Written By: Arlington Hewes — Singularity Hub
The list of things computers can do better than humans is already long, and it’s getting longer every year. Now, you can add making environmental inferences.
We pride ourselves on the ability to read between the lines, find patterns and information where they aren’t immediately obvious. A hundred subtle (or not so subtle) details in a given scene may add up to the fight-or-flight judgement this is a safe place—or, run!
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My Brief Q&A session with Christoffer De Geer, about BitCoin, Cryptocurrency, and Blockchain Technology.
This Q&A was first published by Mr. Geir Solem, Director of Cryptor Trust Inc., on the Cryptor Primary Investor Blog (Date: October 31, 2014).
Quote: “BitCoin was the first small step in what I believe will be a truly transformational journey, for each and every one of us. In 10 Years Cryptocurrency and Blockchains have every chance to have the same, or greater, impact on our lives, society, and civiliation, as the creation of Email had to the Postal Service, and the Fax Machine as compared to the Internet; in 25 Years Monetary Systems, Systems of Trade and Exchange, Systems of Transaction of Goods, Ledger and Recordation Systems, Everything You Know – Will – Be – Different – and, Unrecognizable relative to what we know today at the end of the year 2014.”
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BLOOMBERG: Virgin Galactic Ship Crashes With 1 Pilot Reported Dead http://lnkd.in/dR-C8cV
ENGADGET: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo crashes after launch http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/31/virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo/
THE GUARDIAN: One person dead as Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane crashes on test flight http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/31/spaceshiptwo-richard-branson-virgin-crash-mojave
BUSINESS INSIDER: One Dead, One Injured In Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Crash http://www.businessinsider.com/virgin-galactic-spaceship-reportedly-crashes-during-test-flight-2014-10
FORBES: Virgin Galactic Spaceship Destroyed During Test Flight http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/10/31/virgin-galactic-spaceship-destroyed-during-test-flight/
WALL STREET JOURNAL: Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crashes. Accident in California’s Mojave Desert Kills One Pilot, Injures Another http://online.wsj.com/articles/virgin-galactic-spaceship-crashes-1414781841
NEW YORK TIMES: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Crashes During Test Flight http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/science/virgin-galactics-spaceshiptwo-crashes-during-test-flight.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0
BLOOMBERG: Twitter and IBM strike data mining agreement http://lnkd.in/du5KtxV
YOU GOT INCLUDE THEIR OWN CORRUPTION OPERATING COSTS. NEW YORK TIMES: Are Banks Too Expensive to Use? http://lnkd.in/d2a7tWD
THE WORLD BANK: Climate Change, Risk Management and the Big Emitters http://lnkd.in/dF_y7WB
SUICIDALS TO BE ARE RUNNING TO VIRGIN GALACTIC’S WAITING LIST!
LINKEDIN: Richard Branson, Success, Unpreparedness, Failure, and Death! http://lnkd.in/dQmt_wM
WHEN YOU WANT A SKUNK WORK SHIP TO BLOW UP, YOU JUST USE 1960 SOVIET (COMMUNIST) BURNERS AND MAKE A HUGE FOOL OF A SUPERNATION AND ITS SKUNKS. PEOPLE ABUNDANTLY KNOW THAT SOVIET AND RUSSIAN QUALITY ASSURANCE METHODOLOGIES ARE THE MOST UNRELIABLE IN THE WORLD, ALONG WITH THAT OF CHINA, GERMANY’S WORLD’S SUPERCLIENT # 1.
THE ECONOMIST: Where not to invest in Europe http://lnkd.in/dpSpMXB
NANOWERK: A quantum leap in nanoparticle efficiency http://lnkd.in/dBJrS64
BUSINESS INSIDER: $129 Billion Worth Of New York City Real Estate Now Lies In Flood Zones http://lnkd.in/d55uCdN
A POOR COUNTRY, INDIA SENT A MISSION TO MARS, NOT TO THE FOOLISH MOON, WITH UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS AND WITH A HUMBLE BUDGET. NASA AND VIRGIN GALACTIC WENT UNDER IN TWO SILLY BUT MOST ONEROUSLY EXPENSIVE “EXPLOSIVE INITIATIVES”. NOW, BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS KNOW THAT WHEN THEY WANT TO SUCCEED, YOU EMBRACE RICHARD BRANSON SUCCESS TIPS, EMBRACING THE POWER OF SIMPLICITY AGAINST THE PRESCRIPTION OF SIR. MARTIN REES PhD. ABOUT THE SCIENCE OF COMPLEXITY.
DON’T GET ME WRONG, INDIA IS A POOR COUNTRY THAT WILL BECOME WORLD’S SUPERPOWER #1 OR #2.
