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Jul 27, 2022
Artificial Intelligence Discovers Alternative Physics
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: education, physics, robotics/AI
A new Columbia UniversityColumbia University is a private Ivy League research university in New York City that was established in 1754. This makes it the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States. It is often just referred to as Columbia, but its official name is Columbia University in the City of New York.
Jul 26, 2022
The Art of Collaboration: NVIDIA, Omniverse, and GTC | Documentary Trailer
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: education, robotics/AI
With our brand new documentary premiering at #SIGGRAPH 2022, you’ll get to take a look behind the scenes of the 2022 Spring GTC and discover how NVIDIA’s creative, engineering, and research teams pushed the limits of NVIDIA GPUs, AI, USD, and @NVIDIA Omniverse to deliver our most watched GTC ever.
Global Documentary Premiere: Wednesday, August 10, at 10:00 a.m. PT
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Jul 26, 2022
A new study confutes the bold theory that T. rex was three separate species
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: biological, education
Back in March this year, a study published in Evolutionary Biology claimed that fossils categorized as Tyrannosaurus rex represent three separate species. However, a new study published on July 25 in Evolutionary Biology refutes this claim and suggests that the previous research lacked evidence and Tyrannosaurus rex is made of only one species.
The previously controversial research implied that T. rex should be reclassified as three different species, including the standard T. rex, the bulkier “T. imperator,” and the slimmer “T. regina.” Researchers analyzed 38 T. rex fossils that contained leg bones and teeth samples, a press release revealed.
However, paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History and Carthage College were determined to review the data of the previous research, adding data points from 112 species of living dinosaurs—birds—and from four non-avian theropod dinosaurs.
Jul 26, 2022
3 key lessons my sister with Down syndrome taught me about life
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: education
Here are three key lessons my sister with Down syndrome has taught me — kindness, unconditional love and gratitude. They were her foundation to an optimistic life.
Jul 24, 2022
An abandoned Berlin airport is being transformed into a climate-neutral, car-free neighborhood
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: climatology, education, habitats
Interesting story.
The site will have 5,000 new apartments—along with schools and stores that all residents can walk to.
Jul 22, 2022
New Interactive Tool and Report Connects Oregon Renewable Energy Potential with Important Development Considerations
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: education, energy, sustainability
— Energy Info
Media Contact: Jennifer Kalez
SALEM – A public partnership with the Oregon Department of Energy, Oregon Department of Land Conservation & Development, Oregon State University’s Institute for Natural Resources, and the U.S. Department of Defense has published new educational materials that will help local governments, Tribes, communities, policymakers, agencies, energy developers, and other stakeholders access important information and considerations for potential renewable energy in Oregon.
Jul 22, 2022
MIT Discovers Semiconductor That Can Perform Far Better Than Silicon
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: education, engineering
Researchers from MIT
MIT is an acronym for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a prestigious private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts that was founded in 1861. It is organized into five Schools: architecture and planning; engineering; humanities, arts, and social sciences; management; and science. MIT’s impact includes many scientific breakthroughs and technological advances. Their stated goal is to make a better world through education, research, and innovation.
Jul 21, 2022
I did not know that!
Posted by Eamon Everall in categories: education, evolution, particle physics
“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.“
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Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)
OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE.
Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.
Jul 17, 2022
AI Would Run the World Better Than Humans, Google Research Claims
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: economics, education, government, humor, information science, mathematics, robotics/AI
The bottomless bucket is Karl Marx’s utopian creed: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” In this idyllic world, everyone works for the good of society, with the fruits of their labor distributed freely — everyone taking what they need, and only what they need. We know how that worked out. When rewards are unrelated to effort, being a slacker is more appealing than being a worker. With more slackers than workers, not nearly enough is produced to satisfy everyone’s needs. A common joke in the Soviet Union was, “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.”
In addition to helping those who in the great lottery of life have drawn blanks, governments should adopt myriad policies that expand the economic pie, including education, infrastructure, and the enforcement of laws and contracts. Public safety, national defense, dealing with externalities are also important. There are many legitimate government activities and there are inevitably tradeoffs. Governing a country is completely different from playing a simple, rigged distribution game.
I love computers. I use them every day — not just for word processing but for mathematical calculations, statistical analyses, and Monte Carlo simulations that would literally take me several lifetimes to do by hand. Computers have benefited and entertained all of us. However, AI is nowhere near ready to rule the world because computer algorithms do not have the intelligence, wisdom, or commonsense required to make rational decisions.
