2011-01-13.log

--- Log opened Thu Jan 13 00:00:04 2011
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fennhttp://vimeo.com/channels/neuronirvana02:42
fennhum, nevermind02:55
Utopiahepitron: iirc you were interesting in large graph, might like http://gephi.org if you didn't already play with it03:02
epitronUtopiah: hah, yeah, that was a while ago.. good memory03:04
epitronthis looks nice03:04
Utopiahthe wiki has extra metrics and layouts if the default install doesn't have the ones you need03:05
epitroni still don't understand why people draw all the edges03:06
epitronit makes the graph insanely hard to read :)03:06
Utopiah(and funny things like http://vimeo.com/18591468 )03:06
epitronthere are techniques of hiding them... like force-directed edge grouping, or using force fields03:06
epitronerr.. energy fields.. like.. just colouring the background around the nodes to represent how hot the connection density is03:07
Utopiahguess it's to give an connectivity "feeling" for people not familiar with how layouts work03:09
epitronyeah..03:10
epitronor maybe it's just that it's the easiest thing to implement, and it's open source...03:10
epitronand everyone else implements it that way03:10
epitronthis is a pretty crazy thing though... and it has layout plugins, so booya :)03:11
epitronhere' two plugins that this guy needs:03:22
epitronhttp://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=61603:22
epitronhttp://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=21503:22
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dbolserThe information for synthesizing the molecules that allow organisms to survive and replicate is encoded in genomic DNA. In the cell, DNA is copied to messenger RNA, and triplet codons (64) in the messenger RNA are decoded - in the process of translation - to synthesize polymers of the natural 20 amino acids. This process (DNA RNA protein) describes the central dogma of molecular biology and is conserved in terrestrial life. We are interested in re-w05:25
dbolserJason Chin, Cambridge, Tuesday 25 January at 1600 hours, Small Lecture Theatre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression and MRC,05:26
dbolserFlow Map Layout could realy help with my genome scaffolding problem05:30
Lukas__It cut off at "We are interested in re-w"05:31
dbolserLukas__: sorry05:32
Lukas__No problem05:32
dbolserWe are interested in re-writing the central dogma to create organisms05:33
dbolserthat synthesize proteins containing unnatural amino acids and polymers05:33
dbolsercomposed of monomer building blocks beyond the 20 natural amino05:33
dbolseracids. I will discuss our invention and synthetic evolution of new05:33
dbolser'orthogonal' translational components (including ribosomes and05:33
dbolseraminoacyl-tRNA synthetases) to address the major challenges in05:33
dbolserre-writing the central dogma of biology. I will discuss the05:33
dbolserapplication of the approaches we have developed for incorporating05:33
dbolserunnatural amino acids into proteins and investigating and05:33
dbolsersynthetically controlling diverse biological processes, with a05:33
dbolserparticular emphasis on understanding the role of post-translational05:33
dbolsermodifications.05:33
Lukas__Link please?05:34
dbolsergoogle Jason Chin, Cambridge?05:34
dbolserits from an eamil about a local seminar, so there is no link to hand05:34
Utopiahhttp://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/a-to-g/j-chin05:34
Lukas__Also, is there any talk of incorporating synthetic base pairs ?05:34
dbolsermrc-lmb is the best place on earth for molecular biology05:35
dbolserLukas__: people do do that05:35
dbolseralso there are peptide analogues of DNA that are robust05:35
Lukas__I didn't know that was done05:36
dbolseronly for short pieces afaik05:37
dbolserthey are resistant to nuclease activity05:37
dbolserl8r05:37
Lukas__I only heard:  http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13252-artificial-letters-added-to-lifes-alphabet.html05:37
Lukas__but I didn't know anything came of it05:38
kanzureyeah a number of different labs have done that by now, Lukas__06:33
Lukas__heh, I need to lurk more06:34
Lukas__Is there any information on what new properties these artificial amino acids and polymers have?06:39
kanzure3 GB uploaded http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers/06:40
kanzureincluding an old copy of http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers/microfluidics/ (the full upload of /papers/microfluidics/ will come later in the list)06:43
kanzureLukas__: i don't presently remember a good overview article06:43
Lukas__thanks06:44
kanzureLukas__: search on http://scholar.google.com for 'unnatural base pairs' and 'unnatural nucleotides' and 'unnatural amino acids'06:44
