Yeah, real life is doing that. It's pretty crazy. I'm going through my PhD at the moment and realising the system is broken. Time to start a business with some real old timey computer ethics on board. Stay tuned for www.simulatingscience.com and the associated IndieGoGo campaign (when I have better material):p
I'd be interested in taking this on eventually, but not for a few months or so. Turns out Google owns www.gametome.com, so either it'll happen quickly or get drowned out by The G.
It's all very complicated, and I don't know a lot of the technical detail, so everything I say is conjecture.
We have different brainwaves - alpha, beta, theta, delta, gamma. In the very intricate neural soup, these act as clock oscillators like you would find in any piece of electronics. They order events in time and allow us to process sequences. They put memories in order. We have others - our heartbeat is a 1Hz clock with adrenaline-triggered turbo mode, and our eyes do seem to process frames and can occasionally reverberate in circumstances where the input suddenly changes (such as switching from a bright light to complete darkness). These clocks allow us to change time from being spatial (as in the theory of relativity) into an indexing mechanism. But that's all part of conscious thought, and also our ingenuity as humans. Subconscious thought, which holds all the long-term connections, does not work in time. The ability for these two distinct minds to work together is why sleep is critical - your conscious mind experiments with your subconscious memories in time, test thresholds and throws away concepts that don't make sense. Without sleep, your brain gets cluttered with useless memories.
This is all I'll say, but it's something I've been thinking about quite a bit lately. Your best bet for discovering what we would know if we were more in touch with it, would be to interview some people who are intellectually interested in studying users of entheogenic drugs. Understanding great artists, including those of religious contexts, might also help.
The conscious brain seems a little underformed in some, but our subconscious abilities are incredible and near-perfect. We can all judge speed and distance with enough practice, recognise people, navigate based on landmarks, remember and recite music, and dream. These are very complex concepts for current AI, but easy as pie for the brain. This project may fail, but it's time someone did it.
This calculation isn't really relative to anything, so it could quite easily be wrong. What would be far more useful is if the students showed an animation of how perception changes as you *accelerate* *into* hyperspace.
Also because there happened to be no Anonymous Cowards in the vicinity to jump in front of you with their macro-assigned fragments of intense insight. They are fast and effective, and so they will breed. Nature has a way of selecting for the most annoying of species to proliferate.
Guys guys! I have the best idea to fool the internet into giving her even MORE fame! Let's get on the front page of Slashdot!! So everyone googles her name!!!!!:D Those silly fools will think they're just reading the news.
You're trying to compare this guy to a gutter user. He has money. I have little doubt that he's guilty and his toying with MDPV has played a role, but drugs are not all the same. Different chemicals affect your brain in different ways, and violent behaviour is quite often created by extreme amphetamine abuse.
Some are like that, but please don't generalise and say it's everyone. There are plenty of people who use it the way others use alcohol and live normal lives. Dumb people aren't made any smarter by pot, so they still have equally dumb ideas... Pot just happens to be what they talk about. The neuronal connections were never there in the first place.
Hmm. Fair enough to some extent, but I know a lot of single women who are equally pessimistic about their hopes due to appearance. The ratio of men:women is pretty close, and polygyny is rare, so statistically speaking the situation shouldn't be hopeless.
So, apparently having a human girlfriend is a top-notch achievement? Sorry to say this, but, it's actually a whole lot easier than you think... But here, have a gold star.
Actually, that's not true. In this case, excess cooling is the most likely cause. Just like your, you know, when you have a cold shower, the antenna chip shrivels slightly and doesn't want to perform.
Yes, the standard has existed since 2004, and it's both overly complicated and somehow still not ubiquitously supported (Why? Because it's overly complicated!). That's not a bad thing if you want to build a complex device, but something that just throws frames from a cheap Chinese microcontroller without a whole lot of garbage around it? Good luck.
The USB stack is ridiculously complicated. If you want a device to communicated a certain way, it needs a gigantic convoluted controller. There is a pretty good standard for mass storage devices (though remember back in 2005 when USB sticks required driver installation?), but video and audio are still ridiculous. And if you ever wanted to add extra functionality, jesus christ...
You may have noticed that Apple devices get way better accessories... It's not all because of popularity.
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Yeah, real life is doing that. It's pretty crazy. I'm going through my PhD at the moment and realising the system is broken. Time to start a business with some real old timey computer ethics on board. Stay tuned for www.simulatingscience.com and the associated IndieGoGo campaign (when I have better material) :p
That's almost as bad as old television!
