Pedestrian airbags have been designed before, but don't seem to have caught on widely [1]. A more bizarre solution Google patented always stuck with me: A sticky car hood beneath an eggshell coating so that a struck…
Perhaps it is an example of Cunningham's Law?
Well, the issue is that if you accept that brain state will always be different then there isn't much predictive power in the measure. The conceit was always that you could measure it across a bunch of people and find…
I think degree of sensitivity, discrimination, or directionality can warrant counting a 'new sense'. I would consider my sense of thermoreception to be different from that of a snake's heat-pits, or hearing to be a…
It looks like it may be an antiquated term? From the National Accelerator Laboratory Groundbreaking press release: "Groundbreaking will be held Sunday, December 1, 1968, near here for the first permanent building in the…
This idea really resonates with me, and is a notion I've been working through without really having words that express it. Could you share the untranslated phrase if I wanted to read more about it?
The insecurity comes from the fact that once a call is in the network, it is mostly passed off without validation or verification. You only need to find someone willing to carry your call in to the network, and the rest…
Having spent a bit of time working on projects that touch the phone network, I think it is a 'major nightmare' in the Lovecraftian sense--I for one am forever changed by what I saw. As for billing, it is usually based…
I notice this on occasion when people are speaking a language I do understand, but I miss a syllable or two when they begin speaking. The rest of their speech might as well be another language as it all runs together…
Neat article covering a lot of topics, but I'm fairly surprised by these results. At one point I was looking at building a navigation module for a car using a similar setup to smooth noise, but after some searching I…
Very interesting--thanks for the reply. I sometimes forget there are problems out there that for all our analytic tools are 'too hard' to give an good (read: short) answer. I'll have to go properly digging for some…
Do you have any links with more analysis on the problem today? Kessler syndrome is something I always see discussed, but I don't really have any idea how large/proximal the issue is. Is this a 10-years risk? 100? 1000?…
That is the issue though, someone has to decide whether to "throw the book at you" or not. As long as someone is left to decide that, then you risk things like "being offensive" working against you, or "showing remorse"…
Further, we don't know the value. Thought seems cheap to us, but it is clearly valuable to the companies that use it. How do we know it is a fair deal without knowing our thoughts' worth? It seems unfair to ask us to…
It is always easiest to blame 'the people' for making bad decisions and enabling systems we disagree with, but you are right that this is a mistake. More important is addressing the predatory nature of the systems that…
This is an interesting idea for understanding how different worldviews form. Possibly also how sentiments like "facts have a liberal bias" or "liberals live in a fantasy" come about and ring true. The set of facts you…
This is what I wondered, is network topology carefully arranged to avoid triangular connections, or 'loops' where a generator could interfere (indirectly) with itself?
My confusion always comes when I try to think of it as a propagating wave. If instead of a tandem bicycle, it is a very long rope that someone is moving up and down, then when I try to join some distance away there will…
Looks like a welcoming project with lot of good information for new contributors on the Github. Unfortunately all the project's Slack links I can find (including this one) seem to be expired.
Pedestrian airbags have been designed before, but don't seem to have caught on widely [1]. A more bizarre solution Google patented always stuck with me: A sticky car hood beneath an eggshell coating so that a struck…
Perhaps it is an example of Cunningham's Law?
Well, the issue is that if you accept that brain state will always be different then there isn't much predictive power in the measure. The conceit was always that you could measure it across a bunch of people and find…
I think degree of sensitivity, discrimination, or directionality can warrant counting a 'new sense'. I would consider my sense of thermoreception to be different from that of a snake's heat-pits, or hearing to be a…
It looks like it may be an antiquated term? From the National Accelerator Laboratory Groundbreaking press release: "Groundbreaking will be held Sunday, December 1, 1968, near here for the first permanent building in the…
This idea really resonates with me, and is a notion I've been working through without really having words that express it. Could you share the untranslated phrase if I wanted to read more about it?
The insecurity comes from the fact that once a call is in the network, it is mostly passed off without validation or verification. You only need to find someone willing to carry your call in to the network, and the rest…
Having spent a bit of time working on projects that touch the phone network, I think it is a 'major nightmare' in the Lovecraftian sense--I for one am forever changed by what I saw. As for billing, it is usually based…
I notice this on occasion when people are speaking a language I do understand, but I miss a syllable or two when they begin speaking. The rest of their speech might as well be another language as it all runs together…
Neat article covering a lot of topics, but I'm fairly surprised by these results. At one point I was looking at building a navigation module for a car using a similar setup to smooth noise, but after some searching I…
Very interesting--thanks for the reply. I sometimes forget there are problems out there that for all our analytic tools are 'too hard' to give an good (read: short) answer. I'll have to go properly digging for some…
Do you have any links with more analysis on the problem today? Kessler syndrome is something I always see discussed, but I don't really have any idea how large/proximal the issue is. Is this a 10-years risk? 100? 1000?…
That is the issue though, someone has to decide whether to "throw the book at you" or not. As long as someone is left to decide that, then you risk things like "being offensive" working against you, or "showing remorse"…
Further, we don't know the value. Thought seems cheap to us, but it is clearly valuable to the companies that use it. How do we know it is a fair deal without knowing our thoughts' worth? It seems unfair to ask us to…
It is always easiest to blame 'the people' for making bad decisions and enabling systems we disagree with, but you are right that this is a mistake. More important is addressing the predatory nature of the systems that…
This is an interesting idea for understanding how different worldviews form. Possibly also how sentiments like "facts have a liberal bias" or "liberals live in a fantasy" come about and ring true. The set of facts you…
This is what I wondered, is network topology carefully arranged to avoid triangular connections, or 'loops' where a generator could interfere (indirectly) with itself?
My confusion always comes when I try to think of it as a propagating wave. If instead of a tandem bicycle, it is a very long rope that someone is moving up and down, then when I try to join some distance away there will…
Looks like a welcoming project with lot of good information for new contributors on the Github. Unfortunately all the project's Slack links I can find (including this one) seem to be expired.