Category: Definitions
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Accuracy: Does it even exist? Break the mirror.
Better thermometers might be possible as a result of a discovery, where physicists have found a way to calibrate temperature measurements by monitoring the tiny motions of a nanomechanical system that are governed by the often counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics. (1) Accuracy: The measure of how correct you are based on what you have…
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Odysseus and the fear of “Nobody”… [OR: The primitive against the new, OR: The fear of the abyss]
Do you fear being nobody? Odysseus (the “new”, the “logical”) once fooled Cyclops (the “primitive”, the “irrational”) by being “nobody”. But upon escaping he felt the need to say to cyclops his name. He was too afraid of nothingness, too afraid that he would actually be engulfed by the primitive he so easily fooled. [Carl…
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Simple questions 1: What is matter?
The simplest questions are the harder to answer...
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Self-programming software. Self-blinded humans.
DeepMind Technologies, a London-based artificial-intelligence firm acquired by Google this year, has revealed that it is designing computers that combine the way ordinary computers work with the way the human brain works. They call this hybrid device a Neural Turing Machine. The hope is it won't need programmers, and will instead program itself. (1) We…
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Reading robots' mind? Not.
In a darkened, hangar-like space inside MIT's Building 41, a small, Roomba-like robot is trying to make up its mind. Standing in its path is an obstacle — a human pedestrian who’s pacing back and forth. To get to the other side of the room, the robot has to first determine where the pedestrian is,…
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