| travel plans for the next quarter |
[Mar. 17th, 2004|09:59 am] |
a) fun
April: Grand Canyon, Arizona.
b) work
April: Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium (?)
May: S. Korea, H.K., China(?)
June: The Netherlands, Finland, UK(?)
c) good news
I'm not going to Japan this April :) |
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[Mar. 17th, 2004|10:04 am] |
A friend of mine submitted my haiku/senryu to a local paper in The Netherlads, and it got published! :) They must be desperate for content ;)
scratching the surface
for miles and miles and miles -
happy ice skaters |
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| senryu. planting season |
[Mar. 17th, 2004|09:29 pm] |
garden sale -
my inner peasant craves
the bareroots
*прим. автора: перевести не могу, поэтому данное хайку назначается сенрю :) |
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| Books. Science. Brain. |
[Mar. 17th, 2004|10:44 pm] |
Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmer. p. 276
The activity of a single neuron uses up so much energy that less than 1 percent of the neurons in the cortex can be active at any moment (es: what does he mean by "any moment"). With such a limited budget of energy, the brain simply cannot take in all the information available to its senses. It must make up for its shortcomings with elegant strategies for picking out only what matters. ( es: thinking in stereotypes is retrieval-based , rather than processing-based ) But what is important one second may become unimportant the next, and so the brain also needs to continually rearrange its networks, refocusing its attention on perceptions that do the best job of predicting the future. A driver may focus his attention on a driveway... His brain makes the neurons in that part of his field of vision more sensitive and boosts their signla by as much as 30 percent. Most of the time the brain refocuses itself automatically without our awareness.
es: i wonder what would happen if the efficiency of the brain processes is significantly increased? what kind of control (task switching, not perception) system is there? what would it take to make it computer assisted? |
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