Spent any time with an autistic child? Just my whole childhood. The problem with most autism research is that they ignore the autists. Humans are capable of perception along many continuums, autists are frequently restricted to a few continuums or to certain sections of the continuums. Picture the brain as a multi-core cpu where you can run a large number of cores at the same time or just one or a few cores at greatly accelerated speed. Autists, like all other humans, can be divided into the two major categories of mindcentered or body-centered. We are frequently akward because we don't have full control of either, being restricted to a small subset of each one.
How much greater speed? Take vision for example, a normal person with 3d perception when hit in the eye will see a flash of light before the object seems to hit them, 3d processing is intensive. Take away the 3d perception and you can see the flash as the object perceptually hits you. Added bonus, 2d images are easier to store than constructed 3d models of the world, this is the way to go for photographic memory, certainly made school a lot easier for me. As well, you canrepurpose the whole 3d construction area into vizualization for mathematics. Same with sound, binaural processing is intensive and consumes lots of attention slowing down ones rate of sampling. Up side, it's great for echolalia when you can here minute changes in frequency at high sampling rates, downside is you sample too fast to hear syllables and your speach becomes stilted and mechanical. I could say more, but really nobody seems to be interested, because i 'claim' to be somewhat normal now and everybody just KNOWS autism isn't curable and you can only be taught to deal with it. Someday everyone will realize that the autism-neurotypical continuum is a continuum that we all share and can all learn to traverse up and down, after all what else is 'being in the flow'.
Sigh, infinite energy is useless when you have only finite resources to build the technology that consumes said energy. And we are talking about the present reality where we are destroying and depleting our natural resources to provide a high standard of living for just a small fraction of the human population, not some theretical star trek future where we can just synthesize matter from pure energy.
Yay, someone who can think. Theoretical futures really have nothing to do when they arrent connected to the current present. I'm even for anincrease in energy and resource usage IF it where to be used to build a sustainable infrastructure for the future, unfortunately we currently just use it tobe more wasteful.
You're missing the point, theoretical energy capture has nothing to do with current reality. Even if we had infinite energy we don't have infinte resources. I don't know about your food or shelter needs, i myself pick up an instrument and play if i want entertainment. For the vast majority of people a trip to the supermarket involves driving a car (immense resources to build and burns fossil fuels), buying food trucked in or flown in from thousands of miles away that was grown using petroleum based ferts/pest/insecticides, packaged in more petroleum based products, etc...
Who knows, maybe you are different and buy locallygrown organic food, built a rammed earthhome with your own too hands and listen to acoustic musicians for entertainment, but you're being myopic if you think that's the wester lifestyle.
i pay about $10/month in electricity which is currently higher than i would like it to be. I try to buy local. I cook my own food. i try to buy organic (no oil based feerts/pesticides). I walk everywhere. I do carpentry with handmade japanese hand tools. I try to use low-power electronic devices. I have a solar charger for my n900. My energy use would be lower if i could find some affordable land to build a sustainable homestead, have a permaculture garden (i'm lazy[apparently not by anybody elses standards]), house designed for zero energy, man-made pond for rain catchement, bamboo and sand bio-filters for clean water, composting toilets, etc...
Believe me, i'm pretty sure it's not me that has to change. I'm not advocating hippie tree-hugging lifestyles, i love luxury and comfort, and believe technology has immense benefits especially in the dissemination of ideas. I just believe intelligent holistic integrated designs can provide us with a better lifestylethan most of us currently have.
Actually they have more of a problem with self-actualizing spirituality movements like fa-lung-gong/da-fa. They aren't to worried about a religion that tells them to be sheep, not worry about material goods, help your neighbour, and that you can never amount to anything on your own.
Bamboo grows pretty much every where, including Canada where we have passive solar houses as well. Augmenting passive solar with the occasional energy input isn't evil, sometimes it's down right necessary.
I also don't believe in giving up luxury to live like tree hugging hippies. What i do believe in is proper design.
As for poor countries with high humidity, i'm currently on an island in the carribean where the humidity is absolutely ridiculous...if you're walking in the concrete city. Take a stroll in the jungle and suddenly you're in another world that's perfect. It's all about how we choose to live and how we've designed, or failed todesign, our environment.
Learn to think will you. Energy isn't everything. Our energy needs are high because of the way we live. Everything that consumes energy requires resources to manufacture. There just isn't enough resources on the planet to sustain that type of living for the whole world.
Autism is a growing problem in western society because of the myopic focus that is encouraged. Most people can't even see the bigger picture anymore. The devil is in the details.
