Saturday, January 09, 2010
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Thursday, January 07, 2010
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Monday, January 04, 2010
I don't speak good.
I can hardly speak well, either. My writing is no better than my speaking. I cain't spell and I don't got good grammer, neither.
My current excuse? Why, I live in Kentucky. Which actually is no excuse at all - except for one teeny-tiny lil' detail mentioned in an article he wrote called Only a poltroon despises dedantry. David Mitchell, the guy what wrote that there piece hit the ol' nail on the head. Talking about grammar and the like he said, "...the rules do matter - it's just that obeying them doesn't." 'Ceptin he didn' say it quite right, he shoulda said, 'the rules matter some, just ya don' has to obey 'em much.' Which leads me to my real point in offering this linguistic and grammatical send up. It seems that as a society we Joseph Averages in our egalitarian splendor have accepted the reward but little of the responsibility of rugged individualism. 'I cain do what I wants as long as I don' git caught.' is the same as suggesting that the 'rules do matter - it's just obeying them doesn't.'
Sunday, January 03, 2010
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time
Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time
December 21, 2009 By Lisa Zyga
Model of the brain-machine interface for real-time synthetic speech production. The stroke-induced lesion (red X) disables speech output, but speech motor planning in the cerebral cortex remains intact. 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. Credit: Guenther, et al.
(PhysOrg.com) -- By implanting an electrode into the brain of a person with locked-in syndrome, scientists have demonstrated how to wirelessly transmit neural signals to a speech synthesizer. The "thought-to-speech" process takes about 50 milliseconds - the same amount of time for a non-paralyzed, neurologically intact person to speak their thoughts. The study marks the first successful demonstration of a permanently installed, wireless implant for real-time control of an external device.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
What are your readings ...
From the right smart tumblr: Stood in the Maasai Mara
“William. What are your readings from the barometers of life?” - SabaiyaFriday, December 25, 2009
Uh, Merry Christmas?!?
Bunning Misses Historic Health Care Reform Vote
WTVQ - 11 hours ago
Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning was the only senator to miss the Senate's historic Christmas Eve vote on health care reform. His office says he had family commitments at home in Kentucky.
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