Sites want to get indexed by google. If a site hosts ads that have bullshit Deceptive practices google can downrank them. Google doesn't have to be 100% effective. Even a crude system for spotting these is going to turn up hits if a site isn't blocking these kinds of adertisers. And so on. If a site doesn't do it's own ads but instead hosts ads from and advertising aggregator and they do this bullshit then the site will drop them to stay in google's good graces.
And so all google has to do is scan adds that show up in content providers and then punish them. so it's top down.
They can also try to go bottoms up, and seek out companies that do these kinds of ads but that's going to be impossible to block unless they are actually hosting the page. However that's not completely nuts. companies like Opera and Amazon who offer compression and caching of web pages in their browsers do have the capacity to edit the webpage to remove content from ad agencies they deem to be scum.
Does google do that for android mobile? (I have no idea). But apple is talking about ad blocking. And thrid parties like ad block plus have the capability to erase ads from nasty advertisers.
Once these technologies start denting revenue and page views those ads will dry up by themselves.
It's very cool in it's portability and in real time. a traditional illumina has higher throughput. they processed 1450 samples in 6 months (their peak rate was much higher). An illumina can do many more samples in a single run, in batch. But you might not want to take it into the field and your latency would be higher since you would accumulate samples until you had enough to justify one run. The cost of that run per sample would be less but the cost of the batch run more which is why you wait. Another way this thing is superior is in read-length (50kbases) but they were only doing 2kB read lengths so not exploiting it's killer advantage over the illumina.
with 50% of the staff fired now, they have removed the bottom 50% of performers. So those remaining must be deleriously happy to be working with such elite peers. their productivity must be skyrocketing now that all the deadwood and even mediocre but dilligent workers are gone.
Hydro electric energy use has ethical issues. You are killing salmon and changing ecosystems. And if you consume more than neccessary then that electricity could have gone for other uses. Or fewere back-up natural gas plants might have been used. meaning less fracking. and so on.
So using it to produce wealth that doesn't actually change the GDP is highly unethical.
This think is varporware connected to a highthroughput press-release ink jet.
Even apple can't keep it's secret sauce secret. Why? because at some point they have to make the thing and tell developers how to work with it. So it leaks out the supply channels. the Magic-vape folks ought to have that problem if this existed. and they also ought to have the problem from investor briefings. but not a peep. So one suspects it's non-existent investor bait similar to the rigged demos of cold fusiion.
Now judging from the words like enhanced sensors my guess is they are tackling the tough problem of 3D vision. most of these things go after a single method of 3D cueing and drop the others. But real human perception requires multiple cues to work. You want stereo vision but you also need the focal plane to change as the eye changes focus. If you look at their demo it looks like that might be happening. You also need to have it align correctly with shifting head angles, pupilary distance, glance angle. 3D doesn't look right if your point of focus is different than the distance to the object or it doesn' change as you glance. this why you get a headache. additionally you want to barf if there's too much lag as you move your eyes or head. you can't tell if that's there from the mono-vision you tube but they definitiely had some defocusing out of the focal plane going on it looked like.
hence I think what they are pedaling is what you would get if you had an infinite budget for sensors, refresh rate and processing power. Which means this may not be affordable and by the time it is Occulus will not only get there too but already have a cash flow revenue system in place built on the cheapo art of the possible.
Unfortunately this is no a limbo contest. Crossing such a low bar of an obsolete unsupported os installs with a flag ship os that older os try to force on you is not impressive.
Los Alamos National Laboratory: Mammalian Stem Cells Reprogramming in Response to Terahertz Radiation http://journals.plos.org/ploso... We report that extended exposure to broad-spectrum terahertz radiation results in specific changes in cellular functions that are closely related to DNA-directed gene transcription. Our gene chip survey of gene expression shows that whereas 89% of the protein coding genes in mouse stem cells do not respond to the applied terahertz radiation, certain genes are activated, while other are repressed. RT-PCR experiments with selected gene probes corresponding to transcripts in the three groups of genes detail the gene specific effect. The response was not only gene specific but also irradiation conditions dependent. Our findings suggest that the applied terahertz irradiation accelerates cell differentiation toward adipose phenotype by activating the transcription factor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARG). Finally, our molecular dynamics computer simulations indicate that the local breathing dynamics of the PPARG promoter DNA coincides with the gene specific response to the THz radiation. We propose that THz radiation is a potential tool for cellular reprogramming.
