DICOM Part 10 image viewer - in ASCII
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I once coded a DICOM Part 10 image (CT data, MRI data, etc.) viewer in ASCII. It did panning, zooming, measurements, regions of interest, cine'ing a stack of images - you name it. All of the image rendering went through an ASCII filter before being thrown onto the screen. And the images were surprisingly detailed even for a fairly large font size.
In other words, it was possible to do actual medical diagnosis with ASCII-rendered images. Terrifying, huh? Well don't worry, it never made its way into a Radiologist's hands.
First off, if you RTFA, this guy worked at Stanford in Artificial Intelligence. You don't get to do that, if you're as dumb as you imply he is.
You also have no idea how many lines of the 20,000 are data tables. Note the part where he says "the frequencies of the big chord (which had been typed in by hand - based on a 150-Hz root)..."
I'll tell you what: I'll give you 4 days to write your 5 lines of Perl. When it executes, it should algorithmically create (not download off the internet, or some bullshit) a wav file which 8 out of 10 people can't distinguish from 'Deep Note' based on a side-by-side sound test. If you succeed, I'll send you $300 through PayPal.
Until then, STFU. Some of us are trying to enjoy the show.
I'm really curious what software people use to drive MMOs automatically. I've seen them in the past, and seen some of the scripting for them - but I just can't remember what they are. Anyone?
The idea is to make a microwave sail with a camera - that's it. Then you blast microwave energy at the thing to make it go, go, go! You keep blasting microwaves at it for the entire journey - accelerating it the entire time. You get to a pretty significant percentage of the speed of light.
The propulsion technique is everything - you don't slingshot around jupiter - you push straight to your destination. The whole point is that you're not carrying your fuel with you - which completely changes the mechanics.
Also, something like the Orion project would work, too.
I don't see any problem with the Apollo missions. Those were NASA and manned.
Apollo 1 - Virgil Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee.
NASA gets burned hard when they lose a probe...
NASA gets burned worse when they lose astronauts.
It's completely impossible for a human to make it to another solar system within my lifetime - but using microwave-based solar sails, it's possible to send a camera through a nearby solar system and get pictures back, in that timeframe.
I'm not voting against manned missions - I'm just voting much more strongly for the unmanned ones to continue and accelerate.
"One laptop per child." I have yet to see a two-year-old who can't master a mouse. (And p.s. - the laptops don't have mice - you should look at the pictures.)
1000 physical books would be way, way more difficult to give to every child that they're going to reach with the laptops.
What makes a laptop different?
(Ripping off Terminator 2, big time...) "Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. The [laptop] wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It would never hurt him or shout at him or get drunk and hit him or say it was too busy to spend time with him... Of all the would-be [helpers] that came over the years, this thing, this machine, was the only thing that measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice."
I just think that a few kids might get a real benefit from being exposed to a much larger world... That's all.
As Billy Joel says, "You may be wrong, but you may be right."
Do you think that giving 1000 books to every kid in Africa would be an "Inappropriate Technology"? Because that's how I really think about these laptops. I don't see the laptop as being a labor-saving device, I see it as a knowledge-distributing device.
The industrialized world is obscenely rich, compared to the rest of the world. I don't expect poor governments to buy the $100/50 computers, I hope that they are paid for by Westerners buying $200 versions, and by corporate donations, and donations from rich governments.
The point is to make them ubiquitous so they have no resale value.
You're essentially saying drug lords are going to bust into your house to steal your pencil, or your lightbulb. It's supposed to be a commodity, not something the people pay for themselves - almost none of the target audience could afford it.
Exactly! I figure you could cram 100, maybe 1000 good books into this thing. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to actually give each kid 100 or 1000 physical books, instead?
Just like Negroponte says in "Being Digital," the whole point is the bits in the computer, not the atoms of the computer.
It's worse than you think - the same PBS show I saw said that in many African nations right now, the number one risk factor for a woman to catch AIDS is being married. The women ARE practicing abstinence. Then they get married to a boy / soldier who already has AIDS from being with prostitutes while off fighting a war.
