I agree - I doubt the poster is black. I couldn't see myself saying "yeah, go frisk those white white-collar bastards because they're most likely laundering money!" Skin colour should never be a reason for police harassment - I don't care what the stats say. You treat people like that and they might just say "hey, I'm going to be treated like shit no matter what I do - not much point in being a good person".
Thanks for the reply. A web search for "between working memory" showed a lot of different studies relating working memory and parenting, fitness, etc.. I'll bet personality traits are in there somewhere, too.
I'll have to try those n-back tests again and look into other activities that improve working memory. By the by, I've been doing a lot of reading on genetic algorithms lately so it's interesting to think about the impact that working memory could have on an animal.
ps - I'm sure you mean cognitivefun.net - cognitive.net is just a parked domain.
Even after signing up with Lumosity I got a lot of emails from them. "Hey, we noticed you haven't played today!" type of emails.:-/
Anyway, I progressed my 'brain index' quite a bit in certain tasks, but other tasks I felt like I hit a wall and couldn't progress anymore. It wasn't clear to me what I could do to advance and I didn't want to keep paying 15 bucks a month to not progress.
One task that I found easy was the "is this face the same as the last face you saw?" where I scored higher than say 75% of other players (based on reaction time and accuracy). But when the task advanced to "is this face the same as the one you saw _two_ people ago" I found it quite challenging for some reason. Probably explains why I'm not great at juggling intermediate math results in my head. Tips welcome.:)
No serorities, frat parties, or jocks. Just a guy sitting in front of his computer in his underwear filling out quizzes. The plot will center around the reliability of his Internet connection and the pesky neighbours who keep knocking at his door.
I'd recommend the --inplace option so that partially transferred files (due to a network drop, etc.) can be resumed easily. You might also want the --update option so that newer files on the receiving end don't get overwritten (thus you can modify files while on vacation and rsync them back to your home later).
The word 'scientific' has been abused as much as the word 'terrorist'. Scientific studies are regularly refuted. Scientists are pressured to alter or withhold results. So until 'scientific findings' holds real weight I'd expect this phenomena to continue.
43. On May 15, 2010, the system administrator consolidated the payload data onto an encrypted hard drive, segregated by country. A second copy of the encrypted hard drive was made for security and backup preservation. The four original disks were then destroyed in a disk deformer.
44. A Google employee personally delivered one encrypted hard drive to another Google location for safekeeping, while the system administrator kept the other one in a secure location. Once the Google employee arrived at the destination, the system administrator permanently destroyed the backup, encrypted hard drive. The US data was then segregated onto a separate encrypted drive, while the data from the rest of the world remained on the initial encrypted drive.
Any idea why they even kept a copy of the data at all since they recognized that it wasn't supposed to have been harvested in the first place?
Unfortunately in the past I have found the problems that actually are impossible to be the most interesting, like infinite compression and free energy.:)
If labeling will be applied evenly across all foods, I don't see what the issue is with labeling, besides people knowing more of the facts about what they are eating. While they're at it, list the name(s) of the pesticides used on the foods. Apparently GMO needs less pesticide, so there's a plus for GMO. As for me, I'd rather eat organic anyway.
Another take away from the SETI project is that we haven't found evidence of radio signals from ETs. Had SETI not spent years searching, we would not know one way or the other whether there were alien broadcasts reaching the Earth.
No state can conquer the moon or put weapons on it according to the Outer Space Treaty. This author says "The current doctrine of international space law is restrictive and suffocating. For real progress in space to be made, the Outer Space Treaty and its res communis doctrine must be rethought in terms of the realities of today."
It's interesting how on one end of the scale you have the sort of people who want to build a clock that will last 10,000 years and on the other end you have people who say "SETI hasn't found any evidence of ET's in 35 years - why fund it?".
At least we've found that there is no evidence so far. If we hadn't looked, we wouldn't even know that much. If I'm not mistaken, SETI@Home was a pioneer in in distributed public computing. That's a pretty cool output of the program. I'm not trying to suggest any conclusions - just a few thoughts that occurred to me.
