Simon321

It takes around 15-20 transistors to make a simple neuron simulation:

https://www.quora.com/How-many-transistors-can-be-used-to-re...

But: "Synapses are usually separately modeled in transistors (they are not part of the neuron circuits described above) and dramatically add to the transistor count."

"[A neuron] has on average 7000 synaptic connections to other neurons."

So we're not there yet, but it's definitely an improvement!

'[except for] the exponential increase in computing power.'

Yeah, just take out thé major industry where all change has taken place the last few decades and then sure, changes are coming more slowly.

I mean NSO, not Black Cube.

Not just that but they also seem linked to the Bezos incident! https://www.philly.com/opinion/commentary/jeff-bezos-nationa...

Sadly eurosceptics voted for this overwhelmingly.

It's an opinion piece

Wow, that thread is absolutely disgusting.

There is also Mattermost. An open source Slack.

Informed democracy is a waste of brain cycles? You have the power to vote, you can participate in democracy. I don't think that's a waste of brain cycles. I do agree you shouldn't worry too much about things you have no control over. But the government of your country is not one of those things.

Well said.

None, that's what the word 'successfully' means.

It's much more than 'astrology or tarot cards'. MBTI correlates with the big five personality traits. Which are backed up scientifically.

It used to be worse, so let's not try to improve it anymore?

In this case it's obvious that those were a minority on the 'Leave' side: http://m.imgur.com/SneDXWa?r

With change people usually mean positive change. Progress. This is undoing change, the opposite of progress. Now it's just like it was before.

>“There’s excitement from the tech press, but we’re also starting to see some negative threads about it being terrifying, ready to take humans’ jobs,” wrote Courtney Hohne, a director of communications at Google and the spokeswoman for Google X.

>Hohne went on to ask her colleagues to “distance X from this video” and wrote, “we don’t want to trigger a whole separate media cycle about where BD really is at Google.”

>“We’re not going to comment on this video because there’s really not a lot we can add, and we don’t want to answer most of the Qs it triggers,” she wrote.

AI fear-mongering is already doing damage. What a disappointment...

For people complaining it's big, the guy on reddit's futurology subreddit who helped design it said it was just the first step, it will shrink in size and grow in features.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1ohqpl/this_is_t...

He also said it's just temporary, for 3 months.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1ohqpl/this_is_t...

For more information, see my post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6284735

In this post, i give more information:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6284735

TM is one of the most widely practiced, and among the most widely researched meditation techniques.[7][8][9] Source: Wikipedia

So it just makes sense to talk about that one. The others ones aren't really researched that well. Which variation would you prefer?

I think, just like a religion, it's not really the skeptics job to 'disprove' the theory. I think the job of the ones promoting it is to prove it.

A link to skeptics dictionary: http://www.skepdic.com/tm.html

TM recruiting literature is full of charts and graphs demonstrating the wonders of TM. Things like metabolic rate, oxygen consumption rate, bodily production of carbon dioxide, hormone production, brain waves, etc. are measured and charted and graphically presented to suggest that TM really takes a person to a new state of consciousness. Some of the studies done by TM scientists simply show that some of the same physiological results you can achieve by relaxing completely are achievable by TM. Nevertheless, according to TM advocates, tests have shown that TM produces "neurophysiological signatures that are distinctly different from relaxation and rest "[Judy Stein, personal correspondence]. Critics disagree.* The particular value of these physiological changes one can achieve by meditation have not been shown to be unique to transcendental meditation.

EDIT: Another interesting read: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2013/03/08/r...

"The Transcendental Meditation movement publishes scores of "peer-reviewed" articles in minor journals attempting to prove the medical benefits of their seated chanting. Reputable studies show that there are, however , no benefits beyond standard relaxation techniques." Source:http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation

Meditation, such a scam. I can't believe so many intelligent people are fooled by it. It's nothing more than a relaxation technique and that's it.

The studies about meditation are mostly of dubious quality and origin, and people draw unwarranted conclusions from them.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/08/21/quacks-eve...

Actually, work hasn't been like that at all throughout human history. Work as we know it comes with civilization. And civilization started 5000-8000 years ago. Homo sapiens have existed for 200,000 years.

Before civilization, it wasn't something to be completed that someone else was willing to pay for. You can't really think life as a hunter gatherer would be dull? And there was no boss.

Quote from wikipedia: Hunter-gatherer societies also tend to have relatively non-hierarchical, egalitarian social structures.