In a somewhat related note, according to studies, meditation may change brainstructure and even gene expression in a positive way. Meditation might also reduce age-related brain degeneration. I think that meditation could be somehow related to the placebo effect as both have a mental process leading to a physiological effect.
From the first link:
"Our results suggest that long-term meditators have white-matter fibers that are either more numerous, more dense or more insulated throughout the brain," Luders said. "We also found that the normal age-related decline of white-matter tissue is considerably reduced in active meditation practitioners."
From the second link:
Eileen Luders, an assistant professor at the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, and colleagues, have found that long-term meditators have larger amounts of gyrification ("folding" of the cortex, which may allow the brain to process information faster) than people who do not meditate. Further, a direct correlation was found between the amount of gyrification and the number of meditation years, possibly providing further proof of the brain's neuroplasticity, or ability to adapt to environmental changes.
It seems to me that meditation could help with many modern health issues which are often stress-related. It's no wonder that many religions use meditation in a form or another. However, meditation doesn't really have to include any magical thinking, and the non-religious version is often called mindfulness.
Regarding magical thinking, I'd say that it's more important to recognize your biases than to totally eliminate them, as the latter is pretty much impossible.
I wondered about the headline too. My first thought was that how on Earth could you get 36 million people to fit into one second of footage AND process it in real time. Even the article wasn't very clear about it.
Also:
Faces are stored as a searchable 'biometric' record, storing the unique
It seems that the writer of the article didn't even bother to
You would have a pretty hard time looking for a complete decent song in PI, which would probably be counted as creative work and copyrightable. You know, you could create all the pieces of digital music ever created by enumerating all possible binary strings and using them as audio data, which would probably be easier than looking for the songs in PI, but still unfeasible. You would even get multiple versions of same songs in different formats.
Aside from just music, you would also get a simulation of the universe and all kinds of other interesting stuff that way. Too bad that we don't have infinitely powerful supercomputers:)
And in Beta 1 Ctrl+Tab used to switch me to most recently used tab instead of simply next tab at the right, which also was annoying.
Yeah, that's amazingly annoying. Normally, I can see straight from the tab bar how many Ctrl+Tabs (or Shift+Ctrl+Tabs) I need to get to a particular tab. When using recently used tabs (like the default in Opera) instead of the tab order I just become disoriented.
It went surprisingly well, considering the fact that I'm Finnish and don't have much interest in politics. Some answers were easy to deduce but some many required making a semi-educated guess.
Hitler's Nazi Party was one of the famous parties ever and he wanted the whole world to take part in it. I'm sure you have heard of it. He obviously preferred having one big party instead of many small ones.;)
Microwaving didn't do anything good to a plastic cup of frozen (from the freezer) sour cream that had a tiny bit of metal foil left on the edge of the cup.
Dd/mm/yy seems to be far more common than mm/dd/yy.
Here's a list of used date formats in various countries. Looks like Canada has them all.;)
m/d/y (month, day, year) is used by:
* Canada (Although most official documents use the y-m-d format, the m/d/y format is also understood due to influences from the United States.)
* Federated States of Micronesia
* Palau
* Philippines (formerly d/m/y. May still be found in certain contexts)
* United States (Although Independence Day is often referred to as "the Fourth of July.")
This means that developers would need to clearly document what they know FOR CERTAIN works, and what they know FOR CERTAIN does not.
In the software world, pretty much nothing works for certain. A lot software would probably end up forever in beta as the creators wouldn't want to guarantee anything.
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From the first link:
From the second link:
It seems to me that meditation could help with many modern health issues which are often stress-related. It's no wonder that many religions use meditation in a form or another. However, meditation doesn't really have to include any magical thinking, and the non-religious version is often called mindfulness.
Regarding magical thinking, I'd say that it's more important to recognize your biases than to totally eliminate them, as the latter is pretty much impossible.
Also:
It seems that the writer of the article didn't even bother to
You would have a pretty hard time looking for a complete decent song in PI, which would probably be counted as creative work and copyrightable. You know, you could create all the pieces of digital music ever created by enumerating all possible binary strings and using them as audio data, which would probably be easier than looking for the songs in PI, but still unfeasible. You would even get multiple versions of same songs in different formats.
:)
Aside from just music, you would also get a simulation of the universe and all kinds of other interesting stuff that way. Too bad that we don't have infinitely powerful supercomputers
PS it's rogue, unless we are talking about red faces.
They were caught red-handed. ;)
the end of innocence for Apple users.
Well, at least Linux users are still virgins ;)
I won't be using that laptop without a less than 50 ft pole. And definitely will be keeping the shorter one far away from that power source.
Yeah, that's amazingly annoying. Normally, I can see straight from the tab bar how many Ctrl+Tabs (or Shift+Ctrl+Tabs) I need to get to a particular tab. When using recently used tabs (like the default in Opera) instead of the tab order I just become disoriented.
As opposed to astroflops?
It went surprisingly well, considering the fact that I'm Finnish and don't have much interest in politics. Some answers were easy to deduce but some many required making a semi-educated guess.
Hitler's Nazi Party was one of the famous parties ever and he wanted the whole world to take part in it. I'm sure you have heard of it. He obviously preferred having one big party instead of many small ones. ;)
Why read the article? I just wait for the summary of the next dupe hoping it will contain more information from the article.
Well, at least there won't be as much illegal abortions if they are legalized, and thus crime rates drop.
;)
Come to think of it, we could get rid of crime once and for all by legalizing everything.
That list makes me really want to change the "Density (Pop per km) to "Pope per km" and set Vatican to 2.3, others to zero. :D
It burst in flames in a second. Whoops.
Getting slashdotted can be hazardous for your server.
Here's a list of used date formats in various countries. Looks like Canada has them all. ;)
It's always nice to see that every new release pushes Blender substantially forward. Especially the nodes are a nice addition.
/me fails at the internet by forgetting
* Now talking in #osama * Topic is '.: r34dy t0 pWn am3r1c4 || NYC attack @ 23:00 || R0fld00ds :.'
* Set by al-zarq on Mon Jun 28 19:15:23
The Lost Vikings was great, but that flash demo version sucks.
I read that "Exploding Japanese Dolls", which sounded rather pervert.
If the n00b picks a deadly mushroom by himself and eats it, he's also the one responsible. Nobody gets sued.
A license is not a contract. Also, copyright applies even without EULAs.
Hmm... this could go on forever...