kanzure"Efforts toward expansion of the genetic alphabet: replication of DNA with three base pairs"06:44
kanzureUnnatural base pair systems for DNA/RNA-based biotechnology http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/courses/biochem704/Reading/HiraoCurrOpinChemBio06.pdf06:45
kanzureUnnatural base pairs for specific transcription http://www.pnas.org/content/98/9/4922.full06:45
kanzureA two-unnatural-base-pair system toward the expansion of the genetic code06:45
kanzureEfforts toward the expansion of the genetic alphabet: information storage and replication with unnatural hydrophobic base pairs06:45
kanzureOptimization of unnatural base pair packing for polymerase recognition http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2536690/06:46
kanzureEnzymatic incorporation of a new base pair into DNA and RNA extends the genetic alphabet http://www.ffame.org/sbenner/nature343.33-37.pdf06:46
kanzureanywho.. yeah.06:46
Lukas__O.o06:47
Lukas__I am surprised all of this went over my head06:47
Lukas__thanks guys06:47
kanzureyeah, well, science reporting really sucks06:48
kanzureso you shouldn't trust physorg, sciencenews, or whatever other site you read.. just read the papers directly06:48
Lukas__yea, they really drop the ball sometimes06:50
kanzurevideo alert06:53
kanzurehttp://diyhpl.us:9000/s/-1-5-ben-best-cryonics-introduction-and-technical-challenges06:53
Lukas__Did you watch it?06:54
UtopiahYT copy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXcHD5hFj5006:54
Lukas__thanks, did you watch it?06:55
kanzureno, there's no way i can watch all 600 hours of these videos06:56
kanzurei suppose there *is* but it will take me a while06:56
Lukas__:D  true06:57
Lukas__I just want to make sure they are talking about actual research06:57
kanzureooh a bigdog talk http://diyhpl.us:9000/s/bigdog-the-rough-terrain-robot06:58
kanzureLukas__: yeah, ben best talks about actual research ;)06:58
Lukas__okay, thanks06:59
Lukas__Kanzure, how long do you think it'll be until we start strapping fire arms on the bigdog?06:59
Lukas__I give it 5 or so years06:59
kanzurei thought that's what it's for? carrying firearms?07:05
Lukas__Nope07:11
Lukas__it's a robotic mule07:11
Lukas__at least for now07:11
kanzureuh yeah what do you think it's doing, carrying stones?07:13
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Lukas__A soldier's pack - item's they'd need in the field .  Bigdog allows a squad to carry what they need without weighing themselves down, allowing infantry to carry combat gear without having to worry about other stuff increases combat effectiveness07:32
Lukas__I think a soldier's pack is somewhere around 50-80lbs07:32
Lukas__so traveling light (especially in tough terrain) will be a big help07:33
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gloopdbolser: does your codon re-writing interest integrate the natural evolution of the polar-requirement of optomized codons? http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/q-bio/pdf/0605/0605036v1.pdf07:47
gloopthe codons are redundant for a reason07:48
gloophttp://www.springerlink.com/content/p7r3324138u62120/07:50
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strages!note Gregabyte_ http://home.c2i.net/metaphor/mvpage.html07:55
dbolsergloop: indeed08:01
dbolserbut for synbio, we aren't at the stage where we need to engineer robustly08:01
dbolserengineering at all is the first step08:01
gloopi'd imagine that it'd be preferable to have synthetic organisms not survive beyond their intended use08:02
gloopthus their generations would lose out to mutation errors08:02
gloopprogrammed into the machinery08:02
gloopdesigned to error, or designed to survive...depending on the use08:03
gloop(correction: they're not mutually exlcusive)08:04
gloop(self-correction)08:04
kanzurehttp://michaelnielsen.org/blog/what-should-a-reasonable-person-believe-about-the-singularity/08:05
timschmidt:( sparkfun08:05
kanzurethis reminds me of theuncertainfuture.com.. a little something i worked on a whiel back08:07
kanzureoh, someone mentions it in the comments08:07
genehacker:( sparkfun08:07
genehackerI'm in!08:09
timschmidt:-/08:09
timschmidtnot here08:09
genehackerwell I'm not in anymore08:11
genehackeri'm in again!08:13
timschmidtmaking it any further?08:16
genehackerno08:18
genehackerstuck08:18
timschmidthaven't made it in yet here08:18
genehackerok goto http://www.sparkfun.com/free_day/quiz08:19
genehackerquick shot08:19
timschmidtwoo!08:19
genehackerwonder if it's better to have multitabs refreshing it08:19
timschmidtno, not quite08:19
kanzuresparkfun getting raepd on freeday again?08:26
timschmidtof course08:26
timschmidtthey're exceptional at DDoSing themselves08:26
