Hmm...I was thinking lobsters or lab rats. I think they've already got the motor strip of the rat down, that's part of the way there at least - and lobsters are probably low-hanging fruit.
Something I'm not seeing in the thread regarding the "weapons" implications of having the fastest computer-
I don't think the purpose of having the most flops is about "designing" new weapons, I think it's directly linked to strategic warfare. I would imagine inter-continental missiles probably employ some sophisticated evasion methods. Being able to reverse engineer measurements of an erratically moving nuclear missile in real-time and then adjusting the erratic behavior of your own missiles in real-time based on what you can infer from observing their interceptions sounds like a problem that requires more flops than "the other guy" has.
What excites me about this is that exascale is around what is required to simulate a human brain in its entirety. Who's taking bets on what the first uploaded organism will be?
Really? The surveillance cameras in the UK beg to differ. Obviously there has to be a balance between freedom and privacy, we're just going to figure it out as we go, as we always have.
This may come as a shock, but you have no expectation of privacy when you're out in public. There are similar arguments that could be made about surveillance cameras (in the UK and elsewhere), but you have to look at the big picture. This is a good thing in the long run. The trend towards inter-connectivity continues.
The question isn't "how" to take notes, but rather "if" notes should be taken at all. If you have a good teacher, don't insult them by writing down what they're saying. LISTEN TO THEM. If they're any good there will already be notes available to you in some form, on a class website, your textbook, or a handout of some kind.
you used the phrase "reality tunnel" a number of times. Have the works of Robert Anton Wilson contributed to your development as well? His writings have initiated many the cognitive jailbreak, it seems.
submarines are useful tactically to the extent that they are difficult to detect through sonar/EM. Knowing what the propeller looks like makes it easier to detect, since the physical structure of the propulser can be reverse-engineered to predict what kinds of noise it makes in different situations. That's the rationale behind keeping it secret, anyway.
yeah, its not so much that your body raises the amount of sodium and potassium, but rather as you lose water the concentration of sodium and potassium increases because the solution becomes less dilute. Since the nerve impulses that generate pretty much everything we feel are caused by action potentials that involve potential chemical energy across the membrane of the nerve cells, playing with the concentration of Na or K will make action potentials either easier or harder to "get off" if you will. hehe.
we just learned this today in anatomy and physiology. It didn't seem like ground-breaking science, just common sense. If you're thirsty, neurons in the pre-optic nucleus are shrinking (crenating) because your plasma fluid compartment is drying up. This creates a hypertonic (or hyperosmotic) environment that literally sucks the water out of your cells. Since your plasma is more concentrated (or has a higher osmolarity), the resting membrane potential goes up because the crenation of your nervous cells causes chemically-operated protein channels to open when they otherwise wouldn't be. This happens all over your body, not just in the pre-optic nucleus (also called the supra-optic nucleus). The crenation at that location (right near where the optic nerves cross eachother) causes those particular cells to pump more Anti-Diuretic Hormone through the pituitary gland, causing your urine volume to decrease (by causing the nephron tubules in your kidneys to reabsorb more water instead of making urine with it), but the same thing happens to cells all over your body when your plasma becomes too concentrated (too dry). In lab today, I had to drink 80ml of water with 7g of NaCl in it, and my feet would fall asleep whenever I stood on them for more than a few minutes. Oh, and I was thirsty and sensitive to pain. Hooray for science!
If the earth simulator presupposes that the universes are slowly going to decay into entropy, what about the "force" that is causing the galaxies to accellerate away from each-other? I'd like to see it's prediction of what would happen on the other side of the asymptote.
a simple neurofeedback rig should be able to allow you to control any electronic device by "telepathy". unfortunately they're way more expensive than electrodes and wires should be, maybe someone should consider this a good Statics project and make one.
i'd say the main concern, even then, is loss of computer resources and system instability due to superfluous and often poorly written software that resists attempts to uninstall it. Privacy matters aside, this is the number-one problem with every home PC i troubleshoot.
that's just what we need, more nuclear reactors on the surface of our planet! Hey, here's an idea, put them in space and microwave the energy back to us. Nuclear reactors have no business on inhabited planets.
i think i may have posted on here before about this, but i'll mention it again anyway.
