Sleep apnea is life threatening. Sufferers stop breathing many times while sleeping. Eventually, changes in blood gases (rising CO2 and/or falling O2) become large enough to cause breathing to resume. Sleep apnea is classified into two types, obstructive and central. Obstructive is due to airway blockage. Central is due to some loss of respiratory drive from the central nervous system. More information is here.
I urge you to contact your doctor. You might benefit from subsequent consultation with a sleep specialist. Nobody should force you into modifying your lifestyle if you do not want, but you might benefit greatly from learning more about the various known conditions and about your own problems.
I sometimes refer to their own domain. For instance, if f_o_o.com wants me to register, I might enter nope@f_o_o.com.
If I feel annoyed enough, I will use whois to find the administrative email addresses for the domain. Googling is another way to get valid email addresses for the domain itself.
It serves the purpose. It punishes them a little bit. It keeps a little traffic off the Internet.
Harper's is a great magazine. It is the oldest continuously published American magazine. I consider it in the same category as the Atlantic Monthly, but I usually enjoy it more. Harper's Index always has some funny bits.
Neil Young is great at getting so much from one note.
Edward Rothstein cites such performances as examples of the sublime. Edmund Burke wrote one of the classic treatises on what differentiates the sublime from other pleasurable and artistic experiences. (I have only read a tiny bit myself.) Such distinctions seem, in many ways, artificial, deceptive and even outright false. There is something resonant about them, however.
The even tempered scale is based on powers of the twelfth roots. It became popular around the time of Bach, and he wrote the Well Tempered Clavier as a demonstration of how much even tempering offers to composers and performers.
As someone else pointed out in this thread, there are other scales based on perfect intervals. One can generate the whole scale based on perfect fifths. I played with it in Matlab a little although to generate other scales I have trouble describing the differences. Using perfect intervals instead of the approximation that twelfth roots offers ruins some keys, but there is something appealing when it sounds just right.
A random number generator does not create music. People create music.
Your opinion on the rules is not solid. Most people are receptive to music, and some pieces of music manage to appeal to many people. You seem to lack any evidence for your ideas about what is coincidental. How might we set about determining whether there is causality? We simply lack the tools to make a very strong case right now. To come down on one side or the other with so little reason to seems like a bad choice.
I suspect that a random number generator can be used to create music quite successfully although I have not researched it. White noise does not sound like music, but a random number generator can be used to generate more than white noise. Instead, a stream of random numbers could be used to drive a system with significant correlations across time and pitch. If someone could find reasonable rules, maybe random input could be fed into the rule system to generate good music.
Nobody in the American popular media calls for a dictator, a king or a communist state. I think the press build rather small differences into big ones. The common lament of extreme polarity is a result. Being pushed toward constant indoctrination from one camp or the other is not the only effect. The fact that you feel so strongly about division is another.
Years ago, people were run out of towns over party affiliation. Many American small towns still have newspapers called the Democrat or the Republican. The term "yellow dog Democrat" is old, not new.
What seems to you is a result of bias more than anything else. Your perception of how things used to be is based on flawed information. It is possible to argue that the past was much more divided. Anybody who knows any American history remembers the time that a presidential election led to the very real division of the country into two separate countries. Is it going to happen this time? I hope not because it was a four year disaster. It is possible to look at other periods, FDR's long presidency, and see the country as more united. The fact is that interpretation leads us to see history as especially unified or divided. One might as well ask, "Are you a romantic or a skeptic?" The answer to that question is the same as the answer to how one sees the past.
I never would argue that the world should be less civil. I do take issue, however, that an increase in civility would be a return to some idyllic past. If you want to push for civility, do it based on positive consequences, on how much better it would be. Do not rely on references to a past that may have not existed to make your arguments.
Often new words are formed by using roots from a single language, often either Greek or Latin in the West. Mixing Greek and Latin is often viewed as bad form. When I see mixed constructions, I most often find that the person either is kidding or never learned such a fine point. It is not a significant failing not to know, but my ears certainly perk when I hear someone reveal how subtle his or her sensitivity to language is by speaking well. It is only so impressive when someone does it without calling attention to it. My rambling assumes that I know enough myself to notice, and I doubtless do not in many cases.
"Heliocentric" definitely is the common word. The "-centric" prefix, according to Merriam-Webster, is Latin, as is "sol." Kentron is a Greek word. It appears to me that the relevant suffix from either Latin or Greek is "-centric," but all the fairly common words I found with this suffix are built from Greek.
