Fun fact: the pink juices which come out of rare meat are not blood. They are the cell contents of the muscle fibres, which have their own pink substance to hold oxygen, called myoglobin. It has a heme group just like hemoglobin so it's reddish, but it's not blood.
This has been the case for at least 3-4 years, ever since Apple stopped including the JRE on OS X / macOS installs. It's nothing Adobe did, the application has been unchanged and perfectly stable for that entire time. More than I can say for Microsoft Word, to pick a random example.
Right, so your guesswork trumps my actual experience. Would you like screenshots or something? I guess those could be faked too. Maybe I'm a secret shill for software that can no longer be purchased. One can never be too careful.
Uh, Photoshop CS5 runs perfectly well on Sierra, I use it daily (along with Illustrator CS5) on 10.12.3. Sierra offers to trash installers after installation as a matter of routine. Feel free to write a Photoshop killer if you must, but not because you can't use perfectly functional software.
"I think I'd like a valve for adrenaline control."
(a) no you wouldn't, it would be like cutting off half the internal regulation system which allows your body to work efficiently in sync with current and anticipated demands - literally, mission-critical regulation - and (b) the *experience* of adrenaline / arousal is generated by a separate system which distributes adrenaline around the brain - the adrenaline in your bloodstream comes from the adrenal gland and activates the tissues of the body, but the adrenaline in your brain is generated by a cluster of neurons called the locus coeruleus, and they secrete it directly onto the neurons. No way to shut that off except using drugs which block receptors (i.e. beta-blockers and related compounds).
Nobody said they were deliberately slowing it - just that they shouldn't have allowed people with that generation of hardware to install iOS9 because it made the phone unusable. I've no idea why, my wife's 4S runs the current update of 9 and it works perfectly well.
I get that all the listed equipment is needed to run the Pi Zero, but it doesn't *all* need to be connected and disconnected every time. If the adapters are left attached to the HDMI cable and USB hub, and the kb/mouse are plugged into the hub, you'd only need to plug/unplug the USB OTG and mini-HDMI to switch between development and testing. Or did I miss something?
Ah, no, fMRI doesn't give "movies of activity". As Anthony mentioned it tracks blood flow changes and give you a map of where it changed most when the subject performed a task. Nothing moves in the image.
Nor does this technique leave cells intact, and nor can you use electric currents to "study the connectivity". You may want to check up on some basics.
Absolutely right. That kind of finite-element simulation is futile because it simply "enacts" stuff that we know about. Sure, it might behave in ways we didn't foresee when we scale it up a billionfold, but it won't show us anything genuinely new. I suspect there is stuff going on in neurons that we don't even know how to look for. Well actually I *know* there is, because neurons are conscious.
Aside from these philosophical objections, Markram's model doesn't even include glia, which are fully half of the interactional dynamics going on in the brain. We scarcely even know what glia are doing, and yet they are part of every synapse and their slow waves of activity strongly shape neuronal processing.
I can't believe it when I see articles debating the purpose of fingerprints. They are mechanical amplifiers for vibration in the skin, thus enhancing touch perception; it's been known for 50-70 years that the ridges form a specific arrangement with the sensory fibre endings. In fact the ridges are CREATED by interactions between the developing skin and the nerve fibres which innervate it to provide touch sensation - this is why some nervous system defects result in abnormal fingerprints (e.g. Down syndrome). The only "Scientists [who] Wonder What Fingerprints Are For" are those unaware of the basic literature in the field.
Here's a starting point:
http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;323/5920/1503
Hope that helps.
Unless it has developed recently, that sounds more like standard red-green colour blindness - which is a genetic defect and not a progressive degeneration.
Ever eat meat? Wear leather? Eat an egg? If so, you've sanctioned animal suffering just for the sake of satisfying your hunger or keeping your feet dry. In contrast, this work has direct consequential benefits for people missing limbs or paralysed by spinal cord injury. In addition, your depiction of the experiments as "torture" is an outright lie; even if the experimenters were callous and inhumane, their access to experimental animals is strictly regulated by requiring them to pass stringent approval processes detailing every aspect of the research protocols. The basic assumption of such approvals is that the animals feel pain in the same way that humans do, and therefore all procedures are done under full anaesthesia and analgesia, including post-surgical recovery, exactly as would be done for a human. This is far more care and consideration than is afforded the millions of animals who are killed each year to make hamburgers. Not only are the institutions responsible to the public, ensuring that they impose the most stringent standards imaginable to research, but it also makes sound scientific sense. An animal in distress or pain is not able to behave normally, which is the precise thing the researchers are interested in. If researchers are interested in behaviour, their own studies are better served by taking the utmost care to avoid any pain or suffering.
