DonGateley

This guy should be Kickstarter's patron saint.

If the human brain was simple enough to be understood it would be too simple to understand.

We will glean bits and pieces but a detailed functional understanding of an emergent system as large, containing as much feedback (within feedback), and with as enormous a connectivity as any large (or probably even small) mammalian brain is far beyond any reasonable expectation ever.

I took l-theanine for a long time, four or five years, and with tolerance I don't know whether or not it still had any positive effect but that same concern for tolerance also made me too cautious to stop it and take the possible rebound.

That happened anyway for silly reasons and it took me a few days to realize that the serious and ever increasing neck pain I had been suffering for a couple years (and blamed on computer use) had simply vanished. It's been a couple of months and what had been chronic has not returned with even a trace.

There was no psychological expectation or placebo factors because I never had considered the possibility that they might be connected, the cessation was inadvertent with no intent and something I thought little about, and it was several days before I realized that I had been completely free of increasingly disabling pain for the same several days. This could be coincidence but I don't think so. Just sayin'.

I just ordered a hot air soldering station and some Gold Kapton polyamide high temp tape to hold everything in place for it and avoid my tremor problem (not particularly bad but too bad for this.) I've got a feeling I can make this work.

I had never thought of adding this device to my bag of tricks and now that I have I'm thinking of many uses that have been more than difficult in the past. Many thanks.

Thanks. There are a couple within 50 miles of me that I've looked into but they require rather expensive memberships in order to get in and find out if anyone inside might be able to do it.

If I come up empty I will go on over and see if there are any old fashioned bulletin boards on which I could post a help note without paying for a membership.

No, this is just the opposite of that. One click and scroll.

I've been wanting something like this forever. I hope this discussion gets it going on HN. I think it can greatly enhance the rate of product development. I've got one (or two) I'm well along on but I need specific help and I'd be all over it to help find that.

For all we know, the morphological differences could have rendered them severely autistic. Isn't it about quality, not quantity?

I should have mentioned that I'm 70 and my hands have long been too unsteady to attempt this myself (if in fact they ever were.)

Good idea. That's long been a search that I felt would open a Pandora's box I might never again climb out of. :-)

I found the Instructables which has a lot of excellent craftsmen and asked in their forum. Fingers crossed.

FWIW I really would like to know why my question was voted down to help me understand the ethic (esthetic) here?

Be aware that with a Google Drive account you explicitly give Google unfettered access to all of your data to do with what they want.

I just hope this doesn't hurt the Vinklevoss twins. ;-)

Awesome video and complete validation of my theory that Ive is trying to eliminate design from user interfaces and make it so that anyone can do it even with MS Word.

Lowering the barrier to app creation is all this flat, modern crap is about. The end user's experience is of no consideration at all because they can be easily convinced _anything_ is cool. I can't wait for the backlash.

Everyone at apple with taste is either being forced out or quitting so when that backlash comes apple will be left holding an empty bag.

I've been following numerous fraudulent projects on Indiegogo and Kickstarter and have come to the conclusion that both are merely carefully shielded fronts for grifters. Both outfits should be taken down by the U.S. Attorney General until they can be regulated in their project vetting so as to eliminate or at least minimize consumer fraud.

Currently the more attractive a fraud brought to them is the more they stand to make from it so there is a strong conflict of interest between them and their users.

Someone needs to create a site that is a crowd funding wall of shame listing and reviewing projects that show the extent and profitability of fraud. There is KickScammer but it isn't very visible or complete at this point.

Can it be calculated how far back we need go before each of us, with high probability, is descended from everyone then living? Does the question even have an answer?

Your first six links don't work for me.

I'll be 70 in November and am putting the finishing touches on a VST plugin that can make any 'phone (head, ear, canal, etc.) I can measure sound like any other 'phone I can measure with remarkable verisimilitude. The trick was not the DSP (standard stuff, that, and part of what I once got paid to do) but in devising a measurement system that worked across types. That part was empirical and took more years and iterations than I'll admit to but without retirement I wouldn't have had the time for all the experimentation that finally nailed it.

I've got to say that my coding bug rate seems worse and debug time seems substantially longer and more tedious than I remember. My first coding was assembler for an IBM 7094 as a student at the University of Illinois some 50+ years ago. Been doing it ever since.

BTW, I'm looking for someone that can transfer the tech to a paid Android app. Somebody 70ish would be way cool. Kernel level audio skills a must for global filter insertion.

