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From: "Daniel B." <dsb@smart.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up? - OT now
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 14:16:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F85A5E0.EFC0EBE8@smart.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7kWgb.239$pd.130@news.level3.com

Barry Margolin wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> I've heard it claimed that the average man has sexual thoughts every six
> seconds.  What fun the world will be if we ever get direct neural
> interfaces really working....

But how on earth would they measure something like that accurately?

Telling someone to press a button every time they had a particular
kind of thought would skew things by making them think about what
they were supposed to be monitoring.

I wonder if some kind of random-time sampling works.


Daniel
-- 
Daniel Barclay
dsb@smart.net

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-09 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-01  8:03 C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up? Barman Brakjoller
2003-10-01  8:43 ` Noufal Ibrahim
2003-10-01 10:16 ` David Kastrup
2003-10-01 17:02   ` Daniel B.
     [not found]   ` <mailman.949.1065027827.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-01 17:39     ` David Kastrup
2003-10-02 16:16       ` Hans-Christoph Wirth
2003-10-07 18:33         ` David Steuber
2003-10-03 10:31       ` Daniel B.
2003-10-08 23:52       ` Jim Janney
2003-10-09 18:50         ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-16 21:07       ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-10-07 18:29     ` David Steuber
2003-10-09 17:11       ` Daniel B.
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1425.1065719518.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-09 19:42         ` David Steuber
2003-11-03  2:34       ` David Combs
2003-10-01 12:00 ` Arjan Bos
2003-10-01 15:48   ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-02 14:21     ` Arjan Bos
2003-10-06 17:30   ` Gareth Rees
2003-10-01 12:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-01 12:48   ` Jay Belanger
2003-10-07 18:40     ` David Steuber
2003-10-07 20:02       ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-07 21:11         ` David Kastrup
2003-10-08  8:48         ` Oliver Scholz
2003-10-08 10:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <mailman.1313.1065608391.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-08 10:27             ` David Kastrup
2003-10-08 15:47               ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-09 18:16                 ` Daniel B. [this message]
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.1429.1065723394.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-09 19:03                   ` C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up? - OT now Björn Lindström
2003-10-09 20:39                 ` C-f, C-b, C-n and C-p or right, left, down, up? lawrence mitchell
2003-10-09 18:15           ` Daniel B.
2003-10-01 12:36 ` Jim Ottaway
2003-10-01 15:07 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-01 16:43 ` Daniel B.
2003-10-02 13:59   ` Arthur Davis
     [not found] ` <mailman.985.1065065051.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-02  8:40   ` Matthias Meulien
2003-10-03 10:31     ` Daniel B.
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1056.1065177296.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-16 21:03       ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-10-16 21:13         ` lawrence mitchell
2003-10-06 14:21   ` Sven Utcke
2003-10-06 15:35     ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-07 16:29       ` Hans-Christoph Wirth
2003-10-07 21:11         ` David Kastrup
2003-10-09 15:17           ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-10-09 17:08     ` Daniel B.

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