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Comment on SynthNet, the Start of a Neural Emulator by Kim Cardinal

Kim Cardinal — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:55:19 +0000

Thank YOU for the response Please keep me in the loop….I will be following your research.

Comment on SynthNet, the Start of a Neural Emulator by Toni

Toni — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:54:51 +0000

Hi Kim – first off, thanks for the interest! I’ve changed the oligodendrocytic/Schwann functionality slightly as what’s documented above. I’m trying to model the electrotonic properties of the cell membrane a little more closely than what I had, so now I use the cable equation and incorporate capacitance (in the middle of implementing this now). So axon myelination is emulated by increasing the resistance across the membrane and decreasing the capacitance, akin to what real myelin does.

Right now no dynamic changes happen to the system outside of ion/substance transfer – so currently they are not susceptible to sheath disorders. However, in the future, the system will emulate protein kinases (I’m hoping to be ready for this in about a year or so), and it could definitely be possible for activation to trigger “deterioration”, e.g. changes to the resistance and capacitance values of the cell membrane, which in effect would be akin to deterioration of the myelin producing neuroglia.

Axon hillocks are functioning well as we speak, they’re initiating action potentials really well (I have some great new graphs of these I need to post – I need to update the blog more often).

Thanks again!

Comment on SynthNet, the Start of a Neural Emulator by Kim Cardinal

Kim Cardinal — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:55:27 +0000

any susceptibility to myelin sheath disorders? Axon hillocks intact still?

Comment on How to Move the COS (esxconsole.vmdk) in VMware ESX 4 (vSphere) by Avram Woroch

Avram Woroch — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:23:23 +0000

Thank you sir. Those steps worked like a dream, and I’ve shared with my internal team your tricks!

Comment on Classic Gaming Review – Quackshot by bertodecosta

bertodecosta — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:55:03 +0000

Quackshot! I like this game. The music is fun to hear and keep echoing to my ears even when I’m not playing it anumore.

Comment on Creating a Blackberry Game – Part 3 by Jayachandra

Jayachandra — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:23:33 +0000

Sir
Thank u for giving such a valuable information i need images and audio files for this game could u please send them to my mail jayachandra.06ie9@gmail.com

Comment on Creating a Blackberry Game – Part 1 by Mubarak

Mubarak — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:00:46 +0000

Hi,

Great game, however, i cannot scroll the ship horizontally because I’m using a BB 7130E
which has a side scroller.

All the same good work.

Comment on Creating a PHP Graphing Calculator by Toni

Toni — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:44:51 +0000

You’re almost there – I’m about to update the code above to make use of a scaling global variable, where scale > 1 zooms in, and scale < 1 zooms out. I think it’s right, its been a while since I worked on this so I might have missed something.

Comment on Ping Failover Daemon for Linux by Toni

Toni — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:01:37 +0000

Hi – sorry for the lack of README, but it’s just a standard configure/make like other source code. Just make sure you have the latest Boost libraries.

Comment on Creating a PHP Graphing Calculator by Ice

Ice — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:48:48 +0000

I’m interested in expanding the x and y ranges of your graph…

Getting the additional ticks on the y and x axis is easy:
for ($lcv = 0 ; $lcv < $GLOBALS['width']/2*$scale; $lcv += 50)
for ($lcv = 0 ; $lcv < $GLOBALS['height']/2*$scale; $lcv += 50)

& Converting functions:
pixelsToCart()
$passX = $scale*$passX – $GLOBALS['width'] / 2;
$passY = $scale*$passY + $GLOBALS['height'] / 2;

cartToPixels()
$passX = $GLOBALS['width'] / 2 – $scale*$passX;
$passY = $GLOBALS['width'] / 2 + $scale*$passY;

However, the graph only plots to the original stopping and starting area of the default graph.