Friday, September 16, 2016

They are already here

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As a chunk of investments go down the drain seeking extra-terrestrials, drug resistant bacteria that cause two million illnesses and 23 tho...
Monday, September 5, 2016

ROE - Return on Education

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As the political season heats up, politicians appear to be mired in tactics, symptomatic of lack of vision and strategic intent. A society ...
Friday, September 2, 2016

The stock and flow of IQ

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A recent publication in the Royal Society Open Science (1), hypothesizes an intriguing idea - explosion in hominoid intelligence a few mill...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Proxima test

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As the year 2020 draws near, those who emphatically professed conclusive evidence for extra-terrestrial life would be found by then, are g...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

The fifth force

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Recent research from the University of California, Irvine, (1) speculates on the existence of the fifth fundamental force field, apart from...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

Deeper learning

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Recently, statistical and mathematical techniques that have been tried and abandoned decades ago to teach computers to be smarter, have sur...
Monday, August 8, 2016

Premature existence

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Recent ideas from Harvard (1) speculate on the lack of  maturity of life as we find it on Earth. Contemporary theory, which appears highly ...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Biology meets computing

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The ease of biological manipulation by chemical means has held life sciences companies back for over a century from exploring the system, t...