The study, which will be published the week of Feb. 9 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is about how the brain makes
sense of data from the fingers.
Northwestern University and Carnegie Mellon University researchers now report a fascinating discovery that provides insight into how the brain makes
sense of data from fingers.
She is cofounder of Performance Pathways, a company dedicated to providing easy - to - use software that helps integrate and make
sense of data from curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
Not exact matches
Simply put, it enables leaders that leverage numerous online tools for daily tasks to customize perspectives vital to accomplishing specific goals, rather than tediously extracting
data from multiple sources and trying to make
sense of it all.
No matter if it is hardware (which many rumors are pointing to), a replacement UI for existing devices (which makes
sense from a
data capture point
of view), an enhanced app (after all they are constantly iterating their mobile code base), or a mixture
of all three, the key factor for Facebook here is to capture as much
data as possible on Facebook users» mobile habits.
And she offered a simple solution that emerged
from more than 100,000 pieces
of data in her vulnerability research: confront the story you're telling yourself to make
sense of the situation.
All
of these rates rose going into the December FOMC meeting, which makes quite a bit
of sense, given that most market participants expected the FOMC to tighten policy at that meeting.35 We also gather information about rates on term unsecured borrowing in our FR 2420 collection, and about term secured transactions
from the clearing banks, and these
data tell a similar story.
All indicators are derived
from price movement anyways, so if we have a solid method to trade based only on price movement (price action analysis), it only makes
sense that we would use that instead
of trying to analyze messy secondary
data.
Most economists - at least not those blinded by either dogma or an over-reliance on quarterly
data - who made a fundamental analysis
of the state
of western economies, could not help but feel that the
sense of escape
from calamity was a bit premature.
The remote driver uses information
from the truck's cameras and
data feed to get a
sense of its surroundings.
In truth,
from the standpoint
of data alone, postponement actually makes some
sense.
Whether through explicit research
data, or a vague
sense gleaned
from scrolling one's own News Feed, it's no secret that video is having a bit
of a moment.
When I realize that the particular conclusions generated by the serious reflection that arises
from such assumptions have only the authority
of those assumptions, then I feel free to turn to another philosophy that includes among its
data human persons and their interactions; for my perception
of reality is such that these seem to me at least as real and ultimate as
sense data and mechanical relations.
If we take the primitive givens
of experience as
sense data, we seem to be forced to recognize that
from their givenness we can not infer the existence
of any entity whatsoever.
In general, taking the objects for philosophical analysis
from the
data of sense perception leaves us in the grip
of substance thinking even when we acknowledge that we can not discover substances in or through our sensory experience.
All profoundly religions people are gripped by a vision
of reality which is not only beyond the state but beyond the difficult lessons
of experience, beyond the realistic analysis
of social forces and societal needs, beyond the prudential calculations
of common
sense, and beyond the fragmented bits
of data we get
from daily life.
Thus did Origen, for example, speak
of theologia as the effort
of the individual to «make
sense» out
of Scripture but he immediately asserted the tentative nature
of any such interpretational In Gregory
of Nazianzus the element
of indirectness,
of being one step removed
from the original
data, is identified with the word theologia and Pseudo-Dionysius employed it as a synonym for mysticisms
Instead, I derive the
sense -
data that I attribute to the physical object
from antecedent states
of my own body (i.e.,
from the causal past).
This
sense emerges
from data, admittedly controversial, about the kind
of people who are now coming — and not coming — to seminary.
In contrast stands the more basic perception in the mode
of causal efficacy; which «is our general
sense of existence, as one item among others in an efficacious external world» and «
of derivation
from an immediate past, and
of passage to an immediate future»; its
data «are vague, not to be controlled, heavy with emotion.»
Kant then solved the start - up problem his own way; in a procedure that is roasted by diverse modern critics (including Traditional natural lawyers) he ascended to a «pure reason» that is detached
from the
data of sense.
Moreover, unlike his colleagues C. D. Broad and G. E. Moore, Russell did not long hold fast to the extensive and absurd violation
of Occam's razor entailed in maintaining some sort
of mysterious ontological status for
sense data or percepta apart
from their originating objects (which are now «constructions»).
Quite apart
from the ontological status
of these, how do we make the inferential leap
from those actual, but diverse, private experiences to the normative or public veridical judgment, «That is a penny on top
of the desk» (where «penny» now stands exclusively for the normative description just given, as opposed to the particular ensemble
of sense data we happen to perceive
from a particular frame
of reference)?
But the phenomenological description offered makes it clear that presentational immediacy is consequent upon a particular type
of bodily amplification and selection
of sense data derived
from the stream
of consciousness comprising the immediate past actual world, further abstracted and focused in the human situation through selective conscious attention to some, but not all,
of the features
of the immediate external world recorded and amplified by the body.
Transcendence conceived as self - transcendence is the ability we have as human beings to move psychologically
from some time - confined present patch
of sense or mental
datum to some
datum or proposition not available within the bounds
of the previous present.
The focus on
sense -
data developed through the Cartesian program
of finding a basis in clear and distinct ideas
from which to demonstrate the existence
of the physical world, thereby providing a conclusive answer to radical skepticism.
