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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Bad design

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Chemistry has been easy. Even in biological systems, humans quickly found hammers to eliminate any nails that surfaced. They found ways to...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Risk of ignorance

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Humans appear to have positioned themselves into a corner, between rock and the hard place. The political systems they built over the last...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Lazy deep learning

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The neural net, an old technology, improved recently by marginal tricks for faster and stable learning, is now the most expensive old wine...
Friday, September 15, 2017

Goodbye Cassini

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A fateful plunge into the heart of Saturn was how the faithful probe, Cassini, ended its own life. Saturn and its moons have stirred up the...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

More dangerous than politicians

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NASA has revealed that a 3-mile asteroid will pass by the Earth Friday. The space agency may be a bit cavalier about how much of a threa...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

The discontinuity

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It could be here. A resolution of the disconnect of the emerging against the status-quo, the pristine against the established, the young ag...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Deadly cocktail

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The value of waiting to make an irreversible decision is intuitively clear to most thinking humans but it is likely too much to ask of pol...
Monday, August 7, 2017

Memory

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Memory has been a dual edged sword for humans; they benefited from it by accumulating experience but often they suffered from it as well wi...
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