Intelligence* — as far as I can tell — is a variable, not a constant. It fluctuates, the same way a healthy person’s heart-rate varies over time. Graph it, and it looks like this:
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Elon Musk is planning to colonize Mars. If he succeeds, it could be one of the most important changes in human history. And, based on the surprising success of his previous ventures — including
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In this tutorial I’ll show how to convert manuscripts written in markdown into a variety of industry-standard formats, automatically, using Pandoc.
Why bother?
I write short-stories and essays in markdown, but many
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The OpenBCI is a pleasantly affordable, refreshingly open source biosignal amplifier with high-quality multi-channel output, an excellent user community, and a hackable design that have made it a go-to widget for neuro-geeks from
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Ghost is a free, open-source, and beautiful piece of software that allows you to write and publish your own blog — while keeping out of the way.
Heroku is a Platform as a Service
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Here at the autodidacts we have a sophisticated workflow for turning our project ideas into reality. It’s so arcane it deserves its own branch of historiography, but we settled for an infographic:
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Avconv is a powerful audio and video converter with a mind-bending number of possible configurations and uses. For those of you who took one look at the 7 page table of contents and
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A year ago we released EEGrunt and wrote an announcement post here on The Autodidacts, which included a brief overview of what EEGrunt was good for and a quick getting-started tutorial.
EEGrunt is
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Mark Twain said, “there comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.” As the youngest brother of
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These are exciting times for citizen neuroscientists. In the last few years, all kinds of new EEG systems have appeared. When we first started looking into low-cost EEG hardware, we only found a
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Free will is a topic as old as the hills. We all act as though we’ve got it, but established science gives this slim probability. Trouble is, if we admit that it
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If you’ve read previous articles on this blog, you know that we have a hankering for amateur neuroscience and have been doing some EEG experiments with the OpenBCI.
At first, we used
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Today we’re delighted to launch our latest project into the world. After months of development, we present NeuroBB — The EEG, BCI, and Neurofeedback Discussion Forum.
Brain-computer interfaces have evolved to the point
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Can you use audio recordings to entrain your brainwaves, alter your consciousness, and “meditate deeper than a zen monk”? In this post we set out to shed light on that question with a
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Are humans nice, or are they nasty? It depends who you ask. For centuries, debate has raged across political and scientific lines over whether the fundamental nature of humans is selfish, greedy, competitive,
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Glidecams are agitatingly expensive but equally sweet. They’re the mechanical heroes of independent film, giving amateurs access to the gorgeous motion shots of pro cinema. Despite their cost, they look like they&
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