Comments on: I Think Therefore I Google? http://www.blisstree.com/articles/i-think-therefore-i-google/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:37:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kristina Chew, PhD http://www.blisstree.com/articles/i-think-therefore-i-google/comment-page-1/#comment-551019 Kristina Chew, PhD Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:22:51 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/i-think-therefore-i-google/#comment-551019 @Owl, Do you mean MIT's <a href="http://affect.media.mit.edu/projectpages/esp/">social emotional sensing toolkit</a>? @Owl,

Do you mean MIT’s social emotional sensing toolkit?

]]> By: Kristina Chew, PhD http://www.blisstree.com/articles/i-think-therefore-i-google/comment-page-1/#comment-544845 Kristina Chew, PhD Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:13:50 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/i-think-therefore-i-google/#comment-544845 @laurentius rex, "library searches sometimes by the texture an colour of the book in my memory" ---I search with my mind's eye on the part of the page a phrase or passage of a book is on, and the typeface--- @laurentius rex,

“library searches sometimes by the texture an colour of the book in my memory”

—I search with my mind’s eye on the part of the page a phrase or passage of a book is on, and the typeface—

]]> By: Owl http://www.blisstree.com/articles/i-think-therefore-i-google/comment-page-1/#comment-547618 Owl Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:17:46 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/i-think-therefore-i-google/#comment-547618 The wearable computer I'm waiting for is the glasses hooked up to a facial expression recognition program, so all I have to do is twitch my ears and the glasses project in words what facial expression I'm seeing for someone fairly close. They were doing a basic experiment with something like that a while ago I remember, though not as sophisticated as would be terribly useful. The program only recognized boredom if I remember... so great it tells me to shut up if I'm monologuing at someone. I'd like to be able to tell if their tired vs stressed vs who knows what without having to think about it. The wearable computer I’m waiting for is the glasses hooked up to a facial expression recognition program, so all I have to do is twitch my ears and the glasses project in words what facial expression I’m seeing for someone fairly close. They were doing a basic experiment with something like that a while ago I remember, though not as sophisticated as would be terribly useful. The program only recognized boredom if I remember… so great it tells me to shut up if I’m monologuing at someone. I’d like to be able to tell if their tired vs stressed vs who knows what without having to think about it.

]]> By: Whitterer on Autism » Blog Archive » Excellent Awards http://www.blisstree.com/articles/i-think-therefore-i-google/comment-page-1/#comment-547522 Whitterer on Autism » Blog Archive » Excellent Awards Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:39:53 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/i-think-therefore-i-google/#comment-547522 [...] might be able to be brave too. Her writing style keeps us all up to date and you can enjoy a little “geekdom” if you’re more comfortable with that option, called “I think therefore I [...] [...] might be able to be brave too. Her writing style keeps us all up to date and you can enjoy a little “geekdom” if you’re more comfortable with that option, called “I think therefore I [...]

]]> By: laurentius-rex http://www.blisstree.com/articles/i-think-therefore-i-google/comment-page-1/#comment-552950 laurentius-rex Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:31:22 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/i-think-therefore-i-google/#comment-552950 Tell yer sommat mind t'aint half fun in lectures at Uni when I bin google connected and bin the only one, cos it do enhance my cognition, but only cos I know how to find what I want in google obliquely being long skilled in library searches sometimes by the texture an colour of the book in my memory Tell yer sommat mind t’aint half fun in lectures at Uni when I bin google connected and bin the only one, cos it do enhance my cognition, but only cos I know how to find what I want in google obliquely being long skilled in library searches sometimes by the texture an colour of the book in my memory

]]> By: Club 166 http://www.blisstree.com/articles/i-think-therefore-i-google/comment-page-1/#comment-547500 Club 166 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:17:50 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/i-think-therefore-i-google/#comment-547500 I know that in one sense it's a bit of a cheat to have something like a wearable computer, and it could make you lazy, as well as disconnected from the 'real' world. On the other hand, I think that wearable computers have great potential as assistive devices for a wide range of people, from busy executives, to doctors, to those with various disabilities, such as early dementia. Joe I know that in one sense it’s a bit of a cheat to have something like a wearable computer, and it could make you lazy, as well as disconnected from the ‘real’ world.

On the other hand, I think that wearable computers have great potential as assistive devices for a wide range of people, from busy executives, to doctors, to those with various disabilities, such as early dementia.

