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Comment Re:Its not that hard (Score 5, Insightful) 191

by memristance on Thursday December 25, 2008 @02:08AM (#26228575) Attached to: Blind Man Navigates Obstacle Maze Unaided

There's only one way to be certain: repeat the experiment.

I would suggest having the blind man and an average-sighted man separately walk down a very well-lit corridor with randomly positioned (i.e., changing every iteration) obstactles 10 times, recording the amount of time each takes and the number of collisions. Reduce the amount of lighting by some increment and repeat the experiment. Continue reducing lighting until total darkness is achieved.

If the blind man is truly navigating by blindsight, both his course times and collision rates should roughly scale positively with those of the sighted man and inversely to the light levels. But then, that would be using the scientific method like the international team of neuroscientists in TFA (whom you are accusing of incompetence) did, so of course you wouldn't believe it...

Comment You know what they say (Score 5, Funny) 191

by memristance on Thursday December 25, 2008 @01:25AM (#26228407) Attached to: Blind Man Navigates Obstacle Maze Unaided

Blindsight is 20/20.

Blind Man Navigates Obstacle Maze Unaided 191

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 25, 2008 @01:18AM from the matthew-murdock dept.

iammani writes "The NYTimes runs a story about a blind man (blind because of a damaged visual cortex) successfully navigating an obstacle maze, unaided. Scientists have shown for the first time that it is possible for people who are blinded because of damage to the visual (striate) cortex can navigate by 'blindsight,' through which they can detect things in their vicinity without being aware of seeing them."

Comment Re:I say no. (Score 5, Funny) 474

by memristance on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @12:43AM (#26219781) Attached to: ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core

*Does anyone know what they mean by "integral"? Every time I've heard the word "integral" in education, it usually translates in to "Required".

Calculus must have confused you to no end.

Comment Bah (Score 4, Funny) 474

by memristance on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @12:34AM (#26219741) Attached to: ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core

Why bother? Computer Science is just applied Mathematics...

Submission + - Google to Fund Ideas that will Change the World

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on Thursday September 25, 2008 @04:07PM

Peace Corps Online writes: "This week, as part of their tenth birthday celebrations, Google announced the launch of project 10^100 (ten to the 100th), a project designed to inspire and fund the development of ideas that will help to change the world and has called on members of the public to share their ideas for solutions that will help as many people as possible in the global community, offering a $10 million prize pool to back the development of those chosen as winners. "We know there are countless brilliant ideas that need funding and support to come to fruition," says Bethany Poole, Project Marketing Manager for Google. "These ideas can be big or small, technology-driven or brilliantly simple — but they need to have impact." The project's website asks entrants to classify their ideas into one of eight categories listed as Community, Opportunity, Energy, Environment, Health, Education, Shelter and Everything Else. Members of the public have until 20th October to submit their ideas by completing a simple form and answering a few short questions about their idea."

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