Category: Progress
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Computers listening to humans. Humans becoming like computers…
Speech recognition software isn't perfect, but it is a little closer to human this week, as a Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research team reached a major milestone in speech-to-text development: The system reached a historically low word error rate of 5.9 percent, equal to the accuracy of a professional (human) transcriptionist. The system can discern…
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Electricity, light, Dionysus...
Political favoritism can quite literally be seen from space, according to a new study that finds the home regions of leaders become brighter at night after the person comes to power. The findings apply mostly to countries with weak political institutions and limited public education. One prominent example was Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of…
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Ceramic, hi-tech materials, the essence of progress...
Ceramic is more hi-tech than we imagine. Its technology could be used for spacecrafts in the future with much better results than the current "advanced" materials we now have. (1) What we consider "advanced" is not. What we consider "old" we will some day call it "new" again. Any progress moves us away from where…
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South Korea, space technology, forced secrets...
The third attempt of South Korea to launch a space rocket failed. Don't jump to conclusions too fast. The reason behind the failure is not related to Koreans not having the right technology. Its just that the US are afraid of the dissipation of space technology that they do not allow the S. Korean space…
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Fibonacci, Young, human progress...
The sunflower has two interlaced logarithmic spirals: 21 clockwise spirals and 34 counterclockwise spirals which numbers are subsequent numbers of the Fibonacci sequence! Comparable opposite arrangements of logarithmic spirals, associated with Fibonacci numbers, occur also by the daisy, the fir-apple (5 and 8) and the pineapple (8 and 13). The number of petals in a…
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