My little sister does neuro-feedback/bio-feedback therapy, and its improved her life a lot more than flooding her brain with amphetamines like they do to most of the poor little bastards that float through the US "education" system. Keep in mind that ADHD is a pretty subjective thing to diagnose someone with, and people are quick to medicate for it, although very few of the people diagnosed with it really need to be taking meth every day to keep it under control. Psychotropic drugs are not really designed to help anyone, just make their behaviors easier to manage for those of us in the human services field.
Anyway (sorry about that soapboxing) my little sister is supposedly bipolar, ADHD, and emotionally disturbed. She's been taking biofeedback therapy and karate lessons for a few years now, and the benefits from the therapy were apperant very quickly (i'd say a month or two, but your milage may vary). After the series of "games" that the therapy takes the form of, with "points" to be earned towards reinforcers (money, ice cream, charts with stickers on them, etc), the therapy simultaniously simplifies and complexifies into computer-aided transcendental meditation. pretty nifty.
Many insurance providers now cover this (but by no means the majority), Oxford insurance in CT comes to mind, but without insurance the therapy usually costs about 1000 a year with a mix of simple use of the machine and sessions with the therapist (which cost more per session). Its easy to learn how to calibrate the machine (its similar to polygraph calibration, but cooler), making sessions with the therapist an excellent option but by no means nessisary.
The equipment can be purchased at www.brainfingers.com for around 2000 (last i checked, maybe its lower now). The equipment they sell there even has a neuro-to-midi program and the SDK included in the package!!
Anyway, anybody considering poisoning their children just so they can deal with them easier should look into therapy like neuro-feedback that results in actual growth and change rather than homeostasis and chemical restraint.
Thats not to say that these drugs don't have their place, i have another family member who wouldn't be with us right now if not for depakote and wellbutrin, but think twice before drugging someone up just because they don't think the same way you do and give neuro-feedback a shot. its -FUN-.
Its interesting to note that the research and development that resulted in this therapy originated in the fallout of the ill-conceived and unconstitutional prohibition on the scientific research of LSD. The people who didn't get locked up moved their equipment to study people practicing yoga and found that using their equipment, the same states of mind could be reached in 2 weeks that would have taken 2 years unassisted by neuro-feedback. chew on that for a while.
vigilante style cellphone jamming is illegal for a reason. Think you're cool because you're jamming the theatre or concert you're in? Think you've outsmarted your students by placing on in your classroom?
Well then buddy, I hope the pager-carrying EMTs, nurses and doctors you're surrepticiously blocking signal for are missing calls to save one of your loved ones. Fools.
a countersuit is a bit of a tactical decision...why consign yourself to be completely on the defensive? Why not be proactive?
Many of the people in this thread (i havent worked my way all the way down yet) will probably respond that they should consign themselves to the defensive posture because they're doing something "wrong" and know they're doing it.
In fact, since they're putting so much spirit into this, it is very likely that they beleive that they are doing something right, and that's an opinion I happen to share. For all intents and purposes, the "winner" of this pissing match is going to be decided in a courtroom, so litigation will obviously be a weapon of choice, but don't rule out lobbying, graft, and blowjobs. I mean, we don't really have a history of settling legal matters through combat (-our- legal matters, anyway..overseas we take a different approach obviously), so the courtroom would be a logical place for it to play out in our charming faux-democratic way of doing things.
Of course, if either side said "i dont have to engage in petty litigation because I -know- i'm right!", then they'll be eaten alive and walked all over in seconds.
As long as the popular opinion is that there's nothing wrong with downloading music over the internet (and there really isn't, thats a whole 'nother can of worms that i'm sure has been belaboured to death around here), then logically there should be no legal onus against it, since the perception of the majority of the warm bodies don't have a problem with it. If the state of the music industry declines as a result (like it could get any -worse-), then we'll only have ourselves to blame, just like the music industry has only themselves to blame for not taking advantage of this new medium and gunning it down instead.::shrug::
how would you transmit the power back to earth? Pay to have batteries shipped over? Or maybe invent that wireless power supply that i've been hankering for all these years?
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Hmm...I was thinking lobsters or lab rats. I think they've already got the motor strip of the rat down, that's part of the way there at least - and lobsters are probably low-hanging fruit.
