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Wow Psimagus, you generated all those anagrams completely unassisted.
Not totally unassisted - I did have the use of a 100Teraflop wetware neural net that's had 20 years of training to reinforce the appropriate linguistic pattern recognition paths.
It's called the human brain
That town that was eaten by haggis
haha! That ought to be what it means!
No - it means The Church of St Mary in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio near a red cave
You can find a bit of info about it at:
http://www.nwt.co.uk/english/anglesey/llanfairpg.htm
and of course
http://www.Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com
I threw Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch into 3 Welsh to English translators and none of them would tell me what it means.
Welsh is an agglutinitive language - you can make big words by sticking lots of little ones together, but I doubt there's any software that could isolate the little words reliably.
If you put "Llan fair pwll gwyn..." into a translator, you'd find that it meant "saint mary hollow white..." etc.
Unfortuantely a lot of consonants mutate (eg: "Mair" becomes "Fair" after "n"), so most ocmputer translation is pretty ghastly
I wish my Welsh was good enough to do the anagram of it in Welsh, but I guess I'll have to wait till Pimsleur start marketing brain implants.
Unfortunately, when men offer to pay for implants, it's rarely to augment your brain.
LOL!
I don't understand how he got this human research apporved by any sort of ethics review board
Probably just didn't bother. Do you have to if you're doing things to yourself? I don't recall a tatooist friend of mine ever having to worry about ethics committee paperwork when people come in for subcutaneous studs and similar cosmetic stuff.
And the verichip's been licensed for human use for several years now:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2004/040704bajabeachclub.htm
I think the idea of receiving thoughts directly from another person without being able to turn them off is scary
Yeah, I'd want an "off" switch, but I'd still go for it like a shot if it was commercially available
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I am impressed that "anagrammatize" is a word. If Psimagus were in American, I'll bet his GRE scores would have been amazing.
Well, when you've grown up even remotely near a place called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, you tend to pay attention to words and spelling
Coincidentally, I've been trying to annagrammatize that place-name for some time now, though I'm still not 100% happy with it yet:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
=
All cry, nigglingly cry! Boggling welsh phonology: wall-to-wall word fry!
Coincidentally, I've been trying to annagrammatize that place-name for some time now, though I'm still not 100% happy with it yet:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
=
All cry, nigglingly cry! Boggling welsh phonology: wall-to-wall word fry!
Not totally unassisted - I did have the use of a 100Teraflop wetware neural net that's had 20 years of training to reinforce the appropriate linguistic pattern recognition paths.
It's called the human brain
I threw Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch into 3 Welsh to English translators and none of them would tell me what it means.
You do have a wonderful brain there, Psimagus. Tell me, is the English name of that town something like "That town that was eaten by haggis" or something easy like "Springfield"?
You do have a wonderful brain there, Psimagus. Tell me, is the English name of that town something like "That town that was eaten by haggis" or something easy like "Springfield"?
haha!
That ought to be what it means!No - it means The Church of St Mary in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio near a red cave
You can find a bit of info about it at:
and of course
oh my word its an actuall town. now im scared. I thought this was a joke.... now i wonder about the truth of haggis! 
Welsh is an agglutinitive language - you can make big words by sticking lots of little ones together, but I doubt there's any software that could isolate the little words reliably.
If you put "Llan fair pwll gwyn..." into a translator, you'd find that it meant "saint mary hollow white..." etc.
Unfortuantely a lot of consonants mutate (eg: "Mair" becomes "Fair" after "n"), so most ocmputer translation is pretty ghastly
I wish my Welsh was good enough to do the anagram of it in Welsh, but I guess I'll have to wait till Pimsleur start marketing brain implants.
I would like one of those implants myself. I'm pretty sure a little work in my Wernicke center would make my life easier. Unfortunately, when men offer to pay for implants, it's rarely to augment your brain.
I read "I, Cyborg" last summer and Kevin Warwick gave his wife some temporary cybernetic enhancements, after turning himself into a cyborg of sorts. I don't understand how he got this human research apporved by any sort of ethics review board, but it was interesting. I think the idea of receiving thoughts directly from another person without being able to turn them off is scary, but the Warwicks seem to love each other a lot.
I read "I, Cyborg" last summer and Kevin Warwick gave his wife some temporary cybernetic enhancements, after turning himself into a cyborg of sorts. I don't understand how he got this human research apporved by any sort of ethics review board, but it was interesting. I think the idea of receiving thoughts directly from another person without being able to turn them off is scary, but the Warwicks seem to love each other a lot.
LOL!
Probably just didn't bother. Do you have to if you're doing things to yourself? I don't recall a tatooist friend of mine ever having to worry about ethics committee paperwork when people come in for subcutaneous studs and similar cosmetic stuff.
And the verichip's been licensed for human use for several years now:
Yeah, I'd want an "off" switch, but I'd still go for it like a shot if it was commercially available
"Probably just didn't bother. Do you have to if you're doing things to yourself? I don't recall a tatooist friend of mine ever having to worry about ethics committee paperwork when people come in for subcutaneous studs and similar cosmetic stuff."
I see your point, but surgically implanting a small array of electrodes directly into your nervous system is not merely cosmetic (see http://www.kevinwarwick.com/ or http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0252072154/103-8325835-9197433?v=glance&n=283155).
The surgery was done in a hospital by doctors. Either of the Warwicks could have lost use of their arm (the implant was in the median nerve of the left arm). This is experimentation on humans. (Wives are human too).
In the US, high school students are suppossed to go before a make shift review board if they use human participants for AP psychology experiments that may be no more complicated than a survey. Not all sudents do this, but the idea is that in psychology, there are ethical rules when humans participate. Also, I cannot imagine a biology teacher telling students they can experiment on themselves and their family for extra credit. In the US, that would be questioned.
I'm not complaining. I liked the book. I'm sure Mrs. Warwick knew what she was doing. It's just that the procedure is a little trickier than your average tatoo. I'm no fan of paperwork, but I'd hate to see this become a trend.
On the other hand, it may make a good movie. "Honey, I banked on your neural plasticity." Could be fun.
I see your point, but surgically implanting a small array of electrodes directly into your nervous system is not merely cosmetic (see http://www.kevinwarwick.com/ or http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0252072154/103-8325835-9197433?v=glance&n=283155).
The surgery was done in a hospital by doctors. Either of the Warwicks could have lost use of their arm (the implant was in the median nerve of the left arm). This is experimentation on humans. (Wives are human too).
In the US, high school students are suppossed to go before a make shift review board if they use human participants for AP psychology experiments that may be no more complicated than a survey. Not all sudents do this, but the idea is that in psychology, there are ethical rules when humans participate. Also, I cannot imagine a biology teacher telling students they can experiment on themselves and their family for extra credit. In the US, that would be questioned.
I'm not complaining. I liked the book. I'm sure Mrs. Warwick knew what she was doing. It's just that the procedure is a little trickier than your average tatoo. I'm no fan of paperwork, but I'd hate to see this become a trend.
On the other hand, it may make a good movie. "Honey, I banked on your neural plasticity." Could be fun.
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