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Sure, but can it _clean_ my PC?
There's plenty of information culled from research sitting in Wikipedia. eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_neuroscience_of_music
However, a more narrative explanation would make for more interesting reading (to me, at least).
That's not at all a valid comparison. Here's a good place to start learning about the difference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_organism.
I think that's the biggest reason for this change: They need to stay competitive with companies that don't have to pay for bandwidth. See Netflix is a bandwidth hog. Who will pay? (Hint: You.)
I agree - I doubt the poster is black. I couldn't see myself saying "yeah, go frisk those white white-collar bastards because they're most likely laundering money!" Skin colour should never be a reason for police harassment - I don't care what the stats say. You treat people like that and they might just say "hey, I'm going to be treated like shit no matter what I do - not much point in being a good person".
Sure, till they tie hand-gestures to control channel changes. "New! Remote-less TV!" Cover the camera and it will render the TV useless.
ps - I'm sure you mean cognitivefun.net - cognitive.net is just a parked domain.
Anyway, I progressed my 'brain index' quite a bit in certain tasks, but other tasks I felt like I hit a wall and couldn't progress anymore. It wasn't clear to me what I could do to advance and I didn't want to keep paying 15 bucks a month to not progress.
One task that I found easy was the "is this face the same as the last face you saw?" where I scored higher than say 75% of other players (based on reaction time and accuracy). But when the task advanced to "is this face the same as the one you saw _two_ people ago" I found it quite challenging for some reason. Probably explains why I'm not great at juggling intermediate math results in my head. Tips welcome. :)
0. What does it mean for a programming language to be successful?
No serorities, frat parties, or jocks. Just a guy sitting in front of his computer in his underwear filling out quizzes. The plot will center around the reliability of his Internet connection and the pesky neighbours who keep knocking at his door.
Agreed. The graphics are amazing, but the game looks stiff and scripted. Some people like that genre of game, I suppose, but it's not my cup of tea.
Yes. You might as well just tell me your password.
I'd recommend the --inplace option so that partially transferred files (due to a network drop, etc.) can be resumed easily. You might also want the --update option so that newer files on the receiving end don't get overwritten (thus you can modify files while on vacation and rsync them back to your home later).
Very insightful. Someone mod this up please
Can't we just get some offshore talent to re-sing our favourite tunes? ;)
How will this system help better outcomes when good and bad things are bundled into the same bill?
The word 'scientific' has been abused as much as the word 'terrorist'. Scientific studies are regularly refuted. Scientists are pressured to alter or withhold results. So until 'scientific findings' holds real weight I'd expect this phenomena to continue.
Care to drop any links? I'm interested in this as well.
Any idea why they even kept a copy of the data at all since they recognized that it wasn't supposed to have been harvested in the first place?
Unfortunately in the past I have found the problems that actually are impossible to be the most interesting, like infinite compression and free energy. :)
If labeling will be applied evenly across all foods, I don't see what the issue is with labeling, besides people knowing more of the facts about what they are eating. While they're at it, list the name(s) of the pesticides used on the foods. Apparently GMO needs less pesticide, so there's a plus for GMO. As for me, I'd rather eat organic anyway.
Another take away from the SETI project is that we haven't found evidence of radio signals from ETs. Had SETI not spent years searching, we would not know one way or the other whether there were alien broadcasts reaching the Earth.
No state can conquer the moon or put weapons on it according to the Outer Space Treaty. This author says "The current doctrine of international space law is restrictive and suffocating. For real progress in space to be made, the Outer Space Treaty and its res communis doctrine must be rethought in terms of the realities of today."
It's interesting how on one end of the scale you have the sort of people who want to build a clock that will last 10,000 years and on the other end you have people who say "SETI hasn't found any evidence of ET's in 35 years - why fund it?".
At least we've found that there is no evidence so far. If we hadn't looked, we wouldn't even know that much. If I'm not mistaken, SETI@Home was a pioneer in in distributed public computing. That's a pretty cool output of the program. I'm not trying to suggest any conclusions - just a few thoughts that occurred to me.
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