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Dec 26th

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Simplicity is the world view of the child or uninformed adult, fully engaged in his/her own experience and happily unaware of what lies beneath the surface of immediate reality. Complexity characterizes the ordinary adult world view. It is characterized by an awareness of complex systems in nature and society but an inability to discern clarifying patterns and connections. Informed simplicity is...

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When you buy a jar of all-natural peanut butter, don’t stick it in the pantry. Park it on top of the refrigerator, upside down. Once a day, when you walk by it, say “hello peanut butter”, and flip it over. When you’re ready to open it and stir it up, it will be half mixed for you (and not hardened into a frustrating marble block). My life is a little better now because of...

Dec 24th

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Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

machine translates thoughts into speech in real... →

(via stanleylieber) added: Signals collected from an electrode in the speech motor cortex are amplified and sent wirelessly across the scalp as FM radio signals. The Neuralynx System amplifies, converts, and sorts the signals. The neural decoder then translates the signals into speech commands for the speech synthesizer.

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Dec 21st

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This anonymous hero is very ancient. He is the murmuring voice of societies. In all ages, he comes before texts. He does not expect representations. He squats now at the center of our scientific stages. The floodlights have moved away from the actors who possess proper names and social blazons, turning first toward the chorus of secondary characters, then settling on the mass of the audience. The...

Dec 21st

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Dec 21st

Without our past we do not have a future. Our search for the past is a struggle against forgetting that what has passed…Thinking makes us sad because we never seem to find adequate answers. It also makes us sad that we will never be able to think the past again in such a way that it actually comes to be again; our inability to conquer the past is what makes us feel melancholic…For to...

Dec 21st