> "The screaming, fighting ... [they say] jump in front of the train," one US participant said.
> The voices upset them because they violate their sense of personal control, the researchers said.
The voice is not just upsetting b/c they conflict with expectations of how the mind works but those expectations will directly affect what the voice will say and how b/c the voice is part of that person.
Personally, I always wondered why nobody wondered why those "voices" tend to be destructive (at least in our western hemisphere). Now my question is partly answered with the information that this observation is not globally valid.
I am absolutely not at all whatsoever impressed with Netflix' data science capabilities.
They waste one row for:
- watch it again ...
- they suggest stuff based on what I added to my list, but didn't watch yet
- they suggest movies based on what I started to watch but didn't finish - as if that wasn't an indicator for that I didn't like it
- ...
All those companies suggesting on varies channels how nifty and smart they work with their big data - and at the bottom line they just fail on actually improving something.
If papers would be text formatted or if GitHub could render latex on the fly then this would exist already. It doesn't b/c PDF is how papers are dissemeniated - so it's great somebody took care of that gap!
Maybe a another good occasion to mention that coursera currently offers a Bitcoin MOOC run by some guys from Princeton - it's quite awesome.