Tag: information

Transcendence and DARPA’s Restoring Active Memory
July 15, 2014 0

Transcendence and DARPA’s Restoring Active Memory

By News Desk

Science Daily in its article, " DARPA taps Lawrence Livermore to develop world’s first neural device to restore memory ," reported: The research builds on the understanding that memory is a process in which neurons in certain regions of the brain encode information, store it and retrieve it. Certain types of illnesses and injuries, including Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy, disrupt this process and cause memory loss.

Steve McIntyre in the library with the knife
March 29, 2014 0

Steve McIntyre in the library with the knife

By News Desk

Tweet Steve McIntyre, in his usual passive aggressive style been harassing the University of Western Australia to use " the coercive power of the state to force other people to give him, gratis, the fruits of their labor".  In this case, of course what McIntyre wants is the data used in LOG12, Lewandowsky, Oberauer and Gignac (2012) aka Recursive Fury which had been published by Frontiers in Psychology and recently retracted because of complaints which threatened legal action.  The recursive fury which had broken lose among those who felt themselves called out only recursed with the retraction, with new recurses.

March 13, 2014 0

Early Footnoteology

By News Desk

What struck me was Roger Pielke Jr’s attack of RealClimate’s sarcastic reaction to this sorry story , and his defense of Steve McIntyre, quoting him as follows: It is not my belief that Briffa crudely cherry picked. Fair enough, one might think.