China doubles down on smart medicine

A newly established research centre is building a chronic disease management system to enable access to comprehensive patient data. More healthcare stakeholders in China are contributing to the government's vision to make smart Chinese medicine popular and standardised. Based on a press statement, the chronic disease management system will comprehensively track a patient's medical journey and enable functions for follow-up care and long-term health management. It will also provide medical practitioners access to extensive patient medical histories, which will further inform their treatment plans. Additionally, the system can help accelerate scientific discoveries by providing researchers with an "invaluable" pool of tracked data, including the analysis of treatment effectiveness and responses to medical interventions.

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https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/asia/china-doubles-down-smart-medicine

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Study finds complex languages may be more efficient for communication

How do languages balance the richness of their structures with the need for efficient communication?
languages that are computationally harder to process compensate for this increased complexity with greater efficiency: more complex languages need fewer symbols to encode the same message. The analyses also reveal that larger language communities tend to use more complex but more efficient languages.

There is a trade-off between complexity and efficiency. Languages with higher complexity tend to produce shorter texts to convey the same content, reflecting a compensatory mechanism where increased structural intricacy is offset by greater efficiency in communication.

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"Once you've mastered it, a complex language might offer more options to express yourself, which can make it easier to convey the same idea using fewer symbols. This is relevant, because we also show that this trade-off is shaped by the social environments in which languages are used, with larger communities tending to use more complex but more efficient languages."

So one could speculate that in large societies, institutionalized education might enable greater linguistic complexity by providing systematic and formalized language learning, which supports the acquisition and use of intricate linguistic structures. At the same time, the importance of written communication in larger societies may create pressure for shorter messages to reduce costs for production, storage, and transmission—such as book paper, storage space, or bandwidth.

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https://phys.org/news/2025-02-complex-languages-efficient-communication.html

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🎥 The man who knew infinity

At the turn of the twentieth century, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a struggling and indigent citizen in the city of Madras in India working at menial jobs at the edge of poverty. While performing his menial labour, his employers notice that he seems to have exceptional skills in mathematics and they begin to make use of him for rudimentary accounting tasks. It becomes equally clear to his employers, who are college-educated, that Ramanujan's mathematical insights exceed the simple accounting tasks they are assigning to him and soon they encourage him to make his personal writings in mathematics available to the general public and to start to contact professors of mathematics at universities by writing to them. One such letter is sent to G. H. Hardy, a famous mathematician at University of Cambridge, who begins to take a special interest in Ramanujan.

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🎥 Pawn Sacrifice

Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical psychological drama film about Bobby Fischer, a chess grandmaster and the eleventh world champion. It follows Fischer's challenge against top Soviet chess grandmasters during the Cold War and culminating in the World Chess Championship 1972 match versus Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, Iceland. It was directed by Edward Zwick and written by Steven Knight, and stars Tobey Maguire as Fischer, Liev Schreiber as Spassky, Lily Rabe as Joan Fischer, and Peter Sarsgaard as William Lombardy. It was released in the United States on September 16, 2015.

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Getting to grips with enhanced dexterity

Close collaboration with surgeons has led to a versatile robotic technology allowing for both single- and multi-port minimally invasive procedures.

Robotic systems with improved dexterity, accuracy, and ergonomics have been a great tool for minimally invasive surgeries. However, most of the existing surgical robotic systems, like the da Vinci Surgical System, are designed for a single configuration, allowing for either multi-port or single-port procedures. A versatile design accommodating both has yet to reach the market.

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Screen time delays language development in toddlers

The study’s results revealed a negative association between screen time and language development. More screen exposure was linked to lower lexical density and delayed language milestone progress.

In simpler terms, the more time that children spend in the virtual world of screens, the more their real-world language skills seem to suffer.

On the other hand, not all screen time was found to be detrimental to the toddlers. Shared screen engagement with adults and exposure to books appeared to shift the narrative, positively impacting language skills.
While the TV might be a foe when viewed alone, it seems to transform into an ally when the experience is shared with an adult.
The study’s results are clear: unchecked screen time negatively impacts early language development. However, adult-supervised screen time and exposure to books can serve as shields, protecting and even promoting toddlers’ language skills.

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https://www.earth.com/news/screen-time-delays-language-development-in-toddlers/

📚 The Body in Language

Horst Ruthrof

This book opposes the position that meanings can be explained by way of intralinguistic relations, as in structural linguistics and its successors, and rejects definitional descriptions of meaning as well as naturalistic accounts. The idea that we are able to live by strings of mere signifiers is shown to rest on a misconception. Ruthrof also attempts an explanation of why arguments grounded in a post-Saussurean view of language, as for instance certain feminist theories, find it so difficult to show how precisely the body can be reclaimed as an integral part of linguistic signs. In reinstating the body in language, Ruthrof draws on Peirce, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Derrida, cognitive linguistics and rhetoric, as well as on the writings of Helen Keller.

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📚The Future of Language: How Technology, Politics and Utopianism are Transforming the Way We Communicate

Philip Seargeant

Will language as we know it cease to exist? What could this mean for the way we live our lives?

Shining a light on the technology currently being developed to revolutionise communication, The Future of Language distinguishes myth from reality and superstition from scientifically-based prediction as it plots out the importance of language and raises questions about its future.

From the rise of artificial intelligence and speaking robots, to brain implants and computer-facilitated telepathy, language and communications expert Philip Seargeant surveys the development of new digital 'languages', such as emojis, animated gifs and memes, and investigates how conventions of spoken and written language are being modified by new trends in communication.

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From George Orwell's fictional predictions in Nineteen Eighty-Four to the very real warnings of climate activist Greta Thunberg, Seargeant explores language through time, traversing politics, religion, philosophy, literature, and of course technology, in the process. Tracing how previous eras have imagined the future of language, from the Bible to the works H. G. Wells, and from Star Wars to Star Trek, the book reveals how perfecting language and communication has always been a vital component of utopian dreams of the future.

Questioning the potential ramifications of recent and future developments in communication on society and its ideals, The Future of Language is a no holds barred investigation into the state of civilisation and the impact that changes in language could have on our lives.

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https://youtu.be/xryP2eaxAlE?si=WKdAlLVGkS9JiK9q

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