There's a company in Edinburgh that's doing the same thing with Roger Ebert, drawing on the large body of recordings of his voice. Wonder if it's the same one.
A great idea with only two drawbacks. One, you'd lose the tax income from those retirees, and two, you'd have to pay out more money in social security to those retirees. Social security isn't exactly a drop in the bucket as it stands.
"Cognitive function" in this instance isn't a measure of "raw processing power":
The Alice Heim 4-I (AH4-I) is composed of a series of 65 verbal and mathematical reasoning items of increasing difficulty.18 It tests inductive reasoning, measuring the ability to identify patterns and infer principles and rules. Participants had 10 minutes to do this section. Short term verbal memory was assessed with a 20 word free recall test. Participants were presented a list of 20 one or two syllable words at two second intervals and were then asked to recall in writing as many of the words in any order within two minutes.
We used two measures of verbal fluency: phonemic and semantic.19 Participants were asked to recall in writing as many words beginning with “S” (phonemic fluency) and as many animal names (semantic fluency) as they could. One minute was allowed for each test; the observed range on these tests was 0-35. Vocabulary was assessed with the Mill Hill vocabulary test,20 used in its multiple choice format, consisting of a list of 33 stimulus words ordered by increasing difficulty and six response choices.
Judgement, in particular, would suffer if one's ability to perform inductive reasoning was impaired.
I think it's interesting that genetically distinct cells will still properly coordinate for normal development, a striking example of the organisational abilities of the developmental process.
It seems to me that the manipulation was entirely mechanical and chemical, and that no modification of the genetic content of the cells happened at all. Which actually makes it all the more striking a result.
Most "smart TVs" are extensible (they're marketed as having "apps" for various services), and many of them support third party plugins developed to a published spec. TV manufacturers understand that people aren't going to go out and buy a new TV just because it lets them watch YouTube.
It's (ostensibly) a prewar antique. This isn't a fungible item. Paypal orders someone to destroy a counterfeit handbag, you might get reimbursed the cost of the bag if your take them to court, but that violin isn't coming back.
"I looked at it a couple of times and it didn't seem like anyone I knew would be there, so I lost interest."
Maybe that's the real issue? Everyone can check the RSVP list and see that nobody's really going, so nobody RSVPs, and so when people check the RSVP list it seems that nobody's going to go, and eventually everyone decides to just stay at home. In days of old you just gambled that there'd be enough people there for it to be worth your while. Maybe this is a more global effect of Facebook on event planning beyond reunions.
I was ready to take the piss out of your post but actually for things like supernova observation, matching up gravity wave events to x-ray bursts, etc. it's good to have a quick reaction time on any instrument with a narrow field of view.
Maybe the smart thing to do is have the 'scope do the data processing for us. In astronomy there's a lot of preprocessing from a large volume of redundant data to a small volume of high-value data, why not have a telescope that's got the intelligence (constantly updated and amended from Earth) to do some of that work before transmission.
JWST is actually now funded. The money wound up coming out of agriculture for some reason. Given how long JWST has been on the drawing board they'll want to start considering future space telescopes now if they want them to be in operation in three decades.
And where not possible, we should elect officials who are willing and able to obtain the knowledge of experts in fields where their knowledge is insufficient.
When there's a car wreck, what's left often isn't what you'd call a "vehicle" any more, but it's still entirely valid and prudent to say things like "the car finally stopped burning" to make it clear what you were referring to.
If other people's actions are irrational, then you're spared the difficulty of revising your worldview to accomodate them. It's a safe course, but an intellectually puny one.
You're making the "if you don't like these laws, go get your own country" argument. Youtube may be a corporate entity but it is used, and operates itself, as though it was a public resource. As such the laws that control its actions, and the actions that it takes, are of great interest to the public at large.
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The novelty in this case is that they're offering Ebert's voice to Ebert as a prosthesis.
There's a company in Edinburgh that's doing the same thing with Roger Ebert, drawing on the large body of recordings of his voice. Wonder if it's the same one.
Without knowing whether it's an imperial or metric cat it's completely useless, though.
Nice try, Schrodinger.
With a cat for scale. That's it, Wikipedia, we're through.
