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  1. История одного архитектурного круга: реактивность Vue

    Vue снова меняет способ обновления интерфейса: теперь на горизонте Vapor и рендеринг без Virtual DOM. Зачем очередная архитектурная перестройка и что не устраивает команду Vue в нынешнем подходе? Чтобы ответить, проследим путь Vue от Object.defineProperty до Proxy и зачем теперь понадобился Vapor. Это поможет лучше понимать поведение ref, reactive и computed, вникнуть в причины архитектурных изменений Vue и подготовиться к дальнейшим изменениям.

    habr.com/ru/companies/first/ar

    #vue #vuejs #vue3 #signals #reactivity #reactivity_javascript #proxy #virtualdom #vapor #dom

  2. История одного архитектурного круга: реактивность Vue

    Vue снова меняет способ обновления интерфейса: теперь на горизонте Vapor и рендеринг без Virtual DOM. Зачем очередная архитектурная перестройка и что не устраивает команду Vue в нынешнем подходе? Чтобы ответить, проследим путь Vue от Object.defineProperty до Proxy и зачем теперь понадобился Vapor. Это поможет лучше понимать поведение ref, reactive и computed, вникнуть в причины архитектурных изменений Vue и подготовиться к дальнейшим изменениям.

    habr.com/ru/companies/first/ar

    #vue #vuejs #vue3 #signals #reactivity #reactivity_javascript #proxy #virtualdom #vapor #dom

  3. История одного архитектурного круга: реактивность Vue

    Vue снова меняет способ обновления интерфейса: теперь на горизонте Vapor и рендеринг без Virtual DOM. Зачем очередная архитектурная перестройка и что не устраивает команду Vue в нынешнем подходе? Чтобы ответить, проследим путь Vue от Object.defineProperty до Proxy и зачем теперь понадобился Vapor. Это поможет лучше понимать поведение ref, reactive и computed, вникнуть в причины архитектурных изменений Vue и подготовиться к дальнейшим изменениям.

    habr.com/ru/companies/first/ar

    #vue #vuejs #vue3 #signals #reactivity #reactivity_javascript #proxy #virtualdom #vapor #dom

  4. "Subdivisions" is a song by Canadian #progressiveRock group #Rush, released as the second single from their 1982 album #Signals. The song was released as a single in 1982. In the United States, it charted at No. 5 on the #MainstreamRock Tracks chart.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Vf8jvSPA3XQ

  5. "Subdivisions" is a song by Canadian #progressiveRock group #Rush, released as the second single from their 1982 album #Signals. The song was released as a single in 1982. In the United States, it charted at No. 5 on the #MainstreamRock Tracks chart.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Vf8jvSPA3XQ

  6. "Subdivisions" is a song by Canadian #progressiveRock group #Rush, released as the second single from their 1982 album #Signals. The song was released as a single in 1982. In the United States, it charted at No. 5 on the #MainstreamRock Tracks chart.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Vf8jvSPA3XQ

  7. "Subdivisions" is a song by Canadian #progressiveRock group #Rush, released as the second single from their 1982 album #Signals. The song was released as a single in 1982. In the United States, it charted at No. 5 on the #MainstreamRock Tracks chart.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Vf8jvSPA3XQ

  8. "Subdivisions" is a song by Canadian #progressiveRock group #Rush, released as the second single from their 1982 album #Signals. The song was released as a single in 1982. In the United States, it charted at No. 5 on the #MainstreamRock Tracks chart.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Vf8jvSPA3XQ

  9. RE: flipboard.com/@sciencealert/ph

    A study from Southeast University China has shown that calculations on electromagnetic signals can be performed directly on the signal itself.
    According to the authors, this can be understood as: "In an everyday analogy, it can be imagined as a #reprogrammable #electromagnetic #space computer that processes the #signals directly as #electromagneticwaves propagate."
    © #Stefan F Wirth, 2026, Berlin

    reference
    S. Nan Chen et al. (2026):
    doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-762

