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Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.02.22.527901v1?rss=1 Authors: Kop, B. R., Shamli Oghli, Y., Grippe, T. C., Nandi, T., Lefkes, J., Meijer, S. W., Farboud, S., Engels, M., Hamani, M., Null, M., Radetz, A., Hassan, U., Darmani, G., Chetverikov, A., den Ouden, H. E. M., Bergmann, T. O., Chen, R., Verhagen, L. Abstract: Transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) is rapidly emerging as a promising non-invasive neuromodulation technique. TUS is already well-established in animal models, and now stimulation protocols that optimize neuromodulatory efficacy for human application are required. One promising protocol, pulsed at 1000 Hz, has consistently resulted in motor cortical inhibition. At the same time, a parallel research line has highlighted the potentially confounding influence of peripheral auditory stimulation arising from pulsing TUS at audible frequencies. Across four experiments, one preregistered, at three independent institutions, we employed tightly matched control conditions to disentangle direct neuromodulatory effects of TUS from those driven by the salient auditory confound in a combined transcranial ultrasonic and magnetic stimulation paradigm. We replicated motor cortical inhibition following TUS, but showed through both controls and manipulation of stimulation intensity, duration, and auditory masking conditions that this inhibition was driven by peripheral auditory stimulation rather than direct neuromodulation. This study highlights the substantial impact of the auditory confound, invites a reevaluation of prior findings, and calls for appropriate control conditions in future TUS work. Only when direct effects are disentangled from those driven by peripheral confounds can TUS fully realize its potential for neuroscientific research and clinical applications. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC
O limite de estrangeiros nos clubes brasileiros se tornou um problema? A CBF prepara um estudo que avalia o aumento de cinco para sete atletas relacionados por partida. A questão deve ser levada a votação em Conselho Técnico ainda no início deste ano. Para discutir a questão, Cleber Machado recebe Renato Martorelli, presidente do Sindicato dos Atletas, o técnico Lisca, o jornalista francês Stéphane Darmani, e o inglês Tim Vickery. É válido impor limites? Como as grandes ligas lidam com a questão? Qual impacto gera na base dos clubes? Tudo isso e muito mais. Dá o play!
The Legend of Zelda Audiobook Productions- featuring Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and more
Here is Chapter 30 of Majora's Mask by FakeJake93- Darmani. If you enjoyed this chapter, be sure to leave a review on the author's story. You can find it here: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6429588/27/Majora-s-Mask NB: If you left a reply to the Q&A on the last episode and asked for your response not to be published, I apologise if that was you. I was trying to work out how this new feature works and accidentally published everyones. I'm also aware that the time between episodes has been quite long, and it's less than ideal, but we will do what we can to get episodes out quickly (keep in mind, everyone involved in this project works full-time). I don't want to rush like I did with Ocarina of Time, as I think it's safe to say the quality of that project suffered as a result. Cast Credits Author______ FakeJake93 Co-Director _______ TerribleTerry CaroCabaConiVO _______ Link Thank you to the following Patrons for supporting this podcast and my channel DragonRand100 audiobooks on YouTube: Joseph Sigler Millan Kollarcik Preston Dohrer SFC_Forever Simon Baars Hero of Snow CassieO Elena, K. Anna Becky, R. Music Credits Terrible Fate by Theophany Snowpeak from Twilight Princess OST Song of Healing by R3 Music Box --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dragonrand100/message
Happy Halloween! In our opinion, Majora's Mask is the creepiest game in the Zelda series, so we thought it would be a fitting choice for our Halloween episode. We talk about some of the largest contributing factors to the game's eerie mood, as well as how you should spend your Halloween night… One of the unsettling components of the game is the presence of death and deep, dark emotions. In fact, one of the most popular themes of the game is grief. There are strong ties between the five regions of Termina and the five stages of grief. Clock Town represents denial as most of the citizens won't acknowledge the falling moon. The swamp represents anger as King Deku is prepared to execute a monkey out of an irrational belief that the monkey kidnapped his daughter. The mountains represent bargaining as the ghost of Darmani begs Link to use magic to bring him back to life. The sea represents depression as Lulu isolates herself after the loss of her eggs. And finally, Ikana Valley represents acceptance after the undead King Igos du Ikana accepts that his kingdom has fallen into decay and ruin. It becomes Link's quest to bring peace to the grieving of these four regions. Majora's Mask is filled with strange, creepy characters, some of whom were seen in Ocarina of Time. The first character you encounter in Ikana is the Poe Collector who always has a creepy thing to say or ask of you. There's also Sharp, the royal composer poe, who uses his music to suck out your life in his cave of skeletons. Even the humans in Ikana, Pamela and her nameless father (we'll just call him Patrick) have their own disturbing secret. Outside of Ikana, there's the introduction