University of Alberta Edmonton Intense THz pulses cause H2AX phosphorylation and activate DNA damage response in human skin tissue http://tinyurl.com/jsx5q7x Recent emergence and growing use of terahertz (THz) radiation for medical imaging and public security screening raise questions on reasonable levels of exposure and health consequences of this form of electromagnetic radiation. In particular, picosecond-duration THz pulses have shown promise for novel diagnostic imaging techniques. However, the effects of THz pulses on human cells and tissues thus far remain largely unknown. We report on the investigation of the biological effects of pulsed THz radiation on artificial human skin tissues. We observe that exposure to intense THz pulses for ten minutes leads to a significant induction of H2AX phosphorylation, indicating that THz pulse irradiation may cause DNA damage in exposed skin tissue. At the same time, we find a THz-pulse- induced increase in the levels of several proteins responsible for cell-cycle regulation and tumor suppression, suggesting that DNA damage repair mechanisms are quickly activated. Furthermore, we find that the cellular response to pulsed THz radiation is significantly different from that induced by exposure to UVA (400 nm).
FYI, there are biophysical effects to cell radiation. Well documented, published research from prestigious institutions has shown that under exposure to cell phone frequencies that bacterial and mammalian cells produce a lot of lipids. Why this happens is not known. One of the speculations is DNA is being activated by the radiation. At first this seems impossible to believe since the wavelengths of the radiation are orders of magnitude larger than the size of DNA. But models have shown that it does not take a lot of energy to cause Diploid DNA to separate into two strands. What happens if resonance occur and small "bubble" openings between the strands ripple along the chain. Thus very tiny amounts of radiation can affect the DNA. Where these opening occur depend on where a resonance condition can occur. Thus it is possible to imagine selective activation of parts of the DNA in the presence of cell phone radiation. Controls have shown the effect is not due to heating and a number of other possible laboratory artifacts in setting up the tests. Since there is no way yet to observe the predicted DNA response and the models are idealized it's not known if that happens in real cells or if that effect is any way connected to the observed lipid production. None the less what you can say is: 1) it's not crazy to say Cell phone radiation can selectively excite DNA 2) Cells do repspond inthe presence of cell radiation
Thus while there is as far as I know zero evidence of direct damage to a multi-cellular human, the fact that it can act on individual cells is cause for further study.
Building housing over a graveyard is also not going to cause a ghost problem or piss off anyones ancestor. But it still bugs people severely to the point of extreme behaviour and disruption of their lives. Having someone beam WiFi at uou and not let you make them stop is going to provoke strong reactions meanigful to the provoked.
I teach a robotics class and every design works perfectly up until you build it. Approximately 20% of the class is learning enough java to edit a pre-exiting program for an andorid. 20% is brainstorming ideas for task solutions. 20% is building it and 40% is figuring out why your ideas failed and coming up with simpler ones.
Your best bet might be to do something like "turtle" graphics or write games that move icons around and respond to bouncy inputs.
That said once you have the pi is it really that hard to get a few components? isn't there some old toy with a DC motor somewhere that could be recycled? You clearly have a computer access and computers break or get replaced. THere's motors in those things. Even a cell phone has a motor (the vibrator).
I am reminded of a student who had just come from China several decades ago. She new fortran perfectly but had never actually used a computer or run a program. Turns out she could not program at all when it came to actually do something original. I nearly fell off my chair when she told me she had never written a program. She could read them just fine.
I am reminded of the days of wire-wrap circuit boards. hunders of wires in a few colors at most forming a rats nest of interconnects on the back. All done by hand from post to post where you had to count pins by eye to find the right post each time. Chance of 100% correct wiring was geometrically vanishing.
The problem was not discovering the connections you had failed to make (which is easily done with a continuity tester) but finding the connections that were mistakenly wired the wrong pins.
So what you did was go find a filament transformer (these were high current low voltage transformers used to power the filaments in tubes). then you put one probe on one pin, and another probe on every other pin it was not supposed to be connected to. This is not as complex as it sounds since normally one pin is not connected to more than 3 or 5 other pins. So once you eliminate those, you can just slide the probe along the sides of all the other socket pins.
The current was so large that even a momentary connection would vaporize the wire if it was incorrectly wired. A continuity tester would not have worked well because the response time for the human to test all N^2 connections and look at the continuity tester was too long.
