By the onset of puberty (around age 12), language acquisition has typically been solidified and it becomes more difficult to learn a language in the same way a native speaker would.
It seems children are open to learning languages from a very early age. There doesn't seem to be a low limit on the number of languages an infant can acquire. Given the benefits of speaking a second language and how effortlessly children seem to acquire second languages it seems like throwing away a birthright not to have a child acquire at least a second language. It carries many benefits and seems to be one of those things that look good on a resume.
Some Chinese guys I did some work for said Cantonese is for business and Mandarin is for government. I was told just about all business is transacted in Cantonese.
Not in Canada either. The Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal corridor would seem a natural for high speed rail travel. The rest of the country has too much space between dense urban areas. Having said that a train trip through the Rocky mountains is stunning. I've done it about half a dozen times and would do it again with next to no reason other than the scenery. Train food sucks though. I've never had great food on trains. Not even in Japan.
to sacrifice one of our favorite assumptions: that these tools are inherently logical and neutral...the motivations driving the algorithms may not match the motivations of those algorithms' users.'
Information has to be seen in context and used in context. If you don't know the neighbourhood and you feel vulnerable you probably want to go with whatever information you can get and worry about whether it's prejudiced when your safe. If you've some first hand information it's probably going to trump some app. Either way information is almost always welcome even if it's a way to find out later the source can't be trusted. Information isn't money. It doesn't have a face value backed by something like the government. Information acted on without judgement is naive.
Shop around and let other potential providers know exactly why you're shopping around. Businesses are by their nature sensitive to competition even if they pretend otherwise.
Thanks for that. I've never come across it. My interest lies in the relationships between scientific findings and the political implementations of solutions.
It's kinda twisted. I'm just guessing but I'm guessing everything a pedophile would want, and, maybe even a terrorist would want is available in some hard copy someplace they could access with much less likelihood of getting caught. It's like using the Internet is part of some twisted rush they looking for.
Slashdot just ran a story on universal genome sequencing at birth. How long before your prom date is set up before you're home from the maternity ward.
Around 1972 some geologists wrote Nixon a letter warning him of the impending ice age. No one then was warning about human induced climate change and global warming. I think we've done a good job on picking up on the evidence and considering it. We might be implementing more drastic responses but the effects don't yet warrant we go on a war footing and implement draconian measures.
Part of the problem may be that our overall population of plus 6 billion and rising is bringing change that our political processes are built to deal with in a timely manner. Change is happening faster than our political processes have been shaped to consider and react. Yet our turn around time on embracing the evidence is pretty good. If you consider how long it took for the theory of Evolution to be widely embraced, or, even more recently the theory of Plate Tectonics our research and reaction to the findings on climate change has been fast in historical terms.
I was a klutz, big hands, big feet, big head, small body, but I tried out for every sport and when I didn't make the teams I waited to be picked last for pickup games. I don't know if this guy missed out on team sports but maybe he did. Sports teach you you can get hurt. Computer games and remote controlled toys don't teach you about getting hurt. They don't instill caution.
Isn't it a kind of perfect storm? The rise of the Internet and 9/11 making terrorists of everyone. Without the Internet going through growing pains and the general public woefully sad of security would we have the mess we have now? 9/11 would have been just another horrible terrorist act but it happened while the Internet was going through it's growing pains and law enforcement agencies and all the three lettered organizations were given ever broader powers to try to tame a new world wide venue for every aspect, the good, the bad and the ugly, of much of humanity. Is this how what would otherwise be manageable growing pains turn into wars and dark periods of history. Just contingency gone very bad.
Here's the wikipedia link on the Chemical Weapons Convention. From the news reports I've picked up on it's the reason behind a military strike on Syria.
Beautifully written but ignorance isn't bliss. Somewhere about 35 thousand years ago our brains had the equivalent to a big bang moment and we a became symbol making and symbol manipulating species. Today K. Popper's adage that we are a species who can let our hypothesis die in our stead is suggestive of a future dense with information. Rational, empirical information will be our mental atmosphere and we'll thrive in it.
T. W. Deacon the American anthropologist suggests in one of his University of Berkeley lectures that we can metaphorically be seen as something akin to beavers who by building dams make an environment they evolve in. Our constructed environment is a symbolic representation of our universe. I think we'll evolve to live in a dense information environment we'll become consummately adapted to and fulfilled in.
Canada Post has seen drastic drops in volume. How much longer before federal governments just pull the plug and let postal services die and be replaced by private business. What reasons are there for federally funded postal services to be continued?
I can't put myself in the head space of someone who would go there. The only aspect of the profiles I happened upon suggest most recruits are twenty somethings with a hormonal state that pushes them to "adventure" and status. I just can't get there from where I am. The world's moving so fast away from the mindset of fundamentalists like al-Qaeda that were they not so psychotically violent they'd be pathetic and pitiable.
