Since we could send up 50-odd Beagle 2s for the cost of the NASA Mars Rovers, it would make sense to do that. OTOH, if the same point-of-failure was inherent in all of them, that would be stupid.
It seems that no-one is blaming cost. The project was feasible, but the timescale wasn't and management wasn't up to it.
An associate of mine happens to be one of the few people in the world who treats
schizophrenia.
By treatment, I mean helping them to be who they want to be, not drugging them,
electrocuting them or institutionalising them. I hesitate to use the word
cure, but as far as you and I are concerned, that is what happens in 60% of
his cases.
He does not believe in the dopamine theory of schizophrenia - if that was accurate,
a dopamine antagonist would turn schizophrenics into normal people - it doesn't.
But he does understand schizophrenics, which is something no-one here (nor even
of all the writers of Beautiful Mind) can claim.
He freely provides these understandings, backed by many prominent psychiatrists, on his website, which you'll find interesting in any case.
Chances of you reading this post are slim. But I hope you find it anyway and she may one day thank you for researching beyond the limited help the medical community provides.
I agree. I rarely go anywhere without my Revo. No screenlight and you can't replace the batteries, but they do last a couple of weeks of light usage. The software is awesome.
This experiment seems to be some attempt to reduce the number of universes
you exist in by forcing an improbable event to occur in the universe you survive
in.
OK, I understand this. What I don't understand is how the many worlds
interpretation means that your consciousness ends up living rather than dying.
This seems a rather critical assumption.
Although I like the idea of tying your live/die outcome to the result of whether
or not you win the lottery. There's another bit in Tegmark's theory that
you can't know beforehand. If you know you're going to die, it doesn't
work apparently. I don't understand that either.
You'd have a configuration program, maybe running on a separate device which has a nice visual display of how everything is linked. Maybe it could re-route everything too.
Beats a mass of cables any day.
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In the UK, the market has been saturated for 3 years. The manufacturers and re-sellers have resorted to running ads designed to embarrass consumers who have last year's phones.
The network share has been static as people's social groups since most charged 4x more for calling another network than their own. Things are beginning to change now though, despite the regulator sitting on it's hands.
Texas is the death penalty capital of the world. By your logic that would
also make it the safest place in the world, yet people are murdered here every
day. A person can be imprisoned for years (years!) if caught with trace amounts
of cocaine, yet the crack epidemic is as strong as ever.
I wouldn't complain about his logic when you've used 2 crimes to generalise
across the whole of crime.
Believe it or not, crack is addictive. I worked with a crack addict who
sold his mum's car. He really didn't care about anything apart from the
next fix.
Most murders are spur-of-the-moment crimes of passion. The murderers
do not think about the consequences in the 5 seconds it takes to kill someone
in your gun-obsessed country.
OTOH, this 18-year old allegedly rationally planned, designed, coded &
released Sasser & Netsky, which caused god knows how much in damages, caused
as yet uncalculated amounts of stress, and the actual number of people directly
killed has yet to be investigated (I bet it's >1). Not only should
he receive the full punishment under the law, but it should be a cruel and unusual
punishment, just to make sure his peers remember.
>I keep waiting for *seriously* damaging viruses to show up in the
wake of the leaked (partial) source code to Windows 2000. That may be the last
straw to many a business.
Me? I'm scared to death for the worms that could be made based on the leaks
of vital Linux and BSD kernel secrets! =:>
Why is it that people keep saying stuff like this? You said it, probably
without thinking.
Seems reasonable to me. What if Sasser's vulnerability wasn't known about
by Microsoft? How long would it take for them to produce a patch?
What if Sasser was so well hidden that it didn't get publicised for days?
Gatner gives us:
>The Sasser worm attacks confirm our prediction that mass worm attacks
against the multiple vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft on April 13 were
likely
as if undisclosed exploit attacks that have happened in the same time were
less common.
They aren't?
