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Feb 6, 2023

When will The Singularity happen? đŸŠŸ Dr. Ben Goertzel

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Feb 6, 2023

Watch a UK drone firm perform a world-first microgravity experiment

Posted by in category: drones

Gravitilab.

The firm, called Gravitilab, flew its specially-modified LOUIS UAV quadcopter to an altitude of 2,000 feet (600 meters) before purposefully dropping a capsule carrying scientific experiments.

Feb 6, 2023

Εxtinct sea dragon millions of years ago washed up on the coast of Australia after record rain

Posted by in category: futurism

Following record-breaking rainfall, beachgoers in Australia are noticing dozens of unusual and vibrant creatures showing up on the beaches.

Feb 6, 2023

Facebook parent company Meta loses bid to terminate case in Kenya

Posted by in category: employment

At the same time, the court gagged the petitioner against prosecuting the suit “in other forums”.

Meta Platforms Inc. (FB.O), the owner of Facebook, wanted court to throw out the suit arguing that it cannot be tried in Kenya. The company said that the local Employment and Labour Relations Court has no jurisdiction to hear the suit lodged by Daniel Motaung’, a South African national working in Nairobi.


By Joseph Wangui.

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Feb 6, 2023

Leprosy: the ancient disease scientists can’t solve

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Though it’s been around for nearly 3,500 years, scientists are still missing many basic facts about the disease.

Feb 6, 2023

Vectors of Cognitive AI: Attention

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

Panelists: michael graziano, jonathan cohen, vasudev lal, joscha bach.

The seminal contribution “Attention is all you need” (Vasvani et al. 2017), which introduced the Transformer algorithm, triggered a small revolution in machine learning. Unlike convolutional neural networks, which construct each feature out of a fixed neighborhood of signals, Transformers learn which data a feature on the next layer of a neural network should attend to. However, attention in neural networks is very different from the integrated attention in a human mind. In our minds, attention seems to be part of a top-down mechanism that actively creates a coherent, dynamic model of reality, and plays a crucial role in planning, inference, reflection and creative problem solving. Our consciousness appears to be involved in maintaining the control model of our attention.

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Feb 6, 2023

Physical non-equilibria for prebiotic nucleic acid chemistry

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry

Physical non-equilibria can drive cycles of replication and selection chemistries that play a role in the prebiotic replication of DNA and RNA. This Perspective offers insights from astrophysics, geoscience and microfluidics on how various environments on early Earth could have hosted such reactions.

Feb 6, 2023

The Derveni Papyrus: the Oldest Book in Europe?

Posted by in category: futurism

Miraculously preserved in a tomb, the Derveni Papyrus is the oldest surviving Greek manuscript. What can it tell us about Greek thinking before Socrates?

Feb 6, 2023

Scientists discover a new type of amorphous ice

Posted by in categories: energy, space

We’ve got a new kind of ice on the block – medium-density amorphous ice (MDA).

It’s amorphous, which means that the water molecules are in a disorganised form instead of being neatly ordered like they are in the ordinary, crystalline ice you find floating in your Scotch on the rocks


Amorphous ice is super rare on Earth, but scientists think that it might be the main type found in the frigid environment of outer space – because ice wouldn’t have enough thermal energy there to form crystals.

Feb 6, 2023

Free Will and Determinism from a Physicist’s Perspective (Sabine Hossenfelder)

Posted by in categories: mathematics, particle physics, quantum physics

The michael shermer show # 294

What is time? Does the past still exist? How did the universe begin and how will it end? Do particles think? Was the universe made for us? Why doesn’t anyone ever get younger? Has physics ruled out free will? Will we ever have a theory of everything? According to Sabine Hossenfelder, it is not a coincidence that quantum entanglement and vacuum energy have become the go-to explanations of alternative healers, or that people believe their deceased grandmother is still alive because of quantum mechanics. Science and religion have the same roots, and they still tackle some of the same questions: Where do we come from? Where do we go to? How much can we know? The area of science that is closest to answering these questions is physics. Over the last century, physicists have learned a lot about which spiritual ideas are still compatible with the laws of nature. Not always, though, have they stayed on the scientific side of the debate.

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