To the dismal and naivety of so-called futurists, the Present and Future of Spaceflight is “sucked” by NASA’s Contractors and Virgin Galactic. A Dr. Wernher von Braun’s U.S. scientist that both cases underestimated the “RELIABILITY EFFORT.”
LINKEDIN: WALMART WILL BE SPUTNIKKED BY AMAZON OR ALIBABA http://lnkd.in/ddRTN7Q
One Of The World’s Most Powerful Envious Literary Agents Compared Amazon To ISIS http://lnkd.in/dFyimUp
NO, NO, NO, WITHOUT THE RELIABILITY EFFORT BEFORE. WS: Richard Branson, in a September interview, predicted Virgin Galactic would have its first flight before Christmas http://on.wsj.com/1wQZQgJ
FINANCIAL TIMES: Google looks beyond search for growth http://on.ft.com/1pcqaQ4
THE ECONOMIST: Schumpeter. Titans of innovation. What can business learn from Big Science? http://lnkd.in/dXDJc3K
THE ECONOMIST: Schumpeter. Second wind. Some traditional businesses are thriving in an age of disruptive innovation http://lnkd.in/dHZtpdP
COMPUTERWORLD: NASA puts finishing touches on Mars-bound spacecraft http://lnkd.in/d3Vn4NB
FORBES: Amazon And Samsung Are Locked In A Battle Against Google http://lnkd.in/dyJr8uh
CIO: Cleveland Clinic Uses IBM’s Watson in the Cloud to Fight Cancer http://lnkd.in/d_RyPps
WILL GOOGLE SPUTNIK AMAZON? NEW SCIENTIST: Can Google Express deliver on same-day shopping? http://lnkd.in/detqtKX
NEW SCIENTIST: Spider-drones weave high-rise structures out of cables http://lnkd.in/dXfuHaQ
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: China’s Imperial President. Xi Jinping Tightens His Grip. Xi Jinping’s reforms are designed to produce a corruption-free, politically cohesive, and economically powerful one-party state with global reach: a Singapore on steroids. http://lnkd.in/dKZ5tad
CNN: Taking a cue from science fiction, Microsoft demos ‘universal translator’. Skype users will soon be able to conduct voice and video calls supported by a near-real time translation technology. http://lnkd.in/dMQYtmT
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: What Happens to Consciousness When We Die.The death of the brain means subjective experiences are neurochemistry http://lnkd.in/dKs7duQ
FORBES: Leaving The Church Of Data http://lnkd.in/dE4uUSu
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: What Happens to Consciousness When We Die. The death of the brain means subjective experiences are neurochemistry. Where is the experience of red in your brain? The question was put to me by Deepak Chopra at his Sages and Scientists Symposium in Carlsbad, Calif., on March 3. http://lnkd.in/d5RJuUy
FOREIGN POLICY: Russian Military Escalates Provocation Campaign in Europe http://lnkd.in/dUfGBD2
LINKEDIN: Richard Branson, Success, Unpreparedness, Failure, and Death! http://lnkd.in/dQmt_wM
Bill Gates: People Don’t Realize How Many Jobs Will Soon Be Replaced By Software Bots Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-bots-are-taking-away-jobs-2014-3#ixzz3Hn8hZHOD
Bill Gates Just Put Nostradamus to Shame.Not long ago, every broker on Wall Street turned a blind eye to the robotics industry. The vast majority of investors did, too. But then something interesting happened…In December 2006, Microsoft (MSFT) Co-Founder, Bill Gates, wrote something for Scientific American. http://www.techandinnovationdaily.com/2014/02/01/bill-gates-robotics-industry/
BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI
White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)
http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini
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@AndresAgostini
@ThisSuccess
The Largest God of Entrepreneurial Success, “knighted by the English Crown,” wanted to teach us that the Power of Simplicity with Boldness is sufficient to defeat the Science of Complexity and a most-unprepared à –la-Sir-Francis-Drake company called: “Virgin Galactic.”
IGNORANCE AND IRRESPONSIBILITY BROUGHT US THESE NEWS FROM THE DEITY OF PERPETUAL VICTORY AND TRIUMPH:
(Do not expect these fools to know what Extreme Risk Management is!)