Free software is the clear answer to these problems and it's as open for
inspection and bug disclosure as you can be.
OSS isn't an answer unless you can persuade everyone to adopt it. And
even then, I doubt Linux is unvulnerable.
You're both right. As a psychologist I've studied this - we have no instinctive ability to tell the difference between reality/imagination (think about dreaming). There are different clues which we learn to rely on, your "screen" and his lack of photo quality are 2.
In combat (real or computerised), such inhibitions are going to be reduced. In much the same way that some soldiers still suffer from flashbacks of war, not everyone is going to leave behind the game reality so cleanly.
It's not too surprising that the brain's short-term visual cache would
be closer to the visual cortex.
The article says the spot is in the posterior parietal cortex, which isn't particularly close to the visual cortex.
What I would like to know is how closely the visual cache is related to
intelligence.
This doesn't seem to be a visual cache, more of a photographic memory.
Does it need actual visual input, instead of just imagined, and if so...
<facetious>do you become marginally dumber when you close your eyes?</facetious>
Pretty likely that external/imaginary visual information is processed similarly.
From reading Synaptic Self, the general cache and CPU area
would seem to be the prefrontal cortex. It can activate memories to work on
(the closer the current emotional state it was recorded in, the better), and
hold a few things to work on.
One thing is for sure - we all use our brains differently. Prefrontal
cortex will be involved with logic, whereas emotional processing will probably
be in the limbic system.
Perhaps there are many more specializations yet to be uncovered, but I'm
struck at the sheer relative size of brain required to actively think and plan
a next move. Considering that even a worm brain can get its owner around, you'd
think our capacity for juggling thoughts would be encyclopaedic.
That's a very specific kind of processing. A worm presumably can't read.
It couldn't plan its long-term future.
We've yet to build robots that can do either of these tasks. But we have
built robots that can move around.
So many small functional pieces of the brain; I'm struck by how independent
the sections of the brain are, by and large.
Firstly, take a look at what the tests are doing - forcing the user into processing
a simple task. Maybe someone could re-program other parts of their brain
to help, but that might take days of practise.
Large-scale coordination has to go through a secondary 'chemical drip'
system, from neuromodulators released by non-connecting nerves throughout the
brain. It's that level of coordination required to put your brain to sleep or
wake it up, amongst other things.
There are deep neural projections throughout the brain. This neurochemical
system is a an artifact from the time we had reptilian brains.
I'm looking forward to more decoding of the brain's structures - narrowing
down specific activities to a small area of the brain like they did is fantastic.
I'm also going to add that the conclusions are pretty ridiculous:
A large increase in the subject's brain activity on the four-dot test
indicated that his or her memory capacity had not been pushed to its limit.
No increase in electrical activity indicated that his or her working memory
had topped out on the two-dot test. By graphing these responses, the team worked
out the exact size of each subject's working memory.
More likely it means that 4 dots is no more challenging than 2 dots, in the
same way that a CPU has no more difficulty adding 2 digit numbers instead of
1.
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I'm with you. I will pester my MP, write to newspapers... basically protest as loudly as possible.
And if that doesn't work, I'll emigrate.
I don't care about having to prove my identity. What I do care about is the ability for anybody with friends in any future government to persecute me.
Anyone in the UK: I beg you, please find out more. There is a reason we scrapped ID cards after WWII and now our entire lives can be scrutinised.
Trevor Mendham has summarised a lot of the important arguments and legal protest measures in his site.
Since we could send up 50-odd Beagle 2s for the cost of the NASA Mars Rovers, it would make sense to do that.
OTOH, if the same point-of-failure was inherent in all of them, that would be stupid.
It seems that no-one is blaming cost. The project was feasible, but the timescale wasn't and management wasn't up to it.
By treatment, I mean helping them to be who they want to be, not drugging them, electrocuting them or institutionalising them. I hesitate to use the word cure, but as far as you and I are concerned, that is what happens in 60% of his cases.