kanzuregenehacker: you can also try /join #sparkfun08:28
kanzureinsanity08:29
kanzurehttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/3949700/SparkfunCrash.jpg08:29
genehackeri'm in it08:30
* archels got to the front page08:32
archels... and that's about it.08:32
archelsQuiz is probably a no-no due to interpreted server side scripting.08:34
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genehackercan't get through08:49
kanzureInterview with hacker anthropologist Biella Coleman http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/13/interview-with-hacke.html08:54
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kanzurecambridge synthetic biology http://www.synbio.org.uk/index.php08:54
kanzurerussell durret has a blog now http://russelldurrett.com/08:55
kanzurehttp://biopunk.hu/2011/01/12/cyberpunk/ "A documentary about cyberpunk from 1993 (or 1990 if IMDB is right) featuring William Gibson and Timothy Leary."08:55
kanzurehrm i can't extract the google video link from that embed08:56
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timschmidtone hour in...  still attempting to get to the quiz09:04
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timschmidtSO CLOSE09:35
kanzuretimschmidt: you should use wget/curl to submit the quiz09:36
timschmidtI should.  Wish I was confident enough to craft the command properly the first time09:37
kanzurei'll help09:37
genehackerdammit can't load images09:53
delinquentmekanzure, do you have any idea of the costs associated with running a online web app for ~ 1mil users?10:07
delinquentmei got in a nice little internet fist fight w some kid in #rubyonrails over what a "system" is .. and im looking for a generalish answer10:08
archelsah, suddenly it's over.10:10
archelsApparently *some* people got through.10:10
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kanzuredelinquentme: nah i've never had a site go that big10:23
kanzurebut it really depends on how much data you're transferring out and how many page requests per second you need to serve upp10:23
delinquentmeawesome10:24
delinquentmeif anything else comes to mind as far as variable or fixed costs im all ears10:24
delinquentmeand is it accurate to measure expenses in # of users?10:24
delinquentmeor is the data transfer a better metric?10:24
kanzureno number of users is a bad metric10:25
kanzuredata transfer (GB in/out per month) is useful because you can go look at bandwidth costs10:25
kanzurebut you also have to factor in stuff like how much data you're storing on the server, or how many cores you'll need for peak load10:26
kanzurestalk: moteyalpha10:33
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kanzureanyone want to mess around with nanoengineer for me today?12:15
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Lukas__?12:35
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UtopiahUtilizing the Social Graph as a Relevancy Source for Data Ranking  http://www.wireblur.com/discuss/49812:46
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jrayhawkHi, Jebba. I remember you from the Mer project.13:19
jrayhawkand also giving a slightly terrifying amount of money to wikipedia13:23
Lukas__?13:25
kanzure$20,000. impressive :)13:25
Lukas__D:13:25
Lukas__That is extreme13:25
Lukas__good man13:25
Lukas__:D13:25
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jrayhawkBryan: I'm probably going to be shutting down Gnusha sometime tonight for upgrades.13:31
kanzurewhat's the shut down for?13:32
jrayhawkan X7DB8+, two X5355s, and 12 gigs of memory13:33
kanzureyummy13:33
Lukas__sweet13:41
kanzurewhat am i doing wrong? /script exec foreach my \$channel (Irssi::channels()) { print \$channel->{name}; }13:42
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kanzureaha: /script exec foreach (Irssi::channels()) { print $_->{name}; }13:52
* kanzure is now ready for jrayhawk's damage13:53
kanzuretelomerase patent was granted today14:00
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Utopiahdo you monitor new pending patent on keywords?14:01
kanzureno i just get massive amounts of spam14:01
jebbahey jrayhawk. Took me awhile to remember wtf mer was. ;)14:20
jebbai figure it will be easier to print a phone on a reprap than get an open phone from nokia  ;)14:21
jrayhawkapparently you can get a openish phone out of nokia so long as you enter into a multimillion dollar platform engineering effort with them14:24
jrayhawkThe only big closedness problems were the modem and the battery management entity, and I think source for those is now available from meego.14:27
jebbaoh no no no. No source for that stuff still, i would (without looking) be pretty sure.14:27
