In this weekâs live stream, Iâm going to share clips of my interview with Isaac Arthur, which you can find the full version on the Answers With Joe Podcast: hâŠ
A potentially game-changing theoretical approach to quantum computing hardware avoids much of the problematic complexity found in current quantum computers. The strategy implements an algorithm in natural quantum interactions to process a variety of real-world problems faster than classical computers or conventional gate-based quantum computers can.
âOur finding eliminates many challenging requirements for quantum hardware,â said Nikolai Sinitsyn, a theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is co-author of a paper on the approach in the journal Physical Review A. âNatural systems, such as the electronic spins of defects in diamond, have precisely the type of interactions needed for our computation process.â
Sinitsyn said the team hopes to collaborate with experimental physicists also at Los Alamos to demonstrate their approach using ultracold atoms. Modern technologies in ultracold atoms are sufficiently advanced to demonstrate such computations with about 40 to 60 qubits, he said, which is enough to solve many problems not currently accessible by classical, or binary, computation. A qubit is the basic unit of quantum information, analogous to a bit in familiar classical computing.
Scientist, longevity expert and biotechnology patent holder Raj Agni (aka Steven Schorr) beams in to discuss age deceleration, telomere extension and revolutionary plant-based anti-aging supplements on episode 114 of the Far Out with Faust podcast.
Raj Agni, also known as Steven M. Schorr, is a metaphysician, author, inventor, healer, alchemist, artist, musician, entrepreneur, and creator of Extended Longevity products designed to rebuild your telomeres. His clinics have operated for 14 years on Maui, Hawaii and he has treated over twenty thousand people.
Raj has authored 20 U.S. and International Patents, including his patent on the aeroponic technology, and four patents for innovations in the Airponicâą process and product design. Raj is a published author whose books include âKeeper of Secrets, 1997, a translation of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, â Perceptions of Truthâ; 2013, and â The Path to an Illuminated Awakeningâ, published in 2014. These books are currently available on Amazon.com.
In this episode, Raj catches Faust up on the anti-aging and age reversal insights and results heâs found since his first appearance on episode 18. He delves into these topics, and more:
Unbelievably excited
Posted in energy, transportation
A new airplane seat concept that allows wheelchair users to stay in their own chair throughout a flight was revealed this week by a subsidiary of US airline Delta, a move welcomed as a âhuge stepâ by potential customers.
âUnbelievably excited,â is how power wheelchair user and avid traveler Cory Lee described his reaction after a working prototype of the design was demonstrated by Delta Flight Products (DFP) at the Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in Hamburg, Germany, a symposium spotlighting airplane cabin innovations.
DFPâs concept seamlessly converts to and from a traditional airplane seat. The built-in seat folds up to allow a wheelchair to be docked into place. The seat would be installed into pre-existing aircraft seat track systems, so would not involve any structural change to the airplane.
TAMPA, Fla. â Intelsat said Aug. 14 it is due for a $3.7 billion windfall late this year after becoming the latest satellite operator to clear C-band spectrum ahead of schedule for terrestrial 5G telcos in the United States.
Weeks after launching its seventh and final C-band clearing satellite, the company said it had achieved certification for work to move broadcast customers into a narrower swath of the spectrum.
The Federal Communications Commission set a deadline for satellite operators to clear the spectrum by December 2025, but offered them nearly $10 billion in incentive payments if they could make the frequencies available for telcos before Dec. 5, 2023.
M3GAN wasnât malicious. It followed its programming, but without any care or respect for other beingsâultimately including Cady. In a sense, as it engaged with the physical world, M3GAN became an AI sociopath.
Sociopathic AI isnât just a topic explored in Hollywood. To Dr. Leonardo Christov-Moore at the University of Southern California and colleagues, itâs high time we build artificial empathy into AIâand nip any antisocial behaviors in the bud.
In an essay published last week in Science Robotics, the team argued for a neuroscience perspective to embed empathy into lines of code. The key is to add âgut instinctsâ for survivalâfor example, the need to avoid physical pain. With a sense of how it may be âhurt,â an AI agent could then map that knowledge onto others. Itâs similar to the way humans gauge each othersâ feelings: I understand and feel your pain because Iâve been there before.
Elon Musk donated $10 million to a project whose research includes a projection that declining fertility rates could mean âhumanity is four-fifths over.â
Why donât humans have tails?
Posted in futurism
Humans are some of the only animals that donât have tails. Most mammals use theirs for balance, but since we walk on two legs, we donât need them.
An incredibly rare, fully articulated dinosaur embryo has been found inside a fossilized egg that had been collecting dust for over a decade in the storage room of a museum in China. Thought to be between 66 and 72 million years old, the unborn specimen reveals an incredible link between dinosaurs and modern birds.
Belonging to a group of feathered, toothless theropods known as oviraptorosaurs, the unhatched creature is estimated to be about 27 centimeters (10.6 inches) long, and marks the first discovery of a dinosaur embryo displaying a posture that is typical of present-day bird embryos. Shortly before hatching, modern birds engage in a series of maneuvers known as tucking, which involves curving the body and bringing the head down under the wing, yet the evolutionary origins of this behavior had until now remained unknown.
Reporting their discovery in a 2021 paper, the study authors explain that their specimen â nicknamed Baby Yingliang â was found with its head âventral to the body, with the feet on either side, and the back curled along the blunt pole of the egg.â Such a posture, they say, is âpreviously unrecognized in a non-avian dinosaur, but reminiscent of a late-stage modern bird embryo.â
Zeolites have unique porous atomic structures and are useful as catalysts, ion exchangers and molecular sieves. It is difficult to directly observe the local atomic structures of the material via electron microscopy due to low electron irradiation resistance. As a result, the fundamental property-structure relationships of the constructs remain unclear.
Recent developments of a low-electron dose imaging method known as optimum bright-field scanning transmission electron microscopy (OBF STEM) offers a method to reconstruct images with a high signal-to-noise ratio with high dose efficiency.
In this study, Kousuke Ooe and a team of scientists in engineering and nanoscience at the University of Tokyo and the Japan Fine Ceramics Center performed low-dose atomic resolution observations with the method to visualize atomic sites and their frameworks between two types of zeolites. The scientists observed the complex atomic structure of the twin-boundaries in a faujasite-type (FAU) zeolite to facilitate the characterization of local atomic structures across many electron beam-sensitive materials.