Lets say you have the high resolution EEG grid they talk about and you control the input to the brain by isolating normal senses and feeding in specific stimuli. Keep it running for a couple of weeks. Might be easy if the patient/subject is elderly and sick.
Can I build a model of the brain between the stimuli and the EEG? Can I use this to make a copy of the brain at a functional level?
Do you think in English, or do you think in abstract thoughts that your brain then later makes you think were direct English? I think there's a bit of debate on that, and it is something that's difficult to test.
A couple of things: when my wife switches between English and Cantonese her personality changes to suit the relevant culture. I can tell if she has been speaking Cantonese because she gets very aggressive. I think the behaviour is independent of language because sometimes she forgets to switch.
Sometimes I can have an epileptic seizure which causes me to remember spoken words in English, but this is kind of a replay from memory. I can also experience feelings which have no associated words because they were generated by a seizure. These feelings have no relationship to language.
If you ride a bike on a shared footpath in Victoria you are required to warn pedestrians before you approach them. You can do this with a bell or a verbal warning. But the vast majority of pedestrians wear earphones.
If you're on a shared path as a pedestrian shouldn't you equally be required to realise there's bikes zipping around and to watch out?
Pedestrians include young children, dogs, etc and most of them are not aware of the hazards.
My theory (YMMV) is that people are creatures of habit and tend to travel at the same time every day. So even if there are millions of drivers on the road, the drivers you encounter on your regular commute will come to recognise you fairly quickly.
Also I believe that the biggest risk is from drivers ignoring bike riders, so it is good to be noticed. One good way to be noticed is to stay in the drivers field of vision. If you are too far to the left they may not notice you at all, or dismiss you as something to be ignored.
There are a lot of factors you can put into the mix. I used to ride in from the outer suburbs of Melbourne. Thats mostly on 80km/h urban highways and it can be scary. Now I have a 10km commute in inner Melbourne where traffic speeds are generally below 60. The fastest road I ride on runs at 70km/h but it is dead straight with narrow lanes, which simplifies things quite a bit.
The trick with narrow lanes is to not make room for cars. Make them go around you. I start at 7 AM and leave between 5 and 6 in the evening. Later in the morning you get more casual drivers. Idiots get up late. Riding home late you might catch people who have been to the pub after work. Thats to be avoided too.
I make a lot of strategic use of side streets, particularly where through movement for cars is discouraged.
I use SPD clip in pedals with shoes I can also walk in. Seat all the way back and high enough to give me efficient pedalling. The max speed on my cycle computer is in the mid 50's but the highest speed on my commute is around 50.
I try to keep a sharp delineation between integrated and non-integrated flow. That means I am either in the traffic or not. No half measures.
In my last five years of commuting I have had one crash and that was caused by a tram line. Here is a tip: try to keep tram lines off the roads in Brisbane.
Actually roads are designed for a range of different vehicles, travelling at different speeds and with different requirements. Some people drive tractors, others drive sports cars and some people drive bicycles. On my commute I travel at the same speed as other vehicles on the road more often than not.
As I pointed out in a different post. Most cycling funds to to paths which are shared between bicycles and pedestrians. If planners don't want bike riders to use those parts they should spend the money differently.
If you ride your bike through the docklands I hope you get hit by a car.
Be careful what you wish for...
Sure, you might not all be idiots, but the vast majority enjoy road rules only when they suit you.
The vast majority of people who ride bikes also drive cars. Many people who drive cars ride bikes. You seem to think that bicycle riders are a different race of human beings who think they are outside the law. For some reason you also think this has anything to do with me.
Case in point, I ride through the Carlton cemetery in the morning. The south gate has two stone arches clearly marked IN and OUT. I choose to exit through the OUT arch. Most other bike riders do the exact opposite. The other week I nearly hit a bike rider who came in the wrong way when I was exiting. I abused him for it and he turned around and tried to attack me. I should know better than to yell at a grave digger...
The fact that other bike riders prefer to go through those arches the wrong way is not my fault. I can only control my little bit of the universe. Normally when people ignore traffic laws we get the police out to enforce the law. I don't see it happening with bike riders most of the time.
A good example is the footpath outside my office. Many bike riders use it going to and from work, despite the fact that it is not signed as a shared footpath. I once saw a group of police standing there. They stopped and booked one bike rider for not wearing a helmet, but ignored the fact he was not supposed to ride on a footpath.
Six months ago I gave up cycle commuting because I had medical problems. I am back commuting now. At the time I decided to keep fit by riding around a local velodrome at night. It got boring cycling in circles in the dark so I bought a cheap MP3 player and head phones. I tried it out a couple of times but the sensory deprivation got to me. I would imagine movement near me and stop the music to listen for a while. It was actually quite dangerous so I gave up on the music player idea.