Dr. W.C. Dementbooks are a good place to start if your interested in an overview of the importance of sleep. Sleep hygiene is probably the idea currently being pushed to the forefront. The idea that a good night's sleep is as much a part of overall health as other good hygiene practices.
The history and prestige associated with the America's Cup attracts not only the world's top sailors and yacht designers but also the involvement of wealthy entrepreneurs and sponsors. It is a test not only of sailing skill and boat and sail design, but also of fund-raising and management skills.
It's still sailing at its best and sailing is one of the most graceful and productive things we've ever done. The yachts are elegant, no matter your hatred for the rich who own and sail them.
It's not really a question of if we'll complete such an inventory but when. A few days ago/. ran a story on the myth of STEM human resources being scarce, so it's not like we lack the people or the resources. It's just a question of allocation. Over our short personal lifespans we see so much that should be done and think it should be done ASAP, but really, if you look at the enormous strides we've made in the last 100 years, or more to the point, the last 50 years we've surpassed all previous human eras of progressive achievement. The Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment pale by comparison.
We need nuclear energy as an alternative to burning fossil fuels which are driving global warming but when the nuclear energy plants fail we need to build massive ice walls.
We're innately built to pursue imitation as the best form of flattery. Just relax and let nature take its course.
"A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron "mirrors" the behavior of the other, as though the observer were itself acting. Such neurons have been directly observed in primate and other species including birds. In humans, brain activity consistent with that of mirror neurons has been found in the premotor cortex, the supplementary motor area, the primary somatosensory cortex and the inferior parietal cortex."
"The function of the mirror system is a subject of much speculation. Many researchers in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology consider that this system provides the physiological mechanism for the perception/action coupling (see the common coding theory).They argue that mirror neurons may be important for understanding the actions of other people, and for learning new skills by imitation. Some researchers also speculate that mirror systems may simulate observed actions, and thus contribute to theory of mind skills, while others relate mirror neurons to language abilities."
If you don't have an internet profile especially a social network profile you're branded a sociopath loner. If your internet use is over some arbitrary limit you're an addict.
"Addiction is the continued use of a psychoactive drug, or the repetition of a behavior despite adverse consequences, or a neurological impairment leading to such behaviors.
Definition of ADAPTATION
1
: the act or process of adapting : the state of being adapted
2
: adjustment to environmental conditions: as
a : adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation
b : modification of an organism or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its environment
Merriam Webster
I guess everyone is left looking for a Goldilock's Solution while trying not to get eaten by bears.
Slashdot Mirror
By the onset of puberty (around age 12), language acquisition has typically been solidified and it becomes more difficult to learn a language in the same way a native speaker would.
It seems children are open to learning languages from a very early age. There doesn't seem to be a low limit on the number of languages an infant can acquire. Given the benefits of speaking a second language and how effortlessly children seem to acquire second languages it seems like throwing away a birthright not to have a child acquire at least a second language. It carries many benefits and seems to be one of those things that look good on a resume.
some trains actually have decent bars.
Yea, I gotta say bar cars are great. People seem less guarded and more willing to strike up a conversation.
Some Chinese guys I did some work for said Cantonese is for business and Mandarin is for government. I was told just about all business is transacted in Cantonese.
Not in Canada either. The Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal corridor would seem a natural for high speed rail travel. The rest of the country has too much space between dense urban areas. Having said that a train trip through the Rocky mountains is stunning. I've done it about half a dozen times and would do it again with next to no reason other than the scenery. Train food sucks though. I've never had great food on trains. Not even in Japan.
to sacrifice one of our favorite assumptions: that these tools are inherently logical and neutral...the motivations driving the algorithms may not match the motivations of those algorithms' users.'
Information has to be seen in context and used in context. If you don't know the neighbourhood and you feel vulnerable you probably want to go with whatever information you can get and worry about whether it's prejudiced when your safe. If you've some first hand information it's probably going to trump some app. Either way information is almost always welcome even if it's a way to find out later the source can't be trusted. Information isn't money. It doesn't have a face value backed by something like the government. Information acted on without judgement is naive.
Shop around and let other potential providers know exactly why you're shopping around. Businesses are by their nature sensitive to competition even if they pretend otherwise.
Thanks for that. I've never come across it. My interest lies in the relationships between scientific findings and the political implementations of solutions.
If you have to hide, the Internet isn't for you.
It's kinda twisted. I'm just guessing but I'm guessing everything a pedophile would want, and, maybe even a terrorist would want is available in some hard copy someplace they could access with much less likelihood of getting caught. It's like using the Internet is part of some twisted rush they looking for.
Slashdot just ran a story on universal genome sequencing at birth. How long before your prom date is set up before you're home from the maternity ward.