Energy isn't everything. Unless you're completely idiotic you must realize that everything that consumes energy requires resources to construct of which we have a finite amount. Regardless of how much energy is contained in the sun the fact is that we cannot tap into it at this point in time, nor in the foreseeable future. We can't even reliably tap into the over abundant energy from the sun that falls on the earth.
The western way of living requires taking resources from other countries. Grow up, you are not the only country on earth, you are not the only society entitled to the bounty that the world has to offer.
is that regardless of what the exact amount of humans contributions to climate change is there is one undisputable fact. Western societies way of living is unsustainable and if the whole world lived like this we would rape our planet into oblivion.
I have the feeling that all these arguments are just distractions from the fact that everything has to change. It doesn't matter how much carbon can't be sequestered by the current rates of logging, if the whole world did the same as western society our forests would be decimated. It doesn't matter how much greenhouse gases are put out by our cars, just the resources required to supply the whole world would eliminate our resources. It doesn't matter how much methane cows give off, if everybody ate meat like the States all of our fresh water supply and arable land would be contaminated and barren.
None of it matters, it's just skating around the issue that the way we live is unsustainable, but we somehow feel ok with it because only we are doing it and not the whole world. How long are we going to let our own greed and fear of change prevent us from tackling the big picture and not having snot fights over the tiny little details?
How many times do you brainwashed unthinking skeptics need it explained to you that causation is always correlated.:) Correlation does not rule out causation because it is an integral part of it.
bamboo bikes for carbon sequestration and passive solar heating. Then again people are really attached to their out of shape bodies and low humidity disease causing houses.
perhaps you need to accept that the western lifestyle is unsustainable and stop being greedy. Not even nuclear can provide the unsustainable energy needs and lifestyle for everybody on the planet.
You are making the incorrect assumption that there was a standard definition for aether instead of multiple competing theories. The current incorrect definition is more like historic revisionism and scientific politics. The michelson-morley experiments proved nothing except that their definition of aether was incorrect, and it wasn't even the most interesting or solid one.
You really should have read the entire e-book, and/or more of Einsteins work instead of trying to use bits of language to back up your preconceived notions.
I'm constantly astonished by people claiming to know about great scientists work and the history of science when all they are really doing is re-gurgitating what text books say and have no direct knowledge of the actual works involved.
Einstein was just helping to define what the ether is. People should really question the doctrine they're spoonfed in school and go to the actual sources. The fact remains that Einsteins thought experiments could not have taken place if he did not have a theory of aether on which to build. In the early days of qm just because scientists didn't automatically know all the properties and characteristics of sub-atomic particles didn't automatically render the theory useless.
It was Einstein who said "According to the general theory of relativity, space without aether is unthinkable; for in such space there not only would be no propagation of light, but also no possibility of existence for standards of space and time, nor therefore any space-time intervals in the physical sense."
You lose, please send me a new laptop, because, as you see all Einstein's work was based on the aether theories... unless of course you consider Einstein's work not useful?
you haven't seen shoveling until you've seen 2 nepalese people shoveling with only one shovel! The internet is a nice tool, but by and large still geared towards singular action. I can't wait till we see the nepalese co-operative methods take over. Imagine governments aiding other governments to reap the possible benefits of this anti-matter belt without selfish concerns of what they will take away from the endeavor.
First. this has nothing to do with treating schizophrenia. it is about treating low levels of cognitive functioning that are associated with schizophrenia.
If using the proper probability value for such a small, and inadequate, sample there are no significant effects whatsoever.
The cognition training given only has video-game like rewards, there is nothing video game about it. Confounding factors which they did not mention are that the test group was exposed to one type of computer training with reduced and tightly controled stimuli while the control group played 16 different computer games with lots of stimuli and played several games every day. Computer time was only 1 hour a day. Any differences in their insignificant findings could be explained by rewarding focus.
Then again this probably just one of those papers written up to get more funding judging by their misleading use of statistics and their optimistic wording of the possible positive results if they just had more time and subjects as well as the statement that what is important is improving every day functioning and not scores on tests, n.b., both the test group and the control group showed improved daily functioning.
I could give a more detailed analysis of how wrong this all is but this is painful enough on my N900, anybody have a laptop/tablet they're giving away? How about a motherboard for a tx2500? A job reviewing grant submissions?
Let us just hope this doesn't go the way of the Michelson-Morley experiments, i.e., the experiment was a failure given how we defined the concept, so the whole concept itself is invalid.
After all it's quite possible that multi-verses don't exist as separate entities but as overlapping entities. Even each possibility being expressed by the same energy but phase shifting in and out of different universes. Quarks being a snapshot of energy as it pops into and out of our universe along its geometric progression. Could explain our problem of measurement as well, when we confine energy to where we expect it to be (our universe) we can't know all its possibilities, likewise when we know what it is capable of we no longer know which universe its in.