He does not believe in the dopamine theory of schizophrenia - if that was accurate, a dopamine antagonist would turn schizophrenics into normal people - it doesn't. But he does understand schizophrenics, which is something no-one here (nor even of all the writers of Beautiful Mind) can claim.
He freely provides these understandings, backed by many prominent psychiatrists, on his website, which you'll find interesting in any case.
Chances of you reading this post are slim. But I hope you find it anyway and she may one day thank you for researching beyond the limited help the medical community provides.
I agree. I rarely go anywhere without my Revo. No screenlight and you can't replace the batteries, but they do last a couple of weeks of light usage. The software is awesome.
This experiment seems to be some attempt to reduce the number of universes you exist in by forcing an improbable event to occur in the universe you survive in.
OK, I understand this. What I don't understand is how the many worlds interpretation means that your consciousness ends up living rather than dying. This seems a rather critical assumption.
Although I like the idea of tying your live/die outcome to the result of whether or not you win the lottery. There's another bit in Tegmark's theory that you can't know beforehand. If you know you're going to die, it doesn't work apparently. I don't understand that either.
You'd have a configuration program, maybe running on a separate device which has a nice visual display of how everything is linked.
Maybe it could re-route everything too.
Beats a mass of cables any day.
In the UK, the market has been saturated for 3 years. The manufacturers and re-sellers have resorted to running ads designed to embarrass consumers who have last year's phones.
The network share has been static as people's social groups since most charged 4x more for calling another network than their own. Things are beginning to change now though, despite the regulator sitting on it's hands.
Texas is the death penalty capital of the world. By your logic that would also make it the safest place in the world, yet people are murdered here every day. A person can be imprisoned for years (years!) if caught with trace amounts of cocaine, yet the crack epidemic is as strong as ever.
I wouldn't complain about his logic when you've used 2 crimes to generalise across the whole of crime.
Believe it or not, crack is addictive. I worked with a crack addict who sold his mum's car. He really didn't care about anything apart from the next fix.
Most murders are spur-of-the-moment crimes of passion. The murderers do not think about the consequences in the 5 seconds it takes to kill someone in your gun-obsessed country.
OTOH, this 18-year old allegedly rationally planned, designed, coded & released Sasser & Netsky, which caused god knows how much in damages, caused as yet uncalculated amounts of stress, and the actual number of people directly killed has yet to be investigated (I bet it's >1). Not only should he receive the full punishment under the law, but it should be a cruel and unusual punishment, just to make sure his peers remember.
Better still, the mugger clobbers his skull, and when he recovers, his skull heals up stronger than it was...
"Oh thank you Mr Mugger"
Or a script kiddy who has been forced to put a sting on his contacts??
>I keep waiting for *seriously* damaging viruses to show up in the wake of the leaked (partial) source code to Windows 2000. That may be the last straw to many a business.
Me? I'm scared to death for the worms that could be made based on the leaks of vital Linux and BSD kernel secrets! =:>
Why is it that people keep saying stuff like this? You said it, probably without thinking.
Seems reasonable to me. What if Sasser's vulnerability wasn't known about by Microsoft? How long would it take for them to produce a patch? What if Sasser was so well hidden that it didn't get publicised for days?
Gatner gives us:
>The Sasser worm attacks confirm our prediction that mass worm attacks against the multiple vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft on April 13 were likely
as if undisclosed exploit attacks that have happened in the same time were less common.
They aren't?
Free software is the clear answer to these problems and it's as open for inspection and bug disclosure as you can be.
OSS isn't an answer unless you can persuade everyone to adopt it. And even then, I doubt Linux is unvulnerable.
You're both right. As a psychologist I've studied this - we have no instinctive ability to tell the difference between reality/imagination (think about dreaming). There are different clues which we learn to rely on, your "screen" and his lack of photo quality are 2.
