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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of optimizing on-page and off-page factors that impact how high a web page ranks for a specific search term. This is a multi-faceted process that includes optimizing page loading speed, generating a link building strategy, as well as learning how to reverse engineer Google’s AI by using computational thinking.

Computational thinking is an advanced type of analysis and problem-solving technique that computer programmers use when writing code and algorithms. Computational thinkers will seek the ground truth by breaking down a problem and analyzing it using first principles thinking.

Since Google does not release their secret sauce to anyone, we will rely on computational thinking. We will walk through some pivotal moments in Google’s history that shaped the algorithms that are used, and we will learn why this matters.

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Light that has traveled for over 13.4 billion years to reach our neighborhood of space has been confirmed as originating from the earliest, most distant galaxy detected yet.

That places the most distant of these four very young objects at the very dawn of the Universe, just a short time after the Big Bang – a time period when the Universe was still foggy and bleary and the first rays of light were penetrating the darkness.

So detailed are the JWST’s long spectroscopic observations that researchers can not only measure the distance the light of these galaxies has traveled, they can also infer some of the galaxies’ properties.

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Life is really weird. From the vantage point of a physicist, it is even stranger. Life is unlike any other phenomenon in physics. Stars, electrons, and black holes are all amazing in their own ways. But only life invents, and the first thing life invents is itself.

Life is creative in a way that no other physical system can be, and its unique use of information may be the key to understanding what makes it different from other physical systems. Now, thanks to a new grant my colleagues and I have received from the Templeton Foundation, we are going to be exploring exactly how information allows life to work its magic. I’m very excited about the project, and this essay is my first report from the frontier as we plunge into terra incognita.

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𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐬

𝙄𝙣 𝙖 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙮 𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝘼𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙧 𝙇𝙮𝙣𝙣 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙮, 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘 𝙩𝙮𝙥𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙣 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨

In a new study led by Associate Professor Lynn Perry, researchers have found that the specific types of words children know first can be an early predictor of language difficulties.

The paper, “Late bloomer or disorder? Differences in toddler composition associated with long-term language outcomes,” which was recently published in Developmental Science, suggests that the number of words toddlers know that name things that are similar in shape, such as cup, ball, and spoon (i.e., “shape-based nouns”), can differentiate between children who are considered late bloomers and those who have persisting delays months or years later.

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For people ages 75 and older, age-related changes in general health and in the heart and blood vessels require consideration and likely modifications in how heart attacks and heart disease are treated, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published today in the Association’s flagship, peer-reviewed journal Circulation.

The new statement, “Management of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in the older adult population,” highlights recent evidence to help clinicians better care for patients over age 75. According to the statement, 30–40% of people hospitalized with ACS are age 75 or older. ACS includes and unstable angina (heart-related chest pain).

The statement is an update of a 2007 American Heart Association statement on the treatment of heart attacks in the elderly.

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Launching your business with a premium name can be like opening a retail store in a busy shopping district.

Due to their short and memorable nature, many premium domains already receive significant type-in traffic. Your organization can utilize this established presence and existing traffic to attract customers, build your brand and gain recognition as an industry leader.

You need a name that will resonate with your customers. The intuitive, memorable nature of premium names makes them ideal. A memorable name can be easier to brand and helps increase the likelihood of customers finding you, over your competitor.

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Interview with Hugo in Melbourne after the Singularity Summit Australia 2010, conducted by Adam A. Ford.

Terrans, Cyborgs and Cosmists — Varieties of human groups. Species dominance.

Bio: Prof. Dr. Hugo de Garis, 63, has lived in 7 countries. He recently retired from his role of Director of the Artificial Brain Lab (ABL) at Xiamen University, China, where he was building China’s first artificial brain. He and his friend Prof. Dr. Ben Goertzel have just finished guest editing a special issue on artificial brains for Neurocomputing journal (December 2010), the first of its kind on the planet.

He continues to live in China, where his U.S. savings go 7 times further, given China’s much lower cost of living. He spends his afternoons in his favorite (beautiful) park, and his nights in his apartment, intensively studying PhD-level pure math and mathematical physics to be able to write books on topics such as femtometer scale technology (“femtotech”), topological quantum computing (TQC), as well as other technical and sociopolitical themes.

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