    Illustration
    ©S.F.Wirth, AI assisted

  10. RE: flipboard.com/@sciencealert/ph

    A study from Southeast University China has shown that calculations on electromagnetic signals can be performed directly on the signal itself.
    According to the authors, this can be understood as: "In an everyday analogy, it can be imagined as a #reprogrammable #electromagnetic #space computer that processes the #signals directly as #electromagneticwaves propagate."
    © #Stefan F Wirth, 2026, Berlin

    reference
    S. Nan Chen et al. (2026):
    doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-762

    Illustration
    ©S.F.Wirth, AI assisted

  11. RE: flipboard.com/@sciencealert/ph

    A study from Southeast University China has shown that calculations on electromagnetic signals can be performed directly on the signal itself.
    According to the authors, this can be understood as: "In an everyday analogy, it can be imagined as a #reprogrammable #electromagnetic #space computer that processes the #signals directly as #electromagneticwaves propagate."
    © #Stefan F Wirth, 2026, Berlin

    reference
    S. Nan Chen et al. (2026):
    doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-762

    Illustration
    ©S.F.Wirth, AI assisted

  12. RE: flipboard.com/@sciencealert/ph

    A study from Southeast University China has shown that calculations on electromagnetic signals can be performed directly on the signal itself.
    According to the authors, this can be understood as: "In an everyday analogy, it can be imagined as a #reprogrammable #electromagnetic #space computer that processes the #signals directly as #electromagneticwaves propagate."
    © #Stefan F Wirth, 2026, Berlin

    reference
    S. Nan Chen et al. (2026):
    doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-762

    Illustration
    ©S.F.Wirth, AI assisted

  13. RE: flipboard.com/@sciencealert/ph

    A study from Southeast University China has shown that calculations on electromagnetic signals can be performed directly on the signal itself.
    According to the authors, this can be understood as: "In an everyday analogy, it can be imagined as a #reprogrammable #electromagnetic #space computer that processes the #signals directly as #electromagneticwaves propagate."
    © #Stefan F Wirth, 2026, Berlin

    reference
    S. Nan Chen et al. (2026):
    doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-762

    Illustration
    ©S.F.Wirth, AI assisted

  14. ‘We will celebrate the merging of our military with the American one’ — Benjamin Netanyahu

    This merger, if it goes through, which looks likely, is treason, and signals the end of USA. No matter how it begins, it will morph into total takeover of USA by Jewish Supremacists. This is the culmination of a multigenerational covert war against USA, which I have described in multiple posts on this site. Their control of the American, and Western, elite is total. No institution is free of their control, and thus there is nothing to stop them. ABN

    #abn #infiltration #military #pathocracy #signals #treason #unrestrictedWar #usurpation
  15. The search for alien radio signals from K2-18b, one of the most closely watched possible ocean worlds, came up empty after two of the most powerful arrays on Earth scanned it for a full orbit
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>A coordinated VLA and MeerKAT campaign sifted more than twenty million radio detections logged while
    #signals #search #radio #alien

  16. The search for alien radio signals from K2-18b, one of the most closely watched possible ocean worlds, came up empty after two of the most powerful arrays on Earth scanned it for a full orbit
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>A coordinated VLA and MeerKAT campaign sifted more than twenty million radio detections logged while
    #signals #search #radio #alien

  17. The search for alien radio signals from K2-18b, one of the most closely watched possible ocean worlds, came up empty after two of the most powerful arrays on Earth scanned it for a full orbit
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>A coordinated VLA and MeerKAT campaign sifted more than twenty million radio detections logged while
    #signals #search #radio #alien

  18. The search for alien radio signals from K2-18b, one of the most closely watched possible ocean worlds, came up empty after two of the most powerful arrays on Earth scanned it for a full orbit
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>A coordinated VLA and MeerKAT campaign sifted more than twenty million radio detections logged while
    #signals #search #radio #alien