Presumably you've already made up your mind, but I hope you will at least take the time to think about it instead of just reacting with emotive and inaccurate assumptions.
I'm sure you're trolling, but the surgeons use weak electrical stimuli to determine whether a particular piece of brain is involved in speech, for example, before cutting anything.
"vinyl (due to its inability to participate in the loudness war)"
You might want to do some research to check out the difference between compression, the audio mastering tool being used to create over-loud masters of recent pop music, versus the A/D conversion used to put music on CD. If you compress the life out of the master tape to make it sound "hot", vinyl pressed from that master will sound just as bad as a CD pressed from that master. The format is not responsible for the mastering decisions made. In fact, coping with the surface noise of vinyl was one of the reasons compression began to be used in mastering in the first place. A CD has superior dynamic range and if anything, is capable of playing far *less* compressed audio than vinyl, so blaming the CD format for the loudness war is utterly misguided.
Mathematical compression, i.e. the basis of MP3, does introduce audible artefacts into the sound, and it might be the case that "hot" mastering is an attempt to work around this (although it's still an aesthetic decision rather than a technical limitation). But the real reason is that people are listening on mediocre quality amplifiers (the output of iPods, etc) through low quality earbuds (no highs, no lows) in noisy environments, and so you need the track to sound "hot" to cut through all of these limitations. When you put it on the stereo in the lounge room, it sounds noisy and lifeless. Doesn't matter to the company because they sell ten times as many units to the lo-fi crowd, and then "remaster" the album to sell it to the hi-fi crowd!
Surely it would need to use the built in camera to image facial hair and hairstyle, in order to map the reflectance/absorbance parameters of the area around the ear. Future implementations might also employ EEG recording to determine the actual frequency mix reaching the brain, so that the sound can be EQ'd to compensate for variations in sensitivity at different frequencies - important for age-related hearing changes.
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Fun fact: the pink juices which come out of rare meat are not blood. They are the cell contents of the muscle fibres, which have their own pink substance to hold oxygen, called myoglobin. It has a heme group just like hemoglobin so it's reddish, but it's not blood.
This has been the case for at least 3-4 years, ever since Apple stopped including the JRE on OS X / macOS installs. It's nothing Adobe did, the application has been unchanged and perfectly stable for that entire time. More than I can say for Microsoft Word, to pick a random example.
Right, so your guesswork trumps my actual experience. Would you like screenshots or something? I guess those could be faked too. Maybe I'm a secret shill for software that can no longer be purchased. One can never be too careful.
Uh, Photoshop CS5 runs perfectly well on Sierra, I use it daily (along with Illustrator CS5) on 10.12.3. Sierra offers to trash installers after installation as a matter of routine. Feel free to write a Photoshop killer if you must, but not because you can't use perfectly functional software.
A moot point - it's not Thunderbird, it's Cisco AnyConnect: https://twitter.com/topherolso...
"I think I'd like a valve for adrenaline control." (a) no you wouldn't, it would be like cutting off half the internal regulation system which allows your body to work efficiently in sync with current and anticipated demands - literally, mission-critical regulation - and (b) the *experience* of adrenaline / arousal is generated by a separate system which distributes adrenaline around the brain - the adrenaline in your bloodstream comes from the adrenal gland and activates the tissues of the body, but the adrenaline in your brain is generated by a cluster of neurons called the locus coeruleus, and they secrete it directly onto the neurons. No way to shut that off except using drugs which block receptors (i.e. beta-blockers and related compounds).
Nobody said they were deliberately slowing it - just that they shouldn't have allowed people with that generation of hardware to install iOS9 because it made the phone unusable. I've no idea why, my wife's 4S runs the current update of 9 and it works perfectly well.
I assumed the power cable would be needed in both contexts ...
I get that all the listed equipment is needed to run the Pi Zero, but it doesn't *all* need to be connected and disconnected every time. If the adapters are left attached to the HDMI cable and USB hub, and the kb/mouse are plugged into the hub, you'd only need to plug/unplug the USB OTG and mini-HDMI to switch between development and testing. Or did I miss something?
Ah, no, fMRI doesn't give "movies of activity". As Anthony mentioned it tracks blood flow changes and give you a map of where it changed most when the subject performed a task. Nothing moves in the image. Nor does this technique leave cells intact, and nor can you use electric currents to "study the connectivity". You may want to check up on some basics.