People have been vicious as long as they have been people. Your romanticism for the past is a common trap. The mindset of us versus them is old. Complaining about slightly newer, probably somewhere between a few minutes and a few days newer.
Discourse is available to many people although it may be hard to find. Seek new media and new friends.
While far from having detailed knowledge of GPS, I understand that it estimates position based on the delays of clock signals from the satellites. The more data available for the calculation, the better the estimate. Inaccuracy in the timing signals results in worse estimates. I believe that the degraded civilian GPS accuracy exists because satellites provide a less accurate time to civilian GPS receivers. A combined receiver using signals from both systems would yield higher accuracy, and a receiver can appropriately weight the different systems according to their known accuracy to calculate a better position estimate.
Basically, it is not a matter of switching. For the best performance, use all available sources of information simultaneously.
It is no wonder that people equate nudity and pr0n. Our chief shitkicker and prosecutor thinks so, too. Maybe he really did not order the breast covered. He certainly did not act to have it revealed once it had been hidden.
I was disappointed, but not surprised, when neither side took the high ground and suggested a less biased approach, such as a broad recount, to some clear problems. Gore entered a targeted challenge. Then Bush countered with a targeted response of his own. Both went out to create a victory rather than a just election, one to reflect the actual votes. I knew then, as I had suspected during the campaign, that we were about to have a conniving bastard in the White House. Your saying held true.
As I recall, Gore made carefully calculated challenges in counties that favored him, not necessarily in all counties with voting irregularities. The moves over absentee ballots were rotten, too.
That's when I knew that we would be having a son of a bitch for our president.
Burns^H^H^H^Higelow has a small model airplane and is talking to Smithers.
Burns^H^H^Higelow: Smithers, I've designed a new plane. I call it the Spruce Moose, and it will carry 200 passengers from New York's Idlewild air^H^H^Hspaceport to the Belgian Congo^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H inflatable space station in 17 minutes!
Smithers: That's quite a nice model, sir.
Burns^H^H^H^Higelow: Model?
Burns^H^H^H^Higelow: Now, to the plant^H^H^H^H^Hhotel! We'll take the Spruce Moose! Hop in!
Smithers (looking at the model plane): But, sir....
Burns^H^H^H^Higelow (cocking a gun): I said *hop in...*
How good is Linux support for any of these chipsets? Are they real RAID?
Many motherboards come with RAID controllers that actually expect the operating system to handle them. The Intel ICH-5R did have rather poor Linux support last time I checked. Although it exists, installation is a pain. It seems that many SATA and consumer RAID solutions either demand running in legacy mode if they work at all. I did not see this issue addressed in the review. I would like to know how support stands now.
In the parent post, the test was proposed "to see if you were human vs animal." It certainly is a bad test in that sense. I think that the problem is not in the test as much as in the underlying beliefs about human versus animal.
You raised a different point, how distinct human self awareness is from non-human varieties. I agree that there are some big problems with how many of these philosophical and psychological questions are put. They are not set to capture information that we can gain from studying animals because they look for unique aspects of humanity. There are many good researchers, however, who understand that many animals have many different kinds of self awareness and that many characteristics of our awareness probably are shared with non-humans.
I had a conversation about exactly this point. Whether Rico recognized the new objects by smell, sight or (more likely) some combination of the two has no bearing on the experiment. That step of the experiment addresses whether Rico can pair a novel word with a novel object in an otherwise familiar environment. While studying his perception is certainly very interesting, how he recognizes the objects is not important to this study. The study demonstrates that Rico can pair novel words with novel objects. It does not address his identification procedure.
I had a mutt, not a border collie. When he became old and sick, he stopped roaming, but he went off somewhere else one day, presumably to die. He also had a knack for disappearing on days he was supposed to go to the veterinarian.
It could do a better job than eyes alone. In an estimation problem, each piece of information helps. This system would have helped. It could be a boon to people who navigate. I once had a job that required finding street addresses in unfamiliar places.
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I hope your story inspires others to seek help. You made some big changes, and I'm happy to read that they've worked out so well.
