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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 7 months ago
This is just too sad. When we can pass off machine written music as something to listen to we have lost a great deal.
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 7 months ago
My handwriting is pretty poor too. I used to struggle to read my father’s writing when I was a child and complained about it…. all these years later, when I compare our writing I see mine is much more illegible! My excuse could be that I am left handed…. the truth is I abandoned the writing style we were taught (cursive) a long time ago as…[Read more]
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
People can no longer write by hand it seems.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/cambridge-university-scrap-bad-handwriting-exams-sarah-pearsall-a7938131.html-
My handwriting was deteriorated long before the computer age
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My handwriting is pretty poor too. I used to struggle to read my father’s writing when I was a child and complained about it…. all these years later, when I compare our writing I see mine is much more illegible! My excuse could be that I am left handed…. the truth is I abandoned the writing style we were taught (cursive) a long time ago as…[Read more]
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Western calligraphy has fine letter sets too
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There goes our Western Civilization.
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The idea that handwriting is redundant and possibly recalcitrant and thus immoral seems to be the underlying aim of the corporations that sell digital machines. Handwriting employs a proper form, a proper matter and a proper intent for cohering a sacrament which anatomizes Ratio.
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
Interesting idea… was around in the times of the Hitt ites according to the article.
https://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/mit-firebrick-resistance-heated-energy-storage.html-
An experiment worth trying:
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I expected to see something about charging of the minute crystals contained in the mineral and not a heat sink, but it is interesting in any case-
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
From fake news to fake reviews…. Neural Networks Can Auto-Generate Reviews That Fool Humans
Fake reviews used to be crowdsourced. Now they can be auto-generated by AI, according to a new research paper
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
“Never mind the honey bee decline, we’ll just make artificial ones”
https://venturebeat.com/2017/09/09/robotic-bees-could-take-the-sting-out-of-colony-collapse-disorder/-
That way we can keep on using the insecticides. and the pesticides.. and the humanicides.
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
Pepe Escobar on Twin Peaks.
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
This is a devoted fan’s homage website to Robert Sapolski, who I think refers to himself as a *human behavioral biologist*. It includes links to a full series of lectures given by Sapolski at Stanford. I watched the first one, which is the course introduction.. He talks about
– thinking in categories, why we do it and how it can be problematic
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
Earthquake lights…. does anyone know any more about this idea?
My initial guess would be that it is not the “explosions of transformers and electrical machines” as spouted by the expert for the article but rather something like the aurora borealis and to do with earth’s magnetic field. I believe Ben Davidson (suspiciousobservers) and others…[Read more] -
Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
This is a longish read about the CIA / NSA technology sponsorship / development – social media – Psyops complex. Some detailed investigative reporting. Propagated ideas about anti-establishment activity and players are inverted and it turns out they play for the covert agency world. I recommend it.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-crypto-keepers-levine -
Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 7 months ago
I agree and still, I think it is interesting that they are pushing this out in such a public way.
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
Remarkably straight up article about USA imperialism and the naivety of most of its people.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-is-making-americans-see-the-us-the-way-the-rest-of-the-world-already-did/2017/09/08/50f7c5ac-8ce8-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.8ca392f6d072-
“Fear and horror” about “shoving” that pathetic NATO lackey? But nothing shocking about the war crimes committed under previous presidents…
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
Short but interesting article about Pinyin and Chinese characters and the ways these play out in culture and connecting the Chinese diaspora. (I set aside the obvious political positioning memes up front to enjoy the rest of the…[Read more]
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It is essential to learn traditional characters in order to be able to read pre-1970 era texts.
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 7 months ago
Indeed, next up: phrenology
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
Spying is a game that two can play. In this case the “others” / “cousins” spying on us?
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-09/ras-awb090817.php-
I believe that Dr. Farrell raised a similar issue in a past vidchat when he discussed the issue of “are ETs good or bad?”
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 7 months ago
This website automatic content moderation does not seem to accept
inst i tute or inst i tution
tech ni cal
spec i alist
As non-offensive words.-
I’m getting to like this algorithm
that challenges
our non-digital
intelligence
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 7 months ago
IEEE: The Inst i tute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. The most influential electrical engineering association of worldwide, although it is a US inst i tution. It sets the standards for all sorts of technologies such as wireless communication (Wi MAX, 802.11), mobile networking (GPRS, HSDPA, 3G, LTE), etc.
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
Take a look at this: IEEE Spectrum Special Report: Can We Copy the Brain?
I find it very interesting that this is receiving such a huge push from them. Will we see them working on and pushing forward engineering standards for brain interface and communications? It sure looks like it to me. And typically, when they do start to push standards out,…[Read more]-
IEEE: The Inst i tute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. The most influential electrical engineering association of worldwide, although it is a US inst i tution. It sets the standards for all sorts of technologies such as wireless communication (Wi MAX, 802.11), mobile networking (GPRS, HSDPA, 3G, LTE), etc.
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This website automatic content moderation does not seem to accept
inst i tute or inst i tution
tech ni cal
spec i alist
As non-offensive words.-
I’m getting to like this algorithm
that challenges
our non-digital
intelligence
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Good luck with that, they have no idea that your mind and memory is NOT in your head.
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I agree and still, I think it is interesting that they are pushing this out in such a public way.
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 7 months ago
Here is a pre-publication version of the research paper: https://osf.io/fk3xr/
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
This is interesting research but has incongruent/odd and politically driven “pitching” of its conclusions. I don’t have the same interpretaion of the study and its findings that the article and the paper do. Rather, I think they imply there are patterns in human physiology that can be “read” and that those patterns indicate preference, behavior…[Read more]
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Here is a pre-publication version of the research paper: https://osf.io/fk3xr/
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Seems that we are back in 19th century positivism with the physiology of the Italian scientist Lombroso, whose work on the “criminal face” was quite popular.
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Indeed, next up: phrenology
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Western calligraphy has fine letter sets too