Friday, September 30, 2016
Online learning resource cambridge coding
http://online.cambridgecoding.com/quick-courses
Nice online learning resource, covers some interesting topics
edit also another intro page on ai topic of deep learning
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/deep-learning-nutshell-sequence-learning/
Nice online learning resource, covers some interesting topics
edit also another intro page on ai topic of deep learning
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/deep-learning-nutshell-sequence-learning/
fractals, materials tech news
Mimicking the Veins in a Leaf, Scientists Hope to Make Super-Efficient Displays and Solar Cells-news source link
perception neuroscience news
NEW OPTICAL ILLUSION THROWS LIGHT ON BRAIN’S PERCEPTION OF TRANSPARENCY
A new study reports researchers have created a new optical illusion which helps to reveal how our brains determine the material properties of an object.-news source link
This Accessory Makes VR So Precise a Surgeon Could Train with It
This Accessory Makes VR So Precise a Surgeon Could Train with It
Using this exoskeleton in a virtual environment, a baseball feels firm, and an egg light and fragile.-news source link
hikikomori article
IMAGINE confining yourself to your bedroom every moment of your waking life.You don’t interact with the outside world — neither for school and work, nor to socialise on weekends.Your life is pretty much centred around eating, sleeping, and partaking only in indoor solo activities like reading, watching TV, surfing the internet. How long could you handle this lifestyle before it drove you insane?For a lot of people in Japan, that time period is indefinite. It’s a huge social problem in the country, and it’s becoming an economic concern too.-source
The series no game no life, appears to revolve around a gamer pair siblings that appear to fall into this category, if I'm not mistaken
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Record-breaking DDoS reportedly delivered by >145k hacked cameras
Record-breaking DDoS reportedly delivered by >145k hacked cameras
Once unthinkable, 1 terabit attacks may soon be the new normal.-news source link
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
neuroscience news | decision making
In a new study, researchers investigated what parts of the brain may be involved in deciding if something is worth the effort. The team found a relevant pattern of activity in three areas of the brain, the supplementary motor area (SMA), dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and putamen.- source link sciencedaily
Possible transistor successor news
The Next High-Performance Transistor Could Be Made From Lateral Nanowires
A potential FinFET successor comes into focus-news source
Two nice articles from neurosciencenews website| movement brain | aging lifespan prediction ;
EPIGENETIC CLOCK PREDICTS LIFE EXPECTANCY
Researchers have developed an 'epigenetic clock' that calculates the biological age of a person from a blood sample and can estimate the person's life span.-news source
SOME BRAINS ARE BLIND TO MOVING OBJECTS
Researchers discover motion blindness has little to do with vision and more to do with the brain's ability to interpret sensory information correctly.-news source
nice quotes 9 28 2016
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
From the point of view of the conscious observer basically any sensation or experience can be had through future advanced neural interfaces, which would be able to generate a whole new reality atop our current one. Whether the current one can be molded, so called reality warping, is an open question. Scientists have hypothesized that the settings of the universe may be ones not shared with other hypothetical universes within views of a possible multiverse. But if the laws could have indeed taken on hypothetical alternate values, it may be the case that they still can take alternate values, and like the case with metamaterials allowing new possibilities, nature might be bent and the rules changed with a carefully engineered experiment, machine.
Right to work, what it should truly be
Right-to-work laws are statutes in a reported 26 states in the United States that are an effort to give employees the right to work without being required or compelled to join to a union. These statutes are not listed under US labor and employment laws as of May 2016, but have been operational with local employment hearing judges for over a half decade. Right-to-work laws were reported in all US states in regard to unemployment insurance hearings in which the employer was seeking to bar the employee from receiving these legal benefits after termination. Public policy exceptions have been devised by attorneys to seek to overturn the broad and unannounced sweep of these laws in the US. Local appellate judges have not indicated that they will allow public policy to be used on behalf of the former employees - most of whom were employees under their health insurance when injured (e.g., mental health parity laws).-wiki
Right now right to work seems to have been defined as something having to do with unions. But it seems to me that right to work, should be the right to be able to work, the right to have a job if one wants one. A person shouldn't have to send dozens perhaps hundreds of resumes to potential employers, in hopes some capitalist will take them in and give them the basic resources to exist. A person should have a basic right to guaranteed employment, and attempts at a transition to employment in their most apt sector if temporary employment is given that is below their qualifications. This right to guaranteed employment if able and willing, this right is what should be called the right to have a job, the right to work.