I'd be interested in taking this on eventually, but not for a few months or so. Turns out Google owns www.gametome.com, so either it'll happen quickly or get drowned out by The G.
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Don't tell me what I don't want to hear. La la la la la.
A pen that shocks you if you disrespect the Dear Leader
It's all very complicated, and I don't know a lot of the technical detail, so everything I say is conjecture.
We have different brainwaves - alpha, beta, theta, delta, gamma. In the very intricate neural soup, these act as clock oscillators like you would find in any piece of electronics. They order events in time and allow us to process sequences. They put memories in order. We have others - our heartbeat is a 1Hz clock with adrenaline-triggered turbo mode, and our eyes do seem to process frames and can occasionally reverberate in circumstances where the input suddenly changes (such as switching from a bright light to complete darkness). These clocks allow us to change time from being spatial (as in the theory of relativity) into an indexing mechanism. But that's all part of conscious thought, and also our ingenuity as humans. Subconscious thought, which holds all the long-term connections, does not work in time. The ability for these two distinct minds to work together is why sleep is critical - your conscious mind experiments with your subconscious memories in time, test thresholds and throws away concepts that don't make sense. Without sleep, your brain gets cluttered with useless memories.
This is all I'll say, but it's something I've been thinking about quite a bit lately. Your best bet for discovering what we would know if we were more in touch with it, would be to interview some people who are intellectually interested in studying users of entheogenic drugs. Understanding great artists, including those of religious contexts, might also help.
The conscious brain seems a little underformed in some, but our subconscious abilities are incredible and near-perfect. We can all judge speed and distance with enough practice, recognise people, navigate based on landmarks, remember and recite music, and dream. These are very complex concepts for current AI, but easy as pie for the brain. This project may fail, but it's time someone did it.
This calculation isn't really relative to anything, so it could quite easily be wrong. What would be far more useful is if the students showed an animation of how perception changes as you *accelerate* *into* hyperspace.
Also because there happened to be no Anonymous Cowards in the vicinity to jump in front of you with their macro-assigned fragments of intense insight. They are fast and effective, and so they will breed. Nature has a way of selecting for the most annoying of species to proliferate.
Posting the first post as an "Anonymous Coward" has never been considered improbable.
You weren't the first to do it though.
Yes. Because amino acids inevitably evolve into green photosynthesising plants. The original comment made a bad assumption, but so did you.
Guys guys! I have the best idea to fool the internet into giving her even MORE fame! Let's get on the front page of Slashdot!! So everyone googles her name!!!!! :D Those silly fools will think they're just reading the news.
You're trying to compare this guy to a gutter user. He has money. I have little doubt that he's guilty and his toying with MDPV has played a role, but drugs are not all the same. Different chemicals affect your brain in different ways, and violent behaviour is quite often created by extreme amphetamine abuse.
Some are like that, but please don't generalise and say it's everyone. There are plenty of people who use it the way others use alcohol and live normal lives. Dumb people aren't made any smarter by pot, so they still have equally dumb ideas... Pot just happens to be what they talk about. The neuronal connections were never there in the first place.
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Hmm. Fair enough to some extent, but I know a lot of single women who are equally pessimistic about their hopes due to appearance. The ratio of men:women is pretty close, and polygyny is rare, so statistically speaking the situation shouldn't be hopeless.
So, apparently having a human girlfriend is a top-notch achievement? Sorry to say this, but, it's actually a whole lot easier than you think... But here, have a gold star.
Sagan & Skrillex would go well together.
Yeah! And fucking iTunes with its Genius feature! I don't WANT to know what songs go well together! Data analytics is bullshit!
Actually, that's not true. In this case, excess cooling is the most likely cause. Just like your, you know, when you have a cold shower, the antenna chip shrivels slightly and doesn't want to perform.
Uh, yeah, but how do you think reproduction works? The stork (Fedex) will have to drop off your new baby hamster WiFi device before it can be trained.
Yes, the standard has existed since 2004, and it's both overly complicated and somehow still not ubiquitously supported (Why? Because it's overly complicated!). That's not a bad thing if you want to build a complex device, but something that just throws frames from a cheap Chinese microcontroller without a whole lot of garbage around it? Good luck.
The USB stack is ridiculously complicated. If you want a device to communicated a certain way, it needs a gigantic convoluted controller. There is a pretty good standard for mass storage devices (though remember back in 2005 when USB sticks required driver installation?), but video and audio are still ridiculous. And if you ever wanted to add extra functionality, jesus christ...
You may have noticed that Apple devices get way better accessories... It's not all because of popularity.
This is "new" slashdot. You can't make jokes of that calibre anymore.