Part of the problem may be that our overall population of plus 6 billion and rising is bringing change that our political processes are built to deal with in a timely manner. Change is happening faster than our political processes have been shaped to consider and react. Yet our turn around time on embracing the evidence is pretty good. If you consider how long it took for the theory of Evolution to be widely embraced, or, even more recently the theory of Plate Tectonics our research and reaction to the findings on climate change has been fast in historical terms.
I was a klutz, big hands, big feet, big head, small body, but I tried out for every sport and when I didn't make the teams I waited to be picked last for pickup games. I don't know if this guy missed out on team sports but maybe he did. Sports teach you you can get hurt. Computer games and remote controlled toys don't teach you about getting hurt. They don't instill caution.
Isn't it a kind of perfect storm? The rise of the Internet and 9/11 making terrorists of everyone. Without the Internet going through growing pains and the general public woefully sad of security would we have the mess we have now? 9/11 would have been just another horrible terrorist act but it happened while the Internet was going through it's growing pains and law enforcement agencies and all the three lettered organizations were given ever broader powers to try to tame a new world wide venue for every aspect, the good, the bad and the ugly, of much of humanity. Is this how what would otherwise be manageable growing pains turn into wars and dark periods of history. Just contingency gone very bad.
Here's the wikipedia link on the Chemical Weapons Convention. From the news reports I've picked up on it's the reason behind a military strike on Syria.
T. W. Deacon the American anthropologist suggests in one of his University of Berkeley lectures that we can metaphorically be seen as something akin to beavers who by building dams make an environment they evolve in. Our constructed environment is a symbolic representation of our universe. I think we'll evolve to live in a dense information environment we'll become consummately adapted to and fulfilled in.
Canada Post has seen drastic drops in volume. How much longer before federal governments just pull the plug and let postal services die and be replaced by private business. What reasons are there for federally funded postal services to be continued?
Next time I murder my wife
uhm... that does somewhat beg the question as to how many times you've murdered her already.
I can't put myself in the head space of someone who would go there. The only aspect of the profiles I happened upon suggest most recruits are twenty somethings with a hormonal state that pushes them to "adventure" and status. I just can't get there from where I am. The world's moving so fast away from the mindset of fundamentalists like al-Qaeda that were they not so psychotically violent they'd be pathetic and pitiable.
Dr. W.C. Dementbooks are a good place to start if your interested in an overview of the importance of sleep. Sleep hygiene is probably the idea currently being pushed to the forefront. The idea that a good night's sleep is as much a part of overall health as other good hygiene practices.
The history and prestige associated with the America's Cup attracts not only the world's top sailors and yacht designers but also the involvement of wealthy entrepreneurs and sponsors. It is a test not only of sailing skill and boat and sail design, but also of fund-raising and management skills.
It's still sailing at its best and sailing is one of the most graceful and productive things we've ever done. The yachts are elegant, no matter your hatred for the rich who own and sail them.
It's not really a question of if we'll complete such an inventory but when. A few days ago /. ran a story on the myth of STEM human resources being scarce, so it's not like we lack the people or the resources. It's just a question of allocation. Over our short personal lifespans we see so much that should be done and think it should be done ASAP, but really, if you look at the enormous strides we've made in the last 100 years, or more to the point, the last 50 years we've surpassed all previous human eras of progressive achievement. The Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment pale by comparison.
Right?
Once not long ago I would have laughed now I'm just sad.
'Kubuntu Commercial Support provided by Emerge Open'
A lot of long nights and creative thought went into that.
mirror the level of formality your co-workers use
We're innately built to pursue imitation as the best form of flattery. Just relax and let nature take its course.
"A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron "mirrors" the behavior of the other, as though the observer were itself acting. Such neurons have been directly observed in primate and other species including birds. In humans, brain activity consistent with that of mirror neurons has been found in the premotor cortex, the supplementary motor area, the primary somatosensory cortex and the inferior parietal cortex."
"The function of the mirror system is a subject of much speculation. Many researchers in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology consider that this system provides the physiological mechanism for the perception/action coupling (see the common coding theory).They argue that mirror neurons may be important for understanding the actions of other people, and for learning new skills by imitation. Some researchers also speculate that mirror systems may simulate observed actions, and thus contribute to theory of mind skills, while others relate mirror neurons to language abilities."
"Addiction is the continued use of a psychoactive drug, or the repetition of a behavior despite adverse consequences, or a neurological impairment leading to such behaviors.
Definition of ADAPTATION 1 : the act or process of adapting : the state of being adapted 2 : adjustment to environmental conditions: as a : adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation b : modification of an organism or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its environment
Merriam Webster
I guess everyone is left looking for a Goldilock's Solution while trying not to get eaten by bears.