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Jun 29, 2019
The Top 5 Artificial Intelligence Books to Read in 2019
Posted by TJ Wass in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Here is a list of the top 5 books on artificial intelligence for beginners. These books will help you understand the current landscape of the technology as well as learn what the future holds.
Jun 28, 2019
Why does time always run forwards and never backwards?
Posted by Paul Battista in category: futurism
There’s egg on your face, literally. You tried to juggle some eggs, it all went wrong, and now you’ve got to shower and change your clothes.
Wouldn’t it be faster to just un-break the egg? Breaking it only took a few seconds, so why not do that again, but in reverse? Just reassemble the shell and throw the yolk and the white back inside. You’d have a clean face, clean clothes, and no yolk in your hair, like nothing ever happened.
Why don’t things happen in reverse all the time?
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Spain and the U.S. has announced that they have discovered a new property of light—self-torque. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they happened to spot the new property and possible uses for it.
Scientists have long known about such properties of light as wavelength. More recently, researchers have found that light can also be twisted, a property called angular momentum. Beams with highly structured angular momentum are said to have orbital angular momentum (OAM), and are called vortex beams. They appear as a helix surrounding a common center, and when they strike a flat surface, they appear as doughnut-shaped. In this new effort, the researchers were working with OAM beams when they found the light behaving in a way that had never been seen before.
The experiments involved firing two lasers at a cloud of argon gas—doing so forced the beams to overlap, and they joined and were emitted as a single beam from the other side of the argon cloud. The result was a type of vortex beam. The researchers then wondered what would happen if the lasers had different orbital angular momentum and if they were slightly out of sync. This resulted in a beam that looked like a corkscrew with a gradually changing twist. And when the beam struck a flat surface, it looked like a crescent moon. The researchers noted that looked at another way, a single photon at the front of the beam was orbiting around its center more slowly than a photon at the back of the beam. The researchers promptly dubbed the new property self-torque—and not only is it a newly discovered property of light, it is also one that has never even been predicted.
The gut of elite athletes has a bacterium that enhances performance.
Jun 27, 2019
A dome of flowers 💐 Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Jun 27, 2019
Should humanity resurrect dinosaurs and bring the Neanderthals back to life?
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Jun 27, 2019
Man’s Emotional Support Alligator Loves To Give Hugs
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Jun 27, 2019
Turtle study shows hearts can be programmed to survive without oxygen
Posted by Paul Battista in category: futurism
University of Manchester and University of North Texas scientists are the first to show that an embryonic living heart can be programmed to survive the effects of a low oxygen environment in later life.