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jebbalast i looked (admittedly, like in October), there were plenty of nokia binaries needed to get functionality on meego/n900. And in fact, i dont think all that functionality was brought over even in binary form (at least back then).  Long term they are going ofono which is floss, but i dont know of the status of ofono with any current nokia phone (except the calls I made with it on the n900/maemo).14:29
jrayhawkOct 13: 'we now have 3G audio call functionality with proper ofono signaling and pulse audio stack working on N900, including our brand new open source modem adaptation for N900!'14:33
jrayhawkThey claimed they were getting close to getting the BME working back in, like, July, but I can't find news on that.14:35
jebbaYa, but that BME working was still a binary kludge, iirc14:38
jrayhawkLame. Typical Nokia, I guess.14:38
jrayhawkKeep the promises around in a sufficiently plausible form that people stick around, but never actually keep them.14:39
jrayhawkerrr, fulfill them.14:39
jebbaThere's a huge list of that no doubt14:43
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fennkanzure: AR assembly instructions from cad data http://youtube.com/watch?v=vOhiZ37aaww16:07
kanzure"AR lego" shows up under 'related videos'16:10
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gloopdelinquentme: can you use a GPU's cores to act as server clusters?16:52
gloopgpgpus, etc.16:52
delinquentmegloop, im not sure?17:00
delinquentmeumm actually i think not17:00
kanzureone of my older projects:17:00
kanzurehttp://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/3qp/link_the_uncertain_future_the_future_according_to/17:00
delinquentmebe GPU cores dont have separate RAM etc17:00
kanzurewe're working on getting it open sourced17:00
gloopi just thought about it since today there was an article on slashdot about GPU-accelerated servers17:02
gloopon Amazon17:02
gloopEC217:03
kanzureyeah i use the gpu-accelerated ec2 units for cracking your passwords17:03
* kanzure is pals with lolhashcat17:03
kanzurehttp://hashcat.net/oclhashcat/17:04
gloopwell bulldozers will have 8 cores, and 16 cores in the next year i think17:05
gloopoh yeah, this should definitely be able to handle 1 million users: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3768/seamicro-announces-sm10000-server-with-512-atom-cpus-and-low-power-consumption17:07
gloopi'd like to see one using ARM cores though (<100mW)17:09
joshcryerAww, I missed that SparkFun nonsense. :(17:14
joshcryergloop, there'll be a 20 core bulldozer by 2012.17:15
joshcryer2 ghz cores.17:15
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gloopcool. i have an amd biostar that i can upgrade to 6 cores17:16
gloopmy current chip suffices though17:17
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JayDuggerGood evening, everyone.17:22
gloophowdy17:23
joshcryerHey JayDugger17:24
joshcryerjaytabtabtab17:24
kanzurefenn: fyi, kartik is getting humanity+ on board with the $80,000 grand reprap prize thing17:26
kanzureso we're fixing a few of the mistakes this time around17:26
kanzurelike setting specific deadlines and terms/conditions17:26
kanzurepresently the only written text about the grand prize is under its own section here: http://gadaprize.org/17:26
kanzurei'd really like to convince him that bounties are a better idea for this17:26
kanzuresince the whole prize thing has way too many weird dynamics17:27
kanzure(for instance, people are encouraged by the prize criteria presently to not disclose their work, because if they do, other people might spend more time on it and improve it to a point where their original work is worth pretty much nothing)17:27
JayDuggerWhat argument have you tried, and who do you mean by "him?"17:27
kanzure(so they have reason to delay)17:27
kanzureJayDugger: the person is "kartik" (see the first message in that sequence..)17:27
JayDuggerDone. Who's that?17:27
kanzurehttp://gadaprize.org/ the guy who organized this at foresight institute17:28
kanzurei thought you reviewed this for me17:28
JayDuggerThank you.17:28
JayDuggerYeah, but I've been off my nootropics.17:30
kanzurejebba: i didn't see your PMs earlier, sorry :/17:30
kanzurejebba: http://openmanufacturing.org/ was just http://heybryan.org/om.html and http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing17:30
gloopkanzure, but if they improve on their work, what if their a modular aspect of their original design ends up having some other function in another design?17:33
gloop*if there is a modular17:34
kanzuregloop: well presently the idea is to split up the award money17:34
JayDuggerReally:17:34
kanzurei think just paying reprap developers for specific developments is more efficient17:34
kanzurei.e. for $10k i bet tim schmidt or prusa or vik could get a lot of those tasks done.17:35
