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How a 1960s Discovery In Neuroscience Spawned a Military Project
Harperdog writes "This is pretty fascinating: The Chronicle of Higher Ed has an article about a DARPA project that allows researchers to scan satellite photos, video, etc., and have a computer pick up differences in brain activity to tell whether an image has been seen...images that might flash by before conscious recognition. From the article: 'In a small, anonymous office in the Trump Tower, 28 floors above Wall Street, a man sits in front of a computer screen sifting through satellite images of a foreign desert. The images depict a vast, sandy emptiness, marked every so often by dunes and hills. He is searching for man-made structures: houses, compounds, airfields, any sign of civilization that might be visible from the sky. The images flash at a rate of 20 per second, so fast that before he can truly perceive the details of each landscape, it is gone. He pushes no buttons, takes no notes. His performance is near perfect.'"
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Google Glasses can be disguised, and roughly half the population wear some form of glasses anyway.
No, they will not be DOA, they will be wildly successful, especially if they can be made to look like regular sunglasses or prescription glasses.
Do you run around punching people who wear Bluetooth headsets in the ear?
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
That's the user manual, not the API documentation. If you cannot tell the difference, hand in your geek card!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Looking at someone while talking to them conveys much more information then just the speech alone. Does one person have a confused look on their face? Is the other party trying to stop you from speaking so they can ask something non-verbally? Does the other person look like they totally don't give a fuck?
I do hope you understand the importance of nonverbal communication in conversation. Engagement is a very important part of communication, and is much of the reason why people still travel long distances to have face to face meetings in business. It's not just some people, it's most people that feel important when you look at them when you talk, especially the people that have the greatest monetary influence on your life, bosses, girlfriends, customers...
A lot of geeks and nerds get the label, not because of their obsession with their trade, but the inability to communicate with other people properly.
Q: How can a woman tell the difference between a geek and a jock?
A: A jock stares at her breasts, a geek stares at her shoes.
too bad you didn't stick to your education until the magic happens and you realize that it's teaching you how to think
I think you guys are conflating 'education' with 'schooling'. "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain