finding solutions, this reminds me of the quote about it not being enough to not be racist you need to be anti racist which includes destroying the institutions that were built on promoting racism

This reminds me of the bible verse, "but many who are first will be last." In both the Honorable Harvest and the bible the idea is the same. It is about being self-less and waiting for others to get what they need before you take anything.

This line of the text reminds me of how we are thought to take only what we can eat like at a meal. We don't want to take more because that would be wasteful.

This section in particular reminds me of the American Declaration of Independence in that it lists the wrongdoings of France in Vietnam, similarly to how the American Declaration lists the colonist's grievances against King George.

This reminds me of the Hays code in Hollywood, which in the 1930s banned media from showing explicitly queer people and relationships. Even though the code was dropped in the 60s (I think) it has still taken many many years for queer representation to come to the main stream films and shows. Once these systems have been set up they can become so ingrained in society that simply removing them doesn't easily solve the problems they created.

This statement reminds me of, "You speak English very well for a Mexican" to which some reply "No. I speak English very well period." However, others will reply. I speak English very well and I am Mexican. The latter is a response I believe the author would be more fond of.

The opening paragraph reminds me of the statement, "I don't see color." Similarly, it reminds me of the response "If you don't see color then you don't see me".

This reminds me of Foucauldian resistance, namely how a group of oppressed people must have a method of rebellion for resistance to occur. This can be seen when comparing the middle class and lower class of black people described. The lower class is not interested in resistance because they are so detached from the white population, financially, culturally, and environmentally, that they are able to accept themselves as separate. The middle class, however, strives to be more white because it is much closer to that goal, if white means richer, with a house and two cars. They have a method through which to resist and therefore cannot separate themselves from white people, conforming in an attempt to resist the exclusivity of the white class.

This sentence reminds me of the ying-yang symbol, and I think it applies to everyone. We live in a society that shames mistakes and flaws but in reality, everyone has them, we were just taught to never show them. But like the ying-yang, people can be perfect, but they always have at least one flaw. Same as those who beautiful. They too have ugly within them and that's perfectly okay. Just because something is "ugly" doesn't mean we should hide it.

Huges brings up an important societal issue that I have witnessed in the U.S. The U.S. is known as "the mixing pot of culture," however, there are many systems in place to force people to conform if they wish to succeed. The "mold of American standardization" reminds me of standardized English in our education system. There has always been a need to sound "academic" when it comes to writing a paper for school and using standard English. Thus, I have heard one too many times by people I have tutored, "How do I make my paper sound academic?" There is a misconception that in order to succeed you have to adhere to the dominant way of doing things, but that is not always true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32W3J7XaNH8

This passage reminds me of the control and expectations of the workers seen in this poem and the soldiers mentioned in the song. The lyrics,"Head in the dust, feet in the fire," not only symbolize the smoldering heat of a place like a wasteland, but also are akin to the men walking up the hill while looking at their feet. They are unmovable and pressured to keep working. This song continues with, "Soldier keep on marchin' on / Head down 'til the work is done," which is also what is expected of these men in T.S. Eliot's work. There is a deadened hope in both figures from the song and poem that further the feeling of restraint and suffocation of life and hope. This is T.S. Eliot's fear as he sees the 'wasteland' as devoid of growth and prosperity.

The poem sees this life as a death to society and happiness while the poem sees this stage as a stepping stone to rising up. This is clear in the line, "Careful son, you got dreamer's plans."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWyzwo1xg0 This makes me think of "The Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel. Specifically the line, "Ten thousand people, maybe more/People talking without speaking/People hearing without listening". This suggests that the narrator believes people aren't communicating with each other. I imagine that this can show itself as people just passing each other and not interacting. Just mindlessly working on different projects like zombies and not communicating. Communication is major in "The Burial of the Dead". Most of the sections of the poem, if not all, have some bit of dialogue in it, but they're usually between only two people and each section has a different narrator in the poem. Marie recalls the time her cousin told her to "hold on tight" when sledding, the hyacinth girl reminds the narrator who she is, Madam Sosostris gives the narrator a prediction, and the last narrator talks to an old shipmate. For the most part, these are intimate scenes between two people: a dear family memory during a time of peace, a reintroduction to a past lover, a fortune being told, and two men who fought in Mylae. What Eliot seems to emphasize the most is the closeness between people, their history, and their potential. They interact with each other in these close settings but when it comes to the world at large, people aren't connecting with each other. The speaker describes the people of London as, “A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,/ I had not thought death had undone so many./ Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, and each man fixed his eyes before his feet". There's no intimacy between people, no comradery or enjoyment that is seen in the other narratives. Perhaps this comes from the trauma of war; that seeing so much death stunned people into silence. This is where "The Sound of Silence" comes in. They play on the same idea of people, even in close proximity, are unable to make a connection to each other, thus the lack of communication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX67uWOlbgs