  19. The search for alien radio signals from K2-18b, one of the most closely watched possible ocean worlds, came up empty after two of the most powerful arrays on Earth scanned it for a full orbit
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>A coordinated VLA and MeerKAT campaign sifted more than twenty million radio detections logged while
    #signals #search #radio #alien

  20. SolidJS vs React (2026)

    React остаётся стандартом фронтенда де-факто, но за последние пару лет вокруг SolidJS сложилась устойчивая репутация "фреймворка, который сделал реактивность правильно". У Solid нет виртуального DOM, компонент выполняется один раз, а обновления идут точечно — и это не маркетинговый лозунг, а следствие конкретной архитектуры. Разберёмся, в чём именно SolidJS технически превосходит React, что по этому поводу говорят актуальные бенчмарки и опросы 2025–2026 годов, и — без прикрас — где React по-прежнему выигрывает за явным преимуществом.

    habr.com/ru/articles/1061268/

    #solidjs #react #signals

  21. SolidJS vs React (2026)

    React остаётся стандартом фронтенда де-факто, но за последние пару лет вокруг SolidJS сложилась устойчивая репутация "фреймворка, который сделал реактивность правильно". У Solid нет виртуального DOM, компонент выполняется один раз, а обновления идут точечно — и это не маркетинговый лозунг, а следствие конкретной архитектуры. Разберёмся, в чём именно SolidJS технически превосходит React, что по этому поводу говорят актуальные бенчмарки и опросы 2025–2026 годов, и — без прикрас — где React по-прежнему выигрывает за явным преимуществом.

    habr.com/ru/articles/1061268/

    #solidjs #react #signals

  22. SolidJS vs React (2026)

    React остаётся стандартом фронтенда де-факто, но за последние пару лет вокруг SolidJS сложилась устойчивая репутация "фреймворка, который сделал реактивность правильно". У Solid нет виртуального DOM, компонент выполняется один раз, а обновления идут точечно — и это не маркетинговый лозунг, а следствие конкретной архитектуры. Разберёмся, в чём именно SolidJS технически превосходит React, что по этому поводу говорят актуальные бенчмарки и опросы 2025–2026 годов, и — без прикрас — где React по-прежнему выигрывает за явным преимуществом.

    habr.com/ru/articles/1061268/

    #solidjs #react #signals

  23. Are there aliens on exoplanet K2-18b? Scientists just scanned it for signals
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>K2-18b is one of the most promising worlds for the search for extraterrestrial life
    #scientists #exoplanet #signals #scanned

  24. Open Source без контрибьюторов

    Классический Open Source держался на пирамиде участия: от новичков, правящих опечатки, до мейнтейнеров ядра. Генеративный ИИ и корпоративные стратегии ломают эту модель. Код по-прежнему открыт: вы можете читать его, форкать и использовать. Но писать в него всё чаще можно только «своим». Главный сдвиг здесь не юридический, а производственный. Open Source по лицензии ещё не означает Open Source как культуру участия.

    habr.com/ru/articles/1055660/

    #react #open_source #compiler #rust #signals #javascript #typescript

  25. Open Source без контрибьюторов

    Классический Open Source держался на пирамиде участия: от новичков, правящих опечатки, до мейнтейнеров ядра. Генеративный ИИ и корпоративные стратегии ломают эту модель. Код по-прежнему открыт: вы можете читать его, форкать и использовать. Но писать в него всё чаще можно только «своим». Главный сдвиг здесь не юридический, а производственный. Open Source по лицензии ещё не означает Open Source как культуру участия.

    habr.com/ru/articles/1055660/

    #react #open_source #compiler #rust #signals #javascript #typescript

  26. Open Source без контрибьюторов

    Классический Open Source держался на пирамиде участия: от новичков, правящих опечатки, до мейнтейнеров ядра. Генеративный ИИ и корпоративные стратегии ломают эту модель. Код по-прежнему открыт: вы можете читать его, форкать и использовать. Но писать в него всё чаще можно только «своим». Главный сдвиг здесь не юридический, а производственный. Open Source по лицензии ещё не означает Open Source как культуру участия.

