Sunday, January 29, 2017

Strategy v/s tactics

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For many hundreds of thousands of years, the human brain specialized exclusively in tactics. Managing a simple objective function with two ...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Depressing - but there is hope

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It is depressing to think about the fact that nearly 100 in the US and ten times as many across the world succumb to suicide every day...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

It's time for universal basic income

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Finland's grand experiment, albeit in small scale, in providing a Universal Basic Income (UBI) without preconditions, ushers in a new...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Change resistant society

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As India copes with demonetization - a minor perturbation to a cash dominated society - it is clear that its long history and comparatively...
Saturday, December 31, 2016

A new spin on Artificial Intelligence

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New research from Tohoku University (1) demonstrating pattern finding using low energy solid state devices, representing synapses (spintro...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Coding errors

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A recent publication in Nature Communications  (1) seems to confirm that DNA damage due to ionizing radiation is a cause of cancer in human...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Does life matter?

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Philosophical, ethical and religious considerations have prevented humans from defining the value of life. Short sighted financial analysi...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Milking data

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Milk, a new computer language created by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) promises a four fold inc...