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@Damo Gets Well, apparently mapping the brain decades before President Obama announced the BRAIN Initiative to draw civilian interest doesn't hold the cache among those not holding rank.
In the meantime, some of us enjoy transfer learning.
"I know kung fu." — The Matrix (1999)
" Researchers performed surgery on 11 rats. Into each rat’s brain, an electronic array—featuring 16 stainless-steel wires—was implanted. After the rats recovered from surgery, they were separated into two groups, and they spent a period of weeks getting educated, though one group was educated more than the other.
The less educated group learned a simple task, involving how to procure a droplet of water. The more educated group learned a complex version of that same task—to procure the water, these rats had to persistently poke levers with their nose despite confounding delays in the delivery of the water droplet. When the more educated group of rats attained mastery of this task, the researchers exported the neural-firing patterns recorded in the rats’ brains—the memory of how to perform the complex task—to a computer.
“What we did then was we took those signals and we gave it to an animal that was stupid,” Geoff Ling said at a DARPA event in 2015—meaning that researchers took the neural-firing patterns encoding the memory of how to perform the more complex task, recorded from the brains of the more educated rats, and transferred those patterns into the brains of the less educated rats—“and that stupid animal got it. They were able to execute that full thing.” Ling summarized: “For this rat, we reduced the learning period from eight weeks down to seconds.”
— Michael Joseph Gross, The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains: The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts, The Atlantic, November 2018.
Dipshit if you ever would have taken the time to properly introduce your concepts instead of just shamelessly trying to promote yourself I may have given you the chance to explain yourself. Buh-bye.
Someday I want my mind living inside a diamond optical computer to live on the internet if need be, but if I earned it, put back into a new young body.
If I'd leaked classified reports, defected, cross-dressed, or otherwise broken the law, you'd have heard of me by now. Instead I held my ground as a whistleblower naming names and raising cyborg awareness. Ordered to stand down about remote-controlled people in February 1997 while getting Dolly the cloned sheep on all of the front pages, eventually in 2005 my paper was credited as the basis for the Wikipedia article about brain implants.
I want to say don't blame me that the Boomers and their Hippie kids forgot about remote-controlled people, but you can since my crew weaponized the technology.
Professor Creates Remote Control People | Dark Matters
Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society (1969) by José M.R. Delgado, M.D. google.com/books/edition/Physi…
I understand better now. I went through some issues with whistleblowing and an agency trying to intimidate me into silence after I saw too much proof of the invasion of Iraq being based completely on falsified evidence during my time in the Army. I couldn't make myself shut up about it. Too damn important for the truth to be heard when so many lives were being pointlessly lost. I did learn, after the MIB came to talk to me with the police chief for the city I live in, though, to not bring it up unless I knew the people I was talking to well enough to know that they would listen.
I won't block you. Sounds pretty interesting, actually.
Agent: In order to be an effective spy you'll have to keep a sharp eye out for and keen ear open to your surroundings.
Me (age 5): Can't you just put a camera in my head?
When I started naming names 2 April 1996 all hell broke loose (RIP DCI William Colby), but I set out to raise cyborg awareness, and 2 April 2013 President Obama announced the BRAIN Initiative to draw civilian interest.
I didn't fully understand why Richard Stallman had to leave his position at the Free Software Foundation but I think companies seized the opportunity to take control of the #FSF.
Now, Leah Rowe, founder of #Libreboot and trans person writes a letter defending #RMS against the accusation of him being transfobic, defends his key role for #freesoftware to exist and denounces the movements of companies and organizations infiltrated in the #freesoftware movement.
If you support Free Software, believe in freedom of speech, freedom of community and social justice (true social justice, where a person is treated with dignity and not cancelled just for their beliefs), sign your name here:
I don't like M$ anywhere near free software: they embrace open source, not free software, because they get free labor that way, and undermine the free software movement.
I knew that RMS tried to exonerate somebody linked to Epstein but I couldn't then quite understand what exactly he said. I think I've read these days that it was related to some sexual relationship that professor had with a student, and RMS said she consented that relationship.
Clicking in ussr.win/link/6266518 opens a new window where I can compose a new message.
As I said, I don't know all the details, but despite RMS could've said something regretable I think behind the curtains a fight for power is happening. On one side, because Free Software wouldn't exist without RMS I give him much credit, but if he resigned for whatever reasons and doesn't regret them I don't understand him back in FSF board.
Anyway, thought worth sharing Leah Rowe's statement. I also read Defend Richard Stallman letter and find it reasonable.
I think the whole notion of "transphobic" is bullshit, a phobia is a fear, nobody is afraid of people slicing their dicks off, they just recognize it for the mental illness it is. That said, I have no idea how that relates to or is relevant to software.
@Robert Dinse I think there's neither self mutilation nor mental illness:
- Trans people go through a whole medical process which may or may not include plastic surgery. Are people who use plastic surgery mentally illed?
- I don't fully understand trans people because I don't feel like them, but I think they just feel their biological sex doesn't match the gender they feel, so they go through that medical process and people misunderstanding just to be true to themselves and honest with other people.
Because they're just being true and honest, do no harm to anybody and don't force other people to do the same they have all my respect.
I think we're talking about different people. Anyway, this is not what the original post was about and I won't spend any more time and energy debating this issue. Agree to disagree.
@Robert Dinse I think we're talking about different people. Anyway, this is not what the original post was about and I won't spend any more time and energy debating this issue. Agree to disagree.
@ivan zlax She was I believe 17, don't know what state that was in but here age of consent is 16, I think there are plenty more egregious examples involving people in this circle and much younger, 12 and 13 year olds but since they rigged the election to make sure they weren't prosecuted, we'll never know.
@ivan zlax I don't know and if she was of legal age, I don't care. Either it was consensual and she was of consenting age, and it is my understanding she was, in which case their relationship is none of your or my fucking business and certainly not relevant to software.
@ivan zlax Well I'm not going to invest much emotional energy one way or the other. My take is that Richard Stallman has done a lot for free software in the past and in my view is well qualified to head up the FSF much less just be a board member, and the sexual proclivities of his friend or how he feels about him personally is really irrelevant.
@ivan zlax Whatever, I think people should appreciate the things other people have given them rather than bite the hand that feeds them so to speak. But respect and gratitude are things that seems to be missing in today's society.
@ivan zlax I think evangelism is something the open source community needs. Obviously people who are charismatic can be more effective at it, but yea for a lot of people emacs is a useful tool. I personally don't like it, but I grew up on vi, well actually ed before vi, then vi.
@ivan zlax Richard Stallman having a friend who has what you consider an age inappropriate relationship is a far cry from killing millions of people. And if Emacs was only used by a handful there wouldn't be extensions of it to do just about everything including butter toast. The fact of the matter is it is a rather widely used editor. And again I do think it is important to have an effective advocate for free software.
@ivan zlax I would consider judging someone on the basis of what their friend did, even if it wasn't illegal, rather on the order of religious fanatism.
@ivan zlax Again you draw parallels with things that aren't parallel. I'm not going to try to out verbose you, you've clearly got the verbosity advantage.
1500 "unaccompanied migrant children" moved to the San Diego convention center... Local school teachers who aren't teaching local children due to #muh-covid are instead teaching these children, face-to-face, at the convention center.
I wonder what those teachers are teaching those kids... transgender studies and critical race theory I'm sure. (no math, etc.)
...of note: current stats show 9% of those kids have tested positive for a close and personal relationship with #Corona-Chan.
(time for a meme of Corona Chan as the Pied Piper leading brown kids into nursing homes...)
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