    habr.com/ru/articles/1055660/

    #react #open_source #compiler #rust #signals #javascript #typescript

  27. Astronomers discover radio signals coming from rare 'Blue Eye Pulsar' after decades of silence
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>Astronomers have detected radio signals coming from a long-dead neutron star known as the &#039;Blue
    #astronomers #signals #decades #coming

  28. Psychophysics gains a new law of sensory perception that also sheds light on subjective perception

    First we have to understand Weber’s Law:

    Weber’s law, also called Weber-Fechner law, historically important psychological law quantifying the perception of change in a given stimulus. The law states that the change in a stimulus that will be just noticeable is a constant ratio of the original stimulus. It has been shown not to hold for extremes of stimulation. (Weber’s Law)

    Hang in with this, it’s interesting.

    About 200 years ago, the German physician Ernst Heinrich Weber made a seemingly innocuous observation which led to the birth of the discipline of Psychophysics – the science relating physical stimuli in the world and the sensations they evoke in the mind of a subject. Weber asked subjects to say which of two slightly different weights was heavier. From these experiments , he discovered that the probability that a subject will make the right choice only depends on the ratio between the weights.

    For instance, if a subject is correct 75% of the time when comparing a weight of 1 Kg and a weight of 1.1 Kg, then she will also be correct 75% of the time when comparing two weights of 2 and 2.2 Kg – or, in general, any pair of weights where one is 10% heavier than the other. This simple but precise rule opened the door to the quantification of behavior in terms of mathematical ‘laws’. (NEUROSCIENTISTS MAKE MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN 200-YEAR-OLD PUZZLE)

    What’s new today is Time–Intensity Equivalence in Discrimination (TIED):

    We investigated Weber’s law by training rats to discriminate the relative intensity of sounds at the two ears at various absolute levels. These experiments revealed the existence of a psychophysical regularity, which we term time–intensity equivalence in discrimination (TIED), describing how reaction times change as a function of absolute level. (The mechanistic foundation of Weber’s law)

    Simply stated TIED says that the intensity of the stimulus determines the time it takes to “just notice” a change in it and that that scales linearaly as intensity changes up or down. For example, changes in louder sounds are noticed quicker than proportionally equal changes in quieter sounds and this can be scaled mathematically.

    TIED is a new theory and needs more research, but whether it works out perfectly or not, I think it shows something very important about our individual and shared subjective perceptions of words, gestures, meanings, intentions, implications, and so on including all semiotics.

    At present, we do not have machines that can measure our subjective perceptions, but we can surely feel them. And with training, we can also decently calibrate them.

    Most of us can already vaguely talk about our subjective perceptions of each other, but few of us know how to do that with the precision of Weber’s Law or TIED. This is because we are all unique and we all react uniquely to each other. On top of that, few are able to employ language efficiently enough to capture significant detail when describing subjective responses or impressions.

    FIML provides a very useful method for isolating and calibrating individual, idiosyncratic subjective perceptions.

    Consistent, repeated use of FIML gradually recalibrates and reorganizes the entire psychologies of both partners.

    FIML has virtually no content.. FIML is a method, and as such it allows partners to gradually identify, isolate, measure, and reorganize their entire body of psychological data, however they construe it.

    #analysis #BuddhistPractice #FunctionalInterpersonalMetaLinguisticsFIML #memory #psycholinguistics #psychology #semiotics #signals
  29. Psychophysics gains a new law of sensory perception that also sheds light on subjective perception

    First we have to understand Weber’s Law:

    Weber’s law, also called Weber-Fechner law, historically important psychological law quantifying the perception of change in a given stimulus. The law states that the change in a stimulus that will be just noticeable is a constant ratio of the original stimulus. It has been shown not to hold for extremes of stimulation. (Weber’s Law)

    Hang in with this, it’s interesting.