Here's a short youtube showing the effects in Automata. The robots were a combination of real robots and puppeteers. The puppeteers were in green suits and removed by standard green screen subtraction. In breif moments where their arms move in a complex way the arms were CGI added to the puppet robot chasis without arms.
reflecting on why it worked, I think it's partly because for the tone of this movie you sort of read like an enhance play. real world sets but you percieve it as an acted drama not as a hyper realistic. So your mind adapts to the format. And it's something of a relief. You appreciate the drama more without the glitz. the CGI is used so sparingly you can't tell where it exactly is (except for one particular robot with a short screen time).
I just watched a recent Antonio Banderas flick called Automata. It is kind of a slow paced more realistic version of i-robot. What was striking about it was that they used robots. Not hollywood robots. I think they were actua lhuman shaped robots. That is to say extremely limited robots and not actually capable of their alleged uses. They shuffle a bit. Are very clunky. In a few places they are not clunky so I think some deft CGI or men-in-robot suits was spliced in.
Anyhow what I'm getting to is this. it's well done. You aren't really bothered by the clunky robots because the actors and clever cinematogrpahy all make you believe they are the highly capable robots they represent. For example, their hands actually can't hold anything but the actors work around that in ways that you don't notice, for example holding their hands in a caring way while slyly holding the object so it doesn'f fall out.
The story is slow paced and while there are moments of action and suspense it's mostly a space for the actors to work. The fact that in a very low budget movie they can bring alive these machines to you says a lot. It is cerebral sci fi, and probably more like what Asimov was writing about.
Anyhow I was really shocked they would dare to make this in the age of CGI and hollywood animatronics. but they did and it's a good movie (if you have the patience for slow paced things.)
He is saying DINO is not a thing. No one is insulted by being called a DINO. They will just laugh. You actually see RINO used on the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal with a complete straight face.
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Sites want to get indexed by google. If a site hosts ads that have bullshit Deceptive practices google can downrank them. Google doesn't have to be 100% effective. Even a crude system for spotting these is going to turn up hits if a site isn't blocking these kinds of adertisers. And so on. If a site doesn't do it's own ads but instead hosts ads from and advertising aggregator and they do this bullshit then the site will drop them to stay in google's good graces.
And so all google has to do is scan adds that show up in content providers and then punish them. so it's top down.
They can also try to go bottoms up, and seek out companies that do these kinds of ads but that's going to be impossible to block unless they are actually hosting the page. However that's not completely nuts. companies like Opera and Amazon who offer compression and caching of web pages in their browsers do have the capacity to edit the webpage to remove content from ad agencies they deem to be scum.
Does google do that for android mobile? (I have no idea). But apple is talking about ad blocking. And thrid parties like ad block plus have the capability to erase ads from nasty advertisers.
Once these technologies start denting revenue and page views those ads will dry up by themselves.
It's very cool in it's portability and in real time. a traditional illumina has higher throughput. they processed 1450 samples in 6 months (their peak rate was much higher). An illumina can do many more samples in a single run, in batch. But you might not want to take it into the field and your latency would be higher since you would accumulate samples until you had enough to justify one run. The cost of that run per sample would be less but the cost of the batch run more which is why you wait. Another way this thing is superior is in read-length (50kbases) but they were only doing 2kB read lengths so not exploiting it's killer advantage over the illumina.
assholes print guns. No doubt hackers will reprogram google cars to kill people.
with 50% of the staff fired now, they have removed the bottom 50% of performers. So those remaining must be deleriously happy to be working with such elite peers. their productivity must be skyrocketing now that all the deadwood and even mediocre but dilligent workers are gone.
Hydro electric energy use has ethical issues. You are killing salmon and changing ecosystems. And if you consume more than neccessary then that electricity could have gone for other uses. Or fewere back-up natural gas plants might have been used. meaning less fracking. and so on.
So using it to produce wealth that doesn't actually change the GDP is highly unethical.
This think is varporware connected to a highthroughput press-release ink jet.
Even apple can't keep it's secret sauce secret. Why? because at some point they have to make the thing and tell developers how to work with it. So it leaks out the supply channels. the Magic-vape folks ought to have that problem if this existed. and they also ought to have the problem from investor briefings. but not a peep. So one suspects it's non-existent investor bait similar to the rigged demos of cold fusiion.
