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Jul 21, 2018
SpaceX Is About to Tackle One of Its Biggest Recovery Challenges Yet
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: drones, Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space travel
Starting July 22, SpaceX will have the chance to further cement itself as the best wide receiver in the aerospace game. Elon Musk’s rocket company is scheduled to make a total of five recoveries in less than two weeks, including three Falcon 9 autonomous spaceport done ships recoveries, a rocket fairing recovery, and a Dragon capsule retrieval.
This will require SpaceX’s fleet of recovery vessels to kick into overdrive. Both of its drone ships — Of Course I Still Love You in the Atlantic Ocean and Just Read The Instructions in the Pacific — will be serving as a landing platform for two separate Falcon 9 rockets. While two boats, including the newly upgraded Mr. Steven and NRC Quest will be tasked with bringing back a Falcon 9 fairing and the Dragon Capsule, respectively.
SpaceX prides itself on pioneering the use of reusable rocket parts and space vessels to make space travel more affordable than it has ever been. These five recoveries will put the company’s most iconic retrieval systems to the test.
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Along with Aubrey de Grey, Stephen L. Sorgner, Rob van Genderen, Paul Nemitz of the European Commission, William Echikson of Center for European Studies, Professor Emeritus Chapel Hill U. Woodrow Barfield, and Anne Zeiter of Ebay, I’ve joined the Editorial board of a new interdisciplinary technology journal called Delphi, published by Lexxion Publisher. They’re looking for papers and abstracts. Give it a read and submit if you like. Here’s the link: http://www.lexxion.de/pdf/delphi/Call_for_Papers_Delphi.pdf
Jul 21, 2018
How These University Students Plan to Break the Hyperloop Speed Record
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, transportation
Delft Hyperloop is back, and it claims it’s about to break the speed record for hyperloop. As 20 teams gather in Hawthorne, California, for SpaceX’s third pod racing competition on Sunday, the Netherlands-based group could be one of the key drivers in a transportation revolution.
“Our objective is to go faster than the current record,” Clément Hienen, the team’s design engineer, tells Inverse. “For sure, we designed to break the record.”
It’s a bold claim, especially considering the wider industry. When Elon Musk first released his white paper for a vacuum-sealed-tube-based transportation system in 2013, he claimed pods could fly through at a theoretical maximum speed of 700 mph — cutting a six-hour drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco down to just 30 minutes. Musk’s own firms set a public speed record of 220 mph in August 2017, only for Richard Branson-backed Virgin Hyperloop One to beat the record with 240 mph in December 2017. Delft plans to beat both of these.
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Jul 21, 2018
CogX 2018 — Professor Juergen Schmidhuber Director & Professor, The Swiss AI Lab IDSIA – USI & SUPSI
Posted by Marco Monfils in categories: information science, robotics/AI
Learning algorithms which improve how they learn, computers which define their own objectives and then do it, robots which learn from us like children do, its all not far off now.
Panelists:
Jul 21, 2018
AI beats doctors in diagnosis competition
Posted by Marco Monfils in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Jul 21, 2018
Creators of future AI must not be ideologues
Posted by Marco Monfils in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di4p6MnN1Eo
This talk by Jordan Pederson suggests human level AGI is here within the year. And after we go expo.
Jordan Peterson’s Links:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson
Self Authoring: http://selfauthoring.com/
Jordan Peterson Website: http://jordanbpeterson.com/
Podcast: http://jordanbpeterson.com/jordan-b-p…
Reading List: http://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/gr…
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
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Jul 21, 2018
World-first ‘super battery’ could charge your phone instantly
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: mobile phones
Jul 21, 2018
Robot chemist discovers new molecules and reactions
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: chemistry, information science, robotics/AI
A glimpse at the coming AI researchers. (AI’s that do research).
A new type of artificial-intelligence-driven chemistry could revolutionise the way molecules are discovered, scientists claim.
In a new paper published today in the journal Nature, chemists from the University of Glasgow discuss how they have trained an artificially-intelligent organic chemical synthesis robot to automatically explore a very large number of chemical reactions.
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Jul 21, 2018
Online portal of thousands of clinical trials could aid disease research
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, health, policy
Vivli, which spun out of a policy think tank at Harvard University–affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, is part of a push to encourage drug developers to share trial data—even negative results, findings that show a treatment has no benefit. Companies seeking U.S. regulatory approval for a drug, as well as investigators funded by the National Institutes of Health, must post limited, summary results on ClinicalTrials.gov. But many researchers and policy analysts believe sharing detailed raw data on individual patients, stripped of identifying information, would be valuable. Researchers could confirm that a drug works, look for side effects, or explore new questions.
Vivli aims to ease sharing of anonymized clinical studies.
