2010-02-02.log

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kanzure"the architects of interesting sciences and technologies (taoists)"00:34
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fennhanging out with sid tonight; his recent thoughts: http://thetechnologist.tv/blog/2010-storm-drones06:30
fennmostly apple-bashing06:31
fenni discovered the "playstation eye" is a really great webcam; updates fast (60fps even in low light) and good resolution06:32
fennnot sure what to do with 4 microphones06:32
fennheh and ~2x zoom lens06:35
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fenndamn trader joe's chocolate... i thought i knew beter07:53
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kanzurefenn: did steve get you addicted to trader joe's?09:35
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* nsh belatedly chuckles10:19
kanzure>:(10:25
kanzurehttp://designfiles.org/~bryan/meetlog/analysis.2010020210:25
kanzure12.75 netizens/day. hrm10:25
kanzurethat doesn't make sense, 13 new people per day?10:26
kanzureit doesn't feel like that at all10:26
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kanzurehm: http://designfiles.org/~bryan/meetlog/2009-to-2010.png11:09
kanzurehttp://designfiles.org/~bryan/meetlog/2004-to-2010.png11:10
kanzuremy tails are all backwards o_O11:10
kanzurebig image version: http://designfiles.org/~bryan/meetlog/2004-to-2010-points.png 11:18
kanzurehm if i had collected time data i could do some fancy 3d plots (like how long was spent with eachperson)11:23
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kanzure"a biopunk manifesto" http://maradydd.livejournal.com/496085.html11:56
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kanzurehttp://fora.humanityplus.org/12:53
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kanzurehttp://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/index.php/Sources13:02
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ybithttp://ybit.ath.cx/text/The%20Cambridge%20Handbook%20of%20Expertise%20and%20Expert%20Performance.pdf13:27
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ybitkanzure: what's the point of the meetlog?13:37
ybitjust to something keep you busy, perhaps13:37
ybiti.e. data to play with13:39
ybithttp://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/index.php/Sources13:46
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ybitanyone know of something like feh for browsing through images on an external web server?15:46
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ybitgwenview16:39
ybit"Fuck you, I'm an anteater" :D17:22
ybithttp://ybit.ath.cx/images/pictures/anteater.jpg17:23
ybitfenn, kanzure, whomever had that on their hdd, thanks. 17:24
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ybitkanzure: http://bayimg.com/image/eakeiaacc.jpg17:39
ybityou show up in my search results for 'computational neuroscience' when i'm logged into my google account17:40
ybityou can see in the konqueror browser that i'm not logged in and you don't pop up17:40
kanzureybit: i suggest browsing at 100 results per page on google17:41
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kanzure"After the big tsunami, the only structure still standing in the wiped-out village of Malacca was a statue of Mahatma Gandhi. I wanna be able to stand like that. Even after getting gargled and spanked and spit out by God."17:50
ybitah, it was superkuh, thanks superkuh17:58
kanzureybit: the meetlog is me keeping track of rates of change18:00
ybiti guess it isn't so terrible18:02
ybitwhile you're at it, create a small program which keeps up with what i'm viewing 24/718:02
kanzurealso it helps me remember when i last talked with people18:02
ybitor at least on the comp.18:02
kanzurea processactogram?18:03
ybithttp://superkuh.ath.cx/users/superkuh/processactogram.pl18:03
kanzureyes18:03
ybithrm18:03
ybitkanzure: have you actually used it/18:06
ybitsuperkuh: do you have any data to share after running the script?18:06
kanzureno i have not used it18:16
kanzureybit: http://superkuh.ath.cx/users/superkuh/actogramexample12days_small.png18:16
kanzurerequires: GD::Simple, DB_File, Proc::ProcessTable, X11::IdleTime, X11 utility 'xprop'18:17
ybitsuperkuh: anything larger?18:18
ybitah, i see18:18
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jduggerHello, all.19:11