Oh god, let's just hope that i don't start over-using primary colours, bold, and start talking about cubes and the natuew of time.
Give it a rest syntax/grammar nazis i'm typing this on my n900.
Clisp would be the way to go for a quick port; after all it was made to be portable. SBCL would need someone familiar with asm for whichever cpu was being targeted.
i can't even look at it since my laptop died. which is why i'd give almost anything for a tablet i could do onboard development with. Pretty soon i'll probably just settle for a tablet with a large screen, my n900 doesn't cut it for reading technical docs or hardcore surfing.
I seriously hope all this legal nonsense steers google in this direction. Lisp would be ideally suited for a vm and it would be so easy to abstract away all the horrible boilerplate required for developing for android and it's free!
Please, please, why can't they just use lisp? I'd pay extra for a tablet optimized for lisp. It's just so clean and expressive, and if people wanted they could build they're own complicated DSL's and frameworks on top of it.
Actually i'm willing to pay top-dollar for ANY of todays tablets that can run an optimized Lisp(common lisp preferred), any suggestions?
actually the main problem seems to be the same as the problems caused by dlp projectors and general motion sickness in general. People who focus on details (most wearers of glasses) lose context for the movement and are more likely to focus on areas that aren't even in focus. Those who see the whole bigger picture at once actually track the area of film that is in focus, doing anything else in 3d displays is just murdering your eyes.
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How much greater speed? Take vision for example, a normal person with 3d perception when hit in the eye will see a flash of light before the object seems to hit them, 3d processing is intensive. Take away the 3d perception and you can see the flash as the object perceptually hits you. Added bonus, 2d images are easier to store than constructed 3d models of the world, this is the way to go for photographic memory, certainly made school a lot easier for me. As well, you canrepurpose the whole 3d construction area into vizualization for mathematics. Same with sound, binaural processing is intensive and consumes lots of attention slowing down ones rate of sampling. Up side, it's great for echolalia when you can here minute changes in frequency at high sampling rates, downside is you sample too fast to hear syllables and your speach becomes stilted and mechanical. I could say more, but really nobody seems to be interested, because i 'claim' to be somewhat normal now and everybody just KNOWS autism isn't curable and you can only be taught to deal with it. Someday everyone will realize that the autism-neurotypical continuum is a continuum that we all share and can all learn to traverse up and down, after all what else is 'being in the flow'.
Sigh, infinite energy is useless when you have only finite resources to build the technology that consumes said energy. And we are talking about the present reality where we are destroying and depleting our natural resources to provide a high standard of living for just a small fraction of the human population, not some theretical star trek future where we can just synthesize matter from pure energy.
Yay, someone who can think. Theoretical futures really have nothing to do when they arrent connected to the current present. I'm even for anincrease in energy and resource usage IF it where to be used to build a sustainable infrastructure for the future, unfortunately we currently just use it tobe more wasteful.
Who knows, maybe you are different and buy locallygrown organic food, built a rammed earthhome with your own too hands and listen to acoustic musicians for entertainment, but you're being myopic if you think that's the wester lifestyle.
Believe me, i'm pretty sure it's not me that has to change. I'm not advocating hippie tree-hugging lifestyles, i love luxury and comfort, and believe technology has immense benefits especially in the dissemination of ideas. I just believe intelligent holistic integrated designs can provide us with a better lifestylethan most of us currently have.
Actually they have more of a problem with self-actualizing spirituality movements like fa-lung-gong/da-fa. They aren't to worried about a religion that tells them to be sheep, not worry about material goods, help your neighbour, and that you can never amount to anything on your own.
I also don't believe in giving up luxury to live like tree hugging hippies. What i do believe in is proper design.
As for poor countries with high humidity, i'm currently on an island in the carribean where the humidity is absolutely ridiculous...if you're walking in the concrete city. Take a stroll in the jungle and suddenly you're in another world that's perfect. It's all about how we choose to live and how we've designed, or failed todesign, our environment.
Autism is a growing problem in western society because of the myopic focus that is encouraged. Most people can't even see the bigger picture anymore. The devil is in the details.
The western way of living requires taking resources from other countries. Grow up, you are not the only country on earth, you are not the only society entitled to the bounty that the world has to offer.
I have the feeling that all these arguments are just distractions from the fact that everything has to change. It doesn't matter how much carbon can't be sequestered by the current rates of logging, if the whole world did the same as western society our forests would be decimated. It doesn't matter how much greenhouse gases are put out by our cars, just the resources required to supply the whole world would eliminate our resources. It doesn't matter how much methane cows give off, if everybody ate meat like the States all of our fresh water supply and arable land would be contaminated and barren.
