{"id":812,"date":"2010-04-16T03:55:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T08:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=812"},"modified":"2014-09-24T23:27:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T04:27:37","slug":"rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To break down what it is I&#8217;ve been doing for the last few hours, I take recordings of the electrical activity of someone&#8217;s brain, it looks something like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/wp-content\/EEG_1.JPG\" title=\"EEG squigglies prior to hours and hours of work\" alt=\"EEG squigglies prior to hours and hours of work\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lots of squigglies. Too many, in fact &#8212; some of those squigglies are the influence of the electrical activity of the heart and of outside sources (like the MRI we stick them in), and they don&#8217;t represent the brain activity that we&#8217;re looking for. So, you spend a few hours playing with various computerized filtering techniques to get rid of those influences and get something like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/wp-content\/EEG_2.JPG\" title=\"EEG squigglies after hours and hours of work\" alt=\"EEG squigglies after hours and hours of work\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Presto-boom-o, you&#8217;ve got some more-or-less pure brain activity to look at. Repeat it about 50-60 times for all your subjects (PS: still need subjects, enquire within), throw them all together for some groupwise stats, shake it up, have a cookie, and go write it up to share with the world.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, tonight has not been my night for analysis. The stupid program keeps crashing randomly, and now I&#8217;ve gone back to look at some of the saved data from earlier in the night:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/wp-content\/EEG_3.JPG\" title=\"Where the fuck have my squigglies gone?? You data-corrupting whore of a program!!\" alt=\"Where the fuck have my squigglies gone?? You data-corrupting whore of a program!!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No squigglies.<\/p>\n<p><b>WHERE ARE MY SQUIGGLIES??!!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Anger and frustration do not even <em>begin <\/em>to cover it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To break down what it is I&#8217;ve been doing for the last few hours, I take recordings of the electrical activity of someone&#8217;s brain, it looks something like this: Lots of squigglies. Too many, in fact &#8212; some of those squigglies are the influence of the electrical activity of the heart and of outside sources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5,2,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}