Sleep apnea is life threatening. Sufferers stop breathing many times while sleeping. Eventually, changes in blood gases (rising CO2 and/or falling O2) become large enough to cause breathing to resume. Sleep apnea is classified into two types, obstructive and central. Obstructive is due to airway blockage. Central is due to some loss of respiratory drive from the central nervous system. More information is here.
I urge you to contact your doctor. You might benefit from subsequent consultation with a sleep specialist. Nobody should force you into modifying your lifestyle if you do not want, but you might benefit greatly from learning more about the various known conditions and about your own problems.
I sometimes refer to their own domain. For instance, if f_o_o.com wants me to register, I might enter nope@f_o_o.com.
If I feel annoyed enough, I will use whois to find the administrative email addresses for the domain. Googling is another way to get valid email addresses for the domain itself.
It serves the purpose. It punishes them a little bit. It keeps a little traffic off the Internet.
If I find myself in charge of inventing a numbering system, estimate the range necessary and then double the number of bits used.
Harper's is a great magazine. It is the oldest continuously published American magazine. I consider it in the same category as the Atlantic Monthly, but I usually enjoy it more. Harper's Index always has some funny bits.
Look at the next sentence. 2/3 isn't bad.
Neil Young is great at getting so much from one note.
Edward Rothstein cites such performances as examples of the sublime. Edmund Burke wrote one of the classic treatises on what differentiates the sublime from other pleasurable and artistic experiences. (I have only read a tiny bit myself.) Such distinctions seem, in many ways, artificial, deceptive and even outright false. There is something resonant about them, however.
The even tempered scale is based on powers of the twelfth roots. It became popular around the time of Bach, and he wrote the Well Tempered Clavier as a demonstration of how much even tempering offers to composers and performers.
As someone else pointed out in this thread, there are other scales based on perfect intervals. One can generate the whole scale based on perfect fifths. I played with it in Matlab a little although to generate other scales I have trouble describing the differences. Using perfect intervals instead of the approximation that twelfth roots offers ruins some keys, but there is something appealing when it sounds just right.
A random number generator does not create music. People create music.
Your opinion on the rules is not solid. Most people are receptive to music, and some pieces of music manage to appeal to many people. You seem to lack any evidence for your ideas about what is coincidental. How might we set about determining whether there is causality? We simply lack the tools to make a very strong case right now. To come down on one side or the other with so little reason to seems like a bad choice.
I suspect that a random number generator can be used to create music quite successfully although I have not researched it. White noise does not sound like music, but a random number generator can be used to generate more than white noise. Instead, a stream of random numbers could be used to drive a system with significant correlations across time and pitch. If someone could find reasonable rules, maybe random input could be fed into the rule system to generate good music.
Nobody in the American popular media calls for a dictator, a king or a communist state. I think the press build rather small differences into big ones. The common lament of extreme polarity is a result. Being pushed toward constant indoctrination from one camp or the other is not the only effect. The fact that you feel so strongly about division is another.
Years ago, people were run out of towns over party affiliation. Many American small towns still have newspapers called the Democrat or the Republican. The term "yellow dog Democrat" is old, not new.
What seems to you is a result of bias more than anything else. Your perception of how things used to be is based on flawed information. It is possible to argue that the past was much more divided. Anybody who knows any American history remembers the time that a presidential election led to the very real division of the country into two separate countries. Is it going to happen this time? I hope not because it was a four year disaster. It is possible to look at other periods, FDR's long presidency, and see the country as more united. The fact is that interpretation leads us to see history as especially unified or divided. One might as well ask, "Are you a romantic or a skeptic?" The answer to that question is the same as the answer to how one sees the past.
I never would argue that the world should be less civil. I do take issue, however, that an increase in civility would be a return to some idyllic past. If you want to push for civility, do it based on positive consequences, on how much better it would be. Do not rely on references to a past that may have not existed to make your arguments.
I decided to investigate this matter a little.
Often new words are formed by using roots from a single language, often either Greek or Latin in the West. Mixing Greek and Latin is often viewed as bad form. When I see mixed constructions, I most often find that the person either is kidding or never learned such a fine point. It is not a significant failing not to know, but my ears certainly perk when I hear someone reveal how subtle his or her sensitivity to language is by speaking well. It is only so impressive when someone does it without calling attention to it. My rambling assumes that I know enough myself to notice, and I doubtless do not in many cases.
