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Re:Dogs demonstrate the existence of an epileptic seizure od... by echelon on Friday March 29, 2019 @10:55AM (#19522220)
It's not that we can't. We're just now beginning to characterize this in dogs now. Next we need to identify the chemical signal and develop hardware to pick up that signal.
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Re:Dogs demonstrate the existence of an epileptic seizure od... by pbhjpbhj on Friday March 29, 2019 @11:14AM (#19522364)
If it's the strength of a particular chemical signal -- like dogs can normally smell it, but it's suddenly stronger -- then that seems like it's going to make false detections very difficult. Training a machine to have an innate sense of how smell works under changing environmental conditions seems like it's going to be hard.
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