> Guess what the average selling price of a new car was in 1989? $12000

I bought my first new car in 1989, a Camaro with T-Tops and it cost me, $12,250.

From article:

> Cause and Effect: If Neuron A fires just a few milliseconds before Neuron B, the brain assumes A caused B. The synapse between them gets stronger.

A recent study from Stanford found that it's more complex than this rule, some synapses followed it, some did the opposite, etc.

Non-Hebbian and Anti-Hebbian potentiation have been well studied for decades. Anti-Hebbian notably for inhibitory connections.

> A recent study from Stanford

Source?

A recent study from Stanford

I have a friend that left Iran just before the Shah was overthrown. Over the years he has gone back multiple times to visit family and friends etc.

He told me years ago that the majority in Iran were not aligned with the new regime, it was a minority of the population that were.

> This is why I never use a calculator.

I always use the calculator.

But, because the numbers that get returned aren't always the right numbers, I try to approximate the answer in my head or with paper and pencil to kind of make sure it's in the ball park.

Also, sometimes it returns digits that don't actually exist, and it's pretty insistent that the digit is correct. If I catch it early I just re-run the equation but there is a special button where I can tell it that it used a digit that does not actually exist.

Sometimes, for complex ones, it tells me it's trying to calculate and provides some details about how it's going about it and keeps going and going and going, for those ones I just reboot the calculator.

Solution for a hallucinating calculator: get a second unreliable calculator to verify the work of the first one. This message brought to you by a trillion dollars in investment desperately trying to replace the labor force with pseudo-intelligent calculators.

Also, the calculator may refuse to process certain operation deemed to be offensive or against the interest of the corporate-state.

Not to forget, the calculator consumes so much processing power that most people are unable to run it at home, so you need a subscription service to access general-purpose calculation.

>get a second unreliable calculator to verify the work of the first one

In do or die situations we actually use 3 calculators.

The guy did seem to be wearing a warm coat and gloves so obviously pretty cold where the video was, probably just below the frost line.

Central Point Software, the makers of Copy II PC, was one of our customers (we created back office software, order processing etc.).

It was a pretty healthy business, not just for the copy protection breaking but also the general tools software.

Funny story:

I was at their offices working on a project when they were getting ready to ship out the new version. Their warehouse was connected to the office building and they were producing all of the final copies and loading them on trucks to get sent to the distributors.

In the morning they gave the all clear for the first wave of trucks to leave, then about 4 hours later someone found a bug and they had to call all of the trucks back to the warehouse, unload, re-create new clean product etc.

They did this about 3 times before that version finally made it to the distributors.

So did I. We joked that BPCS stood for: Better Programs Coming Soon

It was actually a well designed and functional system, just too many bugs.

Researchers also know that astrocytes are active participants in computation for some areas that have been studied (vision and also memory).

The article seems about 5 to 10 years late.

Ya, RPG assumed character based IO so probably a safe bet that they just ported stuff that ran on IBM character based terminals and just made it run in DOS. (I worked in RPG in the 80's)

> The cells in your eyes have exactly the same DNA as the cells in your big toe

Is that true?

I know that cells in the brain have significant variability in DNA, but not really aware of what non-neuronal and non-brain cells in general typically have.

Every cell in your body (excepting red blood cells) has a complete copy of your genome. What differs is which portions are activated.

Except for in the brain (13% to 41% of neurons with variation, deletions, additions, etc., first discovered in 2001, study below from 2013 confirmed).

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1243472