as UnknownSoldier so laconically explained, it's quite difficult to learn about the brain without screwing around with it. probably by far the largest source of information for cognitive/neuropsychology are people with damaged brains, either due to injury, disease, congenital defect, etc. but those come along pretty rarely. hence developing [safe!] methods of [temporarily!] affecting brain function in healthy subjects is extremely important for the continued development of these fields.
regarding the article, these are very interesting and exciting results. looking forward to further developments/confirmation/explanations.
my guess is that the effect of the current is to temporarily increase/decrease the rate at which the brain learns, i.e. plasticity. if this is true, then there would be no negative effects to the other group. notice that they say the lasting positive effects were only specifically for the kind of puzzle they learned during the experiment, which suggests that they were quite simply learning better/faster while the current was being applied.
heh, well, the point i was trying to make is that since i can avoid it, i will, not that it's so nut-crushingly hard that i'd never do it... thanks for the pointer regarding saving the.config file though, i'll keep it in mind just in case.
Hm, it seems I don't fit your taxonomy. I've used Ubuntu for several years now as my primary OS, and, having been a CS student for some of that time, I don't consider myself a newbie; I've gotten my hands dirty trying to compile at least a few not-so-well-managed projects from source (though never the kernel). I don't consider myself what you call an "enthusiast" either - I have no interest in intentionally using unstable code. That leaves "professional", but, as people like you would probably be very quick to agree, I'd never dare call myself that until I've gotten the kernel to compile on, say, some very recently released machine, and used ndiswrapper to get wireless working, bla bla, which I haven't done.
So, I guess I'm the exception that proves that your view of what every linux user should be like is correct?
a thousand times, ditto! i love linux, but never in a million years do i want to compile a kernel. trust me, there are a lot of people out there who feel exactly the same way. thanks, ubuntu, for giving people like me such a wonderful product!
perhaps "context" would be a more appropriate description. and i can think of cases when that could be useful. for example, i want to know what LDA stands for while i'm reading a semi-supervised learning paper. google search for "LDA", not much related to machine learning pops up. in this case it's relatively easy to overcome that problem (just search "LDA dimension"), but in some cases it's not so easy. this could come in handy, and i'm keeping it in mind so i can test it when the need arises.
hm, i wonder if the caffeine has something to do with the headache... you know, nicotine is a stimulant too, so maybe you should quit coffee and take up smoking?
actually, i remember a russian news story from many years back (5-6) about some dudes that designed a fingerprint scanner that detected blood flow in the finger, thus supposedly making sure that what's being scanned is actually a finger. as i recall, it was basically this thing you stuck your finger into, with some kind or radiation from above (IR, probably, though not sure), and sensors underneath, that detected heartbeat.
chances are the relative distribution of types of malware will be the same across domains, so i don't think that's an issue... still worth looking into, tho
as an Armenian, I can tell you the two definitions aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, considering our tendency to acquire property through less than legal means...
CS has nothing to do with programming languages. It's about PROGRAMMING.
Uhhh... No. Saying CS is about programming is like saying engineering is about soldering, IMHO. Go to the cs graduate program page of any good uni, and dig through the faculty list. See how many work on software engineering.
who? who are these 'people'? i'm sure some will complain, but i sure won't. as a matter of fact, i don't give a flying fuck what apple does, since i personally don't much like any of their products anyway. and you know what, i don't even particularly mind the grossly dis-proportionate number of apple-related articles published on/., 'cause i can just scroll past them. so really, i don't care!! now, who's with me??
I don't have evidence, but I do have an intuitive argument: the distribution of people in many views (i.e. feature spaces) has a heavy tail. Thus, with no extra cost (i.e. difficulty of discovery) for accessing rare material (assuming distribution of supply is more or less == to distribution of demand), the tail will become heavier than if there is such extra cost, in which case many people are "pushed" towards the m[ean|edian|ode].