BLOOMBERG: Virgin Galactic Ship Crashes With 1 Pilot Reported Dead http://lnkd.in/dR-C8cV
ENGADGET: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo crashes after launch http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/31/virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo/
THE GUARDIAN: One person dead as Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane crashes on test flight http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/31/spaceshiptwo-richard-branson-virgin-crash-mojave
BUSINESS INSIDER: One Dead, One Injured In Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Crash http://www.businessinsider.com/virgin-galactic-spaceship-reportedly-crashes-during-test-flight-2014-10
FORBES: Virgin Galactic Spaceship Destroyed During Test Flight http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/10/31/virgin-galactic-spaceship-destroyed-during-test-flight/
WALL STREET JOURNAL: Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crashes. Accident in California’s Mojave Desert Kills One Pilot, Injures Another http://online.wsj.com/articles/virgin-galactic-spaceship-crashes-1414781841
NEW YORK TIMES: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Crashes During Test Flight http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/science/virgin-galactics-spaceshiptwo-crashes-during-test-flight.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0
PHOTO SOURCE: New York Times
Walmart will be Sputnikked by Amazon or Alibaba. That is, as you don’t understand English and Russian, let us try Latin:
“… Si vis pacem, para bellum.…”
(Corporations and countries who get sputnikked are not Incessantly Renewing the Global and Geopolitical Competitive Advantage)
Alibaba President: Our Sales Will Surpass Walmart In Two Years. Read more:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chinas-alibaba-surpass-walmart-sales-volume-two-years-1472574#ixzz3HlHZ1P1Y
Elizabeth Gibney — Nature
Physicists have found hints that the asymmetry of life — the fact that most biochemical molecules are ‘left-handed’ or ‘right-handed’ — could have been caused by electrons from nuclear decay in the early days of evolution. In an experiment that took 13 years to perfect1, the researchers have found that these electrons tend to destroy certain organic molecules slightly more often than they destroy their mirror images.
Many organic molecules, including glucose and most biological amino acids, are ‘chiral’. This means that they are different than their mirror-image molecules, just like a left and a right glove are. Moreover, in such cases life tends to consistently use one of the possible versions — for example, the DNA double helix in its standard form always twists like a right-handed screw. But the reason for this preference has long remained a mystery.
WIRED: Huge Flock of Minisatellites Aims to Photograph the Entire Earth Every Day http://lnkd.in/dT53SGk
BLOOMBERG: Mercedes, VW to Thwart Google’s Car Inroads in Car Data http://lnkd.in/dRnNVqz
WIRED: How Facebook Could End Up Controlling Everything You Watch and Read Online http://lnkd.in/daY8Uc9
ALL SUBMARINES ARE CLANDESTINE. BLOOMBERG: Xi’s Clandestine Submarine Caves Bolster China’s Maritime Goal http://lnkd.in/dTCtVyB
THE DEATH OF GEOLOGISTS AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERS. BLOOMBERG: Watson to Explore for Oil as Repsol Taps IBM’s Analytics Machine http://lnkd.in/dQ2AgkA
THE ECONOMIST: 27m employees around the world have their internet use monitored http://econ.st/1q2WI9S
BBC: EDF France: Inquiry after drones buzz nuclear sites http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29831897
WASHINGTON POST: Surprise! Controversial Patriot Act power now overwhelmingly used in drug investigations http://lnkd.in/dRbNgdc
BLOOMBERG: U.S. Gas Boom Turns Global as LNG Exports to Shake Up Market http://lnkd.in/dP4fQNr
THE ECONOMIST: Prostitution and the internet. More bang for your buck. How new technology is shaking up the oldest business http://lnkd.in/d_KR5fa
COMPUTERWORLD: AI researchers say Elon Musk’s fears ‘not completely crazy’ Artificial intelligence researchers have own worries about intelligent systems http://lnkd.in/dcv9pdj
“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” Eric Hoffer
BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI
White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)
http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini
http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini
http://www.appearoo.com/aagostini
http://connect.FORWARDMETRICS.com/profile/1649/Andres-Agostini.html
@AndresAgostini
@ThisSuccess
This archive file was compiled from an interview conducted at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, 2013. In the discussion, Amit Singhal, a key figure in the evolution of Google’s search engine, broadly outlined the significant hurdles that stood in the way of achieving one of his long-held dreams — creating a true ‘conversational’ search engine. He also sketched out a vision of how the initial versions of such a system would, and also importantly, would not attempt to assist the individuals that it interacted with.
Though the vision was by design more limited and focused than a system capable of passing the famous Turing test, it nonetheless raised stimulating questions about the future relationships of humans and their ‘artificial’ assistants.
More about Amit Singhal:
Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit_Singhal
Google Search:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search
— Salon
There are places you never expect to be in life. For me, this was certainly one of them: in a conference room in suburban Charlotte on the campus of Southern Evangelical Seminary, with an enormous old Bible on a side table, shelves of Great Books lining the walls, and, on the conference table itself, a 23-inch-tall robot doing yoga.
Meet the Digitally Advanced Viritual Intelligence Device, a NAO (now) robot known as “D.A.V.I.D.”