Then bike on the street, where things with wheels are fucking well supposed to be.
Thats how I ride to work, yes. But if I ride with my eight year old son I will ride carefully on a shared footpath.
Most of the funding for bicycle commuting in my state goes into off road paths which are intended to be shared between bicycle riders and pedestrians. That is partly why they get so much use.
If you ride a bike on a shared footpath in Victoria you are required to warn pedestrians before you approach them. You can do this with a bell or a verbal warning. But the vast majority of pedestrians wear earphones.
So whats the point requiring a warning if it is not going to be heard? The only problem I have with the proposed changes is that it won't be applied to the drivers of vehicles too. Headphones and telephone use should be outlawed entirely.
As a bike rider I don't want distracted pedestrians stepping into my path. Thats as dangerous for me as it is for them.
As a pedestrian in Victoria I am miffed that bike riders typically use the pathways.
I'd support a law which stopped this.
You want to be single issue and intolerant about my iPod usage, then I want bicyclists back on the road where they belong.
Else... get a damn grip.
Most of the money for shared footpaths comes from funding for bicycle commuting. I agree that it is misplaced there. Cycling on shared footpaths is dangerous for bicycle riders.
How about people who are deaf like me? Will we get written up for walking around in a dangerous fashion and relying only upon our eyes to stay alive on the streets?
Where I live it is accepted that deaf people can be educated to help them work around their inability to hear, while people who choose to be deaf by listening to loud music are impossible to get through to.
My mother worked for her whole career teaching children with disabilities, BTW. He first job, before I was born, was teaching ballet to deaf girls.
Yeah I ride a bike to work and when I stop at traffic lights I have a nice high POV to look into the interior of cars. I see a lot of drivers fiddling with phones, playing games, etc.
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Jellyfish could be using Human Beings to generate power.
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I say we should find some backwards, barren, outoftheway continent with a bunch of freaky animals to send him to...but where?!? Where?!?
Antarctica?
Having coded ActionScript, I can say that the claim their programmers will be improving their skills with the experience is bollocks.
Maybe its a step up from VB but its not going to turn them into elite hackers over night.
I did wonder about flash based spyware. Could a flash app take a picture from a webcam then phone home?
Lets say you have the high resolution EEG grid they talk about and you control the input to the brain by isolating normal senses and feeding in specific stimuli. Keep it running for a couple of weeks. Might be easy if the patient/subject is elderly and sick.
Can I build a model of the brain between the stimuli and the EEG? Can I use this to make a copy of the brain at a functional level?
Do you think in English, or do you think in abstract thoughts that your brain then later makes you think were direct English? I think there's a bit of debate on that, and it is something that's difficult to test.
A couple of things: when my wife switches between English and Cantonese her personality changes to suit the relevant culture. I can tell if she has been speaking Cantonese because she gets very aggressive. I think the behaviour is independent of language because sometimes she forgets to switch.
Sometimes I can have an epileptic seizure which causes me to remember spoken words in English, but this is kind of a replay from memory. I can also experience feelings which have no associated words because they were generated by a seizure. These feelings have no relationship to language.
This electric power plant would be great on a motor glider.
Its like those amateur railways where the drivers sit on (or barely in) scale model trains.
Hard to imagine it being simple and cheap if EADS are involved.
I have seen four engined aero models.
I'm sure he got a signing bonus.
And I bet she is good looking.
1031'6"E, 4155'2"N.
You've got me going around in circles...
If you ride a bike on a shared footpath in Victoria you are required to warn pedestrians before you approach them. You can do this with a bell or a verbal warning. But the vast majority of pedestrians wear earphones.
If you're on a shared path as a pedestrian shouldn't you equally be required to realise there's bikes zipping around and to watch out?
Pedestrians include young children, dogs, etc and most of them are not aware of the hazards.
Ah thats interesting but I work worry about deafening myself with it.
My theory (YMMV) is that people are creatures of habit and tend to travel at the same time every day. So even if there are millions of drivers on the road, the drivers you encounter on your regular commute will come to recognise you fairly quickly.
Also I believe that the biggest risk is from drivers ignoring bike riders, so it is good to be noticed. One good way to be noticed is to stay in the drivers field of vision. If you are too far to the left they may not notice you at all, or dismiss you as something to be ignored.
Good luck.
There are a lot of factors you can put into the mix. I used to ride in from the outer suburbs of Melbourne. Thats mostly on 80km/h urban highways and it can be scary. Now I have a 10km commute in inner Melbourne where traffic speeds are generally below 60. The fastest road I ride on runs at 70km/h but it is dead straight with narrow lanes, which simplifies things quite a bit.