Part of the point is to make them ubiquitous, so they have no resale value.
If the thing occasionally pops up a potentially life-saving educational pop-up, like, "AIDS can kill you - learn how to avoid it - click here" before the kid has the time to launch up the pr0n, so be it.
If this thing doesn't come with Sesame-Street-like videos teaching how to read and write, then I agree that it's 100% worthless.
You're right that giving a pen to someone doesn't make them into a poet. But if you give out enough pens, you might make a poet. How many Gandhi's, Arundhati Roy's, or Mandella's do you think it takes to change the fate of a country?
Okay - you stop the wars first, and I'll educate the kids second.
How's that coming along?
Still waiting.
Could you hurry up your end of the bargain?
Wow, there's a lot of them dying right now - that's bad. Please, could you hurry?
Maybe, just maybe, it's worth doing both things - trying to stop the fighting - and raising the educational bar just a tad.
Back to your questions - if this $100 laptop has entertaining stuff on it, yes, I think the kid would pay some attention to it in his downtime. Days of boredom followed by minutes or hours of terror, right? (Or at the very least, trying to fall asleep.) And if this thing occasionally throws in some educational stuff, I think he'll pay attention, if it's talking about relevant things - "You've heard of AIDS - yes it can kill you - here's how to avoid it..."
Which one is literally the first thing that an invading army blows up?
Hint: it's the radio stations.
Also, the whole point of this thing in my mind is the 1 GB of storage on it - that's a TON of books that you have ready access to. For instance, simple medical advice, dangerous plants, water filtrations systems, VIDEOS of Sesame-Street-like things teaching reading and writing, instructions on how to make water pumps, all sorts of stuff. With pictures. That's pretty awesome.
I admit, radio is great - but the seek time for the info you want is terrible. =)
How do you fight AIDS in Africa, with a sub-machine gun?
No, you fight it with education. "The hundred dollar laptop is an education project." I'm watching this program on PBS talking about AIDS in Africa, and this doctor is explaining the birds and the bees to this 19-year old kid who has just infected his wife, because he used to have unprotected sex with prostitutes while he was off fighting a war for his country (from the time he was 14). The kid had no idea how AIDS was spread.
As I responded to another poster - you don't fucking get it.
It IS the library. The families don't buy them themselves, they're given away (because of sponsors or governments, or paid for by Westerners who buy $200 versions). You don't need broadband to the internet - you just need 100 e-books on survival, agriculture, medicine, and you've just raised the bar by a thousandfold.
Picture if you KNEW you were going to be on a desert island for the rest of your life. Wouldn't you want a hand-crank computer with the green beret survival guild, the boy scout manual, a photo gallery of poisonous foods...? Do you have a BETTER idea of what you'd want, if you were forced to survive on your own in a harsh environment?
The readily available information alone makes these things worth the price of admission, if you ask me. (Especially if you talk about a talking / video version of the books, so you don't even need to be literate to get started using them.)
It's got a gig of storage. Do you know how many books can fit in a gig of storage? You don't need any freaking applications for this to have almost unimaginable value.
If you were on a desert island, wouldn't you want a hand-crank laptop that told you how to make potable water, start a fire, create sturdy shelter, make refridgeration for food storage, how to handle different types of injuries, identify poisonous food...? Distill alcohol for disenfection and fuel?
Is it so hard to imagine that the greatest value of these things is the KNOWLEDGE, not the computational power? And then you throw on a self-assembling network with messages travelling faster than foot...?
Don't you get it?
You don't repair a $100 laptop, you replace it. You don't need to talk to Venezuela - the next town over will do just fine. These are communities where the laptop is probably the brightest source of light available other than burning scarse fuel. There's no value to a commodity - if all the kids have laptops, there's no point in selling it to anyone.
Where the hell do you see restricted to governments for sale? Everything I've read has talked about selling them for $200 everywhere, to help pay for development. Enter the hobbiests.