Society forces new citizens into existence without their consent, it owes them basic rights as human beings.
[rumor]new nvidia card coming near future 1080ti
Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Launching In January With 10.8 TFLOPs & 12GB GDDR5X – To Deliver Titan X Pascal Performance At A Much Lower Price-source link
politics justice development childhood news
THE BIRTH OF POLITICS IN CHILDREN: THE CASE OF DOMINANCE
A new study looks at how the notion of equality and sense of justice develops in children.-source link
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Improved google translate with ai news
Google today is announcing that web and mobile versions of Google Translate are now using a new neural machine translation system for all translations from Chinese into English — and the app conducts those translations about 18 million times a day. Google is also publishing an academic paper on the method.-news article source
Monday, September 26, 2016
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Friday, September 23, 2016
3 interesting neuroscience news articles
STUDY CHALLENGES WIDELY HELD VIEW ABOUT CHILDREN’S MORAL JUDGEMENT
Researchers argue that a child's ability to make a moral judgement has often been substantially underestimated.-source link
HOW DOES OUR BRAIN DECIDE WHETHER A SITUATION IS PLEASANT OR NOT?
Researchers have identified a mechanism that allows us to judge whether a difficult social situation is emotional negative or positive.-source link
HUMAN NEURON TRANSPLANTS TREAT SPINAL CORD INJURY IN MICE
Researchers have successfully transplanted human neurons to treat symptoms of spinal cord injury in mice. The researchers believe this could pave the way for eventual treatment in humans.-source link
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Neuroscience news emotion decision making
This finding expands the known decision-making circuit so that it encompasses the prefrontal cortex, striosomes, and a subset of dopamine-producing cells. Together, the striosomes may be acting as a gatekeeper that absorbs sensory and emotional information coming from the cortex and integrates it to produce a decision on how to react, which is initiated by the dopamine-producing cells, the researchers say.-source link
Eventually as the brain mechanisms behind decision making are elucidated people will realize that behind every decision lies a mechanism, and just like the elan vital faded before the mechanics of molecular biology so too will free will fall before our knowledge of neural mechanisms.
Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a a movie from the 80s featuring synthetic humans from the Tyrell corporation whose motto is "More Human than Human". Such can be viewed as a kind of prophesy, a self-fulfilling prophesy, as is much of science fiction.
People have talked about metal robots or robots with artificial polymer skins ,these may take place. But a form of advanced synthetic biology is going to be very hard to surpass, the only competing less realistic tech is what is called hard nano, whether hard nano can be used to make self-repairing, self-maintaining, ageless humanoids remain in question. The laws of physics, the true laws, do not forbid the creation of synthetic humans, humans born of intelligent design through computer assisted design software.
So it may come to pass, that one day, assuming the human world doesn't self destruct, progress will allow for artificial ageless humans of any race, gender or age. Humans who may be born with synthetic brains filled with knowledge of a thousand lifespans, more than a thousand years of experience from birth.
Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction cyberpunk/tech-noir film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is a modified film adaptation of the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in which genetically engineered replicants, which are visually indistinguishable from adult humans, are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation. The use of replicants on Earth is banned and they are exclusively utilized for dangerous or menial work on off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down and killed ("retired") by special police operatives known as "Blade Runners". The plot focuses on a group of recently escaped replicants hiding in L.A. and the burnt-out expert Blade Runner, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment to hunt them down.-source wiki
People have talked about metal robots or robots with artificial polymer skins ,these may take place. But a form of advanced synthetic biology is going to be very hard to surpass, the only competing less realistic tech is what is called hard nano, whether hard nano can be used to make self-repairing, self-maintaining, ageless humanoids remain in question. The laws of physics, the true laws, do not forbid the creation of synthetic humans, humans born of intelligent design through computer assisted design software.
