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Saturday, May 28, 2016
Redefining Intelligence
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Intelligence, natural or artificial, has been a difficult concept to define and understand. Methods of measuring intelligence seem to favor...
Monday, May 23, 2016
Salt water bubbles
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Economists, closer to salt water, appear to be prone to thoughts of inefficiency and bubbles in the financial markets, something that can ...
Monday, May 16, 2016
Small step toward bigger hype
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Recent research from the University of Liverpool (1) suggests a method by which computers could learn languages by semantic representation ...
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Nutritional genetics
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Research from Indiana University (1) speculates that physical traits could be substantially impacted by food. The adage that "you are ...
Thursday, May 5, 2016
No safety net
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Recent research from Johns Hopkins (1) suggests there are over a quarter of a million deaths in the US per year due to medical errors. It i...
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Predictions with a single observation
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A recent study from the University of Rochester (1) claims to improve the "Drake equation," - a constant reminder that multiplyin...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Uncertain networks
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Recent research from MIT, Chicago and Harvard (1) contends that smaller shocks in the economy could be magnified significantly by network e...
Monday, April 25, 2016
Biological storage
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Recent news (1) that University of Washington researchers have successfully stored and retrieved data using DNA molecules is exciting. As t...
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