A great idea with only two drawbacks. One, you'd lose the tax income from those retirees, and two, you'd have to pay out more money in social security to those retirees. Social security isn't exactly a drop in the bucket as it stands.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/01/us/budget.html
"Cognitive function" in this instance isn't a measure of "raw processing power":
The Alice Heim 4-I (AH4-I) is composed of a series of 65 verbal and mathematical reasoning items of increasing difficulty.18 It tests inductive reasoning, measuring the ability to identify patterns and infer principles and rules. Participants had 10 minutes to do this section. Short term verbal memory was assessed with a 20 word free recall test. Participants were presented a list of 20 one or two syllable words at two second intervals and were then asked to recall in writing as many of the words in any order within two minutes.
We used two measures of verbal fluency: phonemic and semantic.19 Participants were asked to recall in writing as many words beginning with “S” (phonemic fluency) and as many animal names (semantic fluency) as they could. One minute was allowed for each test; the observed range on these tests was 0-35. Vocabulary was assessed with the Mill Hill vocabulary test,20 used in its multiple choice format, consisting of a list of 33 stimulus words ordered by increasing difficulty and six response choices.
Judgement, in particular, would suffer if one's ability to perform inductive reasoning was impaired.
"SpaceRab": A Scottish astronaut.
I think it's interesting that genetically distinct cells will still properly coordinate for normal development, a striking example of the organisational abilities of the developmental process.
It seems to me that the manipulation was entirely mechanical and chemical, and that no modification of the genetic content of the cells happened at all. Which actually makes it all the more striking a result.
Another: if world policy is to be forcibly harmonised with the US, should the world have a say in US policy?
Most "smart TVs" are extensible (they're marketed as having "apps" for various services), and many of them support third party plugins developed to a published spec. TV manufacturers understand that people aren't going to go out and buy a new TV just because it lets them watch YouTube.
Of course everyone is you, and therefore everyone already owns an HDTV. And a Roku box.
It's (ostensibly) a prewar antique. This isn't a fungible item. Paypal orders someone to destroy a counterfeit handbag, you might get reimbursed the cost of the bag if your take them to court, but that violin isn't coming back.
Ah, so you can exchange momentum with the planet in a great many ways. Delightful! I fucking love physics.
"I looked at it a couple of times and it didn't seem like anyone I knew would be there, so I lost interest."
Maybe that's the real issue? Everyone can check the RSVP list and see that nobody's really going, so nobody RSVPs, and so when people check the RSVP list it seems that nobody's going to go, and eventually everyone decides to just stay at home. In days of old you just gambled that there'd be enough people there for it to be worth your while. Maybe this is a more global effect of Facebook on event planning beyond reunions.
Ah, right. For a survey probe it's not an issue then.
You're stealing the orbital velocity of a body when you perform a gravity assist. By definition that only works in the orbital plane.
I was ready to take the piss out of your post but actually for things like supernova observation, matching up gravity wave events to x-ray bursts, etc. it's good to have a quick reaction time on any instrument with a narrow field of view.
Maybe the smart thing to do is have the 'scope do the data processing for us. In astronomy there's a lot of preprocessing from a large volume of redundant data to a small volume of high-value data, why not have a telescope that's got the intelligence (constantly updated and amended from Earth) to do some of that work before transmission.
JWST is actually now funded. The money wound up coming out of agriculture for some reason. Given how long JWST has been on the drawing board they'll want to start considering future space telescopes now if they want them to be in operation in three decades.
And where not possible, we should elect officials who are willing and able to obtain the knowledge of experts in fields where their knowledge is insufficient.
When there's a car wreck, what's left often isn't what you'd call a "vehicle" any more, but it's still entirely valid and prudent to say things like "the car finally stopped burning" to make it clear what you were referring to.
If other people's actions are irrational, then you're spared the difficulty of revising your worldview to accomodate them. It's a safe course, but an intellectually puny one.
You're making the "if you don't like these laws, go get your own country" argument. Youtube may be a corporate entity but it is used, and operates itself, as though it was a public resource. As such the laws that control its actions, and the actions that it takes, are of great interest to the public at large.