All these metrics are very short-term and the user dissatisfaction builds up over time. It makes sense for everyone involved (the short term is all that counts for investors and CEOs), but I personally can't wait to see Facebook eat itself.
This is not entirely correct for French. Though there is an Académie Française in France, it doesn't directly dictate rules to other French-speaking nations and cultures.
This is because France doesn't contain the majority of French speakers in the world, and even if it did there doesn't seem to be an incentive to follow any rules they may publish.
Source: I live in Québec, we don't defer to the Académie.
For one thing, it's still an intrusive method which requires brain surgery. I expected something like radioactive isotopes but no, this is easily summed up as "better electrodes". As good thing for sure, not a game changer.
For another, the writer is a tech journalist and therefore more than likely wrong or inaccurate on important facts.
I am not aware of any work that has gotten a good timeseries of neuromodulator response. So much speculation is thrown around about how these hormones respond to real world experiences, but the evidence has been coarse grain from things like PET scans or sparse assays. Even if the tech used is not that new, the kind of data is. I am unaware of any data like this. Maybe I missed something. Is there another way neuroscience has managed to get an actual neuromodulator signal?
One thing which struck me back when I was studying neuroscience was just how impactful new tools were. If you look at the history of neuroscience, major leaps forward have almost always been driven by a new tool: whether it's a new dye, or a new imaging technology, every time we have gotten a better look at how the physiology of the brain actually works, it has elucidated topics we could only speculate about before.
So it's easy to poo-poo something like this from the sidelines, but if we can get more detailed information about the behavior or neurotransmitter concentrations over time, even if it's just a point measurement this could be an input to more accurate models which could help explain all kinds of things about how the brain actually works.
Yes, not huge. Just a point measurement, achieved through invasive surgery and electrical stimulation.
What we really need is a schematic diagram. It’s not obvious how we will get to there from here. Not knowing anything about the data format means these are still early days.
But every little bit tells us something more, and one day iall the bits will all add up.
We actually have a bit of a schematic diagram already. It is well known that both dopamine and serotonin are largely produced by clusters of neurons in specific fore/mid-brain regions that then project out into the rest of the brain. The axions of these modulator neurons secrete the hormone, and it is known for both serotonin and dopamine (1) what receptors they bind to, (2) what transporters reuptake them into the presynaptic neurons, (3) what enzymes break them down. So the schematic of the system can be sketched out, and details of it, such as receptor functioning, can be determined pretty well in vitro. What we don't have is the timeseries data to properly parameterize this model. This research starts to provide this. You should check out research in pharmacology; there is a big hole for this and people are just guessing based on this schematic what the dynamics are.
> What we really need is a schematic diagram. It’s not obvious how we will get to there from here.
The rise of gene-based identification of cell types, allowing for much more fine-grained understanding of how the cells are connected and develop than morphological identification alone, is a pretty good start I'd say.
I dont mind Windows but being able to simply run Windows apps in a consistent way on Linux would really make my life much easier. The only downside would be the driver situation still sucks on Linux depending on GPU or other peripheral hardware but thats another fight for another day. Hell even being able to run the official Office binary on Linux would be great, course its been a rumor that might happen but theres plenty of software targetting Win32 that is useful.
Wine is the inverse effort of WSL. Both are trying to integrate the best of the other operating system. WSL -> Give Windows users a good modern web app development experience. Wine -> Give Linux users Office and games. To that end, both have their measure of success, and shortcomings. As someone who ran Linux on the desktop for 19 years, I tried every incarnation of Wine I could get my hands on. In the end, I just always kept a Windows partition for playing games.
Given the hype, I almost want to reinstall Linux to try it out, and see what all the fuss is about.
And it's funny you bring up anti-cheat, because my biggest success using Wine was Battlefield 2, which actually ran more smoothly on my machine under Linux than Windows, but then I tried to get online, and learned a harsh lesson.
As someone who has invested time and energy into setting up Wine, I think you will be pleasantly surprised by how painless it is to set up a Steam game with Proton. That is to say, you click 'install' as if you were installing a Native game and then when you click 'Play Game' it shows you a quick warning that Steam will be using a compatibility tool and then will boot up without any more fuss.
The caveat is largely that not all games are solved by this [0], and the official Valve whitelist needs to be turned off in settings to use it for all games, but even with these it's still a marked improvement in Quality of Life and barrier to entry for running Windows games on Linux.
I'd give it a go if you have time/inclination. I can recommend it as someone who is now Linux only as a result of this.
I've also run Linux for a long time, and have used Wine since before 1.0 to run some games, with very mixed results. Overall, the same experience for years - most games would have some issues, and many simply wouldn't run, so I kept Windows for gaming.
Proton was a dramatic change for me. A few clicks to enable Proton for a particular game, and then it just seamlessly runs and works. Granted, not all games do (check ProtonDB) but all the games I've wanted to play for the last couple of years have worked. I'd say Proton is the most significant thing to ever happen for Linux gaming support, and it did more for me overnight than many years of trying with Wine.
Modern multiplayer games with anti-cheat are mostly broken, some popular ones like Rainbow Six Siege are impossible to play. But if you mostly play other games, give Proton a try.
They are strict about their distance to Microsoft to avoid copyright law cases. They want to make sure it is a blackbox reimplementation and no internal knowledge came in.
Aside from that they are a an open source project, working on a open/libre alternative. Some people in the project certainly have issues with Microsoft, others don't.
Windows 10 Home starts at $130, Pro is $200, and the business licenses start at $300. Given how much of Windows market share comes from business use, it’d be surprising they weren’t making a lot of money there. Since they’re a public company it’s easy to confirm that, yes, selling the most popular operating system in the world is profitable:
He is right though, watermarked w10 has no time limit, and comes with what seems only a few limitations, like inability to customize the taskbar location, for example.
This was pretty much always true. I remember the old versions just needed a serial. A single serial number that could be used any number of times worked just fine. Here in Iran, retailers sold Windows CDs with the same serial number printed on the covers.
Even when Windows detected that the license was fake, it basically didn't do anything. Some occasional messaging and a black background was the worst of it. I figure Microsoft understood that pressure on not-rich home users would just beef up its competition.
Non-activated Windows is limited. You cannot even enter the appearance features in the settings application when in such a state.
You can use it, sure. But between the watermark that is always on top and lack of being able to customize the OS I wouldn't want to use "free windows".