ybithey jdugger 19:11
jduggerArgh! I move away from Saint Louis and it gets a hacker space? I might reconsider my opinion of that city.19:21
superkuhybit: http://superkuh.ath.cx/users/superkuh/actogramexample12days_big.png19:29
kanzurei failed19:34
kanzureybit: are you working on the autovoter for cubespawn?19:41
kanzureor do i have to do that?19:41
kanzureugh. contract negotiation sucks19:44
jduggerHeh, heh, heh.19:44
kanzure"how about $150k/year?" "how about no?"19:44
kanzurejdugger: do you have any experience in this?19:44
jduggerJust hard knocks.19:44
kanzurei'm hiring a lawyer, but this guy's expensive19:44
jduggerThat's a good idea. 19:45
jduggerI found employers took more seriously after I mentioned an attorney on retainer.19:45
jduggertook me, rather.19:45
ybitkanzure: i plan on it, but my attention span sucks in general19:47
jduggerybit: No insult meant, but have you tried a calendar?19:50
kanzureok i'll finish it19:50
kanzuresigh19:50
jduggerybit: Seriously, if you cultivate the habit of checking it, they tend to help.19:50
ybitjdugger: i have way too many items that i want to do19:59
ybitorganizing it is difficult for me19:59
ybitmy wallpaper has the immediate todo items, but i don't have a calendar or a set time for anything20:00
ybitmodafinil would help 20:02
kanzurea kick in the ass would help20:03
* kanzure shakes his head20:04
jduggerTry to automate as much as you can, and keep a permanent written record of your "want to do" items.20:04
jduggerDavid Allen's GTD method, now that the hype's faded, has some useful techniques.20:05
ybitapparently GTD and org-mode work great together20:05
jduggerSo I'm told, but I lack sufficient emacs-fu to test it.20:06
jduggerI can't tell you much about Provigil. I've never tried it.20:06
ybit!logs20:07
hplusbotybit: http://adl.serveftp.org/irclogs.txt20:07
ybiti've talked about it before20:07
jduggerDuly noted. I'll grep it out of the log in an idle moment at $DAYJOB.20:07
ybitbe sure to do -A 10 20:08
jduggerGood point. I'd forgotten that switch. Yea, 'man'!20:08
jduggerybit, have you tried Jott or ReQall for capturing and scheduling ideas?20:19
ybitnope20:20
jduggerIf you don't mind using subscription services, you mind find them useful.20:20
jduggermight, rather. Grr...20:20
ybitick20:20
jduggerWell...Allen's book probably lies in a local public library (check Worldcat), and emacs org-mode has open source.20:22
fenni think the processactogram script just generates an image, and doesn't save any data20:23
ybitreqall looks nice, i'd rather implement a system like that myself though, or have someone else do it20:24
ybit..open-source plz20:24
jduggerYou might have to implement it yourself.20:25
fennsuperkuh: i set some bloodthirsty journalists on your trail.. hope you dont mind :)20:25
ybitbuddhabrots never get old20:26
superkuhfenn: Why would you do that?20:26
fennsuperkuh: because you are interesting20:27
fenni met them at the quantified self meetup20:27
jduggerDid you learn anything interesting at the QS meetup, fenn?20:27
fennum, learn anything? no, that's what the internet is for20:28
fenni learned that 70 people showed up and were highly interested in what i'm doing20:29
fennwhich is more than i expected20:29
jduggerPoint taken. I should have written "what did you learn that the Internet won't show?"20:29
ybit70 is a lot20:37
ybitso far, only ~400G is filled on this drive20:38
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fennanyone know much about electrooculograms? can i do mouse-like eye tracking with one? or at least a pie menu22:07
kanzurehttp://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/0034214/Why-Time-Flies-By-As-You-Get-Older?art_pos=1 typical responses. but one comment says "your aging gets slower"22:09
QuantumGthere's a related question there.. why does thought/wit slow down with age?22:10
kanzureQuantumG: did you see this? 22:12
kanzurehttp://groups.google.com/group/diytranshumanist/browse_thread/thread/3ba32bfad6916a1c22:12
kanzure" Exploring perceived acceleration of time as we age "22:12
kanzureholy shit that was 2009-12-22?22:12
jduggerHeh, heh, heh.22:12
fennseems like a long time ago to me22:13
fenni think your/freeman's time perception model is wrong22:14
kanzureyes i agree that something is wrong22:14
