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Please use your personal petabyte cloud, and your 4.7 bits per synapse carefully."“We were amazed to find that the difference in the sizes of the pairs of synapses were very small, on average, only about eight percent different in size. No one thought it would be such a small difference. This was a curveball from nature,” says Bartol.
Because the memory capacity of neurons is dependent upon synapse size, this eight percent difference turned out to be a key number the team could then plug into their algorithmic models of the brain to measure how much information could potentially be stored in synaptic connections.
It was known before that the range in sizes between the smallest and largest synapses was a factor of 60 and that most are small.
But armed with the knowledge that synapses of all sizes could vary in increments as little as eight percent between sizes within a factor of 60, the team determined there could be about 26 categories of sizes of synapses, rather than just a few.
“Our data suggests there are 10 times more discrete sizes of synapses than previously thought,” says Bartol. In computer terms, 26 sizes of synapses correspond to about 4.7 “bits” of information. Previously, it was thought that the brain was capable of just one to two bits for short and long memory storage in the hippocampus." [^]
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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Today, the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a program that aims to build an implantable neural device that would allow the human brain to communicate directly with a computer. "This project follows the failed Siri Program."
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Are you sure it is not "The military is building an implant for controlling your mind with machines"?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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ahem: [^]
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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Head collapses on desk I had to already throw away stories I was going to use because of your keen eye earlier today. Just ... just take credit or something. "Today's Daily Insider was brought to you by BillWoodruff." Don't make me go back out there.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Funny, I know lots of people whose mind goes blank when they're near a computer!
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Basically me, in fact for the rough stuff (detection algorithms, complex timings, refactoring/redesign of big chunks of the product) I usually turn off the monitor and take pens and paper - lots of both.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Hope they put a fail-safe to prevent reversal of functionality and hacking.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Facebook has been fighting tooth and nail to continue running Free Basics in India, where the country’s regulatory authorities are mulling policies concerning net neutrality and differential pricing for data services. How to shoot yourself in the foot.
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You lost me at "Facebook..."
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He lost me at "India..."
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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A senior Homeland Security official recently argued that Internet anonymity should outlawed in the same way that driving a car without a license plate is against the law. A license to internet.
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Do we have that Senior Homeland Security official's name and IP address? If not, why not?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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And bank thieves must register their Id before doing so.
My name is Daniel Ocean
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Another fan of the Gestapo, I see.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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While I don't agree with the premise, it does give me pause to think.
Since this official was American, I will use the U.S. as the area of interest.
If someone desires to physical enter the U.S., the must provide documentation - passport or some other form of ID. If I want to have a package physically sent across the border, it is subject to customs inspection.
However, a digital package is not subject to the same potential scrutiny.
So, what would happen if all electronic communication originating outside of the U.S. and being sent to the U.S. was required to have an electronic signature, verifiable, of whom the sender was?
Just some thoughts...
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Most recently, Zappos has been running an experiment with a radical management theory called Holacracy. Holacracy sets up companies as self-managing teams with no titles or managers. "Technically in my last job I didn't have a title, but I was referred to by some as 'Yuppie Mephistopheles.'"
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With more speed available and hardware that can't adapt, DIY builds offer peak performance. I mean, who can't do something better themselves, right?
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Justin Mitchell the principal engineer at BBC R&D regales the NICAM Codec replacement project. A tale about things going right, for once.
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The Perception Point Research team has identified a 0-day local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel. Details of the vulnerability as well as the techniques used to achieve kernel code execution using the vulnerability.
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Linux kernel. I wonder if this affects any Android versions?
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IIRC yes.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The experience of one dev in the App Store. Has this been others' experience as well?
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I think he was the only dev making Windows Apps...
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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