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Mar 6, 2019
Waymo Built a Secret World for Self-Driving Cars
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
An exclusive look at how Alphabet understands its most ambitious artificial intelligence project.
Mar 6, 2019
How to Design Streets for Humans—and Self-Driving Cars
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
A new blueprint from city transportation planners and engineers, who say it’s never too early to start thinking about the future.
Mar 6, 2019
Aging Analytics Agency has released a prototype version of its interactive online Longevity Industry Analytics platform and database
Posted by Franco Cortese in category: life extension
This platform was applied for the first time in our newly released Longevity Industry in Singapore report, utilizing data on the companies, investors, research labs and non-profit organizations featured in the report.
Aging Analytics Agency is planning to implement a number of updates, additions and enhancement for this platform in the coming months, including interactive and filterable mindmaps, infographics and network diagrams illustrating connections and interactions within the global Longevity Industry, as well as additional features, to be introduced throughout 2019.
Link to Platform: http://mindmaps.aginganalytics.com/
Mar 6, 2019
The Math That Takes Newton Into the Quantum World
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: information science, mathematics, quantum physics, transportation
In my 50s, too old to become a real expert, I have finally fallen in love with algebraic geometry. As the name suggests, this is the study of geometry using algebra. Around 1637, René Descartes laid the groundwork for this subject by taking a plane, mentally drawing a grid on it, as we now do with graph paper, and calling the coordinates x and y. We can write down an equation like x + y = 1, and there will be a curve consisting of points whose coordinates obey this equation. In this example, we get a circle!
It was a revolutionary idea at the time, because it let us systematically convert questions about geometry into questions about equations, which we can solve if we’re good enough at algebra. Some mathematicians spend their whole lives on this majestic subject. But I never really liked it much until recently—now that I’ve connected it to my interest in quantum physics.
If we can figure out how to reduce topology to algebra, it might help us formulate a theory of quantum gravity.
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Mar 6, 2019
The Twins That Are Neither Identical nor Fraternal
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
They shared a placenta, but on the ultrasound, one looked like a boy, and the other a girl.
Mar 6, 2019
The A.I. Diet
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: food, government, information science, robotics/AI
Forget government-issued food pyramids. Let an algorithm tell you how to eat.
Credit Credit Erik Blad
Mar 6, 2019
Here are the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: law
You’ve probably never heard of many of the data firms registered under a new law, but they’ve heard a lot about you. A list, and tips for opting out.
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Mar 6, 2019
Human memory: How we make, remember, and forget memories
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: neuroscience
Human memory happens in many parts of the brain at once, and some types of memories stick around longer than others.