Something I'm not seeing in the thread regarding the "weapons" implications of having the fastest computer-
I don't think the purpose of having the most flops is about "designing" new weapons, I think it's directly linked to strategic warfare. I would imagine inter-continental missiles probably employ some sophisticated evasion methods. Being able to reverse engineer measurements of an erratically moving nuclear missile in real-time and then adjusting the erratic behavior of your own missiles in real-time based on what you can infer from observing their interceptions sounds like a problem that requires more flops than "the other guy" has.
What excites me about this is that exascale is around what is required to simulate a human brain in its entirety. Who's taking bets on what the first uploaded organism will be?
Really? The surveillance cameras in the UK beg to differ. Obviously there has to be a balance between freedom and privacy, we're just going to figure it out as we go, as we always have.
This may come as a shock, but you have no expectation of privacy when you're out in public. There are similar arguments that could be made about surveillance cameras (in the UK and elsewhere), but you have to look at the big picture. This is a good thing in the long run. The trend towards inter-connectivity continues.
For the last bit, this is probably a desired feature. You'd -want- the device to be able to detect if you're under duress.
Was hoping there would be data visualization. Disappointed.
The question isn't "how" to take notes, but rather "if" notes should be taken at all. If you have a good teacher, don't insult them by writing down what they're saying. LISTEN TO THEM. If they're any good there will already be notes available to you in some form, on a class website, your textbook, or a handout of some kind.
you used the phrase "reality tunnel" a number of times. Have the works of Robert Anton Wilson contributed to your development as well? His writings have initiated many the cognitive jailbreak, it seems.
submarines are useful tactically to the extent that they are difficult to detect through sonar/EM. Knowing what the propeller looks like makes it easier to detect, since the physical structure of the propulser can be reverse-engineered to predict what kinds of noise it makes in different situations. That's the rationale behind keeping it secret, anyway.
tachikoma is born! yay! now all we need is strong AI and sticky projectile webs.
yeah, its not so much that your body raises the amount of sodium and potassium, but rather as you lose water the concentration of sodium and potassium increases because the solution becomes less dilute. Since the nerve impulses that generate pretty much everything we feel are caused by action potentials that involve potential chemical energy across the membrane of the nerve cells, playing with the concentration of Na or K will make action potentials either easier or harder to "get off" if you will. hehe.
we just learned this today in anatomy and physiology. It didn't seem like ground-breaking science, just common sense. If you're thirsty, neurons in the pre-optic nucleus are shrinking (crenating) because your plasma fluid compartment is drying up. This creates a hypertonic (or hyperosmotic) environment that literally sucks the water out of your cells. Since your plasma is more concentrated (or has a higher osmolarity), the resting membrane potential goes up because the crenation of your nervous cells causes chemically-operated protein channels to open when they otherwise wouldn't be. This happens all over your body, not just in the pre-optic nucleus (also called the supra-optic nucleus). The crenation at that location (right near where the optic nerves cross eachother) causes those particular cells to pump more Anti-Diuretic Hormone through the pituitary gland, causing your urine volume to decrease (by causing the nephron tubules in your kidneys to reabsorb more water instead of making urine with it), but the same thing happens to cells all over your body when your plasma becomes too concentrated (too dry). In lab today, I had to drink 80ml of water with 7g of NaCl in it, and my feet would fall asleep whenever I stood on them for more than a few minutes. Oh, and I was thirsty and sensitive to pain. Hooray for science!
If the earth simulator presupposes that the universes are slowly going to decay into entropy, what about the "force" that is causing the galaxies to accellerate away from each-other? I'd like to see it's prediction of what would happen on the other side of the asymptote.
a simple neurofeedback rig should be able to allow you to control any electronic device by "telepathy". unfortunately they're way more expensive than electrodes and wires should be, maybe someone should consider this a good Statics project and make one.
the MPAA dosen't have to monitor an ISP, just issue a subpoena. keeping track of all the xfers? have another subpoena!
it would make sense for coroprations to mirror the government, since corporations -are- the government in this country.
i'd say the main concern, even then, is loss of computer resources and system instability due to superfluous and often poorly written software that resists attempts to uninstall it. Privacy matters aside, this is the number-one problem with every home PC i troubleshoot.
"American Tinfoil hat people, relax. The FBI is the group spying on you, not the CIA."
On what do you base that assumption? Because that's what they say?
that's just what we need, more nuclear reactors on the surface of our planet! Hey, here's an idea, put them in space and microwave the energy back to us. Nuclear reactors have no business on inhabited planets.
yeah, that's ALL we need. a bunch of permanent magnets inside our computer driving our fans.
i think i may have posted on here before about this, but i'll mention it again anyway.