This is why those who have recently revived the notion
of visual experience, such as John Searle and Christopher Peacocke, have broken away
from the traditional story about the awareness
of visual
sense -
data, in favor
of the view that perceptual experience has propositional content (Searle) or representational content (Peacocke).2
For if the
data of experience consisted only
of universals, then the experiencing subject would have to infer the existence
of other individual actual entities, just as Descartes claimed to infer the existence
of a real man in the street
from the
sense -
data present to his eyes.
derived by analogy
from data of previous
sense - awareness, 5 to an attended event (PNK 89f; CN Ch.
One may then speculate that the emotional character
of the experience in the cells in the grass are somewhat replicated in the emotional component
of their prehension in the mode
of causal efficacy
from which the
sense datum, green, arises visually.
We are often exhorted by scientists and philosophers alike to accept the material given to us by
sense perception as though it is the rock - bottom foundation
of our knowledge
of the physical world, Simultaneously we are told to refrain
from coloring neutral
sense data over with our subjective wishes and teleological desires.
This implies that all emotional and purposive response must be considered derivative
from the more primary conscious perception
of those universals constituting the
data of sense perception (PR 246).
Whitehead's «method
of extensive abstraction» is used not only in his early writings in the philosophy
of natural science but also in his later, more metaphysical, writings to abstract
from the complexity
of the relations which comprise the
datum of sense - perception and to isolate by a conceptual analysis those relations which express a uniform metric structure, that is, to «exhibit» a basis
of uniformity in nature.21 It is the
sense in which this uniformity is «required» that is the crucial point for further investigation.
Using
data from even January to try an accurately show how good Michigan is going to give you a false
sense of what they are.
I think the CDC
data set makes the most
sense compared to out
of date studies or studies
from other countries (with varying levels
of certification and training for midwives).
I checked the petition page source code to get a
sense of the tech they're using, and it looks like the pages are being served
from NAACP's own site but plug
data into a Blue State Digital API (BSD features their work with the organization on their own site).
The Real Deal recently dove through
data from the New York City Campaign Finance Board to get a
sense of which candidates were attracting the most donations
from the real estate sector.
«We sought assurances
from the Minister today on the timely introduction
of overall
SEN reform, but the Minister refused to accept the recommendations
of the scrutinising committee, and that decision, coupled with the lack
of robust financial
data, means that the Welsh Liberal Democrats can not support the Education Bill as it currently stands.
He admits he does not have proof «in the classical
sense of the word» that the detention centres exist, but insists that a «number
of coherent and converging elements», such as flight
data and sources
from within various intelligence agencies, point that way.
McCallion's strategy to make
sense of all this
data looks at the active genes in cells affected by a disease, groups
of genes that interact with one another, their vulnerability to mutation and information
from past scientific studies to filter more than a thousand gene candidates for disease risk down to just a handful within any one implicated region.
Not only being aware
of the latest technological developments (that you help shape), your clients can be dotted around the world — you might file an application for a start - up company in India, correspond with inventors in Spain, and review experimental
data from a university in Japan, all in the same «day» — so a
sense of time around the globe is key.
Newman's team are studying how algorithms can make
sense of data streaming
from a 3D laser rangefinder and quickly decide whether an object is a car or pedestrian, for example.
In recent decades, advances in telescopes and
sensing equipment have allowed scientists to detect a vast amount
of data hidden in the «white noise» or microwaves (partly responsible for the random black and white dots you see on an un-tuned TV) left over
from the moment the universe was created.
By collecting more
data from healthy people, doctors and scientists could get a better
sense of what's normal.
In another development, the American Earth Observation Satellite company, EOSAT, has signed an agreement with the marketing arm
of ISRO to sell Earth observation
data from Indian remote
sensing satellites.
Standing in a payphone in the village
of San Pedro, Chile, about 100 km
from the base
of Volcano Lascar, volcano researcher Tamsin Mather and colleagues are trying desperately to get through to the manufacturer
of their remote
sensing device in the U.S. Equipment failure is the bane
of any scientist's life, but when it happens in remote terrain, a hitch like this can toll the death knell for further
data collection on a precious field trip.
Westbrook recently dug through the Doppler
data from 1995 and was able to pick out the signals
of these two species moving during the outbreak, Westbrook and USDA colleague Ritchie Eyster wrote in November 2017 in Remote
Sensing Applications: Society and Environment.
Bioinformatics tries to solve biological problems by using computers to make
sense of the large amounts
of data that arise
from sequencing and other large - scale projects.
The massive complexity
of the problems it is tackling,
from mapping the functioning brain to making petabytes
of data meaningful and accessible to training a new generation
of neuroscientists who are equipped to work across disciplines to make
sense of it all, do not lend themselves to easily assembled and discretely defined teams and tasks — at least, not quickly.
These events will be dramatic: In terms
of energy, two merging black holes should «outshine every star in every galaxy in the universe in their final moments,» says Montana State's Cornish, who studies how to make
sense of the
data that will soon pour in
from LIGO, Virgo and other gravitational wave experiments.