Sunday, November 29, 2015

Proof of simulation

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The idea that the universe is a simulation has been in the periphery of cosmology. This is not surprising – every established scientific are...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Chicago’s moment to leap to the future

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With nearly 75% of the US population expressing the idea that racism is a problem for the country, it is clear that the country is in deep ...

A small leap for Man and a big jump for Math

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Recent news that a University of Chicago mathematician may have reduced a NP complexity problem of network comparisons to that akin to P le...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

The economics of violence

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Organizations – religions, countries and country clubs, operate on a simple idea. Individuals in a system have a put option with a limited ...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

Puppet show

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The Unified Microbiome Initiative (UMI), as described in a recent article in Science, albeit belated, is a step in the right direction. As i...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Language optimization

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Language, a distinct advantage that separated humans from chimps, may become a liability for them in a regime of accelerating information an...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Gravitational annoyance

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A recent paper in the Journal of Science that describes the failure to detect gravitational waves from any source including the merging of t...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Machines do not learn!

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Artificial Intelligence is fashionable again, aided by cheap computing and cheaper memory, computer behemoths have been diving head first in...