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My new article: 'How to Choose a Foreign Language to Learn'. Talked about how to predict and manage motivation, assess language's applicability and difficulty, and why studying culture is also important. Here: https://lnkd.in/e5ZDcz4g

“In other words, the forces of natural selection sometimes cause us to form groups based on hate, sometimes unconsciously, and such alliances often reduce our collective intelligence. These new and unlikely coalitions can emerge autonomously through leaderless organizations, sometimes with disastrous consequences. Evolution can drive our prejudices. Since Darwin’s publication of “The Origin of Species” in 1859, we have known that groups compete in order to survive. If competition and cooperation can exist together, the results can be remarkable — take, for example, the global collaboration that produced COVID-19 vaccines. Alternatively, competition without cooperation can lead to great harm, such as state-sponsored terrorism. We also know that implicit assumptions are often baked into existing data sets. Consider bias in its most benevolent form: A talented designer’s bias toward a particular color or fabric will become next year’s popular fashion line. Steve Jobs’ bias for clean design and beautiful typefaces gave us the iPhone. Yet we know that not all biases are benign. As we become an ever more data-driven society, biases that exist in current data sets must be documented and understood. For decades, pharmaceutical companies tested their drugs only on white males, and automobile crash test dummies were sized only for men, leading to fatal design flaws for those outside the test-group parameters. We must uncover dangerous biases in other data sets before they lead to unintended consequences.”

Check This Out For Better Alignment: Song: Eugy

Quite an interesting perspective by Chimamanda Adiechie.

"I'm going to talk about five qualities that are over the months and years, as we meditate, qualities that are being nurtured and come forth more and more... The first quality, what we're doing when we meditate, is to cultivate or nurture steadfastness with ourselves. I was talking to someone about this and they said is that sort of like loyalty and in a way it is like loyalty to oneself and actually its steadfastness with oneself which translates immediately into steadfastness or loyalty to one's experience of life." https://lnkd.in/euVMXA64

Exploring new frontiers in science: 'Collaboration Across Continents | MRS & AMRS' highlights the pivotal role of international partnerships in advancing material science. Discover how the MRS's commitment to global collaboration, led by AMRS President Balla Diop Ngom and MRS Spring meeting chair Mmantsae Diale, is shaping a future of rich scientific exchange between US American and African scientists. Witness the unfolding of a new era in cross-continental scientific progress https://lnkd.in/dN9ZRNBQ

short article on our Wei QI https://lnkd.in/eDGiyhTG

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