to the infamous hand in the toilet, a character who surprisingly makes a reappearance in Skyward Sword. This game also features a new lineup of strange and frightening enemies, mostly in its mini-bosses. You have to face off against the mostly harmless eyeball, Wart, the cackling Wizzrobe, and the terrifying grim-reaper, Gomess. Not to mention the Death Armos and Eyegore in the Stone Tower Temple. So, how should you spend your Halloween? First, go to Romani Ranch at night, let the aliens abduct Romani, and return the next day to see how they fry her mind. Next, travel to Deku Palace and witness the king boil the captured monkey. Then, head over to Ikana Valley at night, complete the bottom of the well without the Stone Mask or Gibdo Mask, and if the undead don't kill you, head to Sharp's cave and chill there with Sharp. Finally, go to Termina field on the final night, let the time run out, and watch the Moon obliterate the whole world, ending with those eerie words, "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" References: Aonuma on the 5 stages of grief fan theory in Zelda: Majora's Mask | GameLuster Game Theory: Is Link Dead in Majora's Mask? The Mystery of Majora's Mask's “Aliens” (Legend of Zelda) The G-Files: Zelda - Ben Drowned Creepypasta This episode is rated Casual. Discussion topics are intended for those who have played the games and are familiar with the stories, gameplay, and lore. There's will also likely be spoilers to those who haven't played through the games. We recommend spending a couple hours playing the games from this episode before listening. Follow us on Instagram and YouTube! @shorts.on_line --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shortsonline/support
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Nuclear Deterrence 101 (and why the US can't even hint at intervening in Ukraine), published by Darmani on March 18, 2022 on LessWrong. This is a linkpost for/ . I found it a very good read for explaining the strategy behind the decisions and signaling in this war. I was inspired to post it as a supplement to , as this piece explains why it's in Zelensky's interest to continue to call for a no-fly zone that could turn into a hot war. It also answered a question I've had since a child, visiting old friends of my mother from her childhood growing up on military bases, wondering what the US was doing in so many countries. The answer? Their job is quite literally to die to provoke a US response. Some excerpts below: One such method that Beaufre discusses is what he calls the ‘piecemeal maneuver,' but is often in English referred to as ‘salami tactics' – including in this absolutely hilarious bit from Yes, Prime Minister, which is also a surprisingly good explanation of the method. The idea is that to make gains while avoiding escalation, a state can break up the gains they would make into a series of smaller actions, each with its own exterior maneuver ‘cover,' so that it doesn't rise to the level of triggering nuclear escalation. Putting together several such maneuvers could allow a state to make those gains which had they all been attempted at once, certainly would have triggered such an escalation. Beaufre's example, unsurprisingly, was Hitler's piecemeal gains before his last ‘bite' into Poland triggered WWII. Beaufre notes that for piecemeal maneuvers to be effective, they have to be presented as fait accompli – accomplished so quickly that anything but nuclear retaliation would arrive too late to do any good and of course nuclear retaliation would be pointless: who is going to destroy the world to save a country that was already lost? Thus Beaufre suggests that the piecemeal maneuver is best accomplished as a series of coups de main accomplished with fast moving armored, mechanized and airborne forces seizing control of the target country or region before anyone really knows what is happening. The attacking power can then present the maneuver as fait accompli and thus the new status quo that everyone has to accommodate; if successful, they have not only made gains but also moved everyone's red lines, creating more freedom of action for further piecemeal maneuvers. Avoiding this problem is why NATO is structured the way it is: promising a maximum response for any violation, however slight, of the territory of any member. The idea is to render the entire bloc immune to piecemeal maneuvers by putting all of it behind the red line (or at least letting the USSR think it is all behind the red line). It is also why American forces are often forward deployed in effectively trivial numbers in key areas in the world in what are often referred to as ‘tripwire' deployments. Those American forces, for instance, in Poland, the Baltics or on the Korean DMZ (and during the Cold War, in West Germany) were not there to win the war; their purpose was, in a brutal sense, to die in its opening moments and thus ensure that the United States was committed, whether it wanted to be or not. And the reason to do that is to signal to both enemies and allies that any incursion into allied territory, no matter how trivial, will cause American deaths and thus incur an American military response. In that way you can shift the red line all of the way forward, obliterating the area of freedom of action, but only for countries where such a commitment is credible (which is going to generally be a fairly small group). The logic of deterrence – in particular the fact that it is both very high stakes and also based entirely on perception – explains why NATO and especially the United States took any dire...
Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Nuclear Deterrence 101 (and why the US can't even hint at intervening in Ukraine), published by Darmani on March 18, 2022 on LessWrong. This is a linkpost for/ . I found it a very good read for explaining the strategy behind the decisions and signaling in this war. I was inspired to post it as a supplement to , as this piece explains why it's in Zelensky's interest to continue to call for a no-fly zone that could turn into a hot war. It also answered a question I've had since a child, visiting old friends of my mother from her childhood growing up on military bases, wondering what the US was doing in so many countries. The answer? Their job is quite literally to die to provoke a US response. Some excerpts below: One such method that Beaufre discusses is what he calls the ‘piecemeal maneuver,' but is often in English referred to as ‘salami tactics' – including in this absolutely hilarious bit from Yes, Prime Minister, which is also a surprisingly good explanation of the method. The idea is that to make gains while avoiding escalation, a state can break up the gains they would make into a series of smaller actions, each with its own exterior maneuver ‘cover,' so that it doesn't rise to the level of triggering nuclear escalation. Putting together several such maneuvers could allow a state to make those gains which had they all been attempted at once, certainly would have triggered such an escalation. Beaufre's example, unsurprisingly, was Hitler's piecemeal gains before his last ‘bite' into Poland triggered WWII. Beaufre notes that for piecemeal maneuvers to be effective, they have to be presented as fait accompli – accomplished so quickly that anything but nuclear retaliation would arrive too late to do any good and of course nuclear retaliation would be pointless: who is going to destroy the world to save a country that was already lost? Thus Beaufre suggests that the piecemeal maneuver is best accomplished as a series of coups de main accomplished with fast moving armored, mechanized and airborne forces seizing control of the target country or region before anyone really knows what is happening. The attacking power can then present the maneuver as fait accompli and thus the new status quo that everyone has to accommodate; if successful, they have not only made gains but also moved everyone's red lines, creating more freedom of action for further piecemeal maneuvers. Avoiding this problem is why NATO is structured the way it is: promising a maximum response for any violation, however slight, of the territory of any member. The idea is to render the entire bloc immune to piecemeal maneuvers by putting all of it behind the red line (or at least letting the USSR think it is all behind the red line). It is also why American forces are often forward deployed in effectively trivial numbers in key areas in the world in what are often referred to as ‘tripwire' deployments. Those American forces, for instance, in Poland, the Baltics or on the Korean DMZ (and during the Cold War, in West Germany) were not there to win the war; their purpose was, in a brutal sense, to die in its opening moments and thus ensure that the United States was committed, whether it wanted to be or not. And the reason to do that is to signal to both enemies and allies that any incursion into allied territory, no matter how trivial, will cause American deaths and thus incur an American military response. In that way you can shift the red line all of the way forward, obliterating the area of freedom of action, but only for countries where such a commitment is credible (which is going to generally be a fairly small group). The logic of deterrence – in particular the fact that it is both very high stakes and also based entirely on perception – explains why NATO and especially the United States took any dire...