this passage reminds me of the song "good will hunting" by black country, new road in both delivery and content. both paint an idyllic image of life, but in "good will hunting," it is all just a figment of the narrator's imagination. similarly, it seems like this passage of the waste land is just a reflection of the past - something that has happened, but is now out of reach. both the poem and the song are reflecting upon moments that are outside of the present.

while the song and the poem share this in common, their respective reflections come from different places. in the poem, there is a sense of skepticism when revisiting this moment, especially within the context of the entire poem. the song is innocently daydreaming, while the poem is remembering a time where love, nature and human connection were something of importance. there is a sense of pain in the fact that moments like these are becoming impossible to reach.

I'm not sure how frequent this pattern is within fleeting notes, but it's something I do myself to create at least a temporary shorthand context of how things interrelate and which can easily be cleaned up later in the longer form permanent notes.

The tougher thing is to always capture these sorts of things which one won't remember, but which quite often create better and stronger insights down the road.

This reminds me of David Harvey's concept of time-space compression.

Reminds me of something one of my managment professors once said: "you can train skill, but you can't train an attitude. So hire an attitude you're looking for and then train them with the skill you need."

This reminds me a lot of this little clip of Murray Bookchin talking about work as play

Reminds me of Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution

This reminds me of the purpose of reading at CAA. If you tell no one about it, then it wasn't worth the effort. What new did you learn and how did you pass that on to improve your friends, colleagues, and society?

Mike Masnick https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech Aug 2019. n:: "Build protocols, not platforms" (reminds me of the convo's around Jabber/XMPP I listened into in the early '00s) Also, IndieWeb / ActivityPub

This reminds me of OTHERING, when we discussed in class about how people are treating others based on "their origin". We should all accept our differences no matter what.

This reminds me of Nishida Kitarō's idea of pure experience which is the direct experience prior to the subject-object dichotomy. In the direct experience, say of hearing the sound of the bell, there is neither the subject ("I") nor the object ("the bell"). Rather, there is simply "ringing bell". But saying that is already not accurate since we are introducing a concept already. Pure experience is a very concrete and rich experience, but it cannot be grasped conceptually. This seems to come close to what you call "indeterminate perception" except that Nishida would refrain from saying that there is even an "object" that is being perceived at all here.

He's literally drawing out bi-directional links to other ideas in his collection of notes as he creates fleeting notes so that he doesn't forget them in the future.

Such as the embarrassing moments my brain randomly reminds me of

This feels far fetched, but reading this reminds me of the US forced sterilization of black, Hispanic, and indigenous peoples. Specifically it makes me wonder how much people on the mainland are aware of these atrocities done by the government, as I know most people in the US are not taught in school about forced sterilization that took place in their own country.

reminds me of when we were in class talking about people stealing work as their own. It reminded me specifically of that artist that was only half done with their work and someone stole it, altered it a little, and claimed it as their own. Which is something people like to do now adays.

This reminds me of a game called Pathologic about curing a plague, it is also a kind of depressing game in that lots of odds are stacked against you and sometimes you can do everything right and still not get a good result (I haven't actually played just heard a lot about it). I sometimes wonder what the point of these games are because usually people wants stories for the escapism right? I think as this creator talks about, there is a sort of power being able to face horrible things head on and video games can help you do that emotionally while still remaining physically safe.