For every good idea, there's a pessimist. Are there BETTER ways to help people? Undoubtedly - but that doesn't mean this wouldn't help, too.
I'd love to see a game where the numbers simply aren't available to the players.
Game designers know that even if they hide the numbers, the players will deduce them. They simply have too much vested interest to NOT know how a change in equipment or class or skill or... will impact their gameplay.
It's a nice idea, but unfortunately, something as easy as statistical sampling (trivial, with the help of computers) reveals all.
What I almost like better is the Zelda model. If I hit something with my sword, it gets hurt a predictable amount - the same, every time. If I hit it with a different weapon, it gets hurt a different amount. Different critters respond differently to different weapons... There is no "chance" associated with that - no numbers. The problem is, that devolves to a "twitch" style game - very, very hard to pull off in an MMO. =(
Just because you think video cards are only for gaming doesn't make it so. There are people using video cards for scientific and medical visualization, and saving lives doing it.
And in case THAT goes down, too, it looks like the layout is roughly like this:
ABCD.^.NOPQ EFGH.<>.RSTU IJKLM.v.VWXYZ
Color me not impressed. It looks like a crappy "infant's first keyboard" that Sesame Street would put on a toy computer that barks when you press the "Dog" key.
You've completely missed the point. ID doesn't ask "is it possible for someone to design a world filled with living diversity? (whether or not we have that technology)", ID insists "it's the only way a world with this kind of living diversity could arise."
You're proposing to statistically measure the difference between the outcome of a theory that says that only a being with God-like powers could cause events (and has unclear motives, and will act whenever they feel like, and has a design that is unknowable), and the outcome of a scientific theory which will always be adjusted to fit the measurable facts as closely as possible.
Whatever rate of speciation you find, it will either A) only be possible because of a designer, or B) be explained quite well by the proponents of evolution. The answer A or B will depend entirely upon the views of the person you ask.
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I once coded a DICOM Part 10 image (CT data, MRI data, etc.) viewer in ASCII. It did panning, zooming, measurements, regions of interest, cine'ing a stack of images - you name it. All of the image rendering went through an ASCII filter before being thrown onto the screen. And the images were surprisingly detailed even for a fairly large font size.
In other words, it was possible to do actual medical diagnosis with ASCII-rendered images. Terrifying, huh? Well don't worry, it never made its way into a Radiologist's hands.
First off, if you RTFA, this guy worked at Stanford in Artificial Intelligence. You don't get to do that, if you're as dumb as you imply he is.
You also have no idea how many lines of the 20,000 are data tables. Note the part where he says "the frequencies of the big chord (which had been typed in by hand - based on a 150-Hz root)..."
I'll tell you what: I'll give you 4 days to write your 5 lines of Perl. When it executes, it should algorithmically create (not download off the internet, or some bullshit) a wav file which 8 out of 10 people can't distinguish from 'Deep Note' based on a side-by-side sound test. If you succeed, I'll send you $300 through PayPal.
Until then, STFU. Some of us are trying to enjoy the show.
I'm really curious what software people use to drive MMOs automatically. I've seen them in the past, and seen some of the scripting for them - but I just can't remember what they are. Anyone?
You should read some of Robert L. Forward's work.
The idea is to make a microwave sail with a camera - that's it. Then you blast microwave energy at the thing to make it go, go, go! You keep blasting microwaves at it for the entire journey - accelerating it the entire time. You get to a pretty significant percentage of the speed of light.
The propulsion technique is everything - you don't slingshot around jupiter - you push straight to your destination. The whole point is that you're not carrying your fuel with you - which completely changes the mechanics.
Also, something like the Orion project would work, too.
I don't see any problem with the Apollo missions. Those were NASA and manned.
Apollo 1 - Virgil Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee.
NASA gets burned hard when they lose a probe...
NASA gets burned worse when they lose astronauts.
It's completely impossible for a human to make it to another solar system within my lifetime - but using microwave-based solar sails, it's possible to send a camera through a nearby solar system and get pictures back, in that timeframe.
