It's quite impressive considering the hardware. The demonstration uses a "trick" used by practically all current Brain-Computer Interfaces, which is to pick the more conspicuous brain wave patterns and use them, rather than abstract thoughts of movement, to steer the machine:
Instead of looking for specific thoughts, I looked for an EEG signature that would be naturally easy to detect and that I could use to signal intent. The easiest such signal occurs whenever you close your eyes: For most people, when the eyes are closed, a strong 10-hertz brain wave begins across the back of the head, where the brain’s visual processing centers are located.
So anybody intending to use such a system for practical purposes, say for a paraplegic to move using an exoskeleton, would have to be trained to think counterintuitively.
Why all the hype these past few days about the science in The Martian? It's a friggin' SciFi movie, for gods sake. You don't see this crap about the science in the new Star Wars movie, so why this one?
I'll admit I haven't seen the move or read the book, but where in hell does he get the seeds and fertilizer to grow plants in Martian soil? From what I gather from the trailers, this wasn't a colonization mission, so why, if they sent seeds and fertilizer, did they send seeds and fertilizer?
Star War is space opera, basically something in the Buck Rogers space cowboy or space samurai genre. The Martian is supposed to be hard sci-fi. The market for the two are different.
The seeds could be part of a long-term experiment to test the viability of growing food crops in Mars, so that shouldn't be too surprising. Similar experiments are already being performed in the ISS.
Water is a simple solution if we can get it to orbit cheaply. Building an underground moon base is probably cheaper if somebody can design a cheap moon dust-proof robotic excavator.
Even assuming the Coke grants come without any strings attached, I feel this is more like spreading deodorant to cover up the stink. If continues to market products known to be harmful to health, then all the good it does elsewhere comes to naught.
Natural selection only works if the selfie-takers haven't reproduced yet. So bad traits that don't hinder reproduction can propagate. The deterioration that comes with old age is bad but since it happens way past child bearing age, there's no evolutionary benefit to remain healthy when you reach 100.
Narcissism itself may have an evolutionary advantage if this has the side effect of maintaining the narcissist's attractiveness to the opposite sex (sexual selection).
Apparently the tune is already public domain with or without the court decision, according to the
LA Times
Warner and the plaintiffs both agreed that the melody of the familiar song, first written as "Good Morning To All," had entered the public domain decades ago. But Warner claimed it still owned the rights to the "Happy Birthday" lyrics, leaning on the 1935 copyright claim.
So an instrumental performance (whistling or humming) or a parody (per fair use rights) should be in the clear.
That would be preferable to buying from online "Canadian" pharmacies, which aren't that at all but mostly fronts for Russian organised crime. You'll be shipped generics from India, not Canada.
This looks like another kind of war on drugs. Probably a sign that things are over-regulated like the market for soft recreational drugs.
Google, before it became an Alphabet soup of companies, was also a simplistic, if not more simplistic business. You type a word in a input box, and Google returns a result flavored by an advert. Problem isn't if the site has a simplistic business but if it has a useful function not done better or more conveniently elsewhere.
Lots of things are getting automated, so maybe this is just another example of the jobless recovery we've been hearing much lately.
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So anybody intending to use such a system for practical purposes, say for a paraplegic to move using an exoskeleton, would have to be trained to think counterintuitively.
This is Slashdot. You think we'd rather talk about waves than nukes? You're off your nut, son.
It's basic physics that energy travels in waves. May the Force be with you.
Why all the hype these past few days about the science in The Martian? It's a friggin' SciFi movie, for gods sake. You don't see this crap about the science in the new Star Wars movie, so why this one?
I'll admit I haven't seen the move or read the book, but where in hell does he get the seeds and fertilizer to grow plants in Martian soil? From what I gather from the trailers, this wasn't a colonization mission, so why, if they sent seeds and fertilizer, did they send seeds and fertilizer?
Star War is space opera, basically something in the Buck Rogers space cowboy or space samurai genre. The Martian is supposed to be hard sci-fi. The market for the two are different.
The seeds could be part of a long-term experiment to test the viability of growing food crops in Mars, so that shouldn't be too surprising. Similar experiments are already being performed in the ISS.
Water is a simple solution if we can get it to orbit cheaply. Building an underground moon base is probably cheaper if somebody can design a cheap moon dust-proof robotic excavator.
I'll take tap water anytime over Coke, although in some places, I'd pick the bottled variety.
Have a Coke.
Even assuming the Coke grants come without any strings attached, I feel this is more like spreading deodorant to cover up the stink. If continues to market products known to be harmful to health, then all the good it does elsewhere comes to naught.
Natural selection only works if the selfie-takers haven't reproduced yet. So bad traits that don't hinder reproduction can propagate. The deterioration that comes with old age is bad but since it happens way past child bearing age, there's no evolutionary benefit to remain healthy when you reach 100.
Narcissism itself may have an evolutionary advantage if this has the side effect of maintaining the narcissist's attractiveness to the opposite sex (sexual selection).
Apparently the tune is already public domain with or without the court decision, according to the LA Times
So an instrumental performance (whistling or humming) or a parody (per fair use rights) should be in the clear.
That would be preferable to buying from online "Canadian" pharmacies, which aren't that at all but mostly fronts for Russian organised crime. You'll be shipped generics from India, not Canada.
This looks like another kind of war on drugs. Probably a sign that things are over-regulated like the market for soft recreational drugs.
Google, before it became an Alphabet soup of companies, was also a simplistic, if not more simplistic business. You type a word in a input box, and Google returns a result flavored by an advert. Problem isn't if the site has a simplistic business but if it has a useful function not done better or more conveniently elsewhere. Lots of things are getting automated, so maybe this is just another example of the jobless recovery we've been hearing much lately.
I'm pretty sure any dog could have told you that.
Germs don't necessarily stink.