Tag: understanding
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Application before the theory… Living without knowing…
A new discovery explains what happens during the phase transition in Dirac materials, paving the way for engineering advanced electronics that perform significantly faster. (1) The dogma that theory should precede practical applications is a very persistent one. We are all affected by it. But remember: the biggest practical applications of modern days science are…
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“Our theoretical understanding”…
“Improvements of our theoretical understanding of the material world…” This is the beginning of a phD thesis in a big university in the US. (Princeton, ProQuest number 22587372) Funny. We started from a real knowledge of the cosmos. By living in it. Then we moved on to understanding it. While standing aside. We seek knowledge.…
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Leibniz. Perception. Death. Existence.
A paper bringing into light Leibniz’s general ideas concerning aesthetics, and then, due to the epistemological-psychological significance of sense perception in Leibniz’s philosophy, inquiring into it in detail and attempting to clarify the place of sense knowledge in human knowledge according to Leibniz. A paper venturing to divide Leibniz’s approach to sense qualities into objective…
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The transition to life. mRNA translation. The futility of life questions.
The transition from an egg to a developing embryo is one of life’s most remarkable transformations. Yet little is known about it. Now Whitehead Institute researchers have deciphered how one aspect – control of the all-important translation of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) into proteins – switches as the egg becomes an embryo. That shift is controlled…
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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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