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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Oct 10, 2022 0:26:03 GMT
I don't know. I suspect so, because there is a break in continuity. Also, if there is the slightest wrong, in the timing and synch of the waves of neuron firing, you'll be dead, or at least insane. This is actually how people have died. Gamers who played a computer game for too many days, without sleep, have had their pattern of brain activity, the waves, the dynamic organization of signals, breaking down and cease. The result is death. It has a name, something with "cortex" something. Sleep is a mystery, but it is needed for our brains to clear up and reset themselves. Its pretty interesting, lack of sleep actually leads to your brain getting overwhelmed with trash until the neurons can no longer work properly. There is literally trash in our blood, like destroyed proteins, plaque etc. and that stuff finds it way into the brain and gets stuck between neurons. The result is more and more neurons not firing properly anymore and our brain functions are compromised- hence lack of sleep makes us feel intoxicated. Now what sleep does is it expands the distance between the neurons so the stuck trash can float away and get recycled by the body. The problem is, neurons need a specific distance between each other to function properly, so you can only change the distance if you sleep - if we were awake during this cleaning process our brains would not work properly and that would be bad. That's one big part why we need to sleep, there are also mechanics to turn what we experienced into memory etc. As for consciousness, I have a hard time wrapping my head around it. The easiest way would be to simply accept that consciousness is a phenomenon produced by my brain, and as it changes also my personality changes over time, every day, every second. Done. But despite the danger of sound esoteric here, that feels so oversimplified and incomplete to me. I instinctively feel like my body is like a car, my consciousness the passenger. Like, the driving experience is mainly dependent on the car, if its an SUV or a sports car etc., but to experience the drive at all you need a passenger, which feels to me like that's consciousness. That's also why irrational questions ''haunt'' me, like why can't ''I'' experience someone else's life, what anchors the ability to experience existence to this very body, at what point can it be detached, why cannot it be transferred etc. It feels like consciousness is very different from personality created by the brain, like an external entity. Its irrational thinking for sure but I can assure you its not the result of me secretly wanting to exist forever in some form or self grandeur so I can be more than a simple mortal meat bag. Guess that kind of thinking/feeling borders on *ugh** religion? Well, it's not quite that. The way our brain works, is that there are these neurons, which have many different inputs, dendrites, but only one output, axon. But that output is branched, axon terminals, and leads to many others, as inputs. When a certain amount of input has been received on the various inputs, the neuron fires its output. For the purpose of advanced AI, pattern recognition, Chess, Go, Air Combat, a neural network modeled after the brain has proved fruitful. This neural network can be accomplished in four different ways. 1: Direct hardware copying of the structure with electronic components. This was how the pioneers first did it. However, as the "programming" of the neural network consists of deciding the weighing of the inputs on each neuron that will fire its output, and this must be done experimentally, reinforcing desired outcomes, "learning", this becomes difficult to achieve, as well as building a complex enough neural net, to get viable results. 2: As Moore's law provided more capable computers, more expedient is then to simulate the neural network in normal software. This also naturally introduce an automated method for "learning", by doing it in the software. 3: However, modern computer hardware soon suggested there was a brute force method available, for much higher performance. The entire neural network function can be perfectly emulated with a mathematical procedure, matrix multiplication. It so happens there is now produced dedicated hardware, with many billions of transistors, that specializes in matrix multiplications. They are called "Gaming Graphics Cards". And this is basically how its done currently. 4: However, for a number of sinister military purposes, the performance is still too low (not fast enough), requires way too much power, is too bulky and costs too much. Also, the digital number crunching in graphics cards is way, way more accurate than needed. Great for geometry, physics simulation and image processing, but unnecessary for AI. So a new component has been recently developed. The first generation is in production. It's much smaller chips, requiring only one or two percent of the power for the same performance. A sort of approximate matrix multiplier, useless for engineering, graphics or physics simulation, but works fine enough for AI. So I think we can expect a leap forward when it comes to AI application. My understanding of how the gaming to death & sleep depravation phenomenon works, is that the patterns of neuron firings and signals, that bounce about in the head, become overloaded by accumulation of stimulus, and the essential pattern dissolves in the ensuing chaos. The normal brain function cease in the noise, becomes erased, and death follows. One of the functions of sleep seems to be some correspondent to store away 'work' in memories, and do a reboot. There is another computer analogy, called 'Garbage Collection', a process to clear out substance that is no longer actively used to free up resources.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2022 0:55:18 GMT
The term, "mother fucker".
It occurred to me today, why that combination may have originated/what the intention is. I am happy to be corrected if this insight is wrong.
