Posted in artificial intelligence, business, cybercrime/malcode, education, neuroscience, robotics/AI | 1 Comment on ‘AI Will Become Conscious’ — Top Neuroscientist on Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness
Moran Cerf disucssess why we dream, and goes deeper into explaining the different versions of the relevance of dreams in life.
FULL INTERVIEW — • moran cerf: neural implants, hacking…
ABOUT MORAN:
Prof. Moran Cerf is professor of business at Columbia business school. His academic research uses methods from neuroscience to understand the underlying mechanisms of our psychology, behavior changes, emotion, decisions, and dreams.
Learn More About Moran’s Work Here: https://www.morancerf.com.
Posted in cosmology | Leave a Comment on ‘Impossible’ black holes detected by James Webb telescope may finally have an explanation — if this ultra-rare form of matter exists
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too big, too fast. New research points to a strange form of dark matter as a possible culprit.
While reviewing a manuscript for the Journal of Organic Chemistry, Caroline Kervarc-Genre and her colleague, Thibault Cantat, researchers at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, noticed something unusual.
The nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra buried in the supplementary information had striking irregularities: The baseline was interrupted in some parts, and the noise was the same from one spectrum to the next. “Noise being inherently random, repeating noise is only possible if the spectra are altered [or] fake,” Kervarc-Genre told Retraction Watch.
Starting to suspect something was wrong, she and Cantat, examined other papers by the lead author. They discovered data appeared to have been edited in several of the author’s latest publications. “The fraud was not subtle,” Kervarc-Genre said.
Niki Mavragani and Muralee Murugesu discuss the discovery, structure and properties of Mn12, a prototypical single-molecule magnet.
“Poland Uses Clams To Control Its Water” in several cities, similar methods are used by the city of Minneapolis. 🦪🫧💧🏞️
While it seems that various technologies are completely taking over many different parts of human life, it appears that even some man-made things are better left to nature.
Vincent Danen is the Vice President of Product Security at Red Hat.
Cyber threats are an everyday reality. Attackers exploit the unwitting, stealing confidential and sensitive information through online scam campaigns. Data breach prevention is only as strong as the weakest link, and, in most cases, that link is human. As I mentioned in a previous article, it is reported that 74% of data breaches are caused by human error.
According to a 2020 FBI report, there was a 400% spike in cyberattacks during the Covid-19 pandemic. The human element is a significant vulnerability in cybersecurity, often overlooked in favor of technological solutions. Many organizations focus on addressing software vulnerabilities when employees remain the weakest link in the organization’s security program. Even the most secure software, with all vendor security patches applied, is in danger if the human aspect of risk management is neglected.
Cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) patients treated with oral drug, REC-994, showed reduction in total cerebral and brainstem lesion volume.
Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability is a rigorous mathematical framework that enables robots to simultaneously detect unsafe states and generate actions that prevent future failures. While in theory, HJ reachability can synthesize safe controllers for nonlinear systems and nonconvex constraints.
In practice, it has been limited to hand-engineered collision
Avoidance constraints modeled via low-dimensional state-space representations and first-principles dynamics. In this work, our goal is to generalize safe robot controllers to prevent failures that are hard—if not impossible—to write down by hand, but can be intuitively identified from high-dimensional observations:
Quantum computing represents a paradigm shift in computation with the potential to revolutionize scientific discovery and technological innovation. This seminar will examine the roadmap for constructing quantum supercomputers, emphasizing the integration of quantum processors with traditional high-performance computing (HPC) systems. The seminar will be led by prominent experts Prof. John Martinis (Qolab), Dr. Masoud Mohseni (HPE), and Dr. Yonatan Cohen (Quantum Machines), who will discuss the critical hurdles and opportunities in scaling quantum computing, drawing upon their latest research publication, “How to Build a Quantum Supercomputer: Scaling Challenges and Opportunities”
Rice University researchers have revealed novel sequence-structure-property relationships for customizing engineered living materials (ELMs), enabling more precise control over their structure and how they respond to deformation forces like stretching or compression.
The study, published in a special issue of ACS Synthetic Biology, focuses on altering protein matrices, which are the networks of proteins that provide structure to ELMs. By introducing small genetic changes, the team discovered they could make a substantial difference in how these materials behaved. These findings could open doors for advancements in tissue engineering, drug delivery and even 3D printing of living devices.
“We are engineering cells to create customizable materials with unique properties,” said Caroline Ajo-Franklin, professor of biosciences and the study’s corresponding author. “While synthetic biology has given us tools to tweak these properties, the connection between genetic sequence, material structure and behavior has been largely unexplored until now.”
