Ambika K (ambioct)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

medical student, gaining insights on rational & empathizing nature.
I like social entrepreneurship,global trade,modern architecture,writing,transcendentalism [Emerson's philosophy: discovering nature of reality by analysing thought processes rather than things],science & tech,behavioral sci.

I am interested in Movies: Michael Douglas films,.Audrey Hepburn's Roman holiday,Gregory Peck's Mackenna's gold.. TV: Lost in space,Star trek,Dennis the menace,Where on earth is Carmen Sandiego. Books: why we do what we do by edward deci,the one thing you need to know by marcus buckingham,the 5 temptations of a CEO,33strategies of war,Secret garden,Linda Goodman's LS,Linus Geisler's Doctor-Patient dialogue. My Heros are Abraham Lincoln,Dr.Devi Prasad Shetty,Dr.Vilayanur Ramachandran,RamojiRao.

I use Diigo because I loved it while annotating, reviewing my library, sending blog drafts & gaining from friends & groups.

Member since Aug 29, 2008, follows 1 people, 2 public groups, 890 public bookmarks (928 total).

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Murmurs recognition –part 1 | Vanumu.com on 2009-11-23
ECG Learning Center on 2009-11-23
Overcoming Bias : Praise Results on 2009-11-22
- we often hear that someone was head of an organization, or had a credential, without hearing much about what they did with such influence. We often hear they were part of some project without hearing the difference they made
- Very small acts are often mentioned, if they seem telling. And we often hear that someone was head of an organization, or had a credential, without hearing much about what they did with such influence. We often hear they were part of some project without hearing the difference they made, and the differences we do hear about are often merely due to others knowing of their association with the project.
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- - Because the usual focus is on inferring how smart, strong, creative, caring, charismatic, determined, etc. people are, the incentives are more to do things that suggest good things about your character. If instead we focused on describing the differences a person has actually made to the world, we would get more folks trying harder to actually make a difference.
  - evaluate the difference someone made, we should correct for the opportunities they had.
  - If we praised results instead of character, maybe we will get more of both.
ED Primer.pdf (application/pdf Object) on 2009-11-21
Audacity, Part 3: Funding Audacious Science - Science Careers - Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Faculty, Postdoc jobs on Science Careers on 2009-11-20
- You get hired for the big and bold ideas, but you don't get funded for those
- You get hired for the big and bold ideas, but you don't get funded for those
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- - What you publish is “the advertisement that you're providing to prospective students,” she says. If you aim to nudge your research into a bolder area but all you're publishing is the incremental, interim steps that are being funded, you will attract only students interested in incremental work, not bold ideas
  - Once “you get hired at a place, the biggest expectation is not necessarily to make great discoveries but to get grant funding and to publish a lot of papers
  - “If you start doing the boring stuff and you get all these little, minor reinforcements, like you get a grant, and you get tenure, and you get people patting you on the back and some paper gets accepted in this journal or that journal, you start losing sight of what's really driving the enterprise,” adds Vilayanur Ramachandran, a behavioral neurologist at the University of California, San Diego. “I would never compromise on doing the exciting stuff, and the reason for that is it becomes habit. You get lulled into a false sense of security. You follow the crowd, and you become that.”
  - If you want to get tenure, then you have to get grants–but is strong funding correlated with strong science? Not so much, say our sources, though it depends on the field. “It's a false impression that important discoveries necessarily need a lot of equipment and time and money. In fact, the opposite can be true,” Ramachandran argues. “If you've got a huge grant and 16 postdocs working under you, you become a lab manager. It stifles your creativity.”
  - “What many of us do is, we get the funds for the boring stuff and then do the exciting stuff on the side,” Ramachandran says. “The great thing about NIH is, they don't mind [if you] spend about 10 or 20% of [grant money] on other exciting stuff as long as you tell them it's vaguely related. That's an easy, easy way to deal with that problem.”
  - JHU neuroscientist Solomon Snyder doesn't write about new and exciting research directions in his grant applications. “I write about what we did that was exciting a couple of years ago and that was just published in the last year and say, 'Look, we discovered x, and we're going to do the boring follow-up of x.' ” When the money comes in, he works on what he wants to.
  - “My advice is, if you're selling your wares, which is what you're doing when you're applying for a grant, you try to find out what the customer wants,” Snyder says. “You sell the customer what he wants. And then in real life, you do what you feel like doing.”
  - Importantly, almost all of our sources put forward the concept of portfolio theory: Don't put all your eggs in a high-risk basket, they advise. Instead, pursue a range of projects with different levels of risk and potential reward and different timetables. Also pursue a range of funding sources; instead of relying on a single grant or source, spread the ideas and the applications around. Using strategies like these, you can establish a record of solid, if boring, productivity even as you pursue the big payoff.
Student BMJ: Cervical spondylotic myelopathy: arm stiffness and unsteady gait on 2009-11-19
- Brisk reflexes
Overcoming Bias : Contrarian Excuses on 2009-11-16
- Honest contrarians who expect reasonable outsiders to give their contrarian view more than normal credence should point to strong outside indicators that correlate enough with contrarians tending more to be right.
- higher aspirations
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- - No fair assuming you are less biased just because you feel that way.
  - shouldn’t matter who agrees or disagrees.
  - There is usually some way to define “valid” critics so they are outnumbered by advocates
  - If you want outsiders to believe you, then you don’t get to choose their rationality standard.
Neurologic Exam Videos and Descriptions: An Anatomical Approach on 2009-11-15
Newborn > Abnormal on 2009-11-15
Virtual Anaesthesia Textbook on 2009-11-15

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