Category: Computers
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Being advanced… Being stupid…
Modern children have all the technology at the tip of their fingers. They have instant access to vast amounts of knowledge. [1] But they must give it up before it is too late. Because that thing to what they have access is not “knowledge”. It is data. Knowledge is earned. Not read. If you do…
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Computer lawyers and judges. Possible?
Computer programs could soon start making legal decisions, and they might do a better job than humans. [1] But they forget that Law is not just “A + B = C”. Law is about ethics. Law is about human behaviour. Law is about us. And we are NOT computers! How can we let them judge…
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Universe, the Computer…
Using a molecular dimmer switch that smoothly dials up glowing lights in bacteria, researchers can make calculators in living cells that add, subtract, divide, and even do logarithms. [1] These analog computations are much more powerful than those of previous, digital-based biological devices, says study author Timothy Lu, a synthetic biologist at MIT. We make…
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High Frequency Trading, computers, humans…
In markets, as in war and medical research and just about everything else, technology tends to impart an advantage. This is how a single computer program of mysterious origins managed to make up 4 percent of all quote traffic in the U.S. stock market last week while hoarding 10 percent of the bandwidth allowed for trading…
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Quantum computers, solutions, secrets…
D-Wave’s supposed quantum computers have attracted plenty of skepticism alongside some serious interest from huge corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin. Now recent testing has shown that D-Wave’s machine can indeed beat standard computers head-to-head in solving certain problems. The D-Wave computer performed up to 3600 times faster than a high-performance machine running IBM…
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