What is the minimum commitment? Can I sign up for the $35/mo service to test drive and then cancel before the end of the first month.

A limited time trial configuration would be cool.

Which is why I think the idea of change itself was an invention. Up until roughly that point in history people didn't apply themselves to change because they didn't even have the concept as it came to be understood.

Things progressed so glacially for so long simply because, from experience, nothing other than stasis could be imagined, not because we were any dumber. Change was the key innovation for change. Occasionally I wonder if it wasn't an inherently fatal discovery.

One wonders how many other such "basic" concepts there might be that remain hidden from view.

So, given that this involves rounding errors in solutions to equations it is only an approximate solution. A solution with fuzz. Is it possible to prove that each point of "contact" is exactly coincident? Or to prove that exact coincidence is not possible. There seems to be room for deeper work on this problem.

Happy is too fragile and illusory a state. Content works much, much better and I find myself remarkably content considering the heights I reached and the bottom I barely pulled myself out of. I don't miss the bling at all and am very pleased with how little it takes to make me content.

On the content scale I'd call it a 7.5. Happy I no longer understand and am very wary of.

Just when I found myself starting to lean in he started skipping slides. Most frustrating.

Cross posted from the blog:

The only thing that I really don't like about the acquisition is that it is certain to delay the consumer product by some significant time. The shot that Sony fired over their bow (almost into their ship) made them fully understand that their time was up. Their planned time frame wouldn't work in competition with Sony because their pockets weren't deep enough to technologically one-up Sony. To come out with something at best on par but further down the road than Sony would sink them like a stone.

Now those pockets are deep enough and there will be substantial delay as they order the development of new tech and cost reduction engineering to create something truly competitive. This is not speculative, they have stated that they are going to do that but without mention of the time it will take.

This may be good in the long run but I think the run-up to their product has been far, far too long already. What this all means is I want one, I want it now and it just got further away, perhaps much further.

Hmmm, I just looked up Cygwin to see what it is and what I learned is that the barrier to using GNU APL is too high for me with the time and knowledge I have available. I'll bet that's true for a whole lot of other people that would otherwise benefit from APL.

I just hope that someone outside of GNU APL with the ability to make a normal Windows install package isn't as enamored with Windows barriers and would like to see APL proceed. And I hope the GNU license restrictions allow for that.

I have 16 years sober after ending homeless and literally in the gutter (no millions passed through my hands but it was still a lot.) I had been fighting with it for 20 years watching everything and everyone slip away as you have. This is better than that.

Yes, it was AA that supported me through it. No, I am not religious now and wasn't then. I was just willing to suspend disbelief long enough to try something. I am at a loss to explain why it worked but that doesn't matter.

Despite what many people think AA requires no faith or belief of any kind beyond acceptance of the fact of your situation.

Many read "Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity" as a statement of belief in a spiritual solution. It is not that at all, it is merely a hypothetical that is pretty hard to deny on the face of it. Bill and Bob were really, really smart.

Take that hypothetical, suspend disbelief, do the recommended prayer and meditation with the caveat "I don't know if this has any real meaning but, whatever" if you need that and see what happens. That's what I did. I don't question the mystery of my recovery I just marvel at it. You can choose your eventual spiritual path or none at all later in the game but you have to have a game left to play to do that.

In summary, believe nothing but try anything.

This would be cool if you weren't required to be a build tools dojo to use it. Windows binary please! Complete working stand alone binary. Then it might make an impact.

While I have been impressed by several of the books from this outfit there certainly is nothing at that web page that would interest me in buying the book. They should take it down until it actually provides some information. It might be great, but who knows.

People who have had the opportunity to see both the DK2 and the Morpheus have almost all thought the Morpheus a better device. I think Luckey et. al. saw the handwriting on the wall and sold for the best deal they could while they still could into a market where they won't need to compete with Sony, MS, and Google directly.

They have no magic and they know it. Sony will trounce them technologically. Not getting to market before Sony is a fatal shortfall. I think they knew all along that they'd fall short going toe to toe with the big guns. There is something about Luckey that has always said huckster to me.

On the other hand, games are but the miniscule tip of the tip of the VR iceberg and the new placement with respect to the larger market could benefit grownups like me why could give a rat's a about games and social but see endless passive entertainment possibilities. Of course, Sony is there to beat in those domains as well.

The CastAR remains augmented reality, not virtual reality. They've said there is a VR attachment but it has yet to be seen and given their projective technology seems a pretty nasty optical folding trick if it can be done at all.