JayDuggerIf you do that, how would you get an integrated system instead of a collection of parts?17:35
jebbakanzure ++ to bounties not large prizes. I'll bounty off openmanufacturing.org  ;)17:35
kanzurehi jebba! sorry for me being a deadbet and not re-registering openmanufacturing.org17:35
jebbahaha np17:35
kanzurejebba: http://diyhpl.us/cgit/skdb but it seems you've already looked17:35
jebbaya, docs/installing where i'm at right now ;)17:36
kanzurethe recent work on it is a specification for hardware packages17:36
kanzurehttp://diyhpl.us/cgit/skdb/plain/doc/package_spec.yaml17:36
kanzurejebba: right now there's no point in installing17:36
jebbagotcha17:36
kanzureone of the dependencies mentioned in doc/installing is opencascade17:36
kanzurefor 3D visualization and CAD related voodoo magic,17:36
kanzurewhich is impractical for a package manager really17:36
kanzureif you *do* install it what you'll be able to do is play around with this demo lego connector that loaded up a lego package and randomly figured out how to connect lego assemblies17:37
jebbahell, there's packages of texlive, why not opencascade?17:37
kanzureagain, that's not precisely core functionality for "sudo apt-get install dna-synthesizer"17:37
kanzurejebba: oh, there should be opencascade packages floating around somewhere17:37
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kanzurealso of pythonocc (swig wrappers on top of opencascade)17:38
jebbaI'll take a look at package_spec.   I've packaged plenty of RPMS/debs over time17:38
kanzurecool :)17:38
kanzureyeah, so, no existing package manager would seem to be a good fit for this17:38
kanzureon the other hand, all existing package managers seem oddly tailored17:38
kanzurewhich is probably why a new one always springs up for each new language/linux distribution/"knowledge repo"/etc.17:39
kanzure*deadbeat17:46
kanzurejebba: come to think of it, fenn took great pains to make sure skdb could be installed without opencascade/pythonocc, so skdb-client.py will work without occ/pythonocc, but it will fail because it hasn't been maintained anyway17:51
kanzureif that distinction matters :)17:51
kanzureoops, skdb/clients/skdb-get.py not skdb-client.py http://diyhpl.us/cgit/skdb/plain/clients/skdb-get.py17:51
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kanzurehi alystair18:00
alystairaha18:00
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alystairwas wondering where this channel ran off to18:00
kanzureyeah sorry about that :(18:00
alystairwhat's gitduino18:02
alystairgit + arduino? :)18:02
alystairgit based revisioning of arduino plans?18:02
kanzureand of other open source hardware projects18:03
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kanzureoh sweet18:15
kanzuregleapsite: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/09/21/how-to-lucid-dream/18:15
kanzure"It turns out that eye movement, unlike the rest of the skeletal muscular system, is not inhibited by REM sleep. Subjects could memorize horizontal eye patterns (e.g. left-left-right-right-left-right-left) and repeat the patterns upon becoming lucid, which researchers could observe, all while recording brain activity with an EEG to confirm that the subjects where, in fact, in a dream state."18:15
QuantumGthat sounds like a fact made up on the spot18:16
kanzureEEG/EMG can easily grab eye movement data.. or cheap infrared reflectometers that could probably grab eye movement itself (not muscle activity)18:17
superkuhThat's an xckd comic.18:17
kanzureQuantumG: cite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_LaBerge18:17
kanzuresuperkuh: i don't recall it18:17
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kanzuresuperkuh: yesterday we were talking about using an electrotactile tongue display + openeeg for communication into and out of lucid dreams http://gnusha.org/logs/2011-01-12.log18:17
kanzureone of my questions was whether or not REM corresponded to actual in-dream eye movements.. it seems that was the question they answered to prove lucid dreaming was real in the first place.18:18
QuantumGthe left-left-right-right-left-right-left sounds like http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClassicCheatCode18:19
kanzuresomeone should pitch lucid dreaming eye tracking at quantified self18:20
superkuhThe first text I ever posted to the internet was to alt.dreams.lucid. All my knowledge on that subject comes from a long time ago; I don't trust it.18:20
kanzureyou don't trust your knowledge or alt.dreams.lucid?18:20
superkuhMine.18:20
QuantumGheh, every site says "scientifically published work" and then provide no references18:21
kanzurehere's a 2010 paper: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ojs/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/606/pdf18:22
