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Jun 6, 2024
Maze Proof Establishes a ‘Backbone’ for Statistical Mechanics
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: mathematics
Four mathematicians have estimated the chances that there’s a clear path through a random maze.
Jun 6, 2024
What’s Wrong with Symbolic Logic?
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: computing, mathematics, neuroscience
Actually, nothing is wrong with it if you are a computer science major. It’s just that it has no place in the philosophy department.
From the point of anyone wanting to work in natural language, symbolic logic has all of the vices of mathematics and none of its virtues. That is, it is obscure to the point of incomprehensibility (given the weak neurons of this English major at any rate), and it leads to no useful outcome in the domain of human affairs. This would not be so bad were it not for all those philosophy major curricula that ask freshmen to take a course in it as their “introduction” to philosophy. For anyone looking to explore the meaning of life, this is a complete turnoff.
What were the philosophy mavens thinking?
Jun 6, 2024
Researchers Use Quantinuum’s New 56-Qubit Quantum Computer to Show 100X Improvement on Google’s 2019 Random Circuit Sampling Task
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: computing, quantum physics
Quantinuum unveiled its H2-1 quantum computer with 56 trapped-ion qubits that further improves its market-leading fidelity.
What is the red line in the ability to imitate or simulate the commonly recognizable characteristics of a popular or non-popular person when we seek to assess the potential for unethical persuasion of technologies like GenAI?
What responsibility does the creator bear for the intrinsic consequences related to the unethical use of a person’s identity as a lever of persuasion through technology?
Persuasion has no dark side per se: only the intentions of those who wield it do, and GenAI is not inherently endowed with such intentions, neither for itself nor by itself.
Jun 6, 2024
New Theory Changes Everything: SIDM and Dark Matter Collision!
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: cosmology, particle physics, space travel
Discover the groundbreaking Self-Interacting Dark Matter (SIDM) theory that suggests dark matter particles might collide and interact with each other. Learn how recent studies on the El Gordo galaxy cluster support this revolutionary idea, potentially changing our understanding of the universe’s structure and evolution. Dive into the cosmic dance and stay updated with the latest space discoveries!
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction.
00:44 The Dance of Self-Interacting Dark Matter.
02:39 Unveiling the Strengths and Weaknesses of CDM and SIDM
05:14 Exploring Dark Matter: Methods and Future Prospects.
09:20 Outro.
09:37 Enjoy.
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Jun 6, 2024
“Thinking at a Distance” in the Age of AI
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biological, robotics/AI
‘Thinking at a distance’ with large language models sparks human-AI cognitive capacity transcending biological limits, but it risks existential ‘entangled mind’ miscalibration.
Jun 6, 2024
Human Neurons Play the Waiting Game
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: genetics, neuroscience
When it comes to development, an epigenetic clock may be responsible for human neurons’ slower maturation.
Jun 6, 2024
Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: computing, futurism
We propose and demonstrate the first chip-based 3D printer, consisting of a silicon-photonics chip that emits non-mechanically-reconfigurable beams into photocurable resin, enabling future compact, portable, and low-cost next-generation 3D printers.
Jun 6, 2024
“Extraordinary” Slow-Spinning Neutron Star Shakes Astrophysics
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: physics, space
Most collapsed stars fully rotate in seconds. This one takes almost an hour.
Australian scientists from the University of Sydney and Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have detected what is likely a neutron star spinning slower than any other ever measured.
No other radio-emitting neutron star, out of the more than 3,000 discovered so far, has been discovered rotating so slowly. The results are published today (June 5) in Nature Astronomy.