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Apr 16, 2020
Health ministry says 400,000 could die in Japan without virus containment measures
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, government, health
Editor’s note: The story has been updated.
Japan could see some 850,000 people seriously sickened by the coronavirus and almost half of them dying if no social distancing or other measures are followed, according to an expert estimate released Wednesday.
Japan has the world’s oldest population, which is a particular concern since COVID-19 can be especially serious and fatal in the elderly. And there are concerns that Japan’s government has done too little and acted too late to stave off high numbers of seriously ill patients.
Apr 16, 2020
How to Earn Bitcoin in 2020 – Free Guide for Beginners
Posted by Fyodor Rouge in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies
Cool read…hhh.
The emergence of Bitcoin as one of the hottest new investment assets has surprised many who once believed the blockchain-driven cryptocurrency would never have real-world value. It has also generated immense amounts of interest from those who had either never heard of Bitcoin before or who knew relatively little about it. As a result, there are now incredible opportunities for making extra money in the cryptocurrency niche.
In the following article, you’ll find out how to make money with Bitcoin and discover a few of the many different ways to capitalize on the cryptocurrency trend and earn Bitcoin in lots of different ways.
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Apr 16, 2020
Maine astronaut Jessica Meir returns to a changed planet on Friday
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
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Until now, Aroostook County native Jessica Meir has watched the unfolding coronavirus pandemic from orbit.
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Apr 16, 2020
Edge AI Is The Future, Intel And Udacity Are Teaming Up To Train Developers
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
On April 16, 2020, Intel and Udacity jointly announced their new Intel® Edge AI for IoT Developers Nanodegree program to train the developer community in deep learning and computer vision. If you are wondering where AI is headed, now you know, it’s headed to the edge. Edge computing is the concept of storing data and computing data directly at the location where it is needed. The global edge computing market is forecasted to reach 1.12 trillion dollars by 2023.
There’s a real need for developers worldwide in this new market. Intel and Udacity aim to train 1 million developers.
AI Needs To Be On the Edge.
Apr 16, 2020
Life’s other mystery: Why biology’s building blocks are so lop-sided
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biological
Most molecules exist in mirror-image forms, and yet life prefers one over the other. How this bias began and why it persisted is one of the most baffling questions in biology – but now we have an answer.
Apr 16, 2020
Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: habitats, neuroscience
Last Friday, April 16, 1943, I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant, intoxicated-like condition characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away.
Apr 16, 2020
A quantum liquid of magnetic octupoles on the pyrochlore lattice
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: quantum physics
O,.o maybe this could make computronium.
Spin liquids are highly correlated yet disordered states formed by the entanglement of magnetic dipoles1. Theories define such states using gauge fields and deconfined quasiparticle excitations that emerge from a local constraint governing the ground state of a frustrated magnet. For example, the ‘2-in–2-out’ ice rule for dipole moments on a tetrahedron can lead to a quantum spin ice2,3,4 in rare-earth pyrochlores. However, f-electron ions often carry multipole degrees of freedom of higher rank than dipoles, leading to intriguing behaviours and ‘hidden’ orders5,6. Here we show that the correlated ground state of a Ce3+-based pyrochlore, Ce2Sn2O7, is a quantum liquid of magnetic octupoles. Our neutron scattering results are consistent with a fluid-like state where degrees of freedom have a more complex magnetization density than that of magnetic dipoles. The nature and strength of the octupole–octupole couplings, together with the existence of a continuum of excitations attributed to spinons, provides further evidence for a quantum ice of octupoles governed by a ‘2-plus–2-minus’ rule7,8. Our work identifies Ce2Sn2O7 as a unique example of frustrated multipoles forming a ‘hidden’ topological order, thus generalizing observations on quantum spin liquids to multipolar phases that can support novel types of emergent fields and excitations.
Apr 16, 2020
NASA finds previously hidden ‘Earth-like’ planet that could be home to life
Posted by Paul Battista in category: space
Orbits a red dwarf. Probably gravitationally locked too (always showing same side to parent star). So highly unlikely to be any complex life.
‘Intriguing’ world found in data from retired Kepler space telescope.
Apr 16, 2020
Money Is Losing Its Meaning
Posted by Fyodor Rouge in categories: biotech/medical, economics, finance, government
Doing “whatever it takes” to save the global economy from the coronavirus pandemic is going to cost a lot of money. The U.S. government alone is spending a few trillion dollars, and the Federal Reserve is creating another few trillion dollars to keep the financial system from collapsing. A custom Bloomberg index measuring M2 figures for 12 major economies including the U.S., China, euro zone and Japan shows their aggregate money supply had already more than doubled to $80 trillion from before the 2008–2009 financial crisis.
These numbers are so large that they no longer have any meaning; they are simply abstractions. It’s been some time since people thought about the concept of money and its purpose. The broad idea is that money has value, but that value is not arbitrary. Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker once said in an interview that “it is a governmental responsibility to maintain the value of the currency they issue. And when they fail to do that, it is something that undermines an essential trust in government.”