So it may come to pass, that one day, assuming the human world doesn't self destruct, progress will allow for artificial ageless humans of any race, gender or age. Humans who may be born with synthetic brains filled with knowledge of a thousand lifespans, more than a thousand years of experience from birth.
Future amd gpu tech news
Vega 20 will be building on AMD’s philosophy of curtailing excess and should bring significant leaps in power efficiency and performance per watt. The GPU will have the same core count as the Vega 10 GPU at 64 Compute Units and will be based on the 7nm FinFET architecture. Since the designation remains GFX9, we can easily assume that this is, in fact, a simple node shrink of the Vega 10 GPU ported over to 7nm with bigger and better memory (it will have 32 GB HBM2 with 1 TB/s of bandwidth)...
Navi is the next generation architecture (next-next generation?) which will succeed Vega. However, according to this leak, it has been delayed by one year due to the introduction of the new chips in the Vega lineup. It will now be landing sometimes in 2019. Navi 10 and Navi 11 will replace Vega 10 and 11 respectively and should offer a significant upgrade over the former due to an increase in core count. Since the architecture is pretty far out into the horizon, there isn’t much point talking about it right now. That said, however, it is clear that RTG is introducing the Vega 10 based dual-GPU to keep high-end enthusiasts happy till the time Navi arrives – considering it will probably be able to rock more power than the latter (which is a single chip card).-source wccftech
future computer tech news
Researchers have developed new, nonlinear, chaos-based integrated circuits that enable computer chips to perform multiple functions with fewer transistors. These integrated circuits can be manufactured with "off the shelf" fabrication processes and could lead to novel computer architectures that do more with less circuitry and fewer transistors.-sciencedaily source
Tardigrades news
Tardigrades, also known as “water bears,” are microscopic animals capable of withstanding some of the most severe environmental conditions. Researchers from Japan have now created the most accurate picture yet of the tardigrade genome, revealing the neat tricks it uses to stay alive.
In a new study published in Nature Communications, geneticist Takekazu Kunieda and his colleagues from the University of Tokyo present a genetic analysis of Ramazzottius variornatus, arguably the toughest and most resilient species found in the entire tardigrade clan.-source gizmodo
One interesting life form.
Time travel short story from a while back, wiki link
" '—All You Zombies—' " is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It was written in one day, July 11, 1958, and first published in the March 1959 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine after being rejected by Playboy.
The story involves a number of paradoxes caused by time travel. In 1980, it was nominated for the Balrog Award for short fiction.[1]
"'—All You Zombies—'" further develops themes explored by the author in a previous work: "By His Bootstraps", published some 18 years earlier. Some of the same elements also appear later in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985), including the Circle of Ouroboros and the Temporal Corps.-wiki source link
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
nice quote and comment
"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others".-animal farm
We can say that ALL VOTES ARE EQUAL BUT SOME VOTES ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS. The vote of the owner of a media empire, by virtue of its ability to influence millions or tens of millions, is worth more than the single vote of a random individual who only influences a few individuals in their social sphere.
Now a machine able to distort all forms of information from all sources physical or 'virtual', such a machine would have single vote able to trump all other votes even if all other votes were combined... the very law itself would no longer apply as it would be the embodiment of the law.
Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.[1] Orwell, a democratic socialist,[2] was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War.[3] The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin ("un conte satirique contre Staline"),[4] and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".-wiki source link
We can say that ALL VOTES ARE EQUAL BUT SOME VOTES ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS. The vote of the owner of a media empire, by virtue of its ability to influence millions or tens of millions, is worth more than the single vote of a random individual who only influences a few individuals in their social sphere.
Now a machine able to distort all forms of information from all sources physical or 'virtual', such a machine would have single vote able to trump all other votes even if all other votes were combined... the very law itself would no longer apply as it would be the embodiment of the law.
Monday, September 19, 2016
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