So, here’s the thing. I need a bad ass cyber suit of some kind. It’s time we got on this. I mean come on, we’ve got monkeys doing crazy shit with robotics already. Can’t Ray Kurzweil put something together for me?
Monkey Arms that KILL
You heard me. I said giant robotic [...]
Some reading I’d like to enjoy in the coming months.
Jaynes, E. T. 2003. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. Cambridge University Press.
Kahneman, D. et al., eds. 1982. Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Cambridge University Press.
Russell, S. and Norvig, P., eds. 2002. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd Edition). Prentice Hall.
Pearl, J. 2000. Causality: Models, [...]
Soon, humanity may face an existential shock as the current list of a dozen Jupiter-sized extra-solar planets swells to hundreds of earth-sized planets, almost identical twins of our celestial homeland. This may usher in a new era in our relationship with the universe: we will never see the night sky in the same way ever [...]
Are brains analog, or digital? — A new study conducted at Cornell University suggests that we think in analog, not digital. It’s a bold claim which if true, threatens to make thirty years of linguistics and neuroscience metaphors look very silly indeed.
BBP Blue Brain Project — Scientists have been accummulating knowledge on the structure and function of the brain for the past 100 years. It is now time to start gathering this data together in a unified model and putting it to the test in simulations.
Are we heading towards or already in a post-Darwinian era — where human natural selection is obsolete and the evolution of our species is completely up to us?
Brush up on your nanotechnology — The world’s smallest brushes, with bristles more than a thousand times finer than a human hair, have been created by researchers in the US.