Absolutely right. That kind of finite-element simulation is futile because it simply "enacts" stuff that we know about. Sure, it might behave in ways we didn't foresee when we scale it up a billionfold, but it won't show us anything genuinely new. I suspect there is stuff going on in neurons that we don't even know how to look for. Well actually I *know* there is, because neurons are conscious. Aside from these philosophical objections, Markram's model doesn't even include glia, which are fully half of the interactional dynamics going on in the brain. We scarcely even know what glia are doing, and yet they are part of every synapse and their slow waves of activity strongly shape neuronal processing.
Yes, I did! I'm not working on tachyons, just studying nuclear resonance in indium antimonide. Hang on, something's gone funny with the rig, gotta go.
I can't believe it when I see articles debating the purpose of fingerprints. They are mechanical amplifiers for vibration in the skin, thus enhancing touch perception; it's been known for 50-70 years that the ridges form a specific arrangement with the sensory fibre endings. In fact the ridges are CREATED by interactions between the developing skin and the nerve fibres which innervate it to provide touch sensation - this is why some nervous system defects result in abnormal fingerprints (e.g. Down syndrome). The only "Scientists [who] Wonder What Fingerprints Are For" are those unaware of the basic literature in the field. Here's a starting point: http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;323/5920/1503 Hope that helps.
Thanks for the info - I hope it doesn't turn out to be RP in your case, but if it does, I hope the prostheses are ready soon.
Unless it has developed recently, that sounds more like standard red-green colour blindness - which is a genetic defect and not a progressive degeneration.
Ever eat meat? Wear leather? Eat an egg? If so, you've sanctioned animal suffering just for the sake of satisfying your hunger or keeping your feet dry. In contrast, this work has direct consequential benefits for people missing limbs or paralysed by spinal cord injury. In addition, your depiction of the experiments as "torture" is an outright lie; even if the experimenters were callous and inhumane, their access to experimental animals is strictly regulated by requiring them to pass stringent approval processes detailing every aspect of the research protocols. The basic assumption of such approvals is that the animals feel pain in the same way that humans do, and therefore all procedures are done under full anaesthesia and analgesia, including post-surgical recovery, exactly as would be done for a human. This is far more care and consideration than is afforded the millions of animals who are killed each year to make hamburgers. Not only are the institutions responsible to the public, ensuring that they impose the most stringent standards imaginable to research, but it also makes sound scientific sense. An animal in distress or pain is not able to behave normally, which is the precise thing the researchers are interested in. If researchers are interested in behaviour, their own studies are better served by taking the utmost care to avoid any pain or suffering. Presumably you've already made up your mind, but I hope you will at least take the time to think about it instead of just reacting with emotive and inaccurate assumptions.
I'm sure you're trolling, but the surgeons use weak electrical stimuli to determine whether a particular piece of brain is involved in speech, for example, before cutting anything.
"vinyl (due to its inability to participate in the loudness war)" You might want to do some research to check out the difference between compression, the audio mastering tool being used to create over-loud masters of recent pop music, versus the A/D conversion used to put music on CD. If you compress the life out of the master tape to make it sound "hot", vinyl pressed from that master will sound just as bad as a CD pressed from that master. The format is not responsible for the mastering decisions made. In fact, coping with the surface noise of vinyl was one of the reasons compression began to be used in mastering in the first place. A CD has superior dynamic range and if anything, is capable of playing far *less* compressed audio than vinyl, so blaming the CD format for the loudness war is utterly misguided. Mathematical compression, i.e. the basis of MP3, does introduce audible artefacts into the sound, and it might be the case that "hot" mastering is an attempt to work around this (although it's still an aesthetic decision rather than a technical limitation). But the real reason is that people are listening on mediocre quality amplifiers (the output of iPods, etc) through low quality earbuds (no highs, no lows) in noisy environments, and so you need the track to sound "hot" to cut through all of these limitations. When you put it on the stereo in the lounge room, it sounds noisy and lifeless. Doesn't matter to the company because they sell ten times as many units to the lo-fi crowd, and then "remaster" the album to sell it to the hi-fi crowd!
Surely it would need to use the built in camera to image facial hair and hairstyle, in order to map the reflectance/absorbance parameters of the area around the ear. Future implementations might also employ EEG recording to determine the actual frequency mix reaching the brain, so that the sound can be EQ'd to compensate for variations in sensitivity at different frequencies - important for age-related hearing changes.