None of it matters, it's just skating around the issue that the way we live is unsustainable, but we somehow feel ok with it because only we are doing it and not the whole world. How long are we going to let our own greed and fear of change prevent us from tackling the big picture and not having snot fights over the tiny little details?
How many times do you brainwashed unthinking skeptics need it explained to you that causation is always correlated. :) Correlation does not rule out causation because it is an integral part of it.
ah, the whole it happens without us so let's disavow any responsability for any contributions we know we are making.
bamboo bikes for carbon sequestration and passive solar heating. Then again people are really attached to their out of shape bodies and low humidity disease causing houses.
perhaps you need to accept that the western lifestyle is unsustainable and stop being greedy. Not even nuclear can provide the unsustainable energy needs and lifestyle for everybody on the planet.
You really should have read the entire e-book, and/or more of Einsteins work instead of trying to use bits of language to back up your preconceived notions.
I'm constantly astonished by people claiming to know about great scientists work and the history of science when all they are really doing is re-gurgitating what text books say and have no direct knowledge of the actual works involved.
Einstein was just helping to define what the ether is. People should really question the doctrine they're spoonfed in school and go to the actual sources. The fact remains that Einsteins thought experiments could not have taken place if he did not have a theory of aether on which to build. In the early days of qm just because scientists didn't automatically know all the properties and characteristics of sub-atomic particles didn't automatically render the theory useless.
It was the summary of his address on ether and relativity. Check it out on project gutenberg under ssidelights on relativity.
You lose, please send me a new laptop, because, as you see all Einstein's work was based on the aether theories... unless of course you consider Einstein's work not useful?
you haven't seen shoveling until you've seen 2 nepalese people shoveling with only one shovel! The internet is a nice tool, but by and large still geared towards singular action. I can't wait till we see the nepalese co-operative methods take over. Imagine governments aiding other governments to reap the possible benefits of this anti-matter belt without selfish concerns of what they will take away from the endeavor.
If using the proper probability value for such a small, and inadequate, sample there are no significant effects whatsoever.
The cognition training given only has video-game like rewards, there is nothing video game about it. Confounding factors which they did not mention are that the test group was exposed to one type of computer training with reduced and tightly controled stimuli while the control group played 16 different computer games with lots of stimuli and played several games every day. Computer time was only 1 hour a day. Any differences in their insignificant findings could be explained by rewarding focus.
Then again this probably just one of those papers written up to get more funding judging by their misleading use of statistics and their optimistic wording of the possible positive results if they just had more time and subjects as well as the statement that what is important is improving every day functioning and not scores on tests, n.b., both the test group and the control group showed improved daily functioning.
I could give a more detailed analysis of how wrong this all is but this is painful enough on my N900, anybody have a laptop/tablet they're giving away? How about a motherboard for a tx2500? A job reviewing grant submissions?
After all it's quite possible that multi-verses don't exist as separate entities but as overlapping entities. Even each possibility being expressed by the same energy but phase shifting in and out of different universes. Quarks being a snapshot of energy as it pops into and out of our universe along its geometric progression. Could explain our problem of measurement as well, when we confine energy to where we expect it to be (our universe) we can't know all its possibilities, likewise when we know what it is capable of we no longer know which universe its in.
Oh god, let's just hope that i don't start over-using primary colours, bold, and start talking about cubes and the natuew of time.
Give it a rest syntax/grammar nazis i'm typing this on my n900.
It also doesn't cover the "me and girlfriend use the same computer off-and-on all day long -- bouncing back and forth between accounts" problem.
Multi-users on one pc is the responsability of your OS and nowadays which OS doesn't provide this?
I just hate the way they handle language settings.
i can't even look at it since my laptop died. which is why i'd give almost anything for a tablet i could do onboard development with. Pretty soon i'll probably just settle for a tablet with a large screen, my n900 doesn't cut it for reading technical docs or hardcore surfing.
I seriously hope all this legal nonsense steers google in this direction. Lisp would be ideally suited for a vm and it would be so easy to abstract away all the horrible boilerplate required for developing for android and it's free!
Actually i'm willing to pay top-dollar for ANY of todays tablets that can run an optimized Lisp(common lisp preferred), any suggestions?
actually the main problem seems to be the same as the problems caused by dlp projectors and general motion sickness in general. People who focus on details (most wearers of glasses) lose context for the movement and are more likely to focus on areas that aren't even in focus. Those who see the whole bigger picture at once actually track the area of film that is in focus, doing anything else in 3d displays is just murdering your eyes.