Now judging from the words like enhanced sensors my guess is they are tackling the tough problem of 3D vision. most of these things go after a single method of 3D cueing and drop the others. But real human perception requires multiple cues to work. You want stereo vision but you also need the focal plane to change as the eye changes focus. If you look at their demo it looks like that might be happening. You also need to have it align correctly with shifting head angles, pupilary distance, glance angle. 3D doesn't look right if your point of focus is different than the distance to the object or it doesn' change as you glance. this why you get a headache. additionally you want to barf if there's too much lag as you move your eyes or head. you can't tell if that's there from the mono-vision you tube but they definitiely had some defocusing out of the focal plane going on it looked like.
hence I think what they are pedaling is what you would get if you had an infinite budget for sensors, refresh rate and processing power. Which means this may not be affordable and by the time it is Occulus will not only get there too but already have a cash flow revenue system in place built on the cheapo art of the possible.
or so I'm guessing.
Unfortunately this is no a limbo contest. Crossing such a low bar of an obsolete unsupported os installs with a flag ship os that older os try to force on you is not impressive.
How dit this idiocy reach the front page of slashdot. Is this the new management at work?
Is going to be using analog till the cylons come home
Los Alamos National Laboratory:
Mammalian Stem Cells Reprogramming in Response to Terahertz Radiation
http://journals.plos.org/ploso...
We report that extended exposure to broad-spectrum terahertz radiation results in specific changes in cellular functions that are closely related to DNA-directed gene transcription. Our gene chip survey of gene expression shows that whereas 89% of the protein coding genes in mouse stem cells do not respond to the applied terahertz radiation, certain genes are activated, while other are repressed. RT-PCR experiments with selected gene probes corresponding to transcripts in the three groups of genes detail the gene specific effect. The response was not only gene specific but also irradiation conditions dependent. Our findings suggest that the applied terahertz irradiation accelerates cell differentiation toward adipose phenotype by activating the transcription factor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARG). Finally, our molecular dynamics computer simulations indicate that the local breathing dynamics of the PPARG promoter DNA coincides with the gene specific response to the THz radiation. We propose that THz radiation is a potential tool for cellular reprogramming.
University of Alberta Edmonton
Intense THz pulses cause H2AX phosphorylation and activate DNA damage response in human skin tissue
http://tinyurl.com/jsx5q7x
Recent emergence and growing use of terahertz (THz) radiation for medical imaging and public security screening raise questions on reasonable levels of exposure and health consequences of this form of electromagnetic radiation. In particular, picosecond-duration THz pulses have shown promise for novel diagnostic imaging techniques. However, the effects of THz pulses on human cells and tissues thus far remain largely unknown. We report on the investigation of the biological effects of pulsed THz radiation on artificial human skin tissues. We observe that exposure to intense THz pulses for ten minutes leads to a significant induction of H2AX phosphorylation, indicating that THz pulse irradiation may cause DNA damage in exposed skin tissue. At the same time, we find a THz-pulse- induced increase in the levels of several proteins responsible for cell-cycle regulation and tumor suppression, suggesting that DNA damage repair mechanisms are quickly activated. Furthermore, we find that the cellular response to pulsed THz radiation is significantly different from that induced by exposure to UVA (400 nm).
FYI, there are biophysical effects to cell radiation. Well documented, published research from prestigious institutions has shown that under exposure to cell phone frequencies that bacterial and mammalian cells produce a lot of lipids. Why this happens is not known. One of the speculations is DNA is being activated by the radiation. At first this seems impossible to believe since the wavelengths of the radiation are orders of magnitude larger than the size of DNA. But models have shown that it does not take a lot of energy to cause Diploid DNA to separate into two strands. What happens if resonance occur and small "bubble" openings between the strands ripple along the chain. Thus very tiny amounts of radiation can affect the DNA. Where these opening occur depend on where a resonance condition can occur. Thus it is possible to imagine selective activation of parts of the DNA in the presence of cell phone radiation. Controls have shown the effect is not due to heating and a number of other possible laboratory artifacts in setting up the tests. Since there is no way yet to observe the predicted DNA response and the models are idealized it's not known if that happens in real cells or if that effect is any way connected to the observed lipid production. None the less what you can say is:
1) it's not crazy to say Cell phone radiation can selectively excite DNA
2) Cells do repspond inthe presence of cell radiation
Thus while there is as far as I know zero evidence of direct damage to a multi-cellular human, the fact that it can act on individual cells is cause for further study.
