2008-11-05.log

--- Day changed Wed Nov 05 2008
kanzure_For anyone else who's interested, I'm starting to forward calls for papers to wikicfp@gmail.com .. let them deal with the junk and throw it up on their site.01:49
kanzure_Yay compliance training. "The University strongly discourages consensual relationships."02:08
kanzure_Interesting.02:22
kanzure_If a company has a group of architects that have been there forever, and in fact were hired so long ago that they didn't have to take aptitude tests or have diplomas, and current hiring practices require those qualifications, that's basis for a lawsuit.02:23
kanzure_evidently a federal lawsuit. 02:23
xp_prg2kanzure_ do you think I could write a paper on what I am doing with sbml?02:35
kanzure_Can you be more specific?02:35
xp_prg2for you what I am doing02:35
kanzure_You think 20 lines of code warrants a paper?02:36
xp_prg2well no, but like with my biobench interface and everything02:36
kanzure_Do you know enough about what it's going to be used for?02:38
xp_prg2probably not02:38
kanzure_Have you ever publsihed a paper before02:39
kanzure_?02:39
xp_prg2no02:39
xp_prg2but I have done many of them in my 2 masters02:39
kanzure_Did you or did you not?02:39
kanzure_Usually thesis papers are published.02:39
xp_prg2no I never "published" one02:39
xp_prg2have you?02:41
kanzure_I honestly don't think it's paper worthy. I'd be willing to coauthor a paper on the broader project though.02:41
xp_prg2awsome!02:41
xp_prg2let me know what you need me to do02:41
kanzure_Finish the script? :)02:41
xp_prg2ok02:41
xp_prg2well I am close as you can see02:42
ybitprogress on openstim halted?03:03
ybithaven't seen much activity on its wiki03:03
ybithttp://transcenmentalism.org/OpenStim/tiki-index.php?page=The+Tasks03:03
ybitlast mod may 1503:04
kanzure_Superkuh had a "working" rTMS setup that produced tingling senations in the skin.03:04
kanzure_Then laziness kicked in or something.03:04
kanzure_Ed otherwise doesn't seem to be keeping up with it.03:04
kanzure_http://heybryan.org/~bbishop/docs/open-rtms/03:04
kanzure-http://transcenmentalism.org/OpenStim/tiki-index.php?page=The+Tasks03:05
kanzure_Ignore link.03:05
ybithttp://transcenmentalism.org/OpenStim/tiki-listpages.php -- look at the "last mod" column03:05
ybitmay and march of 2008 were the last modifications03:06
kanzure_Right. 03:06
kanzure_There's no doubt that it's terribly undermanned.03:06
kanzure_Um, re: coil design, see the linkks re: line integral optimizations for coil optimization.03:06
kanzure_*links03:07
kanzure_Huh. The control circuitry page claims a capacitor that is discharged feeding into the coil. And since the current flows through the coil, thus the EM field. 03:10
kanzure_That sounds too simple .. why are the circuits always with more components, eh?03:11
kanzure_If that's all it is I should just go to the machine shop tomorrow and cut out some coils.03:12
splicerI hope palin goes into porn now04:06
kanzure_I'm not sure if I'm watching the last scenes of episode VI or the news04:06
kanzure_splicer: I wonder if anybody has assembled a porn generator system yet for 3D modeling with textures stolen from images / videos of people.04:07
kanzure_procto, you have anything on this?04:07
kanzure_I guess there's OpenCP.04:12
kanzure_The idea would be to let people upload cell phone camera photos to a service that would then generate 3D models.04:14
splicerpixar, ILM maybe.04:16
kanzure_splicer: With OpenCP you can capture people's faces from background scenes, and then texture them on to a model face.04:17
kanzure_You can also do face tracking and such.04:17
splicerok04:17
kanzure_So body shape could be extracted if properly contrasted from backgrounds. Cell phones make fairly crappy pictures typically .. though since everyone is always getting new cameras, meh.04:17
splicerDon't they do something like that in movies.. create artifiicial actors... from ground up.04:18
splicerlike in matrix04:18
kanzure_Yes, but not automatically generated from a small number of provided photos.04:19
kanzure_Those are done by hand. :-/04:19
spliceryeah, but maybe they have to be... we notice flaws in facial expressions easily... 04:19
