EEBio
Many a dollar is wasted every year on trying to prove population-wide screening prevents mortality or increases patients’ quality of life and every time we don’t cheat with statistics we get the same answer - population-wide screening isn’t effective.
1: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2208681 2: https://www.escardio.org/news/press/press-releases/No-signif...
Decoding limb joint movements from EEG scalp recordings is basically an unsolved problem (we can barely do it in lab with implants), I doubt an advertising company has cracked it.
The biggest bottleneck for a hobbyist is that when using EEG, most paradigms require somewhat expensive hardware to work and that most paradigms still don’t work well with scalp recordings outside a lab environment, even when using mid-cost devices.
There’s also the issue that classifiers usually have to be quite simple because datasets are small, because they are time consuming to record (and after you remove noisy epochs, you have even less data left). Cross-session and cross-subject learning rarely works, since EEG is dependent on so many factors like subjects’ brain anatomy, the type and precise location of electrodes, amount of gel (or lack thereof) and how dried out it is, mood and focus of the subjects, a huge number of environmental factors that influence subjects’ focus and many others.
The only paradigm I have seen to work a bit more reliably than others is Steady State Visual Potentials, because you have extra information that doesn’t need to be learned from EEG (the frequency of visual stimuli is roughly the same as the one in subjects’ occipital lobe).
Does it take less money to commission a single wedding photo rather than a wedding painting? Yes. But many more people commission them and usually in tens to hundreds, together with videos, etc.
An 18th century wedding painter wasn’t in the business of paintings, but in the business of capturing memories and we do that today on much larger scale, more often and in a lot of different ways.
I’d also argue more landscape painters exist today than ever.
The original paper [0] mentions electrodes are placed over Broca’s area (speech production, translates words to mouth movements) and motor area (adjusts the mouth movements). It’s attempted speech, not thoughts.
There is a lot of fear in mainstream media and populace of devices decoding thoughts, but that is a significantly harder problem, at this moment on the level of sci-fi of Civilisation Type II on Kardashev scale. There is a reason why the electrodes are not over Wernicke’s area instead (language comprehension and production).
130dB SNR is also not too shabby for a low-cost device, I wonder how it compares in a real world scenario with some of the OpenBCI offerings. For now at least it seems to be a cheaper option to OpenBCI Cyton with a comparable performance, unless I missed something.
While scientists’ prestige might be a part of the equation, it’s mostly the academic leaderships and fonds that have brought us here.
This is not Denmark specifically, it’s just Europe, and it’s not even true.
In Denmark there’s something called Quota 2, which is an admission track that is not based on the average, but on extra-curriculars, volunteering, work experience, …
Ofc it’s easier if you have the average and a lot depends on what subjects you choose to graduate from, but not all is lost even if you chose the wrong subjects. If you need let’s say extra physics classes, a lot of universities/schools offer pre-university courses which can teach you the subject in the summer and you can apply for your dream programme the same year.
A lot of people actually start university and then later find out it’s not what they like and switch to another programme or (trade) school after a year. Generally, in Denmark, you can study what you want, unless you’re really ill-equipped for some reason (but then you probably have bigger issues to resolve first).
That being said, I don’t know about any way how you can get into a university programme based on being a member of an ethnic minority.
The inability to blend in, IMO, is primarily language based. I have a better hold of Danish than most of my international friends and I have also felt more welcome in Denmark than them. Folks that have been in Denmark for 5 years longer, are even more homey in Denmark IME (regardless of skin colour, mind you).
This is obviously anecdotal evidence, I am sure there are some older folks that aren’t as accepting (my friends are generally young, as I am). But still, a lot of them can be open minded. I am reminded of this story a friend of mine has told me. She ran an org helping immigrants in Denmark and one of the activities she organised was connecting immigrants willing to learn the language with older folks in care homes who longed to speak to more people. An older resident lady has told her once that while she is not keen on those immigrants from Middle East, Muhammad is a very nice person whom she enjoyed spending time with. So much about accepting other cultures and people is about exposure (probably why cities are more liberal than countryside)
[1]:https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/670964?ln=en
[2]:https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/37463/is-revoking-ci...
The length of the abstract in the linked article is well justified, in my opinion.
EEG has poor spatial resolution, but great time resolution. It measures electrical activity.
fNIRS has a great spatial resolution, but poor time resolution. It measures blood flow in specific parts of the brain.
If I had to guess I’d say rabies had evolutionarily targeted species that today are largely asymptomatic and can easily survive a rabies infection, like bats or birds.
Questioning a study does not a conspiracy theorist make, quality of of your arguments does.
On the other hand it can be used to detect micro sleep in drivers and there it can save lives.
So yeah, as with any tech you can use it for good or bad and you should not use it for everything
Indie programming is fun for me in short term, but research is more rewarding in the long run, because of the positive impact and opportunities it brings. Research is also more varied (includes not only writing code, but also math and words and also working on study design, statistical analysis and subject testing).
Additionally, it’s great if you add a friend in the app to compete for the max steps in the last 7 days.
EDIT: it seems that people have been making Tate clips and uploading them to TikTok and those are also the ones that got banned.
>TikTok has also banned an account belonging to Mr Tate as part of an ongoing investigation to remove content that violates its policies.
>A TikTok spokesperson told the BBC: "Misogyny is a hateful ideology that is not tolerated on TikTok.
>"We've been removing violative videos and accounts for weeks, and we welcome the news that other platforms are also taking action against this individual."
I am also confused about why do you refer to people like Tate as ‘villains’ in quotes. The dude is a star of incels and like-minded women-haters. The world is better off without his content.