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The OP's point about damage still holds. After implanting the chronic arrays you have to wait about 3 weeks before recording (the area is silent). It is assumed that the responses are normal after that - and it seems so. But we have a lot of results from arrays that have no counterpart from single electrode recordings so we really don't know.

You are basically jamming a pincushion into the cortex. Trauma is inevitable. The denser the array the more the damage (the more mass you are jamming into cortex). You most likely have a perturbed cortex that has recovered from damage.

Is this the same as original intact cortex?

The advice I've always been given is that speed optimization is a second step after writing your code in the idiomatic, easy to read and maintain way. The optimization is done after profiling to find out where the real bottlenecks are for your application.

Some folks like the pressure - like being always on, are bored by "regular" life. Some folks like the power and the prestige (they are dangerous for those below).

Wikipedia has Fat Man over Nagasaki and Little boy over Hiroshima. This archive has it the other way. Which is correct?

That pamphlet makes for some scary reading, but is this typical of all of Germany? Perhaps some folks who are living in Germany can comment?

"Studies have found that those with higher I.Q.s, for example, enjoy a longer stretch of time during which new synapses continue to proliferate" this assertion that there is empirical evidence for this hypothesis is almost certainly false.

We just don't have the technology to do this experiment on human beings - the only species for which this statement can make sense.

I know of some studies which have observed synapse formation in vitro, perhaps one in vivo in animals kept alive through strenuous means, but all in mice and with no simultaneous behavioral examination.

Very cool! Could find an interesting numerical instability https://plus.google.com/photos/109059794947950815445/albums/...

Don't come here. Don't even work for US clients. They are nasty, nasty I tell you. I'm one of them.

Why not personal check when you make the payment? Why not a credit card?

A lot of money laundering operations is related to terrorist financing. Also, many terrorist organizations finance themselves via drug sales.

This is interesting. You given an interesting law about an European country and you get down voted. HN has become a close minded community.

You certainly added to the discussion with an interesting fact. Thank you.

http://www.europe-consommateurs.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/eu-...

It's SO much better there!

Don't come here. It's terrible. Just terrible. Do not apply for a visa here. It's a TRAP!

I share your sentiments. I'm more ambivalent about this process than I should be, as an admirer of the checks and balances in our constitution.

I would suspect that the vast majority of such hauls is drug money laundering related. "Normal" folks would be scared of losing such cash or having it stolen. I know I would be petrified at the thought.

However, there are probably a few folks who don't use banks (don't trust 'em or don't use 'em just because) and this is how they buy a house or buy a car or go from one state to another with their possessions.

Now, here's where my ambivalence comes from: do we let the money laundering go because a few of these are false positives? Or do we accept the false positives because it serves the greater good because it catches or causes attrition for money launderers?

I think electronic or check transfers are a rational solution to the problem at hand and so folks should use that.

But I'm still ambivalent. Constitution. Checks and balances.

Right. Happened in the Boston Marathon Murders.

Russia seems to me to be a tragic nation. No matter what the management the people seem to get a bad deal. It is interesting to me that technical education in Russia has always been quite good - the United States benefited from a lot of Russian scientists emigrating after the iron curtain lifted, Russia had an advanced space program, Russia had a good (if somewhat unregulated) medical system, with many pioneering techniques developed. Russia, of course, had many interesting literary figures.

But the management sucks. And the common theme - except for that brief interlude of glasnost - is information hiding. The truth about things - the economy, politics - is twisted and turned until the twisters themselves probably don't know what the truth was.

The lesson from Russia is, only freedom of information - news and views - can save a society. technical excellence and progress is nothing.

I had Tibor Gergley's "Great Big Book of bed time stories". There is a story in it called "Make way for the thruway" by Caroline Emerson. It is about an old lady who refuses to vacate her house so that they can make a highway. It has a happy ending when sympathetic construction workers build the road around her house, and she becomes the famous old lady with the pretty house next to the highway.

My favorite quote:

"You'll be paid for your land," said Mike.

"Money isn't everything in this world," said the little old lady.

Aww, heck, you guys deserve the whole paragraph:

"You'll be paid for your land," said Mike.

"Money isn't everything in this world," said the little old lady. ...

Next day, the Big Boss drove to the old house. "I'm sorry, ma'am," he said, "this house must come down."

"Young man," said the little old lady, "I've lived in this house for seventy years. I watched those trees grow. I planted that rose bush. I'm not leaving."

"But the thruway must go through," said the Big Boss. "People want the quickest, shortest way these days."

"What's their hurry?" asked the little old lady.

The Big Boss shook his head. he didn't know.

...

(After the diversion has been built)

"Oh, look at the roses!" people cry as they drive by. They slow down a little to look.

"Hum," says the little old lady to her cat, "they're not in such a hurry, after all."

Except when they can align them selves with protectionist forces.

local lobbies are the most powerful at writing local regulations.

I've heard this train of argument before from some Germans. There is no corruption in German politics. Our politicians don't listen to special interests. I find this interesting. I think that some of the people who've told me this even believe it.

Radiology, Ophthalmology, Anesthesiology, and Dermatology ROAD to success.

I work at a mid stage startup. I got 7 weeks paternity leave and there is no set vacation time but we are encouraged to take at least 3 weeks a year. People often take a month off for summer and a week or two off for christmas.

I'm with the folks who are wondering at the police response. Aren't they trained to assess a situation? There is only one person in the room - which is an office and he's playing on the computer. Is their only training to throw people on the ground and pin them? Aren't they trained to simply ask questions and judge from body language and emotions whether this person is up to something, is armed or acting strange vs just a bystander.

I think this video is very disturbing. It shows we have incompetent police. We need to train them better. It's very easy to take a bunch of hefty fellows and give them guns and show them how to shoot people.

It takes more time to train them to assess situations, and approach people with dignity and respect. I think we should spend this time.

Here's a thought. If you think google is evil because of surveillance should you not only refuse to use gmail (and other google products) but also refuse to send email to gmail addresses, because you don't want to support them?

I think I agree with you. Your professional platform is not the same as your personal platform.

The courses of action should have been

1. Resign from company and then air personal views (as explicitly personal)

2. Air personal views separately but say explicitly these are personal views.

3. Discuss matter in the board and come up with company approved policy statement - we will no longer do business with Google etc. because ...

Hi, streaking is not necessarily due to parallax. It's due to movement of the camera and or movement of the earth. (Try taking a hand held long exposure of the stars, for example).

I guess for that 8s the plan was very stable (no rolling/pitching) AND the focal length is short enough and the resolution low enough the streakiness is masked. I'm still impressed by the amount of stars he captured.

Sounds like the person is an exhibitionist. My best take away from the article is the insightful statement by the author:

"Every one of us is entrusted with information that our family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances would rather that we kept private."

Does any one know why the tumble home hull was discontinued. Wikipedia says it has stability problems in turns and rough seas. The Zumwalt's prow is meant to go under waves. Has the ship been tested in rough seas?

I don't understand how, with an 8s exposure from a moving vehicle, the photos have perfect stars. There should be streaking.