splicerthe reason people in games look like animated corpses04:20
kanzure_I might be mistaken, but I seem to recall something like this in games.04:20
kanzure_I thought that in the GTA 3 or GTA 4 games you could upload your likeness via some cameras/photos and texture your character with clothing and facial expressions?04:20
splicerThe thing is... it would have to be the real palin04:21
kanzure_Maybe that's the Sims.04:21
splicer..ann coulter too, and that other crazy blond woman on fox news04:27
kanzure_I was eating in the cafeteria, which is surrounded by these massive televisions, and at one point the other day Fox was talking about ".. this extreme liberal .. Obama .." and it made me double take. "Oh, it's just Fox."04:27
kanzure_"extreme liberal" hehe.04:28
kanzure_fenn: I think I might be adding a new line to the "supply chain closure spiel". It's like 'tenure, except for living'. 04:30
splicerMegyn Kelly.. her04:30
* fenn yawns04:30
kanzure_boring?04:30
kanzure_I mean, it's just a rewording of the concept of being aware of how much food you have 04:30
kanzure_Anyway, I just need to write the graph search recursion functions in a least destructive way and the graph-easy setup will be somewhat functional in a semi-complete manner.04:34
kanzure_I was wondering if I should keep the C# graph algorithms, compile those into separate sections and just pass off the data to those in the CGI script04:35
kanzure_this would potentially be faster. (but apparently I have yet to figure out monoclone and compiling the graphsynth portions on linux (particularly grammarRules.cs))04:36
ppklol05:21
ppkwhat's with the topic?05:21
kanzure_Otherwise we just go in circles for hours. Repeating stuff and so on.05:21
kanzure_or also because nothing gets done ;-)05:21
kanzure_Hm. 05:34
kanzure_todo: surfraw + interfaces to amazon + digikey + a few other key places, then repackage kits/circuits with a "buy now" button client for given "package files". Optimally, an alternative to "buy now" would be the "how to make it" instructions. 05:36
kanzure_or, not so much "buy now" but rather "order now"05:36
kanzure_I don't care that it's moneyahs or truffles or electrons underneath ..05:36
ppkdid you check out that sybioss python script bryan?05:49
kanzure_Which one?05:49
ppkthat william heath sent you05:50
ppkearlier today05:50
kanzure_That wasn't synbioss, and yes, I did.05:50
kanzure_It's missing a few important pieces like "complex specifics", "binding specifics", and inducers.05:50
kanzure_Huh. That's cheering outside .. conspicuously synching up with the hum of the computer fans in here.05:51
facefacehttp://www.springerlink.com/content/c057h66g475w6360/ ???08:46
facefacekanzure_, bkero actually I haven't looked at parts registry in any detail08:48
facefaceI got the above pdf08:59
UtopiahGHMLProduction of healthy cloned mice from bodies frozen at .20?C for 16 years http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/10/31/0806166105.abstract?sid=4872f035-0536-4367-aa69-ddcc86539cc610:54
UtopiahGHML(Id like to know how well the neurocircuitery works now)10:55
UtopiahGHMLanybody tried Internet by satellite? using your own dish an pointing it etc..?12:38
kanzure_UtopiahGHML: Bodies or embryos?13:41
UtopiahGHMLis it possible to clone bodies? I think ontogenesis is always used since we don't have atomic copying machine (Xerox is pretty slow on that one...)13:43
kanzure_It is possible to use polymerase to copy DNA, it is true, and it is possible to induce meiosis or mitosis and transformation/competence when we need in special circumstances.13:47
UtopiahGHMLmy blunt point of view of that is anyway : more personal asset of a living organism today = mind, copying organs = copying structure but not content thus... it's a progress but it's far from what matters the most today14:05
kanzure_While copying content would be useful, don't rely on it.14:17
kanzure__Huh. They closed that last-open physics class while I was sorting out times for my other classes .. 17:14
kanzure__No waitlists either.17:14

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