Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 140
Dec 25, 2023
India’s Aditya-L1 sun mission to conduct critical insertion into halo orbit
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Aditya-L1, India’s first mission to study the Sun, is set to conduct a complex manoeuvre that will insert it into the halo orbit around Lagrange Point 1 (L1) — considered to be the most significant of the Lagrangian points for observation of the Sun.
The insertion into L1, a point of gravitation equilibrium between the Earth and the Sun, is a critical phase of the mission that requires precise navigation and control. According to scientists, the meticulous process involves ensuring that the spacecraft maintains its trajectory to successfully enter the halo orbit.
Dec 24, 2023
Transparent processor found in vintage HP computer — exotic silicon-on-sapphire chip discovered on a humble floppy drive PCB
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: computing, futurism
Shirriff’s blog goes into a deep dive with a look inside the HP PHI chip, its construction, and die. He even examines its logic gates, first-in-first-out buffers (FIFOs), and address decoder. Please check out the blog for all these finer details and more.
In conclusion, the computer historian echoes our initial thoughts that this silicon-on-sapphire IC is “interesting as an example of a ‘technology of the future’ that didn’t quite pan out.”
Shirriff also contrasts late 70s era processors built on silicon-on-sapphire vs regular silicon in terms of energy consumption and clock speeds. Would you be surprised to hear that silicon-on-sapphire ICs were far superior using these metrics? Things might have panned out differently if these transparent ICs had been mass-produced at better yields and lower manufacturing costs. A frightening statistic highlighted by Shirriff is that HP’s silicon-on-sapphire yields were a mere 9%.
Dec 24, 2023
Philip Clayton — How Can Emergence Explain Reality?
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
For more videos and information from Philip Clayton click here http://bit.ly/1CCgAsDFor more videos on how emergence can explain reality click here http://bit.ly/1CCgAsDFor
Dec 24, 2023
Location, location, location: Research reveals the hidden power of intracellular neighborhoods
Posted by Paul Battista in category: futurism
New findings published in Molecular Cell provide details about the hidden organization of the cytoplasm—the soup of liquid, organelles, proteins, and other molecules inside a cell. The research shows it makes a big difference where in that cellular broth, messenger RNA (mRNA) gets translated into proteins.
“You know the old real estate saying, ‘location, location, location.’ It turns out it applies to how proteins get made inside of cells, too,” says Dr. Mayr, a molecular and cell biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute, a hub for basic and translational research within MSK. “If it’s translated over here, you get twice as much protein as if it’s translated over there.”
This first-of-its-kind study highlights the degree to which the cytoplasm is “beautifully organized” rather than being just a big jumble of stuff, she says.
Dec 24, 2023
NMN vs Nicotinic Acid: Which Is Better For Increasing NAD?
Posted by Mike Lustgarten in category: futurism
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Dec 24, 2023
Human Flourishing through Models of Intelligence and Care
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
A cross-disciplinary workshop at Tufts University, August 18th-21st, 2023.
Dec 24, 2023
Largebench a unified library for large language models
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
Dec 23, 2023
Chi era Frank Rosenblatt, l’inventore della prima intelligenza artificiale
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: futurism
Il Mark I Perceptron del 1958 era circondato da enormi attese, che vennero completamente deluse. A distanza di oltre mezzo secolo, è però riconosciuto come il primo antenato di ChatGPT.
Dr Philip Goff (University of Liverpool) speaks at the event “Metaphysics of Mind”, 19th August 2014. Abstract: Cosmopsychism is the conjunction of the following two theses: (i) the cosmos is the one fundamental object, (ii) the cosmos if conscious. I will try out the following argument for this view: Premise 1 – Each and every organic conscious state is irreducible. Premise 2 – No organic conscious state is fundamental. Premise 3 – The only way in which a state can be both irreducible and fundamental is if it is an aspect of a more fundamental state. Conclusion 1 – Therefore each and every organic conscious state is an aspect of a more fundamental state. Premise 4 – If each and every organic conscious state is an aspect of a more fundamental state, then cosmopsychism is highly likely to be true. Conclusion 2 – Therefore, cosmopsychism is highly likely to be true.