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by joeyo 12y ago
While I certainly would not cheer on a return to a pre-electric era, electricity has only been available for 125 years or so. We have done and could do very much better than hunting and gathering in the complete absence of electricity.
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by joeyo 12y ago
As far as I can tell, this is the paper [1]. It was published a little over twelve months ago, so that's a pretty big lag before the news article. Was there perhaps a follow-up that I missed? 1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#
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by joeyo 12y ago
If Google Glass (or its descendant) ever becomes viable, a killer app would be an augmented reality "this way is north" arrow that's always there, floating in the sky.
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by joeyo 12y ago
> Population isn't enough, and can be a curse. Europe saw > a tremendous economic boom following the Black Death, > largely because financial and real capital was concentrated > in fewer hands, and populations we
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by joeyo 12y ago
There are clear examples where spike timing matters a great deal and the Jeffres model of sound localization, as you point out, is a great example of this. However, spike timing codes seem to be more prevalent in the periphery; rate codes d
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by joeyo 12y ago
An VC only needs k of N start-ups to succeed, and it doesn't particularly matter which ones do. The high-variance approach ("throw it up and see what happens") may be optimal for the investor without being optimal for the fou
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by joeyo 12y ago
At the risk of some inside baseball: there is growing evidence that "glial scar" encapsulation (and microglial activation generally) is not main the cause of neural interface failure. Rather, oxidative stress [1] or other neurotox
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by joeyo 13y ago
I'm not sure if it's that black and white. Roughly 25% of deaths in the US are due to heart disease. Should we not intervene because heart disease is part of the normal range?
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by joeyo 13y ago
Yes, but the population of the US is something like 310 million.
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by joeyo 13y ago
> Burning the gas as waste contributes CO2 to the > atmosphere, but burning the gas for productive > reasons still produces that same CO2. True, but if has to be burned, it may as well be productive. Moreover, if it&#x2
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by joeyo 13y ago
It may not matter to you, but xpra feels a lot more light-weight than NX. Installing/using xpra feels like tmux or ssh. NX feels like an enterprise software suite.
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by joeyo 13y ago
It sounds like we're saying the same thing. I just was pointing out that this is all entirely consistent with the entire point of G+ being the "further tracking of what's happening on the internet."
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by joeyo 13y ago
Okay, so the mere _presence_ of the +1 button in a browser doesn't track visits across the web. But when you press the button, "Google receives information about your Google profile, the URL you +1, your IP address, and other brow
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by joeyo 13y ago
Even if this installation somehow enhanced Russian military (and I presume they will launch the satellites regardless), surely having the installations on US soil is a _benefit_ to the US. They can be monitored and, if necessary, shut down
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by joeyo 13y ago
Indeed: The 19A0's. http://boingboing.net/2011/10/11/mixtape-of-the-lost-decade....
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by joeyo 13y ago
This is a problem in computational electrophysiology as well. There are a lot of typos and other simple mistakes in classic papers. Say you want to implement a finite differences model for a certain type of voltage-gated potassium channel.
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by joeyo 13y ago
Smooth, skeletal and cardiac muscle cells and nerve cells do have some differences in their respective ion channel compositions. As a result, their action potentials will look somewhat different. And obviously muscle cells contract while n
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by joeyo 13y ago
What Garrett Stanley and Yang Dan did in that work [1] is very cool, but it's a reconstruction. It is "what a cat sees" in the same sense that a false color image is "what a satellite sees". Essentially they regress
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by joeyo 13y ago
Rite-in-the rain has a nice collection of them too: http://www.riteintherain.com/inventory.asp?CatId={07D475E2-B...
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by joeyo 13y ago
Also NOAA: http://governmentshutdown.noaa.gov/
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by joeyo 13y ago
I suspect DARPA wants brain sensors in every Advanced Combat Helmet. Add some accelerometers and impact sensors and you could start to collect all sorts of interesting data--biomarkers for TBI, perhaps even early predictors of PTSD.
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by joeyo 13y ago
I noticed that as well and wasn't sure whether to chalk it up to lens distortion or if it really is a straighter track now. Interesting also how many fewer track "spurs" there are now.
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by joeyo 13y ago
Indeed. The Dinka sample is recorded off the radio or phone and is very difficult to hear as well (It's not like I really know what Dinka sounds like, but if it were easier to hear I could at least do a better job of eliminating the ot
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by joeyo 13y ago
Historically Southwest used "point-to-point" routes heavily. Basically the plane would go A->B->C->D over the course of a day. These would be fairly short hops, maybe an hour or two typically, and passengers going all the
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by joeyo 13y ago
Speculation: by booking them for misdemeanors rather than infractions they can run them through an immigration database.
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by joeyo 13y ago
Oatmeal prepared with soy sauce and green onions is awesome . It's a bit like a savory congee.
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by joeyo 13y ago
There is a considerable body of evidence that "top-down" processes affect not only how sensory evidence is processed, but how the sensations themselves are experienced. In other words, high-level (but subconscious) neural "ju
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by joeyo 13y ago
Keep in mind that, in general, you need an infinite number of Fourier bases to represent an arbitrary waveform. But if you want to use a finite number of bases (and indeed as small of a number as you can get away with), and if the waveform
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by joeyo 13y ago
I've just started using mailvelope, which works with several webmail providers and also has a firefox extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mailvelope/kajibbe...
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by joeyo 13y ago
What are you doing differently than the existing academic trees---neurotree, economicstree, etc ( http://academictree.org ) ?

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