My little sister does neuro-feedback/bio-feedback therapy, and its improved her life a lot more than flooding her brain with amphetamines like they do to most of the poor little bastards that float through the US "education" system. Keep in mind that ADHD is a pretty subjective thing to diagnose someone with, and people are quick to medicate for it, although very few of the people diagnosed with it really need to be taking meth every day to keep it under control. Psychotropic drugs are not really designed to help anyone, just make their behaviors easier to manage for those of us in the human services field.
Anyway (sorry about that soapboxing) my little sister is supposedly bipolar, ADHD, and emotionally disturbed. She's been taking biofeedback therapy and karate lessons for a few years now, and the benefits from the therapy were apperant very quickly (i'd say a month or two, but your milage may vary). After the series of "games" that the therapy takes the form of, with "points" to be earned towards reinforcers (money, ice cream, charts with stickers on them, etc), the therapy simultaniously simplifies and complexifies into computer-aided transcendental meditation. pretty nifty.
Many insurance providers now cover this (but by no means the majority), Oxford insurance in CT comes to mind, but without insurance the therapy usually costs about 1000 a year with a mix of simple use of the machine and sessions with the therapist (which cost more per session). Its easy to learn how to calibrate the machine (its similar to polygraph calibration, but cooler), making sessions with the therapist an excellent option but by no means nessisary.
The equipment can be purchased at www.brainfingers.com for around 2000 (last i checked, maybe its lower now). The equipment they sell there even has a neuro-to-midi program and the SDK included in the package!!
Anyway, anybody considering poisoning their children just so they can deal with them easier should look into therapy like neuro-feedback that results in actual growth and change rather than homeostasis and chemical restraint.
Thats not to say that these drugs don't have their place, i have another family member who wouldn't be with us right now if not for depakote and wellbutrin, but think twice before drugging someone up just because they don't think the same way you do and give neuro-feedback a shot. its -FUN-.
Its interesting to note that the research and development that resulted in this therapy originated in the fallout of the ill-conceived and unconstitutional prohibition on the scientific research of LSD. The people who didn't get locked up moved their equipment to study people practicing yoga and found that using their equipment, the same states of mind could be reached in 2 weeks that would have taken 2 years unassisted by neuro-feedback. chew on that for a while.
vigilante style cellphone jamming is illegal for a reason. Think you're cool because you're jamming the theatre or concert you're in? Think you've outsmarted your students by placing on in your classroom?
Well then buddy, I hope the pager-carrying EMTs, nurses and doctors you're surrepticiously blocking signal for are missing calls to save one of your loved ones. Fools.
dosen't that sound counter-intuitive? I mean, usually you sell the hardware at a loss and make your bank on selling intangibles (like data services)
a countersuit is a bit of a tactical decision...why consign yourself to be completely on the defensive? Why not be proactive?
::shrug::
Many of the people in this thread (i havent worked my way all the way down yet) will probably respond that they should consign themselves to the defensive posture because they're doing something "wrong" and know they're doing it.
In fact, since they're putting so much spirit into this, it is very likely that they beleive that they are doing something right, and that's an opinion I happen to share. For all intents and purposes, the "winner" of this pissing match is going to be decided in a courtroom, so litigation will obviously be a weapon of choice, but don't rule out lobbying, graft, and blowjobs. I mean, we don't really have a history of settling legal matters through combat (-our- legal matters, anyway..overseas we take a different approach obviously), so the courtroom would be a logical place for it to play out in our charming faux-democratic way of doing things.
Of course, if either side said "i dont have to engage in petty litigation because I -know- i'm right!", then they'll be eaten alive and walked all over in seconds.
As long as the popular opinion is that there's nothing wrong with downloading music over the internet (and there really isn't, thats a whole 'nother can of worms that i'm sure has been belaboured to death around here), then logically there should be no legal onus against it, since the perception of the majority of the warm bodies don't have a problem with it. If the state of the music industry declines as a result (like it could get any -worse-), then we'll only have ourselves to blame, just like the music industry has only themselves to blame for not taking advantage of this new medium and gunning it down instead.
how would you transmit the power back to earth? Pay to have batteries shipped over? Or maybe invent that wireless power supply that i've been hankering for all these years?