In combat (real or computerised), such inhibitions are going to be reduced. In much the same way that some soldiers still suffer from flashbacks of war, not everyone is going to leave behind the game reality so cleanly.
Another reason to control access to guns...
Yes, I think I saw one in the second universe on the left.
Nowadays, they also alert you about cavities, though that's an unexcepted side effect, evolution probably didn't estimate arrival of dentists...
Or sugar...
But if you have pain on one side of your mouth, you'll use the other side exclusively until the first side recovers - which it can do in minor cases.
Is Windows Update actually safe to use? I don't trust Microsoft any more than I trust email attachments.
Not sure if this is the same thing, but this SpamPal plugin uses a "DCC" network to check how many other people have received a similar email.
On a UK TV science show called Braniac, Jon Tickle walked across a swimming pool filled with custard.
Do we have to talk about killing prison guards??? eeeeeeghhhh
Did you ever see that documentary about Marion? Horrific...
Starchy liquids have similar properties. A UK TV show called Brainiacs showed a guy walking on custard.
I don't think RIAA have done too badly. Sure they've alienated a lot of geeks but that's about 1% of their market.
They've done everything monopolies do to maintain their monopoly (hire lawyers).
They kept a cartel on not selling songs over the internet as long as possible (an expensive venture, not easily protected as a monopoly).
The Bagle (& Netsky?) viruses scan your friends' hard disks for email addresses and forward them to spammers.
If a spammer is initially poor, they've got nothing to lose. You need something beyond fines.
There doesn't seem to be that many spammers. Chucking the top 10 in jail would probably cut my spam 90%.
It's not too surprising that the brain's short-term visual cache would be closer to the visual cortex.
The article says the spot is in the posterior parietal cortex, which isn't particularly close to the visual cortex.
What I would like to know is how closely the visual cache is related to intelligence.
This doesn't seem to be a visual cache, more of a photographic memory.
Does it need actual visual input, instead of just imagined, and if so... <facetious>do you become marginally dumber when you close your eyes?</facetious>
Pretty likely that external/imaginary visual information is processed similarly.
From reading Synaptic Self, the general cache and CPU area would seem to be the prefrontal cortex. It can activate memories to work on (the closer the current emotional state it was recorded in, the better), and hold a few things to work on.
One thing is for sure - we all use our brains differently. Prefrontal cortex will be involved with logic, whereas emotional processing will probably be in the limbic system.
Perhaps there are many more specializations yet to be uncovered, but I'm struck at the sheer relative size of brain required to actively think and plan a next move. Considering that even a worm brain can get its owner around, you'd think our capacity for juggling thoughts would be encyclopaedic.
That's a very specific kind of processing. A worm presumably can't read. It couldn't plan its long-term future.
We've yet to build robots that can do either of these tasks. But we have built robots that can move around.
So many small functional pieces of the brain; I'm struck by how independent the sections of the brain are, by and large.
Firstly, take a look at what the tests are doing - forcing the user into processing a simple task. Maybe someone could re-program other parts of their brain to help, but that might take days of practise.
Large-scale coordination has to go through a secondary 'chemical drip' system, from neuromodulators released by non-connecting nerves throughout the brain. It's that level of coordination required to put your brain to sleep or wake it up, amongst other things.
There are deep neural projections throughout the brain. This neurochemical system is a an artifact from the time we had reptilian brains.
I'm looking forward to more decoding of the brain's structures - narrowing down specific activities to a small area of the brain like they did is fantastic.
A lot has been done. Start here.
I'm also going to add that the conclusions are pretty ridiculous:
A large increase in the subject's brain activity on the four-dot test indicated that his or her memory capacity had not been pushed to its limit. No increase in electrical activity indicated that his or her working memory had topped out on the two-dot test. By graphing these responses, the team worked out the exact size of each subject's working memory.
More likely it means that 4 dots is no more challenging than 2 dots, in the same way that a CPU has no more difficulty adding 2 digit numbers instead of 1.