I decided to share some part of my story, of what led me here, the part we both have had in common. So I thought of something through which I hope you will remember me for a very long time. But that is what all friends do and they only qualify to remain as a part of the bunch of our loosely connected memories and that's not what I can choose to be, I cannot choose to be lost somewhere in your memories.
I thought of giving you blessings and wishes for things of great value to happen to you in future I thought of appreciating you for being the way you are I thought to give sweet and lovely compliments for everything about you I thought to write something in praise of your poems and prose and I thought of extending my gratitude for being one of the very few sincerest friends I have ever had. I thought a lot about what I should write to you. “My dearest friend Abigail, These probably could be the last words I write to you and I may not live long enough to see your response but I truly have lived long enough to live forever in the hearts of my friends.
So just maybe it is these small silent moments which are the true story-making events of our lives.” And maybe this other life is more important than the one we think of as being real-this clunky day-to-day world of furniture and noise and metal.
We would realize that we have been having another life altogether one we didn’t even know was going on inside us. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments-we hear a word that sticks in our mind-or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly-we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger gives us a piece of bread to feed to the mallard ducks in the lagoon a small child starts a conversation with us in a Dairy Queen-or we have an episode like the one I had with the M&M cars back at the Husky station.Īnd if we were to collect these small moments in a notebook and save them over a period of months we would see certain trends emerge from our collection-certain voices would emerge that have been trying to speak through us.
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Read the full article from Research2Reality.“My mind then wandered. It all starts with teaching computers to see in a similar manner to how we see, taking on the task of manipulating medical images like x-rays or CT scans in real time, just like a surgeon does mentally.
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That means that any surgical plan up on a screen isn’t keeping pace, and it takes a lot of mental effort to align what they see on-screen with what’s on their operating table.Ĭomputational vision scientist Richard Wildes, Associate Director of York University’s Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA) program, wants to make their lives easier by creating tools that would update the surgical plan to match the surgery as it progresses. Every day in the operating room, surgeons make complex visual transformations in their minds.Īny pre-operative information that they have based on medical imaging is usually static however, during surgery there are many moving parts. Surgical plans are imperfect guides, but new technological tools could help lighten the load for surgeons doing complex, delicate work.