34 secs flat for my latest tweet. Thanks Paul and team for this!
- Jorge Escobar
wow, that makes actually want to use Twitter. I may just go tweet something.
- Mike Nencetti
It should be even faster than that Jorge, but our systems are getting near their limit. I hope to have it down to 1 sec sometime next month.
- Paul Buchheit
Yay! That's fantastic! I was getting really bored of manually refreshing it every time I tweeted. Especially from my phone. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Does this mean that Scoble can get smarter on FriendFeed again?
- Crutis
You are still working on Frienfeed (: how nice !
- Murat Can Demir
^ That's probably the best part of this announcement, TBH. Good point
- LANjackal
from IM
whoa, it took less than a minute. i accdently tested it but it's great :) thnx
- asli subasi
awesome, keep it up guys, i knew you would not let us down
- Iggy Mwangi
Great news, love the efforts still put in to FF.I use Google Reader to share into FF (PubSubHubBub) then FF to Twitter (now Real-Time). The URL shortener is great (ff.im), and so FF is central to my social lifestream. I don't care what Scoble says, FF is technically better and feature-rich.
- Keith Rowland
P.S. Conversations are still better here than on GReader, and you just can't have one on Twitter.
- Keith Rowland
You didn't break the FF Facebook app while you were at it, did you? It hasn't worked since.
- Tim Tyler
Oh, awesome!!! 12 seconds :) I can finally go back to Twitter (...okay no I can't I've turned into a Friendfeed junkie..) but prior it took hours upon hours for me to see a feed. Dumb I am, I never suspected a problem LMAO.
- H0llywoodWh0re
Paul ?? Twitter updates facebook status and then facebook creates a new feed here on friendfeed. So we have same entries both from twitter and facebook on friendfeed. Could you guys please work on how we can avoid duplicate entries? Thank you. ( If there's already a way to avoid this, pls let me know)
- Murat Can Demir
Cool, thanks, Paul! :-) RT Twitter updates have been missed. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
And just as I say that, I see my tweets are not coming into FF in real-time. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol. I just tweeted and it was here before I could get out of Tweetie and launch Safari... It's working :)
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Johnny, cool. Just me then. It's still slow. Maybe it's FriendFeed then?
- Kol Tregaskes
It truncates retweets, even in the middle of a link...
- Raphael, Raphael
seems that there are only 140chars allowed for a tweet (on FF) and the new twitter retweets are being translated on the way through to old RT @name style - thus are too long.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Thanks! I'm reading through some of the guidelines for editors and learning a lot. One good thing is that I learned that post-publication comments by the academic editor of the paper is encouraged. I wasn't sure of this, because for the papers I've read on PLoS, I don't think I've ever seen this.
- Steve Koch
via @thinkgenome - SWEDEN: Largest research life sciences area US$7 billion will be invested until 2025 - Sharing significant bytes ---(Shrikant Mantri) - http://shrikantmantri.posterous.com/sweden-...
I've posted a link to one of Eliezer Yudkowsky' projects in the free will thread...
- Alexander Kruel
"One of the easiest hard questions, as millennia-old philosophical dilemmas go. Though this impossible question is fully and completely dissolved on Less Wrong..." http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki... (He's the guy behind lesswrong.com, before overcomingbias.com with Robin Hanson.)
- Alexander Kruel
Ok, it's not the first time I was wrong about what I thought you meant. And Rob, the sponsorers love the bootleg listeners too?
- Christian Burns
from email
I love the bootleg listeners too, and the bootleggers. thx Jack, I'm mastering today's show now, should be out in the morning on Youtube.
- Steve Gillmor
Thanks Steve. Its good to hear Mike on the show again. its my favorite hallway conversation.
- Christian Burns
from email
You're welcome Steve! Downloading from Ustream was fun, but I'm glad you're going back to Youtube.
- Jack
"Arguments like Thomas Metzinger's understanding of the self make it hard for me to defend free will from a scientific perspective. But my inability to fully explain free will through rational thought shrinks somewhat in importance when considering that we all live our lives as if free will exists. Even if I cannot satisfactorily resolve free will intellectually, I take some comfort in the lived embrace of it. Searle poses a good question that highlights the inability to shake off the experience or illusion of free will: "if determinism were shown to be true, would you accept it?""
- Alexander Kruel
from Bookmarklet
I wonder if there have ever been any studies regarding the prevalence and perception of free will. I doubt a fruit fly has to "live its live as if free will exists".
- Alexander Kruel
Putting Fahrenheit 451 on the list, will have to stop talking to Paulo for a while ;-) My excuse for not reading it is of course that we do not use fahrenheit, - now if the book was called Celsius 451......
- Nils Reinton
I guess Celsius 451 is too hot. I'm not talking to you anymore. Tsk Tsk Tsk
- Paulo Nuin
I read it, then listened to it read by RB himself - a fascinating difference. and Paulo, if you can't convert between F and C even for RB, then I'm not talking to you anymore. ;-)
- tim
I can convert, yep, I can, joking I was. I read it so many years ago, and enjoy the movie very much too.
