joeyo

30 ms·

211.
by joeyo 14y ago
Unfortunately, large-scale agriculture optimizes for shipping and shelf-life and when organic producers grow large enough, they must do the same. Tomatoes are the classic example of this, but it's true for everything. For example, pretty mu
212.
by joeyo 14y ago
Incidentally, the only one-character ticker symbols that seem to be unused are J, Q, and W.
213.
by joeyo 15y ago
That's correct. The researcher doesn't know the outcome of any particular coin toss but knows the outcome, in expectation, for a large number of coin tosses.
214.
by joeyo 15y ago
Also, based on the geometry of the xwave headset it looks like the electrode(s) are very rostral, so I would imagine that it picks up a lot of EOG from the eyes and EMG from the frontalis and corrugator supercilii (eyebrow muscles). The gro
215.
by joeyo 15y ago
That's very interesting. Do you have any references?
216.
by joeyo 15y ago
Table time for the first case of the day is usually quite early, as you want lots of time in case there are complications.
217.
Backyard Brains funding Open Access publication via Kickstarter(kickstarter.com)
1 points by joeyo 15y ago|0 comments
218.
by joeyo 15y ago
Eastman Kodak used this calendar internally for over 60 years. They called the extra month Sol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
219.
by joeyo 15y ago
It's for this precise reason that I use 1i rather than i when doing complex arithmetic in matlab.
220.
by joeyo 15y ago
Here is a short article of hers that was published in New Scientist: http://www.philosophicalturn.net/intro/Freedom/Churchland_Fr... Here is a lecture of hers on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opM7E6ty28A
221.
by joeyo 15y ago
> So none of the empirical facts are under dispute. The > question then is a purely philosophical one: is there a > sensible notion of free will given determinism? Should > (normative claim!) we treat people li
222.
by joeyo 15y ago
I don't personally think there is a single, unitary self-- a man in the head so to speak. It may be a convenient useful fiction but it probably misleads our intuition on these matters.
223.
by joeyo 15y ago
> I am the thing making decisions. Well if that's your premise, then I think we're already done. If someone makes a decision, but doesn't tell you about it, is it your decision? What if they make a decision and then inform you
224.
by joeyo 15y ago
I must confess, I don't understand your argument, nor the one at the linked blog post. Why do they need to show evidence against determinism? There is a growing body of evidence that choices are "made" by the brain long before we are cons
225.
by joeyo 15y ago
It helps to know that the founders name was Rusty. :)
226.
by joeyo 15y ago
The CurVe package for latex does exactly this.
227.
by joeyo 15y ago
At the risk of getting quite off-topic, in my opinion most physicians will eventually be replaced by a combination of Bayesian diagnostic software and surgical robotics. There will be an intermediate period where physicians will control and
228.
by joeyo 15y ago
I think there is a large class of people who have no moral objections to piracy. The only reason why they pay for something like netflix or itunes is because of convenience. That is, they are paying for the convenience, not the content. The
229.
by joeyo 16y ago
> and obviously pharma companies have no interest in > advancing macrophage treatments. At the risk of seeming thick, why is that exactly?
230.
by joeyo 16y ago
I don't remember the exact year but I remember first reading about Google in a slashdot thread where someone was extolling its virtues. I was using either webcrawler or metacrawler at the time; it's difficult to remember. I also don't remem
231.
by joeyo 16y ago
My interpretation is that the wax cylinder is being used as a calling card to announce a visitor. If so, it's a miss for at least two reasons: 1. Why would you choose to listen to a calling card rather than read it and 2. social customs cha
232.
by joeyo 16y ago
> Also, you can't map receptive fields -- which specific > areas of cortex correspond to what sensation in what part > of the body -- if your patient is an amputee, and there's > no "master map" that's precise eno
233.
by joeyo 16y ago
I'm watching this space very, very closely (i.e. tablets specifically for reading PDFs of articles). There are a lot of options but none are quite perfect: * iPad Pros: - Color screen - Can zoom to exact size desired - M
234.
by joeyo 16y ago
> And quite a large number of people used encryption, even > if they weren't technically inclined. I agree with your broader point that expectations and perceptions can change fast, but I don't ever remember a time when "q
235.
by joeyo 16y ago
As long as we are on the topic of augmenting vision: how cool would it be to have an artificial tapetum lucidum? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapetum_lucidum
236.
by joeyo 16y ago
But Primesense developed the depth sensor. http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=h0GvAAAAEBAJ
237.
by joeyo 16y ago
Good point.
238.
by joeyo 16y ago
> Samsung won't release their kernel modifications for > Froyo which are needed by the CM team to get CM7 running > on the Galaxy S devices Isn't this a violation of the GPL?
239.
by joeyo 16y ago
From context, I'd guess that wrong means "nondeterministic".
240.
by joeyo 16y ago
Yup. It's a special case of Bayesian estimation that is derived when all the conditional distributions are Gaussian.

More ›