Re: Is Katie here?
Some cockwomble is, yes.
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'Cockwomble' is off the menu: Uncle Bulgaria issues edict against using name in vain
Too hot to handle? Raspberry Pi 4 fans left wondering if kit should come with a heatsink
Elon Musk's new idea is to hook your noggin up to an AI – but is he just insane about the brain?
Thursday 18th July 2019 13:37 GMT 
Re: Elon - I think I might have a few candidates for you...
They're not electrodes, they're tentacles. Love the tentacle!
Thursday 18th July 2019 11:07 GMT
Re: Too small...
We don't know for certain, and we never will because the best we can do is find a generalised model. There are too many individualities to say they all work this way exactly. And every single "brain" is broken in its own unique way, and though most conform to the middle of the bell curve, there are those that fall in the middle of the tails that we call extraordinary or even mentally ill, and there are those at the tails that are too broken to work at all.
However, there has been an enormous amount of work completed over the last 40 years, and we have a much clearer picture. We CAN say that there are micro-consciousnesses specialised and resulting in specific neural circuits and that these are interconnected as a result of, for example, brain lesion studies where people will deny being able to see, yet can catch a ball thrown at them or duck to avoid a branch, or will deny being able to see colour, yet can guess with far better than chance the colour of a stimulus, or deny the existence of visual motion (this is a really weird one to conceptualise), or who are conscious of taste when presented with a shape, or a shape when presented with a sound etc. We know that the loss of a 40Hz synchronised electrical signal that might be mistaken as noise in firing even, or as a bias on the neural potential, causes a loss of consciousness that is reported by subjects experimentally and accidentally or as a result of insult.
The role of general neurotransmitters and hormones is also being explored very, very vigorously, although they are thought to be too slow and diffuse to mediate consciousness. Synaptic neurotransmitters are fast enough to form part of a specific signal path, and indeed that is what they do. Electrical signalling to chemical signalling and back again.
And I believe you are correct about the neural lace. It certainly rings a bell.
Thursday 18th July 2019 09:56 GMT
Too small...
These things are tiny compared to a human brain. It works on a mouse because their brains are smaller than a nickel (5¢). Conscious thought is considered to be an emergent property arising from the synchronous activity of a diffuse number of specialised "micro-consciousnesses" distributed or arising across the entire brain. He'd be far better off looking at, say spinal transections, where the actual area of tissue that's useful is on the same scale as his device.
2025: HELLO? WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU, I'M ON THE TUBE. FULL 4G NOW. NAH, IT'S CRAP
We don't mean to poo-poo this, but... The Internet of S**t has literally arrived thanks to Pampers smart diapers
Bulb smart meters in England wake up from comas miraculously speaking fluent Welsh
Oh look. Vodafone has extended its ultrafast 5G network to deliver... Wi-Fi?
Scientist, war hero and gay icon Alan Turing is new face of the £50 note
AI solves Rubik's Cube in 1.2 seconds (that's three times slower than a non-AI algorithm)
Industry reps told the UK taxman everything wrong with extending IR35. What happened next will astound you
Monday 15th July 2019 09:39 GMT
Re: Perhaps you should advise your children
Actually, they're not my children. They just live in my house, eat my food and make use of my household amenities. In return, I give them an allowance, but they have no holiday entitlement, and if they get sick, then that time gets deducted from their pocket money.
Good luck deleting someone's private info from a trained neural network – it's likely to bork the whole thing
Monday 15th July 2019 10:10 GMT
Re: By the time it's ingrained and encoded into a deep learning net...
Ah, but it might be able to classify a face as likely to belong to a female aged 62, who most likely will have a high echelon job in UK politics, live in Sonning and be unable to dance properly to her choice in music which will likely include Abba.
Monday 15th July 2019 09:34 GMT
By the time it's ingrained and encoded into a deep learning net...
is it still identifiable private info? And as the laws requiring such mechanisms for deletion apply to all filing systems, agnostic of the physical medium, electronic, paper or otherwise, does this also apply to people's brains? You'd have to develop some form of amnesia drug, and be sure it had no side effects. Anyway, the duty rostered lab have just finished brewing today's coffee, so I'll just pop down to get a cup... if I can remember where the kitchen is.
Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, where to go? Navigation satellite signals flip from degraded to full TITSUP* over span of four days
Train maker's coder goes loco, choo-choo-chooses to flee to China with top-secret code – allegedly
Friday 12th July 2019 14:23 GMT
Well if you follow any threads about Train Control systems...
which for some reason El Reg isn't that into... you'll know about the debates raging on the London Underground about Seltrac versus Westinghouse and all those various flavours of TBTC and what capabilities they have, and how trials of one system over another can delay the renewal of rolling stock and various line upgrades etc. It's actually a fully fledged cock-fighting arena rather than some relatively trivial bit of pilfering. We are talking billions of $$ here. Just look at how much the UK is spending for HS2 stuff.
Queen Elizabeth has a soggy bottom: No, the £3.1bn aircraft carrier, what the hell did you think we meant?
RTFM: Wireless Broadband Alliance squeezes out 40-page ode to the joy of Wi-Fi 6
Boffins ready to go live with system that will track creatures great and small from space
King's College London breached GDPR by sharing list of activist students with cops
Monday 8th July 2019 11:52 GMT
Re: ICO fine incoming ... or not?
I think a lot of it will hinge on if at any time, even in a casual phone call, the cops asked for the information before it was volunteered. Mind you, I'm not sure I'd consent to the processing of my PID if the reason for the processing was compiling a list of dissidents. They'd probably present that as being "processing of data related to the security of individuals, the institution and its teaching, research and other activities". Which of course we would all have no objection to. Right, kids?
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