education – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:11:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Evidence of a new phenomenon: Quantum tornadoes in momentum space https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/evidence-of-a-new-phenomenon-quantum-tornadoes-in-momentum-space https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/evidence-of-a-new-phenomenon-quantum-tornadoes-in-momentum-space#respond Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:11:25 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/evidence-of-a-new-phenomenon-quantum-tornadoes-in-momentum-space

To detect the quantum tornado in momentum space, the Würzburg team enhanced a well-known technique called ARPES (angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy). “ARPES is a fundamental tool in experimental solid-state physics. It involves shining light on a material sample, extracting electrons, and measuring their energy and exit angle. This gives us a direct look at a material’s electronic structure in momentum space,” explains Ünzelmann. “By cleverly adapting this method, we were able to measure orbital angular momentum. I’ve been working with this approach since my dissertation.”

ARPES is rooted in the photoelectric effect, first described by Albert Einstein and taught in high school physics. Ünzelmann had already refined the method in 2021, gaining international recognition for detecting orbital monopoles in tantalum arsenide. Now, by integrating a form of quantum tomography, the team has taken the technique a step further to detect the quantum tornado — another major milestone. “We analyzed the sample layer by layer, similar to how medical tomography works. By stitching together individual images, we were able to reconstruct the three-dimensional structure of the orbital angular momentum and confirm that electrons form vortices in momentum space,” Ünzelmann explains.

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Spin Gravity Compared https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/spin-gravity-compared https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/spin-gravity-compared#respond Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:15:11 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/spin-gravity-compared

This compares some of the ringworlds, centrifuges, space stations, and ships that use spin to make gravity. It also try’s to show how the variables of artificial gravity are used to make centripetal acceleration into spin gravity.

Calculator used: https://www.artificial-gravity.com/sw/SpinCalc/

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Mass Effect music from @MrHulthen Check it out and his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57-xIuu4Vv.
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Depressive Symptoms and Amyloid Pathology https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/depressive-symptoms-and-amyloid-pathology https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/depressive-symptoms-and-amyloid-pathology#respond Sun, 23 Mar 2025 15:12:47 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/depressive-symptoms-and-amyloid-pathology

This cross-sectional study evaluates associations between depressive symptoms and amyloid pathology by age, sex, education, and APOE genotype.

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How AI is transforming medicine https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/how-ai-is-transforming-medicine https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/how-ai-is-transforming-medicine#respond Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:27:52 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/how-ai-is-transforming-medicine

Artificial intelligence in various forms has been used in medicine for decades — but not like this. Experts predict that the adoption of large language models will reshape medicine. Some compare the potential impact with the decoding of the human genome, even the rise of the internet. The impact is expected to show up in doctor-patient interactions, physicians’ paperwork load, hospital and physician practice administration, medical research, and medical education.

Most of these effects are likely to be positive, increasing efficiency, reducing mistakes, easing the nationwide crunch in primary care, bringing data to bear more fully on decision-making, reducing administrative burdens, and creating space for longer, deeper person-to-person interactions.

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Megastructures & Robots: Full Documentary https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/megastructures-robots-full-documentary https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/megastructures-robots-full-documentary#respond Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:28:07 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/megastructures-robots-full-documentary

Which of these technologies excites you the most? CHAPTERS:00:00 20 Space Megastructures That Will Transform Our Future01:15:51 15 Robotics TechnologiesThat…

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Artificial Intelligence and the “Great Machine” Problem: Avoiding Technology Oversimplification in Homeland Security and Emergency Management https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/artificial-intelligence-and-the-great-machine-problem-avoiding-technology-oversimplification-in-homeland-security-and-emergency-management https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/artificial-intelligence-and-the-great-machine-problem-avoiding-technology-oversimplification-in-homeland-security-and-emergency-management#respond Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:16:49 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/artificial-intelligence-and-the-great-machine-problem-avoiding-technology-oversimplification-in-homeland-security-and-emergency-management

This research note deploys data from a simulation experiment to illustrate the very real effects of monolithic views of technology potential on decision-making within the Homeland Security and Emergency Management field. Specifically, a population of national security decision-makers from across the United States participated in an experimental study that sought to examine their response to encounter different kinds of AI agency in a crisis situation. The results illustrate wariness of overstep and unwillingness to be assertive when AI tools are observed shaping key situational developments, something not apparent when AI is either absent or used as a limited aide to human analysis. These effects are mediated by levels of respondent training. Of great concern, however, these restraining effects disappear and the impact of education on driving professionals towards prudent outcomes is minimized for those individuals that profess to see AI as a full viable replacement of their professional practice. These findings constitute proof of a “Great Machine” problem within professional HSEM practice. Willingness to accept grand, singular assumptions about emerging technologies into operational decision-making clearly encourages ignorance of technological nuance. The result is a serious challenge for HSEM practice that requires more sophisticated solutions than simply raising awareness of AI.

Keywords: artificial intelligence; cybersecurity; experiments; decision-making.

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Japan Cyber Threat Landscape https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/japan-cyber-threat-landscape https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/japan-cyber-threat-landscape#respond Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:26:19 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/japan-cyber-threat-landscape

This document intends to provide a summary of the cybersecurity threats in Japan with reference to globally observed cyber landscape. It looks at various kinds of cyberattacks their quantum and impact as well as specific verticals that are targeted by various threat actors.