Building housing over a graveyard is also not going to cause a ghost problem or piss off anyones ancestor. But it still bugs people severely to the point of extreme behaviour and disruption of their lives. Having someone beam WiFi at uou and not let you make them stop is going to provoke strong reactions meanigful to the provoked.
I teach a robotics class and every design works perfectly up until you build it. Approximately 20% of the class is learning enough java to edit a pre-exiting program for an andorid. 20% is brainstorming ideas for task solutions. 20% is building it and 40% is figuring out why your ideas failed and coming up with simpler ones.
Your best bet might be to do something like "turtle" graphics or write games that move icons around and respond to bouncy inputs.
That said once you have the pi is it really that hard to get a few components? isn't there some old toy with a DC motor somewhere that could be recycled? You clearly have a computer access and computers break or get replaced. THere's motors in those things. Even a cell phone has a motor (the vibrator).
I am reminded of a student who had just come from China several decades ago. She new fortran perfectly but had never actually used a computer or run a program. Turns out she could not program at all when it came to actually do something original. I nearly fell off my chair when she told me she had never written a program. She could read them just fine.
how could they miss that opportunity. Model T
https://xkcd.com/327/
I am reminded of the days of wire-wrap circuit boards. hunders of wires in a few colors at most forming a rats nest of interconnects on the back. All done by hand from post to post where you had to count pins by eye to find the right post each time. Chance of 100% correct wiring was geometrically vanishing.
The problem was not discovering the connections you had failed to make (which is easily done with a continuity tester) but finding the connections that were mistakenly wired the wrong pins.
So what you did was go find a filament transformer (these were high current low voltage transformers used to power the filaments in tubes). then you put one probe on one pin, and another probe on every other pin it was not supposed to be connected to. This is not as complex as it sounds since normally one pin is not connected to more than 3 or 5 other pins. So once you eliminate those, you can just slide the probe along the sides of all the other socket pins.
The current was so large that even a momentary connection would vaporize the wire if it was incorrectly wired. A continuity tester would not have worked well because the response time for the human to test all N^2 connections and look at the continuity tester was too long.
Right, I bought my kid a signed firest edition of Newton's Principia in the original Klingon
empirically, They do follow how the state votes to apportion electors so your point is meaningless. plus state laws in most states compel that.
thanks!
Trotskyite neocons. I can't parse that one. could you explain. (yes I know about trotsky).
Here's a short youtube showing the effects in Automata. The robots were a combination of real robots and puppeteers. The puppeteers were in green suits and removed by standard green screen subtraction. In breif moments where their arms move in a complex way the arms were CGI added to the puppet robot chasis without arms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
reflecting on why it worked, I think it's partly because for the tone of this movie you sort of read like an enhance play. real world sets but you percieve it as an acted drama not as a hyper realistic. So your mind adapts to the format. And it's something of a relief. You appreciate the drama more without the glitz. the CGI is used so sparingly you can't tell where it exactly is (except for one particular robot with a short screen time).
I just watched a recent Antonio Banderas flick called Automata. It is kind of a slow paced more realistic version of i-robot. What was striking about it was that they used robots. Not hollywood robots. I think they were actua lhuman shaped robots. That is to say extremely limited robots and not actually capable of their alleged uses. They shuffle a bit. Are very clunky. In a few places they are not clunky so I think some deft CGI or men-in-robot suits was spliced in.
Anyhow what I'm getting to is this. it's well done. You aren't really bothered by the clunky robots because the actors and clever cinematogrpahy all make you believe they are the highly capable robots they represent. For example, their hands actually can't hold anything but the actors work around that in ways that you don't notice, for example holding their hands in a caring way while slyly holding the object so it doesn'f fall out.
The story is slow paced and while there are moments of action and suspense it's mostly a space for the actors to work. The fact that in a very low budget movie they can bring alive these machines to you says a lot. It is cerebral sci fi, and probably more like what Asimov was writing about.
Anyhow I was really shocked they would dare to make this in the age of CGI and hollywood animatronics. but they did and it's a good movie (if you have the patience for slow paced things.)
He is saying DINO is not a thing. No one is insulted by being called a DINO. They will just laugh. You actually see RINO used on the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal with a complete straight face.