    About 200 years ago, the German physician Ernst Heinrich Weber made a seemingly innocuous observation which led to the birth of the discipline of Psychophysics – the science relating physical stimuli in the world and the sensations they evoke in the mind of a subject. Weber asked subjects to say which of two slightly different weights was heavier. From these experiments , he discovered that the probability that a subject will make the right choice only depends on the ratio between the weights.

    For instance, if a subject is correct 75% of the time when comparing a weight of 1 Kg and a weight of 1.1 Kg, then she will also be correct 75% of the time when comparing two weights of 2 and 2.2 Kg – or, in general, any pair of weights where one is 10% heavier than the other. This simple but precise rule opened the door to the quantification of behavior in terms of mathematical ‘laws’. (NEUROSCIENTISTS MAKE MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN 200-YEAR-OLD PUZZLE)

    What’s new today is Time–Intensity Equivalence in Discrimination (TIED):

    We investigated Weber’s law by training rats to discriminate the relative intensity of sounds at the two ears at various absolute levels. These experiments revealed the existence of a psychophysical regularity, which we term time–intensity equivalence in discrimination (TIED), describing how reaction times change as a function of absolute level. (The mechanistic foundation of Weber’s law)

    Simply stated TIED says that the intensity of the stimulus determines the time it takes to “just notice” a change in it and that that scales linearaly as intensity changes up or down. For example, changes in louder sounds are noticed quicker than proportionally equal changes in quieter sounds and this can be scaled mathematically.

    TIED is a new theory and needs more research, but whether it works out perfectly or not, I think it shows something very important about our individual and shared subjective perceptions of words, gestures, meanings, intentions, implications, and so on including all semiotics.

    At present, we do not have machines that can measure our subjective perceptions, but we can surely feel them. And with training, we can also decently calibrate them.

    Most of us can already vaguely talk about our subjective perceptions of each other, but few of us know how to do that with the precision of Weber’s Law or TIED. This is because we are all unique and we all react uniquely to each other. On top of that, few are able to employ language efficiently enough to capture significant detail when describing subjective responses or impressions.

    FIML provides a very useful method for isolating and calibrating individual, idiosyncratic subjective perceptions.

    Consistent, repeated use of FIML gradually recalibrates and reorganizes the entire psychologies of both partners.

    FIML has virtually no content.. FIML is a method, and as such it allows partners to gradually identify, isolate, measure, and reorganize their entire body of psychological data, however they construe it.

    #analysis #BuddhistPractice #FunctionalInterpersonalMetaLinguisticsFIML #memory #psycholinguistics #psychology #semiotics #signals
  30. Psychophysics gains a new law of sensory perception that also sheds light on subjective perception

    First we have to understand Weber’s Law:

    Weber’s law, also called Weber-Fechner law, historically important psychological law quantifying the perception of change in a given stimulus. The law states that the change in a stimulus that will be just noticeable is a constant ratio of the original stimulus. It has been shown not to hold for extremes of stimulation. (Weber’s Law)

    Hang in with this, it’s interesting.

    About 200 years ago, the German physician Ernst Heinrich Weber made a seemingly innocuous observation which led to the birth of the discipline of Psychophysics – the science relating physical stimuli in the world and the sensations they evoke in the mind of a subject. Weber asked subjects to say which of two slightly different weights was heavier. From these experiments , he discovered that the probability that a subject will make the right choice only depends on the ratio between the weights.