"Heliocentric" definitely is the common word. The "-centric" prefix, according to Merriam-Webster, is Latin, as is "sol." Kentron is a Greek word. It appears to me that the relevant suffix from either Latin or Greek is "-centric," but all the fairly common words I found with this suffix are built from Greek.
I am not a linguist. I just like words.
People have been vicious as long as they have been people. Your romanticism for the past is a common trap. The mindset of us versus them is old. Complaining about slightly newer, probably somewhere between a few minutes and a few days newer.
Discourse is available to many people although it may be hard to find. Seek new media and new friends.
While far from having detailed knowledge of GPS, I understand that it estimates position based on the delays of clock signals from the satellites. The more data available for the calculation, the better the estimate. Inaccuracy in the timing signals results in worse estimates. I believe that the degraded civilian GPS accuracy exists because satellites provide a less accurate time to civilian GPS receivers. A combined receiver using signals from both systems would yield higher accuracy, and a receiver can appropriately weight the different systems according to their known accuracy to calculate a better position estimate.
Basically, it is not a matter of switching. For the best performance, use all available sources of information simultaneously.
More satellites = more information = better GPS
It is no wonder that people equate nudity and pr0n. Our chief shitkicker and prosecutor thinks so, too. Maybe he really did not order the breast covered. He certainly did not act to have it revealed once it had been hidden.
I was disappointed, but not surprised, when neither side took the high ground and suggested a less biased approach, such as a broad recount, to some clear problems. Gore entered a targeted challenge. Then Bush countered with a targeted response of his own. Both went out to create a victory rather than a just election, one to reflect the actual votes. I knew then, as I had suspected during the campaign, that we were about to have a conniving bastard in the White House. Your saying held true.
What is the rumor?
As I recall, Gore made carefully calculated challenges in counties that favored him, not necessarily in all counties with voting irregularities. The moves over absentee ballots were rotten, too.
That's when I knew that we would be having a son of a bitch for our president.
Burns^H^H^H^Higelow has a small model airplane and is talking to Smithers.
Burns^H^H^Higelow: Smithers, I've designed a new plane. I call it the Spruce Moose, and it will carry 200 passengers from New York's Idlewild air^H^H^Hspaceport to the Belgian Congo^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H inflatable space station in 17 minutes!
Smithers: That's quite a nice model, sir.
Burns^H^H^H^Higelow: Model?
Burns^H^H^H^Higelow: Now, to the plant^H^H^H^H^Hhotel! We'll take the Spruce Moose! Hop in!
Smithers (looking at the model plane): But, sir....
Burns^H^H^H^Higelow (cocking a gun): I said *hop in...*
Do you mean just use software RAID?
How good is Linux support for any of these chipsets? Are they real RAID?
Many motherboards come with RAID controllers that actually expect the operating system to handle them. The Intel ICH-5R did have rather poor Linux support last time I checked. Although it exists, installation is a pain. It seems that many SATA and consumer RAID solutions either demand running in legacy mode if they work at all. I did not see this issue addressed in the review. I would like to know how support stands now.
In the parent post, the test was proposed "to see if you were human vs animal." It certainly is a bad test in that sense. I think that the problem is not in the test as much as in the underlying beliefs about human versus animal.
You raised a different point, how distinct human self awareness is from non-human varieties. I agree that there are some big problems with how many of these philosophical and psychological questions are put. They are not set to capture information that we can gain from studying animals because they look for unique aspects of humanity. There are many good researchers, however, who understand that many animals have many different kinds of self awareness and that many characteristics of our awareness probably are shared with non-humans.
I had a conversation about exactly this point. Whether Rico recognized the new objects by smell, sight or (more likely) some combination of the two has no bearing on the experiment. That step of the experiment addresses whether Rico can pair a novel word with a novel object in an otherwise familiar environment. While studying his perception is certainly very interesting, how he recognizes the objects is not important to this study. The study demonstrates that Rico can pair novel words with novel objects. It does not address his identification procedure.
Dogs, possibly other animals, often endure discomfort and pain in pursuit of other goals. I do not think this test is a good one.
I had a mutt, not a border collie. When he became old and sick, he stopped roaming, but he went off somewhere else one day, presumably to die. He also had a knack for disappearing on days he was supposed to go to the veterinarian.
It could do a better job than eyes alone. In an estimation problem, each piece of information helps. This system would have helped. It could be a boon to people who navigate. I once had a job that required finding street addresses in unfamiliar places.