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1. You and yourself form your being. But by that, what am I meaning?
Dualism is moot, no schism is true,
and identity's not all it's seeming.

2. Post-cholecystectomy [ko le sis tek toe mee]. This back pain will be the death of me.
"Right shoulder pain" became "mild strain"?
Docs ask how they're "enemy".

3. Counselling Level 3 coursework at this point feels like mild torture.
How can I stand 'Review Action Plan'
when my options send me to torpor?

4. UPR, ethics, and feel what you notice (for therapy, real).
Set forth Carl Rogers, Person-Centred's starter.
Humanistic counsell -- his whole deal.

5. I say Integrative Therapy
mixes together all three
approaches today taught in the UK:
Per-Centered, PsyDynamic, CBT.

6. Level 4 is the min you need right now to practise therapy.
You can still joke out quite a belter, as long as your role stays "helper".
One more word for client: "helpee".

7. For me, relearning MMA (medical-wise) has stayed "nay".
I have no energy, nor makeup on peak.
Who knows? Maybe... one day...

8. Just like spoiling a plot, repeat triggerers get blocked.
You ought aim not cause harm, if wish you to spare alarm.
Or... had we forgot?

9. Through others do we know ourself?
With lovers, we learn what we're dealt.
Your bodymind chooses which traits it loses,
plus those for which you far delve.

10. Sometimes you can guess your traumas. Meds' side effects include nausea.
Bothered ye to get yourselves through.
I never unlocked Bozja.

11. You can not make me start work. Although I feel like a jerk.
My tutor awaits the far-past-due date.
On this seat, I stay and I lurk.

12. Nonbinary goes known. Get up here, come, have a go.
"Are you masculine?"
"Are you feminine?"
Robot, femboy, and crone!

13. Gender is what your brain be, while expression is acting, you see.
Attraction to parts, updates and larks.
Oh no, sexuality!

14. Asexuals may be or not queer.
All aces stay welcome here.
Agender folk face too many jokes.
Aromantics write slash fics or jeer.

15. It's okay to ask for help. Whether or not you feel well.
While systems are limited, your needs stay existent.
We need to thunderclap-yell.

In Canadian election, top #Conservative candidate vows to end ’#woke ideology’ in science funding | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/ca “The vow—which echoes rhetoric used by U.S. President Donald #Trump’s administration to justify canceling research grants and shutting down government programs—has alarmed many researchers. “I think this is the first time a politician in Canada has crossed that line to officially say they want to interfere to control #research topics,”

"DeepSeek-R1 Thoughtology:
Let’s <think> about LLM reasoning"

Interesting, very long paper about how reasoning works in DeepSeek-R1. One finding was that enhanced reasoning creates dual-use risk - better capabilities but worse safety. Future models might move away from the single chain of reasoning in this model to diverse reasoning strategies to enhance problem-solving flexibility.

mcgill-nlp.github.io/thoughtol

McGill NLPDeepSeek-R1 Thoughtology: Let’s think about LLM reasoningLarge Reasoning Models like DeepSeek-R1 mark a fundamental shift in how LLMs approach complex problems. Instead of directly producing an answer for a given input, DeepSeek-R1 creates detailed multi-step reasoning chains, seemingly “thinking” about a problem before providing an answer. This reasoning process is publicly available to the user, creating endless opportunities for studying the reasoning behaviour of the model and opening up the field of Thoughtology. Starting from a taxonomy of DeepSeek-R1’s basic building blocks of reasoning, our analyses on DeepSeek-R1 investigate the impact and controllability of thought length, management of long or confusing contexts, cultural and safety concerns, and the status of DeepSeek-R1 vis-à-vis cognitive phenomena, such as human-like language processing and world modelling. Our findings paint a nuanced picture. Notably, we show DeepSeek-R1 has a ‘sweet spot’ of reasoning, where extra inference time can impair model performance. Furthermore, we find a tendency for DeepSeek-R1 to persistently ruminate on previously explored problem formulations, obstructing further exploration. We also note strong safety vulnerabilities of DeepSeek-R1 compared to its non-reasoning counterpart, which can also compromise safety-aligned LLMs.

What #NIH #Layoffs Mean for #Cancer Patients
In the rush of headlines about budgets and restructuring, it’s easy to miss what’s really at stake. But working in cancer innovation and advocacy: when we delay #science, we delay survival. When we dismantle #research infrastructure, people #die waiting. Thousands at #NIH and #HHS were laid off. These were the people running #clinicaltrials, developing new treatment strategies, and pushing promising therapies toward approval.
scilight.substack.com/p/what-n

SciLight · What NIH Layoffs Mean for Cancer PatientsBy Catharine Young

A few images from yesterdays first #HoloDeck presentation at Prof. Varshneys #lab at the #Indian Institute of #Science (#IISc) in #Bangalore (#India), where people enjoyed 'playing molecules'.

Holodeck, also known as the Rechenkraft.net #Molecular #AR Environment is our #OpenSource approach - based on the @tiltfive hardware - to visualize molecular #structures in #3D for #education & #research & #development purposes.