kanzurehas some good references i guess.18:23
superkuhNeat. Thanks.18:23
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QuantumGok, random idea for ya:  sure, a magic eye movement pattern sounds like a nice way to detect lucid dreaming.. now go one step further and define a technique for outputting text18:26
kanzureeye movement can be used to guide a mouse, pointer, or character in second life18:27
JayDuggerMorse code for text?18:27
kanzuredunno if anyone can do morse code in their sleep :)18:27
joshcryerCongrats, you guys just got on the news for the Tuscon thing.18:28
joshcryer:P18:28
kanzureEEG can hardly do typing when you're wake so it's out of the question for sleeping18:28
kanzuretuscon?18:28
JayDuggerDoes your mother know morse code?18:28
joshcryers/sc/cs18:28
QuantumGfor example, have the subject conjure up a keyboard (we all know what one looks like now) and "type" by eye movements in the air.  Regularly typing the word "goofy" to calibrate the position of the keys18:28
JayDuggerLink, joshcryer?18:28
joshcryeruh I'd rather google not pick up my joke and make it real18:29
QuantumGthe next morning you get the eye movement data and mine it for "goofy" and then try to extract other words.18:29
kanzureQuantumG: lots of statistics could help with that i bet.18:29
kanzureif brainport works while you're sleeping it would be a lot of help..18:29
QuantumGif you're successful at pulling out whole sentences with minimal error and didn't "cook the data" then you have a nice way to output.18:30
QuantumGbrainport is an input device18:30
QuantumG(primarily)18:30
kanzureyes but you could see what character/letter you have typed or selected18:30
QuantumGand if you're receiving stimulus then you're more likely to wake up18:30
kanzuredo you lucid dream?18:31
QuantumGthe value of the eye movement experiment is that you're producing outputs without receiving inputs18:31
QuantumGthus you're guaranteed that everything is "reflective consciousness" as LaBerge calls it18:31
joshcryerwhy are we doing this?18:32
QuantumGin your lucid REM state you might actually be creative and smart or something18:32
kanzurei wonder if people with locked-in syndrome have REM18:32
QuantumGme, I expect I'm exactly the same as when I'm drunk18:32
joshcryerI never remember a dream where I am more insightful than not.18:32
joshcryerUsually it's nonsense.18:32
kanzurejoshcryer: to be on the internet while dreaming18:32
QuantumGindeed18:32
joshcryerLast night I dreampt I couldn't run. My legs weighed 10 times what they normally could, and I was being chased.18:33
QuantumGI usually wake up from a "funny dream" and think back on the "great joke I came up with" and decide I'm not funny18:33
QuantumGexactly the same as when I'm drunk :)18:33
joshcryerThis is ridiculous, I can do a 6 minute mile.18:33
kanzurejoshcryer: lucid dreaming isn't the same.18:33
QuantumGlucid dreaming to me is typically of the form "oh my god you're the most boring subconscious in the world.. I'm taking over this dream now"18:34
QuantumGanyway, ya know what I want to figure out?  lucid night terrors18:35
joshcryerThat's what I had. I mean, I cannot run, therefore I must be dreaming. :)18:36
joshcryer"There exist no evidence for why my legs should weigh 10x what they normally do, therefore this is not real."18:36
QuantumGI get night terrors.. the first few times were seriously frightening.  I was sure I was awake and seeing a giant spider.18:36
joshcryerHow giant?18:36
QuantumGlately, my brain says "night terror eh?  you enjoy that" and all I feel is terror.. and so I just go "what?  why the terror?  ok, whatever, ARGGH, go back to sleep"18:37
QuantumGdog sized18:37
joshcryerYeah18:38
QuantumGI also saw a snake or two18:38
QuantumGthe problem with night terrors is they're so quick18:38
QuantumGthere's no time to do the usual lucid dreaming tricks of reality testing18:38
joshcryerEh, my dreams are very much not of this reality so I am very rarely tricked by them.18:39
joshcryerThe only time is when I find coins in a dream.18:39
QuantumGwell, you're supposed to develop your dreams before you try lucid dreaming18:39
QuantumGwrite a dream journal and suck18:40
QuantumGerr, such18:40
joshcryerTakes me like two hours to fall asleep.18:40
joshcryerMy dreams can fuck off.18:40
QuantumGif you're not remembering 8+ dreams a night then you're not developed18:40
JayDuggerEight? Good lord.18:40
QuantumGI'm lazy, these days I don't remember 118:41
JayDuggerI might have that many in a year.18:41
joshcryerI remember one a night these days, right before my damn alarm clock goes off.18:41
QuantumGput a book next to your bed and write down anything when you wake up..18:41
