[HN Gopher] Tim Doucette, a blind astronomer who built the Deep ...
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       Tim Doucette, a blind astronomer who built the Deep Sky Eye
       Observatory
        
       Author : noyesno
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2024-07-07 16:04 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.amiplus.ca)
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       | noyesno wrote:
       | Also: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-290-russian-doping-
       | ass...
        
         | jvm___ wrote:
         | That's an unfortunate URL abbreviation
         | https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-290-russian-doping-ass
        
       | interludead wrote:
       | Remarkable power of resilience and passion! Tim Doucette's story
       | is incredibly inspiring
        
       | spullara wrote:
       | he sees better than other people for this use case
        
       | nyjah wrote:
       | Off-topic, but I was watching this golf instructional video from
       | the 70's or 80s by Gary Player. And he's talking about all the
       | different golfers he's played with and he mentions this blind
       | golfer,
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       | "Blind golfer offered to play me a round for $100/hole. He had
       | two rules. We play his home course and we tee off at midnight."
        
       | nativeit wrote:
       | I couldn't play the video on iPad OS Safari. Just FYI. Sounds
       | interesting.
        
       | Xen9 wrote:
       | Human evolutionary history may beg to differ in that the nervous
       | system has evolved to be optimal for processing input from the
       | natural senses; but the mighty truth is it is all mere signals.
       | With sufficiently biochemically sophisticated interfaces, and
       | potentially medicine to ease the adaption, any signal source can
       | become a sense. I must underline that a link between "a sense"
       | and the neurvous system can be monodirectional but "should" be
       | bi-directional; if we give a person a sense as the ability to
       | percieve the traffic of an arbitary server, we will be humane and
       | ALSO give them the eyelids to ignore and open their perception of
       | the ports. Which parts of the brain are best for such
       | interfacing? I believe the commonly spread understanding of the
       | notion of a sense must be uncomplete; were one sense closed,
       | there is no reason we could not put two senses in its place. I
       | imagined sort of graph structure connecting senses but this
       | intuition hide away partially, and I cannot elaborate it further
       | now...
        
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