I'm not voting against manned missions - I'm just voting much more strongly for the unmanned ones to continue and accelerate.
"One laptop per child." I have yet to see a two-year-old who can't master a mouse. (And p.s. - the laptops don't have mice - you should look at the pictures.)
1000 physical books would be way, way more difficult to give to every child that they're going to reach with the laptops.
What makes a laptop different?
(Ripping off Terminator 2, big time...) "Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. The [laptop] wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It would never hurt him or shout at him or get drunk and hit him or say it was too busy to spend time with him... Of all the would-be [helpers] that came over the years, this thing, this machine, was the only thing that measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice."
I just think that a few kids might get a real benefit from being exposed to a much larger world... That's all.
As Billy Joel says, "You may be wrong, but you may be right."
Do you think that giving 1000 books to every kid in Africa would be an "Inappropriate Technology"? Because that's how I really think about these laptops. I don't see the laptop as being a labor-saving device, I see it as a knowledge-distributing device.
The industrialized world is obscenely rich, compared to the rest of the world. I don't expect poor governments to buy the $100/50 computers, I hope that they are paid for by Westerners buying $200 versions, and by corporate donations, and donations from rich governments.
Please mod parent up.
The point is to make them ubiquitous so they have no resale value.
You're essentially saying drug lords are going to bust into your house to steal your pencil, or your lightbulb. It's supposed to be a commodity, not something the people pay for themselves - almost none of the target audience could afford it.
You burn in 100 or 1000 books in these things before you ship them out.
Exactly! I figure you could cram 100, maybe 1000 good books into this thing. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to actually give each kid 100 or 1000 physical books, instead?
Just like Negroponte says in "Being Digital," the whole point is the bits in the computer, not the atoms of the computer.
It's worse than you think - the same PBS show I saw said that in many African nations right now, the number one risk factor for a woman to catch AIDS is being married. The women ARE practicing abstinence. Then they get married to a boy / soldier who already has AIDS from being with prostitutes while off fighting a war.
(sigh)
Part of the point is to make them ubiquitous, so they have no resale value.
If the thing occasionally pops up a potentially life-saving educational pop-up, like, "AIDS can kill you - learn how to avoid it - click here" before the kid has the time to launch up the pr0n, so be it.
If this thing doesn't come with Sesame-Street-like videos teaching how to read and write, then I agree that it's 100% worthless.
You're right that giving a pen to someone doesn't make them into a poet. But if you give out enough pens, you might make a poet. How many Gandhi's, Arundhati Roy's, or Mandella's do you think it takes to change the fate of a country?
Okay - you stop the wars first, and I'll educate the kids second.
How's that coming along?
Still waiting.
Could you hurry up your end of the bargain?
Wow, there's a lot of them dying right now - that's bad. Please, could you hurry?
Maybe, just maybe, it's worth doing both things - trying to stop the fighting - and raising the educational bar just a tad.
Back to your questions - if this $100 laptop has entertaining stuff on it, yes, I think the kid would pay some attention to it in his downtime. Days of boredom followed by minutes or hours of terror, right? (Or at the very least, trying to fall asleep.) And if this thing occasionally throws in some educational stuff, I think he'll pay attention, if it's talking about relevant things - "You've heard of AIDS - yes it can kill you - here's how to avoid it..."
Which one is literally the first thing that an invading army blows up?
Hint: it's the radio stations.
Also, the whole point of this thing in my mind is the 1 GB of storage on it - that's a TON of books that you have ready access to. For instance, simple medical advice, dangerous plants, water filtrations systems, VIDEOS of Sesame-Street-like things teaching reading and writing, instructions on how to make water pumps, all sorts of stuff. With pictures. That's pretty awesome.
I admit, radio is great - but the seek time for the info you want is terrible. =)
How do you fight AIDS in Africa, with a sub-machine gun?