- Paulo Nuin
just poking fun, Paulo. I never doubted you, not for an instant.
- tim
Halfway through (my mom had the pocket book in her bookshelf) - not as hot as I had hoped.....F100 maybe so far...
- Nils Reinton
This is one of my top 5 Sci-fi books. Sad that you don't like it.
- Paulo Nuin
Just finished F451, and Paulo you were right, It is a very good book. I didn't buy into the concept of how burning books would lead to the death of stories, but turns out that this was one of the main points towards the end. Still not buying into the fear of screens as a communication platform, but that probably reflects the time of writing. Excellent read. Thank you for the recommendation.
- Nils Reinton
Favorite quote: ""Listen," said Granger, taking his arm, and walking with him, holding aside the bushes to let him pass. "When I was a boy my grandfather died, and he was a sculptor. He was also a very kind man who had a lot of love to give the world, and he helped clean up the slum in our town; and he made toys for us and he did a million things in his lifetime; he was always busy with...
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- Nils Reinton
Started listening to "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" - promising so far.
- Nils Reinton
Scenes from "The moon is a harsh mistress" keep coming back to me. Now two months after reading the book. Thank you again for this recommendation
- Nils Reinton
Gradually as scientists of all disciplines explored these phenomena a new theory emerged - complexity theory, A theory based on relationships, emergence, patterns and iterations. A theory that maintains that the universe is full of systems, weather systems, immune systems, social systems etc and that these systems are complex and constantly adapting to their environment. Hence complex adaptive systems.
- mersenne
Sensory driven multi-neuronal activity and associative learning monitored in an intact CNS on a multielectrode array. - http://www.citeulike.org/user...
Journal of neuroscience methods (23 November 2009) The neuronal network controlling feeding behavior in the CNS of the mollusc Lymnaea stagnalis has been extensively investigated using intracellular microelectrodes. Using microelectrodes however it has not been possible to record from large numbers of neurons simultaneously and therefore little is known about the population coding properties of the feeding network. Neither can the relationships between feeding and neuronal networks controlling other behaviors be easily analyzed with microelectrodes. Here we describe a multielectrode array (MEA) technique for recording action potentials simultaneously from up to 60 electrodes on the intact CNS. The preparation consists of the whole CNS connected by sensory nerves to the chemosensory epithelia of the lip and esophagus. From the buccal ganglia, the region of the CNS containing the feeding central pattern generator (CPG), a rhythmic pattern of activity characteristic of feeding was...
- laura
J. Neurosci. In J. Neurosci., Vol. 29, No. 48. (2 December 2009), pp. 15053-15062. Neurons in all brain areas exhibit variability in their spiking activity. Although part of this variability can be considered as noise that is detrimental to information processing, recent findings indicate that variability can also be beneficial. In particular, it was suggested that variability in the motor system allows for exploration of possible motor states and therefore can facilitate learning and adaptation to new environments. Here, we provide evidence to support this idea by analyzing the variability of neurons in the primary motor cortex (M1) and in the supplementary motor area (SMA-proper) of monkeys adapting to new rotational visuomotor tasks. We found that trial-to-trial variability increased during learning and exhibited four main characteristics: (1) modulation occurred preferentially during a delay period when the target of movement was already known, but before movement onset; (2)...
- Björn Brembs
Yup! You should also read Vladi's PLoS One paper on the topic. The lab of Claude Weiss, BTW, is probably the best E-Phys lab on this planet I can think of. Just in case you're considering a PostDoc in the field. Claude was graduate student with Konorski, famous grad student of Pavlov's...
- Björn Brembs
The Secret Service may be prepared for terrorist attacks on Barack Obama when he comes here, but did they add the wild wolfs roaming Oslo to the equation.. ? ;)
- Thomas Bøhm
We have wild Coyotes wandering in Rock Creek Park just about a mile from the White House. He'll feel at home with the wolves of Oslo.
- Andrew Leyden
Really ? Cool. The reason for the commotion in Norway today is that we have very few wolfs left, hence the debate to shoot or not even though it´s walking around downtown.
- Thomas Bøhm
It's also interesting in the context of the fact DirecTV viewers no longer get the Versus sports network, as they couldn't negoiate a deal with Comcast
- Ken Sheppardson
ask Al Gore how he feels about their negotiations re: Current TV
- Karoli
Comcast is very aggressive in keeping out local competitors - they have bought every local cable company or forced them out. They have locked out all local sporting events
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Yeah, here in San Francisco we couldn't get the Stanford/Cal game this fall... it was on Versus. And it means no daily, live Tour de France coverage next July :-(
- Ken Sheppardson
It was "rooter" before people started to mispronounce it.
- Gregg H.
I wonder what this means for their TV On Demand section - currently NBC is not listed for any shows and CBS is very big in that list. Will this change and now NBC will only be On Demand? Will Hulu now be a Comcast Cable only site?
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
The Network has changed to the point that combining cable + tv production can't corner the market in anything.
- Cliff Gerrish
consolidation of power and message control
- Karoli
cliff, if i have no access to nbc news because i'm not a comcast subscriber, the messages aren't especially helpful.