joshcryerIt's actually quite amazing because I'll open my eyes a minute before it goes off.18:41
QuantumGsome people totally lose it though.. they start writing a dream journal and quickly discover they are their most creative as soon as they wake up..18:43
QuantumGnever get out of bed, think they're going to make it as a writer, etc.18:43
joshcryerI'm most creative when I'm awake 20+ hours.18:43
joshcryerIt's why I have a hard time sleeping.18:44
joshcryerI totally wrote this brillian expose on stupid networking in my head last night.18:44
QuantumGsurely that's drunken creativity though18:44
joshcryerI think I might write it out and see what you guys think later on, we'll see.18:44
joshcryerNo, it's really pretty ridiculously awesome.18:44
kanzureheh my mom is talking to me about her lucid dreaming18:45
kanzureshe's totally into this.18:45
gleapsiteMe as well.18:45
QuantumGuh huh.  I used to code drunk at vmware.  it was great because we had totally automated build-and-test.18:45
QuantumGit's like:  breath in, write 100 lines of code, hit build, breath out18:46
gleapsitehere's a way to inject your dreams with a sign that makes you realize you're dreaming: http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Lucid-Dream-Machine/18:46
QuantumGor you can just train yourself, it's not hard18:46
joshcryerMainly I just use art of memory tricks and just put the best stuff aside for later.18:47
JayDuggerBy "art of memory" do you mean the particular mnemonics in Francis Yates' book, or some other things:18:48
kanzuregleapsite: what's interesting about my mom as a test subject is that she has an identical twin18:53
joshcryerJayDugger, oops, sorry, didn't see your question, I mean the general art of memory.18:53
joshcryerJayDugger, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_memory18:53
JayDuggerDoes your aunt have similar lucid dreaming skill?18:53
gleapsitekanzure: does her twin share her enthusiasm?18:53
kanzurei haven't asked her yet18:53
joshcryerJayDugger, I followed Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas' approach, but it's all pretty much the same.18:54
JayDuggerEven if eye-movement during lucid dreaming can't output text, you might at least use it to trigger an automatic record of the act of dreaming.18:59
kanzureRoffwarg, H., Dement, W. C., Muzio, J., & Fisher, C. (1962). Dream imagery: Relationship to rapid eye movements of sleep. Archives of General Psychiatry, 7, 235-238.19:04
gleapsiteI hate when papers are publicly available.19:06
gleapsitearen't*19:06
kanzure"paperleaks" may or may not be in the process of getting deployed19:06
superkuhQuantumG: There used to be a LCD glasses kit that would detect REM and flash lights at programmed intervals, pc parallel port.19:07
kanzure"that dreamed movements result in corresponding patterns of muscle twitching"19:08
QuantumGyeah, as I said, simple training will suffice.19:09
kanzureoh cool. someone studied morse code communication.19:09
superkuhEr, s/LCD/LED/19:09
kanzurebut they only communicated their initials? why19:10
kanzurefrom page 130 http://www.lucidipedia.com/downloads/lucidityinstitute_researchpapers.pdf19:11
QuantumGsomeone should make a movie about lucid dreaming where the dream sequences are hand animations19:11
QuantumG(cause that's about the level of detail of most people's dreams)19:11
JayDuggerWasn't that done? "A Waking Life" or some such?19:13
QuantumGI dunno what that was about19:13
QuantumGjust someone showing off that they can grind painting over film19:14
JayDuggerI haven't seen it either.19:14
QuantumGI think I watched it.. I have little memory19:14
kanzurethere was there was "to the end of the world" if that counts19:14
QuantumGA Scanner Darkly was better :)19:14
kanzureor "the matrix"19:14
kanzurelaberge has coauthored with zimbardo? huh19:16
JayDuggerLaberge, S. (1980). Lucid dreaming: An exploratory study of  consciousness during sleep. (Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, 1980),  (University Microfilms No. 80-24, 691)19:19
JayDuggerThat's probably the connection.19:19
QuantumGdoes "muscle twitching" happen with tranquillizers?19:19
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QuantumGas in, if you get tranqed and try to move do your muscles twitch in a detectable way?19:20
QuantumGI suppose I'm incorrectly assuming the existence of a general anaesthetic that doesn't affect consciousness19:22
kanzuredunno.19:30
kanzureheh laberge studied vEMG or "vaginal electromyography"19:31
JayDuggerGo Science!19:31
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JayDuggerGood night, everyone.19:44
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kanzureralith is heating up for a lolcad discussion in #reprap20:24
augurphilip glass is the musician of the deep-future post-singularity world. just sayin'.21:07