No, you fight it with education. "The hundred dollar laptop is an education project." I'm watching this program on PBS talking about AIDS in Africa, and this doctor is explaining the birds and the bees to this 19-year old kid who has just infected his wife, because he used to have unprotected sex with prostitutes while he was off fighting a war for his country (from the time he was 14). The kid had no idea how AIDS was spread.
As I responded to another poster - you don't fucking get it.
It IS the library. The families don't buy them themselves, they're given away (because of sponsors or governments, or paid for by Westerners who buy $200 versions). You don't need broadband to the internet - you just need 100 e-books on survival, agriculture, medicine, and you've just raised the bar by a thousandfold.
Picture if you KNEW you were going to be on a desert island for the rest of your life. Wouldn't you want a hand-crank computer with the green beret survival guild, the boy scout manual, a photo gallery of poisonous foods...? Do you have a BETTER idea of what you'd want, if you were forced to survive on your own in a harsh environment?
The readily available information alone makes these things worth the price of admission, if you ask me. (Especially if you talk about a talking / video version of the books, so you don't even need to be literate to get started using them.)
It's got a gig of storage. Do you know how many books can fit in a gig of storage? You don't need any freaking applications for this to have almost unimaginable value.
If you were on a desert island, wouldn't you want a hand-crank laptop that told you how to make potable water, start a fire, create sturdy shelter, make refridgeration for food storage, how to handle different types of injuries, identify poisonous food...? Distill alcohol for disenfection and fuel?
Is it so hard to imagine that the greatest value of these things is the KNOWLEDGE, not the computational power? And then you throw on a self-assembling network with messages travelling faster than foot...?
Don't you get it?
You don't repair a $100 laptop, you replace it. You don't need to talk to Venezuela - the next town over will do just fine. These are communities where the laptop is probably the brightest source of light available other than burning scarse fuel. There's no value to a commodity - if all the kids have laptops, there's no point in selling it to anyone.
Where the hell do you see restricted to governments for sale? Everything I've read has talked about selling them for $200 everywhere, to help pay for development. Enter the hobbiests.
For every good idea, there's a pessimist. Are there BETTER ways to help people? Undoubtedly - but that doesn't mean this wouldn't help, too.
I'd love to see a game where the numbers simply aren't available to the players.
Game designers know that even if they hide the numbers, the players will deduce them. They simply have too much vested interest to NOT know how a change in equipment or class or skill or... will impact their gameplay.
It's a nice idea, but unfortunately, something as easy as statistical sampling (trivial, with the help of computers) reveals all.
What I almost like better is the Zelda model. If I hit something with my sword, it gets hurt a predictable amount - the same, every time. If I hit it with a different weapon, it gets hurt a different amount. Different critters respond differently to different weapons... There is no "chance" associated with that - no numbers. The problem is, that devolves to a "twitch" style game - very, very hard to pull off in an MMO. =(
Bragging rights?
Guess again.
Just because you think video cards are only for gaming doesn't make it so. There are people using video cards for scientific and medical visualization, and saving lives doing it.
Hilarious!
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And in case THAT goes down, too, it looks like the layout is roughly like this:
ABCD.^.NOPQ
EFGH.<>.RSTU
IJKLM.v.VWXYZ
Color me not impressed. It looks like a crappy "infant's first keyboard" that Sesame Street would put on a toy computer that barks when you press the "Dog" key.
You've completely missed the point. ID doesn't ask "is it possible for someone to design a world filled with living diversity? (whether or not we have that technology)", ID insists "it's the only way a world with this kind of living diversity could arise."
They get garbage collected.
You're proposing to statistically measure the difference between the outcome of a theory that says that only a being with God-like powers could cause events (and has unclear motives, and will act whenever they feel like, and has a design that is unknowable), and the outcome of a scientific theory which will always be adjusted to fit the measurable facts as closely as possible.
Whatever rate of speciation you find, it will either A) only be possible because of a designer, or B) be explained quite well by the proponents of evolution. The answer A or B will depend entirely upon the views of the person you ask.