As in February, 2024, in Japan, an organisation faces an average of 1,003 attacks per week, with FakeUpdates being the top malware. Most malicious files are delivered via email, and Remote Code Execution is the most common vulnerability exploit. In recent times, major Japanese incidents include a sophisticated malware by a nation state, attacks on Nissan and JAXA, and data breaches at the University of Tokyo and CASIO. Globally, incidents include Ukrainian media hacks, a ransomware attack on U.S. schools, and disruptions in U.S. healthcare due to cyber-attacks. The document also covers trends in malware types, attack vectors, and impacted industries over the last 6 months.

The details provide an overview of the threat landscape and major incidents in Japan and globally, highlighting the prevalence of attacks, common malware types, and impact on various industries and organisations. The information described should create awareness and help businesses and government organisation prepare well to safely operate in a digital environment.

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Social disadvantage accelerates aging https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/social-disadvantage-accelerates-aging https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/social-disadvantage-accelerates-aging#respond Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:08:02 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/social-disadvantage-accelerates-aging

As an initial step, we selected ARDs associated with hallmarks of aging. These included a total of 83 diseases linked to one or more hallmarks of aging, based on the taxonomy put forward in ref. 4 (Supplementary Table 2). Support for this taxonomy comes from multiple sources. Analyses of electronic health records from general practice and hospitalizations identified more than 200 diseases with incidence rates increasing with chronological age6,22. Researchers linked a subset of these ARDs to specific hallmarks of aging using several approaches: mining 1.85 million PubMed abstracts on human aging, identifying shared genes in the genome-wide association study catalog, conducting gene set enrichment analysis and analyzing disease co-occurrence networks within each hallmark4.

We confirmed the co-occurrence of ARDs within each hallmark in 492,257 participants from the UK Biobank study23. The presence of one ARD increased the risk of developing another ARD related to the same hallmark, with clustering coefficients ranging from 0.76 for LOP-specific ARDs to 0.92 for SCE-specific ARDs. These findings corroborated the hallmark-specific clustering of ARDs (Extended Data Figs. 3 and 4)23.

In time-to-event analyses of UK Biobank and FPS participants without these ARDs at baseline (n ranging from 477,325 to 492,294 in the UK Biobank and from 278,272 to 286,471 in the FPS, depending on the social disadvantage indicator and ARD), social disadvantage—indicated by education and adult SES (neighborhood deprivation)—was associated with a higher risk of developing ARDs. In the UK Biobank, the age-, sex-and ethnicity-adjusted hazard ratio for developing any ARD was 1.31 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.29–1.33) for individuals with low compared with high education. For individuals with high versus low adult SES, the hazard ratio was 1.21 (95% CI 1.20–1.23). In the FPS, the corresponding hazard ratios were 1.28 (95% CI 1.25–1.31) and 1.23 (95% CI 1.20–1.27), respectively.

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Atomic Layer Deposition (Trimethyl Aluminum + Water) Animation https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/atomic-layer-deposition-trimethyl-aluminum-water-animation https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/atomic-layer-deposition-trimethyl-aluminum-water-animation#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:08:51 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/atomic-layer-deposition-trimethyl-aluminum-water-animation

This simple animation shows the principle of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) using the molecules trimethyl aluminum (TMA) and water (H2O). At the end of this animation 1 monolayer (1 Angstrom ~ 10^-10 m)of Al2O3 is grown.

You may use this video for teaching /instructional purpose. We request you to please acknowledge the Banerjee Group at Washington University in St. Louis (http://research.engineering.wustl.edu/~parag.banerjee/) while using this video.

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OpenAI CPO Reveals Coding Will Be Automated THIS YEAR, Future Jobs, 2025 AI Predictions & More! https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/openai-cpo-reveals-coding-will-be-automated-this-year-future-jobs-2025-ai-predictions-more https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/openai-cpo-reveals-coding-will-be-automated-this-year-future-jobs-2025-ai-predictions-more#respond Mon, 17 Mar 2025 07:07:02 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/03/openai-cpo-reveals-coding-will-be-automated-this-year-future-jobs-2025-ai-predictions-more

In this insightful conversation with OpenAI’s CPO Kevin Weil, we discuss the rapid acceleration of AI and its implications. Kevin makes the shocking prediction that coding will be fully automated THIS YEAR, not by 2027, as others suggest. He explains how OpenAI’s models are already ranking among the world’s top programmers and shares his thoughts on Deep Research, GPT-4.5’s human-like qualities, the future of jobs, and the timeline for GPT-5. Don’t miss Kevin’s billion-dollar startup idea and his vision for how AI will transform education and democratize software creation.

00:00 — Summary.
01:21 — Introduction.
03:20 — Discussion on OpenAI being both a research and product company.
11:05 — Timeline for GPT-5
11:38 — AI model commoditization and maintaining competitive advantage.
15:09 — Deep Research capabilities.
24:22 — Coding automation prediction: THIS YEAR
30:05 — AI in creative work and design.
36:43 — Future of programming and engineers.
38:32 — Will AI create new job categories?
40:58 — Billion-dollar AI startup ideas.
46:27 — Voice interfaces and robotics.
49:28 — Closing thoughts.

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