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Leaky Delegation: You are not a Commodity, published by Darmani on LessWrong. Epistemic status: The accumulation of several insights over the years. Reasonably confident that everything mentioned here is an informative factor in decision-making. Carl is furiously slicing and skinning peaches. His hands move like lightning as slice after slice fills his tray. His freezer has been freshly cleared. Within a day, he will have a new bag of frozen fruit, and can enjoy smoothies for another month. Stan stands in the kitchen of his college dorm. His hands are carefully placing ingredients on pizza dough: homemade tomato sauce, spiced pork, and mozzarella cheese from a nearby farmer's market. "I don't know why people will pay a restaurant for this," he muses. "So much cheaper to do it yourself." Michelle is on her way to her job as a software engineer. She tosses a pile of clothes into a bag, and presses a few buttons on her phone. Later that day, someone will come by to pick them up, wash and fold them at a nearby laundromat, and return them the next morning. Less time doing laundry means more time writing code. Her roommate calls her lazy. An alert flashes on Bruce's screen: "us-east-prod-1 not responding to ping." Almost like a reflex, he pulls up diagnostics on his terminal. The software itself is still running fine, but it looks like his datacenter had a network change. A few more minutes, and everything is functioning again. Hopefully only a few customers noticed the downtime. His mentor keeps asking why he doesn't just run his website on AWS instead of owning his own servers, but Bruce insists it's worth it. His 4-person company has been profitable for 3 years, and keeping server costs low has meant the difference between staying independent and being forced to take outside investment. The four characters above each take a minority position on outsourcing a task. In the past, I saw the decision as simple: if your time is valuable, then be like Michelle and delegate and outsource as much as you can. Not to do so would be an irrational loss. I silently judged the people I met who inspired Carl and Stan. Years later, I've found myself cooking daily during a pandemic and appreciating the savings, and just finished arguing online in favor of running one's own servers. My goal in this post is to share the perspective shift that led to me wholly or partially reverse my position on paying a person or company for a good or service (collectively, "delegating" or "outsourcing") in a number of domains, even as I continue to pay for many things most people do themselves. I've noticed hidden factors which mean that, sometimes, the quality will be better if you do it yourself, even if the alternative is offered by an expert or company with specialized tools. And sometimes, it can be cheaper, even if you value your time very highly and the other person is much faster. The Internet is full of articles on the generic "buy vs. build" and "DIY vs. build" decisions Though some are written from the corporate boardroom and others from the home kitchen or workshop, the underlying analysis is eerily similar: that it's a choice between spending time (or "in-house resources") or money for a similar value. More sophisticated articles will also consider transaction costs, such as walking to a restaurant or finding your kid a tutor, and costs from principal-agent problems, such as vetting the tutor. In fact, as I've come to realize, the do-or-delegate decision is often not about two alternative ways of getting the same thing, but rather about two options sufficiently different that they're best considered not as replacements for each other, but entirely separate objects with overlapping benefits. These differences can be obvious for specific examples, as every home baker can give you an earful abou...
"Dá nele que ele decide". No futebol de hoje, cada vez mais coletivo, qual é o espaço para os grandes protagonistas? Quem são eles e onde estão? Nesse bloco do programa, dividido em duas partes, Cleber Machado recebe Ricardinho e o jornalista francês Stéphane Darmani para mergulhar no que acontece hoje pelos gramados do mundo todo, entender como é essa percepção de dentro do campo e muito mais.
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Undefeated super bantamweight contender Ra'eese Aleem and unbeaten heavyweight prospect Darmani Rock are this week's guests on a packed episode of The PBC Podcast. Plus, hosts Kenneth Bouhairie and Michael Rosenthal break down all of last weekend's action and preview Saturday's FOX PBC Fight Night triple-header, featuring undefeated IBF World Super Middleweight Champion Caleb "Sweethands" Plant against former champion Caleb "Golden" Truax--and of course, Toe to Toe. For show notes and more info, click here: https://www.premierboxingchampions.com/podcast
Today, Link basks in the glory of his victory as Darmani. Celebrated as a hero, Link is encouraged by the Goron Elder and his Son to enter the Goron Races, and is now trusted to carry the highly dangerous Powder Keg. The Powder Keg allows Link to lend a hand in clearing the boulder blocking the road to the troubled Romani Ranch, giving him a chance to help sisters Romani and Cremia, and reunite with an old friend. Sit down with your hosts, Shannon and Joe, as they play, discuss and theorize their way through Nintendo's Legend of Zelda video games in the timeline order noted in the Hyrule Historia. New episodes of Tandem Legends: a Legend of Zelda Podcast released every other week. More or less. tandemlegends.com
The last great Goron hero, Darmani, has fallen. Goron Village nears its doom as the snow and ice continue to build, and the Elder has taken it upon himself to clear the evil from Snowhead Temple in Darmani's absence.. Sit down with your hosts, Shannon and Joe, as they play, discuss and theorize their way through Nintendo's Legend of Zelda video games in the timeline order noted in the Hyrule Historia. New episodes of Tandem Legends: a Legend of Zelda Podcast released every other week. More or less.
EN - An interview with talented Greek musician and singer Mikaela Darmani, on her music and career, her musical influences, and the state of Greek music today. In English. Aired as part of the Dialogos Radio holiday special, December 21-27, 2017.
GR - An interview with talented Greek musician and singer Mikaela Darmani, on her music and career, her musical influences, and the state of Greek music today. In Greek. Aired as part of the Dialogos Radio holiday special, December 14-20, 2017.