I'm sure designers have taken this all into account, but I'd still be concerned with control systems for pedestrian avoidance, sensors determining whether the small object in front is a newspaper or a rock to be avoided, and predicting behaviors of bicyclists, etc. Sometimes its better to run over a squirrel than break suddenly and risk being rear-ended or swerve around it.
The description here is a bit misleading. From the sound of the article, Palau is really just a testbed for this technology. I'm assuming that they aren't footing any of the bill that is about 6X their GDP.
I'm guessing that with an all-electric car you could calculate some equivalent amount of oil/gas that would be theoretically burned at the power plant in order re-charge through the power grid..
Timing seems a bit strange considering the movie is upcoming; you'd think they'd want to preserve the online fan community to hype the new picture. Especially considering that CBS and Paramount Pictures are one and the same (I think?)
Cool as a flying car sounds, how is owning one of these advantageous to driving to your local airport and flying a "normal" plane to your destination? I guess it saves you the issue of finding transportation when you arrive..
Keep in mind that take-off checklists, wait times, etc., will add even more time to the flying car "commute".
Sorry, misspoke.
The neural control is related to real motor commands in the sense of using the activation of neural tissue that may be sending motor commands, but not directly decoding an actual motor command (whatever that may be).
EEG is just not well-suited at this point for this kind of control. The main issue with long-term invasive electrode implantation in neural tissue (aside from the usual health concerns like brain damage and infection) is that over time electrodes become encapsulated by a brain tissue response and are no longer usable for recordings and BCI.
There are other strategies for recordings that are not quite as invasive (meaning directly in neural tissue) such as recording from the surface of the dura (covering of the brain). There has been talk of using Near Infrared Imaging to develop a kind of optical Brain Computer Interface.
The subjects are seizure patients at Barnes hospital who have electrode grids placed over tissue that is suspected to be involved in the seizures. The ECoG team takes advantage of this opportunity to work with human subjects (something that is next to impossible to arrange, normally). The tissue being recorded from isn't necessarily primary motor cortex or some other motor region where a "motor command" could be "decoded" (I work in a different motor control lab at WashU-StL but have also worked with one of the main collaborators on this project).
To answer your question, its a bit of both. Neural plasticity is key in learning to use your brain to move a mouse cursor or play a video game, since you obviously don't possess neural regions that expect to directly control a video game.
They begin by examining and processing neural recordings while asking the subject to do and/or think about doing various motor tasks (sticking out tongue, moving arm, etc) and determining which electrodes' processed activities appear to be correlated with these movements. Then they do the same while subjects play a "game" with a joystick. The brain-to-Atari control is one of the final stages of the experiment. So really, the subjects do need to learn how to control various degrees of freedom with thought, but its also related to real motor commands.
Miró? Isn't that the same artist whose work is reproduced in millions of dormitory "art" posters being sold for $15 a pop in every university student center?
Yeah, I think its fair to say the Miró estate is interested only in prostituting their art for $$$
"the rising popularity in the United States of 'intelligent design' - a controversial creationist theory of life - is eroding acceptance of evolutionary science in Canada."
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Blaming the US for the ignorance of Canadian Christians.. I don't know how valid this is.
Ha, we don't see the BSOD anymore cause Microsoft likely removed that "feature". Now Microsoft notifies you of system crash via a blank desktop and hidden mouse pointer!
But don't worry. If you wait long enough, they'll come back. Really.
I don't know if it actually matters if you use a default username or not, since they are also identifying users' IP addresses. Notice that the list is much shorter than the number of subpoenas issued. I'm sure they have targets some default users by identifying their IPs.
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RTFA, their process uses any type of material like corn husks or hay.
I'm sure designers have taken this all into account, but I'd still be concerned with control systems for pedestrian avoidance, sensors determining whether the small object in front is a newspaper or a rock to be avoided, and predicting behaviors of bicyclists, etc. Sometimes its better to run over a squirrel than break suddenly and risk being rear-ended or swerve around it.
The description here is a bit misleading. From the sound of the article, Palau is really just a testbed for this technology. I'm assuming that they aren't footing any of the bill that is about 6X their GDP.
I'm guessing that with an all-electric car you could calculate some equivalent amount of oil/gas that would be theoretically burned at the power plant in order re-charge through the power grid..
Timing seems a bit strange considering the movie is upcoming; you'd think they'd want to preserve the online fan community to hype the new picture. Especially considering that CBS and Paramount Pictures are one and the same (I think?)
Cool as a flying car sounds, how is owning one of these advantageous to driving to your local airport and flying a "normal" plane to your destination? I guess it saves you the issue of finding transportation when you arrive.. Keep in mind that take-off checklists, wait times, etc., will add even more time to the flying car "commute".
TFA says, "What's more, the technique will be faster and much cheaper than growing crystals in space..."
Of course, the researcher is likely projecting costs down the road when fine-tuning reduces costs.
Sorry, misspoke. The neural control is related to real motor commands in the sense of using the activation of neural tissue that may be sending motor commands, but not directly decoding an actual motor command (whatever that may be).
EEG is just not well-suited at this point for this kind of control. The main issue with long-term invasive electrode implantation in neural tissue (aside from the usual health concerns like brain damage and infection) is that over time electrodes become encapsulated by a brain tissue response and are no longer usable for recordings and BCI. There are other strategies for recordings that are not quite as invasive (meaning directly in neural tissue) such as recording from the surface of the dura (covering of the brain). There has been talk of using Near Infrared Imaging to develop a kind of optical Brain Computer Interface.
The subjects are seizure patients at Barnes hospital who have electrode grids placed over tissue that is suspected to be involved in the seizures. The ECoG team takes advantage of this opportunity to work with human subjects (something that is next to impossible to arrange, normally). The tissue being recorded from isn't necessarily primary motor cortex or some other motor region where a "motor command" could be "decoded" (I work in a different motor control lab at WashU-StL but have also worked with one of the main collaborators on this project).
To answer your question, its a bit of both. Neural plasticity is key in learning to use your brain to move a mouse cursor or play a video game, since you obviously don't possess neural regions that expect to directly control a video game.
They begin by examining and processing neural recordings while asking the subject to do and/or think about doing various motor tasks (sticking out tongue, moving arm, etc) and determining which electrodes' processed activities appear to be correlated with these movements. Then they do the same while subjects play a "game" with a joystick. The brain-to-Atari control is one of the final stages of the experiment. So really, the subjects do need to learn how to control various degrees of freedom with thought, but its also related to real motor commands.
Miró? Isn't that the same artist whose work is reproduced in millions of dormitory "art" posters being sold for $15 a pop in every university student center?
Yeah, I think its fair to say the Miró estate is interested only in prostituting their art for $$$
"the rising popularity in the United States of 'intelligent design' - a controversial creationist theory of life - is eroding acceptance of evolutionary science in Canada." ---- Blaming the US for the ignorance of Canadian Christians.. I don't know how valid this is.
2006 Sales of Microsoft Virtual PC rapidly approach zero.
Boy did I go to the wrong parties in high school.
Well, I guess I'd rather suffer severe ulcers and heartburn my whole life than contract prostate cancer.
Ha, we don't see the BSOD anymore cause Microsoft likely removed that "feature". Now Microsoft notifies you of system crash via a blank desktop and hidden mouse pointer! But don't worry. If you wait long enough, they'll come back. Really.
I don't know if it actually matters if you use a default username or not, since they are also identifying users' IP addresses. Notice that the list is much shorter than the number of subpoenas issued. I'm sure they have targets some default users by identifying their IPs.