The trick with narrow lanes is to not make room for cars. Make them go around you. I start at 7 AM and leave between 5 and 6 in the evening. Later in the morning you get more casual drivers. Idiots get up late. Riding home late you might catch people who have been to the pub after work. Thats to be avoided too.
I make a lot of strategic use of side streets, particularly where through movement for cars is discouraged.
I use SPD clip in pedals with shoes I can also walk in. Seat all the way back and high enough to give me efficient pedalling. The max speed on my cycle computer is in the mid 50's but the highest speed on my commute is around 50.
I try to keep a sharp delineation between integrated and non-integrated flow. That means I am either in the traffic or not. No half measures.
In my last five years of commuting I have had one crash and that was caused by a tram line. Here is a tip: try to keep tram lines off the roads in Brisbane.
Actually roads are designed for a range of different vehicles, travelling at different speeds and with different requirements. Some people drive tractors, others drive sports cars and some people drive bicycles. On my commute I travel at the same speed as other vehicles on the road more often than not.
The biggest failure of bicycle riders, in my view, is the failure to consider themselves a normal part of the traffic flow.
As I pointed out in a different post. Most cycling funds to to paths which are shared between bicycles and pedestrians. If planners don't want bike riders to use those parts they should spend the money differently.
If you ride your bike through the docklands I hope you get hit by a car.
Be careful what you wish for...
Sure, you might not all be idiots, but the vast majority enjoy road rules only when they suit you.
The vast majority of people who ride bikes also drive cars. Many people who drive cars ride bikes. You seem to think that bicycle riders are a different race of human beings who think they are outside the law. For some reason you also think this has anything to do with me.
Case in point, I ride through the Carlton cemetery in the morning. The south gate has two stone arches clearly marked IN and OUT. I choose to exit through the OUT arch. Most other bike riders do the exact opposite. The other week I nearly hit a bike rider who came in the wrong way when I was exiting. I abused him for it and he turned around and tried to attack me. I should know better than to yell at a grave digger...
The fact that other bike riders prefer to go through those arches the wrong way is not my fault. I can only control my little bit of the universe. Normally when people ignore traffic laws we get the police out to enforce the law. I don't see it happening with bike riders most of the time.
A good example is the footpath outside my office. Many bike riders use it going to and from work, despite the fact that it is not signed as a shared footpath. I once saw a group of police standing there. They stopped and booked one bike rider for not wearing a helmet, but ignored the fact he was not supposed to ride on a footpath.
Six months ago I gave up cycle commuting because I had medical problems. I am back commuting now. At the time I decided to keep fit by riding around a local velodrome at night. It got boring cycling in circles in the dark so I bought a cheap MP3 player and head phones. I tried it out a couple of times but the sensory deprivation got to me. I would imagine movement near me and stop the music to listen for a while. It was actually quite dangerous so I gave up on the music player idea.
I've had trail newbies step toward my path on hearing my call
I think we are programmed to turn towards a potential threat as a low level defensive measure.
Then bike on the street, where things with wheels are fucking well supposed to be.
Thats how I ride to work, yes. But if I ride with my eight year old son I will ride carefully on a shared footpath.
Most of the funding for bicycle commuting in my state goes into off road paths which are intended to be shared between bicycle riders and pedestrians. That is partly why they get so much use.
If you ride a bike on a shared footpath in Victoria you are required to warn pedestrians before you approach them. You can do this with a bell or a verbal warning. But the vast majority of pedestrians wear earphones.
So whats the point requiring a warning if it is not going to be heard? The only problem I have with the proposed changes is that it won't be applied to the drivers of vehicles too. Headphones and telephone use should be outlawed entirely.
As a bike rider I don't want distracted pedestrians stepping into my path. Thats as dangerous for me as it is for them.
As a pedestrian in Victoria I am miffed that bike riders typically use the pathways.
I'd support a law which stopped this.
You want to be single issue and intolerant about my iPod usage, then I want bicyclists back on the road where they belong.
Else ... get a damn grip.
Most of the money for shared footpaths comes from funding for bicycle commuting. I agree that it is misplaced there. Cycling on shared footpaths is dangerous for bicycle riders.
How about people who are deaf like me? Will we get written up for walking around in a dangerous fashion and relying only upon our eyes to stay alive on the streets?
Where I live it is accepted that deaf people can be educated to help them work around their inability to hear, while people who choose to be deaf by listening to loud music are impossible to get through to.
My mother worked for her whole career teaching children with disabilities, BTW. He first job, before I was born, was teaching ballet to deaf girls.
Yeah I ride a bike to work and when I stop at traffic lights I have a nice high POV to look into the interior of cars. I see a lot of drivers fiddling with phones, playing games, etc.