- Karoli
Don't you have access to NBC news via the network?
- Cliff Gerrish
cliff - they already "load balance" based on where/when you are streaming from/to - so now what's to prevent them from load balancing all ABC/CBS sites in favour of NBC?
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Francine, the argument against the acquistion is that they'll control the Network. They won't.
- Cliff Gerrish
That's a good question - will Comcast/NBC still allow Netflix/Mediafly content to be streamed at full speed or will it become traffic shaped
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
you mean will the net be.. you know... neutral?
- Ken Sheppardson
Google will spank properties that throttle - that alone will keep them playing fair.
- Rob La Gesse
All proprietary un-free software and platforms will lose in the long run.
- Gregg H.
Cliff, they already do. If I am watching a streaming video for more than 5 minutes I get traffic shaped. If i'm watching Comcast On Demand I do not. Will Hulu now be traffic shaped or will it get a pass? That what will be the clue if they are acting in a network neutral manner
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Windows is dog slow on good rigs, whereas Chrome OS is fast even on weak hardware.
- Raphael, Raphael
Francine - it is basically throttling of your bandwidth based on content and/or destination
- Rob La Gesse
Francine - if i'm streaming a video on Comcast the first 5 or so minutes are at my full bandwidth capability (15mbs) but if I continue past that point the speed of the video drops to less than 1mbs
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
But Silverlight is from Microsoft. How can it be good?
- Raphael, Raphael
Amazing Silverlight is actually seeing some traction. Developer Cuz predicted it would 2 years ago.
- JimmyJet
When Google switches Youtube videos to Ogg Theora natively palyabe in HTML 5 Browsers I think Gillmor and others that deride the importance of free software codecs and platforms will have a revelation
- Gregg H.
bah - I have to run an errand - I wish the video show could be viewed later
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
wish those questions had been asked in 2001
- Karoli
Bear - it can - they are always posted on building43.com a few days later.
- Rob La Gesse
Gillmor Gang is available on YouTube - your DVR of choice...
- Cliff Gerrish
google'll be using h264 and html5 video before any os codec
- Kevin Marks
Silverlight is as un-free as you can get.
- Gregg H.
Mike - use a hand grenade, Those suckers are tough!
- Rob La Gesse
seriously, take a pair of scissors and cut it. It works. surgically, even.
- Karoli
Is locked down linux an open system?
- Cliff Gerrish
The importance of the use of our computer devices in our lives are fundamental. That's why the software and hardware has to be free. Otherwise we don't control our lives. The software and hardware providers control our lives. That's the problem Steve.
- Gregg H.
But you need a real computer to debug anything. You couldn't actually debug from within Chrome OS.
- Raphael, Raphael
Is ChromeOS going to give you access to the command line?
- Cliff Gerrish
Gregg - that's crazy. As crazy as "free" healthcare.
- Rob La Gesse
strange disconnect between these guys talking about high tech and Mike opening a plastic insane package with his teeth.
- Karoli
The importance of the use of cars, homes, electricity and food in our lives are fundamental. That's why cars, homes, electricity and food has to be free. Otherwise we don't control our lives. [oh, "free" free]
- Ken Sheppardson
Chromium is NOT free. I pay for it with my attention and my gestures - and Google profits off both.
- Rob La Gesse
"opening a plastic insane package with his teeth" Either a good way to take out aggression or raise blood pressure, take your choice.
- JimmyJet
the livestream from SuperNova has been great. Good panels and very good discussions.
- Jerry Schuman
If we understand that phones are going to the Network -- why don't we see that television is going there as well.
- Cliff Gerrish
Aside from a philosophical view. After being Windows free for 2 years and being free of malware, spyware, adware, and not having to run virus scan software and all that crap, I really don't understand why people like Gillmor think Linux is second class to Windows. I would never want the pain and horrible experience of using Windows again purely for practical reasons.
- Gregg H.
Gregg, I understand Windows 7 is quite nice. I'm planning to buy a cheap Windows 7 notebook as a backup machine.
- Karoli
You guys should talk a bit about Status.net, formerly Laconi.ca. Evan Proudomu just got over $1 Mil in VC. It could wind up being a very viable free federated decentralized competitor to Twitter.
- Gregg H.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 106, No. 47. (24 November 2009), pp. 20027-20032. 10.1073/pnas.0906722106 The vertebrate central nervous system is organized in modules that independently execute sophisticated tasks. Such modules are flexibly controlled and operate with a considerable degree of autonomy. One example is locomotion generated by spinal central pattern generator networks (CPGs) that shape the detailed motor output. The level of activity is controlled from brainstem locomotor command centers, which in turn, are under the control of the basal ganglia. By using a biophysically detailed, full-scale computational model of the lamprey CPG (10,000 neurons) and its brainstem/forebrain control, we demonstrate general control principles that can adapt the network to different demands. Forward or backward locomotion and steering can be flexibly controlled by local synaptic effects limited to only the very rostral part of the network. Variability in response...
- Björn Brembs