kanzureif i knew where i'd fix it :p22:14
kanzuresomething doesn't feel right22:14
kanzure"right"22:14
kanzures/where/where,/22:14
fennit has nothing to do with actual time passing22:15
fennas i've said a zillion times, life is measured in new experiences22:15
kanzureyeah but that's a perception22:16
kanzureso there should be a way to tweak that22:16
kanzurea few millivolts in some carefully chosen regions of the brain maybe?22:16
kanzure(or chemicals?)22:16
fenni'm surprised there aren't any street drugs specifically tailored for that effect22:17
fennat least none that i know of22:17
kanzurei'm not up on my street :(22:17
fennseems most are based around escaping from reality22:17
kanzureall the cool kids on my street just recite terrible poetry22:18
QuantumGthe "smart drug" craze died out after everyone discovered that they still had to attend classes to learn stuff.22:21
kanzurenah, it's still going strong22:21
kanzurefresh batch of college kids all the time22:22
jduggerfenn: http://research.haifa.ac.il/~iipdm/iipdm_labs.htm22:24
jduggerPretty stale looking page, but that Israeli lab does eye-tracking.22:24
fennjdugger: yes i know what an eye tracker is22:27
fennthe question is whether i can do it reliably with an electrooculogram22:27
jduggerApparently this Swiss group has that goal: http://www.wearable.ethz.ch/research/groups/context/eye_movements/22:31
jduggerPerhaps you've already seen their work.22:31
jduggerThere also exists US Patent 5422689 - Method and apparatus for eye tracking for convergence and strabismus measurement.22:32
kanzurethere are many methods22:32
QuantumGif someone would spinoff and commercialize this research, already, I might care.22:34
fennno today is the first time i've heard of eog22:34
jduggergoogling also turned up an UK group with trackers for sale, but of the "call for price" kind.22:35
fennboo hiss22:35
fennit seems like a very straightforward circuit22:35
QuantumGyep, if you have to ask you can't afford it22:35
kanzurefenn: have you decided against the "strap a camera to your face" method for some reason?22:36
QuantumGfenn: if you make one, can you put together an instructable?22:36
kanzureugh22:36
kanzurenooo22:36
kanzurehow about an skdb package instead :/22:38
kanzureya know.. progress?22:38
jdugger:)22:39
jduggerThat's a good idea to consider during work. Time to go, good night everyone.22:39
QuantumGcan't you make some converter from skdb to an instructable?22:39
kanzureyes, but not the other way around22:39
QuantumGyep, have to do that manually :(22:39
fennkanzure: too socially obtrusive22:39
kanzureOR just shoot to kill on sight22:39
fennactually i'm still considering it22:40
fennbut the existing systems are all too big and clunky22:40
kanzurei saw a photo of someone's setup once.. they were pretty tiny and unobtrusive imho22:40
kanzurebut he probably had lots of fancy eyeware equipment laying around22:41
fennthe graffiti thing?22:41
kanzureno, this is one of those photos that you see but can never track down22:41
kanzurelemme pull it up22:41
fennum22:41
kanzurethe source of, i mean22:41
QuantumGhttp://www.smarteye.se/page1714564.aspx  email for price22:42
QuantumGmeh22:42
kanzureit was something like this: http://news.thomasnet.com/images/large/451/451115.jpg except below the glasses pointing up22:42
kanzurealso, is that toilet paper?22:42
kanzureif you can find a small enough camera you could probably tape it to your nose22:43
fennok that's enough engineering advice from you22:45
QuantumGhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/lea-eyetracking/22:45
* kanzure goes back to screwing up fenn's skdb22:46
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JayDuggerThat works.22:58
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ybiti just don't think lightweight and java should be in the same sentence23:32
ybitor acronym23:32
QuantumGya23:32
QuantumGbut if it works, someone could convert it to C and put it on a PIC23:33
ybitunless it says something like Java Isn't Lightweight Loser23:33
ybittrue23:33
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jduggerMuch better ssh > irc both on my phone.23:53
ybitjdugger: what phone?23:55
jduggera Droid.23:55
jduggerNow I'll never accomplish anything at work. :)23:56

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