kanzurehttp://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2011/01/hard-takeoff-hypothesis.html21:07
kanzureaugur: philip glass is my homie21:07
kanzurefenn's too apparently.21:07
augur*-qatsi is amazing.21:08
auguror should that be are21:08
augurhmm21:08
augurif *x denotes p0x, p1x, and p2x collectively, is *x a singular or plural noun21:09
auguror mass?21:09
augursurely it should be plural, no?21:09
augur*qatsi ~ koyaanisqatsi, powaqqatsi, and naqoyqatsi21:09
augurso where the latter goes, the former goes21:10
augurso surely it should be *qatsi are amazing21:10
kanzurei only really enjoyed koyaanisqatsi .. the others were less than stellar21:11
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augurbah21:12
augurthats not the question21:12
augur:P21:12
auguris *qatsi singular or plural21:13
auguraha!21:14
augurno21:14
augur*qatsi is singular, and means "some qatsi or other"21:15
auguror "any qatsi" or whatever21:15
augurso {*qatsi} must be the set of all qatsi's, e.g. {koyaanisqatsi, powaqqatsi, naqoyqatsi}21:15
augurand so {*qatsi} is plural21:15
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kanzuregleapsite: http://www.dreamviews.com/f32/dream-glove-communication-95488/21:35
kanzure"Once this has been completed I will be writing a program (probaby in Java) that will interpret these movements so that it can positively identify individual finger movements despite the sensor noise generated by movement of the hand and/or movement of an adjacent finger"21:35
kanzurehaha @ this update: http://www.dreamviews.com/f32/dream-glove-communication-95488/#post143581521:36
superkuhNovaDreamer!21:36
superkuhThat was the kit.21:36
jrayhawksupposedly baraka was better21:36
kanzurebaraka was not better21:37
jrayhawknoted21:37
superkuhhttp://www.lucidity.com/novadreamer.html21:37
kanzure#8 is funny too..21:37
kanzure"Waiting for the rest of the parts in the mail. In the meantime I'm training myself to tap out hello world with my index and middle fingers. It's quite alot of taps and shorthand may prove useful in the future."21:37
kanzureH - r r r r21:37
kanzureE - r21:37
kanzureL - r l r r21:37
kanzureL - r l r r21:37
kanzureO - l l l21:37
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kanzure"21:40
kanzureThere has been at least one experiment in which a person was hypnotized to talk in their sleep, and narrated the events of their dreams to a researcher. The case that I know of was a person with a history of talking in his sleep, though. Still, it merits a closer investigation.21:40
kanzureha21:40
kanzuremulti-player dream games http://www.dreaminglucid.com/issues/LDE%2054.pdf21:40
kanzureeh that article was lame.21:42
kanzurewas this it? http://xkcd.com/269/21:42
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superkuhYes.21:52
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kanzurelol everyone is going to be so pissed if i convert the $80k gada prize into an $80k "here, just go do this" fund22:27
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QuantumGit'd be interesting to see an organization that did do that though22:31
kanzureright.. especially for open sources tuff.22:32
kanzure*stuff22:32
kanzurefor some reason reprap people seem to get a lot of stuff done for low cash22:32
QuantumG"we thought technology X is being ignored, so we came up with a direction we think it should be going in and threw some money at it and look!"22:32
QuantumGone of the guys in the local hackerspace was just mentioning that he's building a Mendel22:33
QuantumGthere's already 3 in the hackerspace22:33
kanzureon the other hand.. i do have personal incentive to make the $80k fundraising thing work, because it shows i'm able to raise more money22:33
QuantumGI felt like saying "why don't you innovate already?"22:33
kanzurebut that's at the risk of perpetuating a possibly unstable prize structure thing for reprap stuff22:33
QuantumGjust went into my local welding shop and asked them if they had any pulse TIGs22:36
QuantumGguy shows me one.. rants about it for about 30 seconds.  I point at the price tag that says $2600 and say "is that for this one?" and he's like, no, and shows me the price tag for the pulse TIG: $510022:37
QuantumGthanks for that.  A regular TIG is about $569.  I wonder what makes pulse TIG so different.22:38
QuantumGor maybe that place is just expensive22:40
QuantumGTig200PAc/Dc 200 Amp Tig Pulse & MMA Inverter Welder $1,69522:40
QuantumGstill too rich for my blood, but maybe it'll have good resale value22:41
QuantumGhttp://www.weldersdirect.com.au/product/506/200_AMP_PULSE_DC_TIG_WELDER_WITH_STICK_CAPABILITY $50022:56
QuantumGthat's more like it22:59
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