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Forgot your password?  Comment: Could make for good cybernetics
(Score 1) 70  by simon_clarkstone (#36697968) Attached to: The
Birth of Optogenetics If making a reliable long-term electrical
connection between neurons and circuitry continues to be as hard
as it has been so far, then this technique could offer a
superior way of coupling the brain to cybernetics. Neurons would
only need to be near the input device, not need to be touching
it. The brain would figure out what the signals meant just as
easily.  Comment: For More Technical Details... (Score 4,
Interesting) 29  by simon_clarkstone (#20523695) Attached to:
The Making of Dungeon Siege  If you want the technical details,
read The Continuous World of Dungeon Siege (a fascinating read).
To avoid floating-point problems and to allow continuous
loading, the world was split up into nodes with specified
transformations between them. This resulted in a world that
often cannot be mapped, as it w