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Monday, January 7, 2019
Smart fish
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Recent finding (1) that archerfish demonstrates facial recognition, likely over and above the most hyped up AI technology, is a constant re...
Friday, January 4, 2019
Plan S
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As ignorant politicians battle against each other to make the world worse, there is a movement afoot that could move humanity closer to a p...
Friday, December 28, 2018
Wearing the inside out
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A precise definition of consciousness eluded humanity forever. As she stood up in the African Savannah for the first time and took a peak a...
Monday, December 24, 2018
Singularity, revisited
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As fragmentation rules the status-quo, as hatred defines actions and policies, as incompetence dominates, as ignorance prevails, as uncerta...
Saturday, December 22, 2018
High-throughput Screening for Energy
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The battle for innovation will be won at the intersection of materials and information. The field has been lagging for nearly a century as...
Monday, December 10, 2018
It is all in your mind
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An experiment at Stanford (1) appears to demonstrate the power of the placebo effect. Most pharmaceutical research clearly points to the e...
Thursday, December 6, 2018
GammaGo
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News (1) that AlphaGo can successfully learn Chess, Shogi and Go through self-play is interesting. It is symptomatic of trends in AI largel...
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Gene editing: There is no turning back
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Recent news (1) that gene editing could successfully create a mutant form of a gene that makes the host, resistant to HIV, is likely to cre...
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