    For instance, if a subject is correct 75% of the time when comparing a weight of 1 Kg and a weight of 1.1 Kg, then she will also be correct 75% of the time when comparing two weights of 2 and 2.2 Kg – or, in general, any pair of weights where one is 10% heavier than the other. This simple but precise rule opened the door to the quantification of behavior in terms of mathematical ‘laws’. (NEUROSCIENTISTS MAKE MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN 200-YEAR-OLD PUZZLE)

    What’s new today is Time–Intensity Equivalence in Discrimination (TIED):

    We investigated Weber’s law by training rats to discriminate the relative intensity of sounds at the two ears at various absolute levels. These experiments revealed the existence of a psychophysical regularity, which we term time–intensity equivalence in discrimination (TIED), describing how reaction times change as a function of absolute level. (The mechanistic foundation of Weber’s law)

    Simply stated TIED says that the intensity of the stimulus determines the time it takes to “just notice” a change in it and that that scales linearaly as intensity changes up or down. For example, changes in louder sounds are noticed quicker than proportionally equal changes in quieter sounds and this can be scaled mathematically.

    TIED is a new theory and needs more research, but whether it works out perfectly or not, I think it shows something very important about our individual and shared subjective perceptions of words, gestures, meanings, intentions, implications, and so on including all semiotics.

    At present, we do not have machines that can measure our subjective perceptions, but we can surely feel them. And with training, we can also decently calibrate them.

    Most of us can already vaguely talk about our subjective perceptions of each other, but few of us know how to do that with the precision of Weber’s Law or TIED. This is because we are all unique and we all react uniquely to each other. On top of that, few are able to employ language efficiently enough to capture significant detail when describing subjective responses or impressions.

    FIML provides a very useful method for isolating and calibrating individual, idiosyncratic subjective perceptions.

    Consistent, repeated use of FIML gradually recalibrates and reorganizes the entire psychologies of both partners.

    FIML has virtually no content.. FIML is a method, and as such it allows partners to gradually identify, isolate, measure, and reorganize their entire body of psychological data, however they construe it.

    #analysis #BuddhistPractice #FunctionalInterpersonalMetaLinguisticsFIML #memory #psycholinguistics #psychology #semiotics #signals
  31. Psychophysics gains a new law of sensory perception that also sheds light on subjective perception

    First we have to understand Weber’s Law:

    Weber’s law, also called Weber-Fechner law, historically important psychological law quantifying the perception of change in a given stimulus. The law states that the change in a stimulus that will be just noticeable is a constant ratio of the original stimulus. It has been shown not to hold for extremes of stimulation. (Weber’s Law)

    Hang in with this, it’s interesting.

    About 200 years ago, the German physician Ernst Heinrich Weber made a seemingly innocuous observation which led to the birth of the discipline of Psychophysics – the science relating physical stimuli in the world and the sensations they evoke in the mind of a subject. Weber asked subjects to say which of two slightly different weights was heavier. From these experiments , he discovered that the probability that a subject will make the right choice only depends on the ratio between the weights.

    For instance, if a subject is correct 75% of the time when comparing a weight of 1 Kg and a weight of 1.1 Kg, then she will also be correct 75% of the time when comparing two weights of 2 and 2.2 Kg – or, in general, any pair of weights where one is 10% heavier than the other. This simple but precise rule opened the door to the quantification of behavior in terms of mathematical ‘laws’. (NEUROSCIENTISTS MAKE MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN 200-YEAR-OLD PUZZLE)

    What’s new today is Time–Intensity Equivalence in Discrimination (TIED):

    We investigated Weber’s law by training rats to discriminate the relative intensity of sounds at the two ears at various absolute levels. These experiments revealed the existence of a psychophysical regularity, which we term time–intensity equivalence in discrimination (TIED), describing how reaction times change as a function of absolute level. (The mechanistic foundation of Weber’s law)

    Simply stated TIED says that the intensity of the stimulus determines the time it takes to “just notice” a change in it and that that scales linearaly as intensity changes up or down. For example, changes in louder sounds are noticed quicker than proportionally equal changes in quieter sounds and this can be scaled mathematically.