Joe

]]> By: laurentius-rex http://www.blisstree.com/articles/i-think-therefore-i-google/comment-page-1/#comment-547498 laurentius-rex Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:09:04 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/i-think-therefore-i-google/#comment-547498 Oh apart from that long time back I remember in a thick fog whilst driving being directed by a blind man who knew where we were going, now that is impressive Zatoichi notwithstanding :) Oh apart from that long time back I remember in a thick fog whilst driving being directed by a blind man who knew where we were going, now that is impressive Zatoichi notwithstanding :)

]]> By: laurentius-rex http://www.blisstree.com/articles/i-think-therefore-i-google/comment-page-1/#comment-550985 laurentius-rex Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:05:36 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/i-think-therefore-i-google/#comment-550985 Temple Grandin is unsophisticated compared to me. She does not appear to understand the neurological substrates of the cognition she images (I imagine) I don't see a lot of real science in her (popular) writings, not that I am likely to see any in mine am I :) I'll forget everybodies faces because I am not wired for it, I do not have that particular analog computer set up in my neurones, but memory is in any case not as simple as that at all. There is multiple indexation and to some extent that does depend on focus be that semantic, episodic, or concrete as mine is. I read Temple and I read a substrate below that, and in order to encode what she supposes to be memory there has to be the basic visual perceptive model as outlined by Marr and what has been identified in the multiple layers of the visual cortex of a lot of different very domain specific mechanisms. Now for me the ones that equate to face and social recognition ain't there, but so what there are things I can do in memory that I am not sure Temple can from what I have seen of her but then what would I know on limited aquaintance beyond cataloguing the repetition in her speech and writing which I am probably equally prone to. As for Stephen Wiltshire ... f**k me he is brilliant and delivers, Temple and Tammet (who has studied mnenomism as the professionals Pi Competitors (NT's can do it to) as a technique so I am given to understand) just will not do, Stephen Wiltshire on the other hand is the business I'll take my hat off to him. Seriously I don't know about Tammet never met him but I don't think Temple is half what people reckon she is other than being autistic which is not in dispute. Temple Grandin is unsophisticated compared to me.

She does not appear to understand the neurological substrates of the cognition she images (I imagine)

I don’t see a lot of real science in her (popular) writings, not that I am likely to see any in mine am I :)

I’ll forget everybodies faces because I am not wired for it, I do not have that particular analog computer set up in my neurones, but memory is in any case not as simple as that at all. There is multiple indexation and to some extent that does depend on focus be that semantic, episodic, or concrete as mine is.

I read Temple and I read a substrate below that, and in order to encode what she supposes to be memory there has to be the basic visual perceptive model as outlined by Marr and what has been identified in the multiple layers of the visual cortex of a lot of different very domain specific mechanisms. Now for me the ones that equate to face and social recognition ain’t there, but so what there are things I can do in memory that I am not sure Temple can from what I have seen of her but then what would I know on limited aquaintance beyond cataloguing the repetition in her speech and writing which I am probably equally prone to.

As for Stephen Wiltshire … f**k me he is brilliant and delivers, Temple and Tammet (who has studied mnenomism as the professionals Pi Competitors (NT’s can do it to) as a technique so I am given to understand) just will not do, Stephen Wiltshire on the other hand is the business I’ll take my hat off to him.

Seriously I don’t know about Tammet never met him but I don’t think Temple is half what people reckon she is other than being autistic which is not in dispute.

]]> By: Kassiane http://www.blisstree.com/articles/i-think-therefore-i-google/comment-page-1/#comment-552928 Kassiane Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:27:52 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/i-think-therefore-i-google/#comment-552928 If this were to come to fruition I can see so much crap being spewed as fact, and critical thinking going so far down the toilet...wow. Just wow... If this were to come to fruition I can see so much crap being spewed as fact, and critical thinking going so far down the toilet…wow. Just wow…

]]> By: Maddy http://www.blisstree.com/articles/i-think-therefore-i-google/comment-page-1/#comment-552926 Maddy Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:25:33 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/i-think-therefore-i-google/#comment-552926 My boys never remember anybodies face and certainly not their names but they both have a GPS system implanted which means we're never too far off the beaten track [I hope!] Cheers My boys never remember anybodies face and certainly not their names but they both have a GPS system implanted which means we’re never too far off the beaten track [I hope!]
Cheers

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