User:Action potential

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For holding your ground against a long and tedious siege of sockpuppets, and keeping your cool even when the attacks got personal, I, Shunpiker, hereby award you this Wiki Wiffle Bat. 12:51, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

About me

• I am an IT consultant and coder with an special interest in processes for enhanced personal and professional effectiveness.
• As a university student, I studied psychology, history and philosophy of science and more broadly computer science and the cognitive sciences (computing, linguistic, psychology, artificial intelligence...).
• I am most interesting in outliers, the top 1-2% in academic and elite sports performance
• I became interested in rehabilitation and neuroplasticity, particularly follow stroke after my father experienced a severe stroke and I helped him to learn to walk again.
• I am keenly interested in startups and internet entrepreneurship having set up and run an ISP during the early days on the internet

Academic interests

Cognitive science

• Perception and cognition
• Physiology and neuroscience
• Psychological science
• Linguistics (psycholinguistics and generative grammar)
• Computational theory of mind

Computer science

• Artificial intelligence
• Knowledge acquisition

Philosophy

• Epistemology
• Logic
• Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy of Mind

Currently reading

• Gödel, Escher, Bach
• Steven Pinker
• Daniel Dennett
• Noam Chomsky
• John Grinder
• Gregory Bateson

Personal and professional interests

Modeling expertise

• Finding, meeting and learning directly from geniuses
• Coaching and training others to discover and unlock their potential
• Methods for modeling expertise

Web development

• Extending my IT support business, comaze.com.
• Advocate open internet standards (W3C including html, css, ...), open document formats and open source software including GNU/Linux.
• Develop model driven systems using Object oriented engineering,UML concepts and methods

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Figure 1. A. view of an idealized action potential shows its various phases as the action potential passes a point on a cell membrane. B. Recordings of action potentials are often distorted compared to the schematic view because of variations in electrophysiological techniques used to make the recording.