    TIED is a new theory and needs more research, but whether it works out perfectly or not, I think it shows something very important about our individual and shared subjective perceptions of words, gestures, meanings, intentions, implications, and so on including all semiotics.

    At present, we do not have machines that can measure our subjective perceptions, but we can surely feel them. And with training, we can also decently calibrate them.

    Most of us can already vaguely talk about our subjective perceptions of each other, but few of us know how to do that with the precision of Weber’s Law or TIED. This is because we are all unique and we all react uniquely to each other. On top of that, few are able to employ language efficiently enough to capture significant detail when describing subjective responses or impressions.

    FIML provides a very useful method for isolating and calibrating individual, idiosyncratic subjective perceptions.

    Consistent, repeated use of FIML gradually recalibrates and reorganizes the entire psychologies of both partners.

    FIML has virtually no content.. FIML is a method, and as such it allows partners to gradually identify, isolate, measure, and reorganize their entire body of psychological data, however they construe it.

    #analysis #BuddhistPractice #FunctionalInterpersonalMetaLinguisticsFIML #memory #psycholinguistics #psychology #semiotics #signals
  32. Psychophysics gains a new law of sensory perception that also sheds light on subjective perception

    First we have to understand Weber’s Law:

    Weber’s law, also called Weber-Fechner law, historically important psychological law quantifying the perception of change in a given stimulus. The law states that the change in a stimulus that will be just noticeable is a constant ratio of the original stimulus. It has been shown not to hold for extremes of stimulation. (Weber’s Law)

    Hang in with this, it’s interesting.

    About 200 years ago, the German physician Ernst Heinrich Weber made a seemingly innocuous observation which led to the birth of the discipline of Psychophysics – the science relating physical stimuli in the world and the sensations they evoke in the mind of a subject. Weber asked subjects to say which of two slightly different weights was heavier. From these experiments , he discovered that the probability that a subject will make the right choice only depends on the ratio between the weights.

    For instance, if a subject is correct 75% of the time when comparing a weight of 1 Kg and a weight of 1.1 Kg, then she will also be correct 75% of the time when comparing two weights of 2 and 2.2 Kg – or, in general, any pair of weights where one is 10% heavier than the other. This simple but precise rule opened the door to the quantification of behavior in terms of mathematical ‘laws’. (NEUROSCIENTISTS MAKE MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN 200-YEAR-OLD PUZZLE)

    What’s new today is Time–Intensity Equivalence in Discrimination (TIED):

    We investigated Weber’s law by training rats to discriminate the relative intensity of sounds at the two ears at various absolute levels. These experiments revealed the existence of a psychophysical regularity, which we term time–intensity equivalence in discrimination (TIED), describing how reaction times change as a function of absolute level. (The mechanistic foundation of Weber’s law)

    Simply stated TIED says that the intensity of the stimulus determines the time it takes to “just notice” a change in it and that that scales linearaly as intensity changes up or down. For example, changes in louder sounds are noticed quicker than proportionally equal changes in quieter sounds and this can be scaled mathematically.

    TIED is a new theory and needs more research, but whether it works out perfectly or not, I think it shows something very important about our individual and shared subjective perceptions of words, gestures, meanings, intentions, implications, and so on including all semiotics.

    At present, we do not have machines that can measure our subjective perceptions, but we can surely feel them. And with training, we can also decently calibrate them.

    Most of us can already vaguely talk about our subjective perceptions of each other, but few of us know how to do that with the precision of Weber’s Law or TIED. This is because we are all unique and we all react uniquely to each other. On top of that, few are able to employ language efficiently enough to capture significant detail when describing subjective responses or impressions.

    FIML provides a very useful method for isolating and calibrating individual, idiosyncratic subjective perceptions.

    Consistent, repeated use of FIML gradually recalibrates and reorganizes the entire psychologies of both partners.

    FIML has virtually no content.. FIML is a method, and as such it allows partners to gradually identify, isolate, measure, and reorganize their entire body of psychological data, however they construe it.

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