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as UnknownSoldier so laconically explained, it's quite difficult to learn about the brain without screwing around with it. probably by far the largest source of information for cognitive/neuropsychology are people with damaged brains, either due to injury, disease, congenital defect, etc. but those come along pretty rarely. hence developing [safe!] methods of [temporarily!] affecting brain function in healthy subjects is extremely important for the continued development of these fields.
regarding the article, these are very interesting and exciting results. looking forward to further developments/confirmation/explanations.
my guess is that the effect of the current is to temporarily increase/decrease the rate at which the brain learns, i.e. plasticity. if this is true, then there would be no negative effects to the other group. notice that they say the lasting positive effects were only specifically for the kind of puzzle they learned during the experiment, which suggests that they were quite simply learning better/faster while the current was being applied.
and then try to measure the effect of the prediction on the probability that the prediction is correct. self fulfilling prophecies, FTW!
heh, yeah, i know that much, i've used fedora before. i was just agreeing with OP's views.
So, the plural of unix in unicies? Thank you my Lord [Byron], I learned something useful from /. today thanks to you!
heh, well, the point i was trying to make is that since i can avoid it, i will, not that it's so nut-crushingly hard that i'd never do it... thanks for the pointer regarding saving the .config file though, i'll keep it in mind just in case.
Hm, it seems I don't fit your taxonomy. I've used Ubuntu for several years now as my primary OS, and, having been a CS student for some of that time, I don't consider myself a newbie; I've gotten my hands dirty trying to compile at least a few not-so-well-managed projects from source (though never the kernel). I don't consider myself what you call an "enthusiast" either - I have no interest in intentionally using unstable code. That leaves "professional", but, as people like you would probably be very quick to agree, I'd never dare call myself that until I've gotten the kernel to compile on, say, some very recently released machine, and used ndiswrapper to get wireless working, bla bla, which I haven't done.
So, I guess I'm the exception that proves that your view of what every linux user should be like is correct?
a thousand times, ditto! i love linux, but never in a million years do i want to compile a kernel. trust me, there are a lot of people out there who feel exactly the same way. thanks, ubuntu, for giving people like me such a wonderful product!
perhaps "context" would be a more appropriate description. and i can think of cases when that could be useful. for example, i want to know what LDA stands for while i'm reading a semi-supervised learning paper. google search for "LDA", not much related to machine learning pops up. in this case it's relatively easy to overcome that problem (just search "LDA dimension"), but in some cases it's not so easy. this could come in handy, and i'm keeping it in mind so i can test it when the need arises.
hm, i wonder if the caffeine has something to do with the headache... you know, nicotine is a stimulant too, so maybe you should quit coffee and take up smoking?
*ducks*
jeeze, chill dude, it was a joke... you act like i'm about to revoke your right to use internet or something...
ok, that does it, i'm starting an "americans against discrimination agains smokers" party, or AADAS
is that you, George? ***zombie Carlin want BRAAAIIINSSS***
actually, i remember a russian news story from many years back (5-6) about some dudes that designed a fingerprint scanner that detected blood flow in the finger, thus supposedly making sure that what's being scanned is actually a finger. as i recall, it was basically this thing you stuck your finger into, with some kind or radiation from above (IR, probably, though not sure), and sensors underneath, that detected heartbeat.
chances are the relative distribution of types of malware will be the same across domains, so i don't think that's an issue... still worth looking into, tho
as an Armenian, I can tell you the two definitions aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, considering our tendency to acquire property through less than legal means...
well yeah, how else could I have learned such complex syntax??
OK, +5 freaking weird/confusing headline... funny, tho
You also need to know XML
< tag > value < / tag >. phew, that was hard to learn!
i limit myself to a butterfly.
CS has nothing to do with programming languages. It's about PROGRAMMING.
Uhhh... No. Saying CS is about programming is like saying engineering is about soldering, IMHO. Go to the cs graduate program page of any good uni, and dig through the faculty list. See how many work on software engineering.
i said i can scroll past, not have to, or always will.
tits or GTFO.
people will complain.
who? who are these 'people'? i'm sure some will complain, but i sure won't. as a matter of fact, i don't give a flying fuck what apple does, since i personally don't much like any of their products anyway. and you know what, i don't even particularly mind the grossly dis-proportionate number of apple-related articles published on /., 'cause i can just scroll past them. so really, i don't care!! now, who's with me??
"data" is plural???? *head explodes*
I don't have evidence, but I do have an intuitive argument: the distribution of people in many views (i.e. feature spaces) has a heavy tail. Thus, with no extra cost (i.e. difficulty of discovery) for accessing rare material (assuming distribution of supply is more or less == to distribution of demand), the tail will become heavier than if there is such extra cost, in which case many people are "pushed" towards the m[ean|edian|ode].