I was thinking about my Dad. I don't like him, not one bit. So much so that for 18 of the last 30 years we haven't spoken, and at all for the last 8.
Under my breath (out loud though) I muttered to myself, "mother fucker".
Because, I realized, that is what he was. He fucked my mother. Hung around for a few years while swinging his dick around, found something hotter and moved on. The tale goes on and on, but that's the gist.
In modern parlance, we call that a "sperm donor", or "deadbeat dad". The cruder synonym "mother fucker", which I had always just used as a way to describe someone or something that had just really pissed me off... should not really be used that way, if you're really trying to say something with your vulgarity.
It will make me reevaluate my usage of that phrase, and be more selective with it. Sometimes even a pedant like me that talks about words having meaning, will ignore that indeed words do have meaning.
Thanks for coming to my &@$%! Talk
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Dec 17, 2022 16:52:44 GMT
Two soldiers go to war, both profoundly effected, scarred etc. They learn there lesson's and draw there conclusions from there experiences during the war, their war experiences are a major influence in their literature, one writes the Hobbit and The Lord Of the Rings trilogy and the other writes Mein Kampf. The same crucible two diometric conclusions or outcomes, one benign one absolute evil.
Guess that's the difference between returning home to a still well functioning economy and returning home to an economically bled dry, fractured country stricken by anarchy and poverty so bad people froze and starved because they had nothing to heat their homes with nor a single loaf of bread for days. Poverty breeds only violence. Well, don't forget that one of them was interested in humanities, while the other was an artist. Beware of artists. They'll pursue their art projects with little concern for the purpose of it or anything else. The artist in question was also a tremendous AH. If you want to know exactly how truly despicable that AH was, consider he was a close personal friend with not only Ernst Rohm, but also his entire family, who took him in in bad times. And yet, as soon as Rohm became a political liability, he murdered him. Real buddy, eh?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2023 16:08:43 GMT
Cheesemaking, and how gravity is involved.
Spurred by watching Cheese: A Love Story, where a cheese master (lol) goes around the world tasting cheese with the people that make it, and we learn the processes unique to each local specialty.
Someone on the episode we are watching, a Mexican Chef said "cheese is life".
"Cheese is life" - Chef "Football is life" - Danny Rojas
So, I then wanted for fictional character Danny, to have a real football made of cheese. Which is possible, but not in an artisanal product if I understand things correctly. Because gravity, because changes due to fermentation and other internal biological processes, you can shape the cheese, but it is almost always going to have a flat surface if it is an aged/hardened cheese - pressure was applied to it. We can't have Danny kick a ball made of fresh mozzarella - he'd cut through it like a knife! So, how will we get the right shape? Or the integrity to withstand a kick?
It also can't be parmesan/cheddar/asiago hardness. That would break poor imaginary Danny's foot, and football is life!
The only answer is a processed cheese. Which is still a cheese. I firmer Velveeta, which can be formed into a ball shape with a press, and will retain that shape because it is "finished" with cheese processes of creation.
This then made me think... that I am dumb. Because of course cheesemaking is affected by gravity, specifically specific gravity, as the catalyst is added and the curds separate from the whey.
At every moment, gravity is involved in the cheesemaking process. This is why Sir Isaac Newton is the cheesiest sonofa in the Cheddarverse!
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Post by Beerfish on Feb 9, 2023 18:14:53 GMT
I loathe how excel handles dates, I have always loathed it, I always will loathe it. I just want to enter a date in a cell, no i do not want to see that date converted into a meaningless number (Keep that number in the background for calculations). No I do not want to see the date changed to some stupid format. I just want to see the date as I have entered it. I also do not want to see data I import or copy into excel be ASSUMED to be a date and then changed into something I do not want.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2023 19:49:49 GMT
I loathe how excel handles dates, I have always loathed it, I always will loathe it. I just want to enter a date in a cell, no i do not want to see that date converted into a meaningless number (Keep that number in the background for calculations). No I do not want to see the date changed to some stupid format. I just want to see the date as I have entered it. I also do not want to see data I import or copy into excel be ASSUMED to be a date and then changed into something I do not want. I am not an excel power user, but isn't there an option in settings somewhere to not auto-format cells, or to format date data into your preferred format? I mean, this was a thing back in the days of Lotus 1-2-3 so... yeah, excel probably took that out in a feature "update". :/ Good ol' Gill Bates
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Post by rewindbutton on Feb 10, 2023 14:11:18 GMT
isn't there an option in settings somewhere to not auto-format cells There is.
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