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Adam is an amateur philosophical astronaut and DIY scientist who likes being on both ends of the microscope simultaneously. He lives on a small green island on Canada's west coast.

Adam Adam has published 5 posts:
Neurofeedback and the Transformation of Consciousness: An Interview with Biocybernaut’s James Hardt

Neurofeedback and the Transformation of Consciousness: An Interview with Biocybernaut’s James Hardt

The Biocybernaut Institute offers perhaps the world's most elite and exclusive neurofeedback training. According to their website, a one-week intensive can boost IQ and creativity, create beneficial personality changes, and “expand … »

Free Will ≈ Determinism, F.A.P.P.

Free Will ≈ Determinism, F.A.P.P.

Free will is a topic as old as the hills. We all act as though we’ve got it, but established science gives this slim probability. Trouble is, if we admit that it … »

Human Nature: Good, Bad, and Important

Human Nature: Good, Bad, and Important

Are humans nice, or are they nasty? It depends who you ask. For centuries, debate has raged across political and scientific lines over whether the fundamental nature of humans is selfish, greedy, competitive, … »

#100DaysToOffload

  1. I’m trying #100DaysToOffload
  2. Cerelog’s ESP-EEG is a new 8 channel biosensing board at a hobbyist-friendly price
  3. Filtering RSS feeds by tag
  4. An unsolved question in sleep science
  5. A list of public Wallabag instances that seem legit
  6. Patching KOReader Wallabag Plugin to add star support
  7. Sleep is a continuum
  8. Wallabag wins, despite its flaws
  9. Regex is horrible, yet regex is amazing
  10. Create custom filtered RSS feeds in Ghost, the easy way
  11. Script: export post as Markdown via Ghost Admin API
  12. How to Migrate Kobo eReader Books & Annotations to a New Device
  13. What’s the end game for Ghost newsletter sign-up spam?
  14. A Fish shortcut for rapidly appending clipboard data to text files
  15. Split Testing in ~50 lines of JavaScript
  16. Finally, an open-source dictation app for Linux that actually works
  17. And then there’s Readeck
  18. Human beings are waterproof
  19. The Benefits of Creating a Personal Shorthand of Symbols
  20. I couldn’t find a free Silver price API — so I’m making one
  21. Dostoyevsky isn’t difficult
  22. My Free Daily Silver Price API is Live

Using Recorded OpenBCI Data in OpenViBE

Using Recorded OpenBCI Data in OpenViBE

OpenViBE is a open source EEG software suite. Somewhat like BrainBay, it has a visual scenario designer that allows you to manipulate your EEG data and apply all sorts of processing algorithms, filters, … »

Fortunately Erroneous: Bad science and the economics of happiness

Psychology has measured many things, most of them unpleasant. But in the past few decades some psychologists have started to measure pleasant things — such as happiness — and this new academic trend is wobbling … »