{"id":27423,"date":"2014-05-05T19:04:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/skunkbear-this-time-humans-out-perform\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:08:31","slug":"skunkbear-this-time-humans-out-perform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/skunkbear-this-time-humans-out-perform\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-27423 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/skunkbear-this-time-humans-out-perform\/attachment\/27424\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n54066p5dr1t5fphqo2_500-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/skunkbear-this-time-humans-out-perform\/attachment\/27425\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n54066p5dr1t5fphqo1_500-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/skunkbear-this-time-humans-out-perform\/attachment\/27426\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n54066p5dr1t5fphqo3_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/skunkbear.tumblr.com\/post\/84834094944\/this-time-humans-out-perform-computers-computers\">skunkbear<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>This Time, Humans Out-Perform Computers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Computers are terrible at mapping the brain.\u00a0 Given a cross-section of a retina for example, computers have trouble distinguishing neurons from other cells and empty space.\u00a0 Humans, on the other hand, can perform this task with ease.<\/p>\n<p>Still, mapping the brain would be a monumental task for one human.\u00a0 So MIT neuroscientist <a href=\"http:\/\/hebb.mit.edu\/people\/seung\/\">Sebastien Seung<\/a> recruited more than 120,000 online gamers to help him &#8211; via an online game called <a href=\"https:\/\/eyewire.org\/signup\">EyeWire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Players help color in neurons, and a computer later compiles their data into a complex map. Already, their work is helping scientists understand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature13240.html\">how the brain sees movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/05\/05\/309694759\/computer-game-aides-scientist-mapping-eye-nerve-cells?utm_source=tumblr.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=skunkbear&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20140505\">You can hear all about it in this story from Joe Palca.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>skunkbear: This Time, Humans Out-Perform Computers Computers are terrible at mapping the brain.\u00a0 Given a cross-section of a retina for example, computers have trouble distinguishing neurons from other cells and empty space.\u00a0 Humans, on the other hand, can perform this task with ease. Still, mapping the brain would be a monumental task for one human.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-78j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27427,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27423\/revisions\/27427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}