Calvin Smith
Berkeley, CA (USA)
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a Twine neural implant would be nice
I am a happy resident of Berkeley, CA, where I've lived for most of the last 7 years or so, but I have also lived in many other places, including England (where I was born and raised until 12 years old), Sebastopol & Occidental (Sonoma county, northern California), Santa Barbara (southern California), Hong Kong, and Dharamsala, India.
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http://protempore.net/~calvins/
Calvin's Interests
computer science, mathematics, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, www, semantic web, functional programming, artificial intelligence, pet rats, science, technology, information, learning, books & reading, science fiction, foreign languages, piano & classical music, sf bay area, geneticsCalvin's Twines
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Babble Of Baby Reveals Language SkillsChildren have a remarkable ability to learn new languages. As little as five hours of exposure to a second language is enough to help infants incorporate characteristics of that language into their babbling according to a new study. Studies conducted during the last 25 years have shown that ...
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Brain maps help guide you through large-scale space, researchers findLost? Not sure how to get home? Trying to find your way through the mall or an airport? Help is on the way, thanks to a stack of cells, or neurons, in your head. They're mostly on the left side of the brain in males, on the right in females. Scientists have long known that a small, ...
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Gamma-ray photon race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins this roundRacing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another. The dead-heat finish may stoke the fires of debate among physicists over Einstein's special theory of ...
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Why dolphins are deep thinkers | Science | The GuardianAt the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the dolphin has built up quite a reputation. All the dolphins at the institute are trained to hold onto any litter that falls into their pools until they see a trainer, when they can trade the litter for fish. In this way, the ...
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Science Centric | News | Study shows that sleep deprivation can negatively affect information processingA study in the 1 November issue of the journal Sleep shows that sleep deprivation causes some people to shift from a more automatic, implicit process of information categorisation (information-integration) to a more controlled, explicit process (rule-based). This use of rule-based strategies in ...
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82A vision lostUnfortunately, the most desirable stuff to export is not available in RDF. For example, the /my-items page is not available in RDF. If you try to navigate to /my-items?rdf via a browser or to access it programmatically with an "Accept: application/rdf+xml" header, you'll get an HTTP 406 ...Calvin Smith added to Aasemoon'z Twine 8 months ago
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82Official Public Records - Order ConfirmationThis page appears to be broken. Perhaps it is only a valid URL if you submitted something to that URL beforehand?Calvin Smith added to Berkeley, CA 9 months ago
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82Locus Online: Vernor Vinge interview excerptsA sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep is in the works!Calvin Smith added to Science Fiction Depot 10 months ago
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82Louis Pasteur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPasteur's birthday was yesterday (Dec. 27).Calvin Smith added to Anniversaries: science, art, ideas of the … 10 months ago