Miguel Nicolelis Says the Brain Is Not Computable, Bashes Kurzweil's Singularity | MIT ... - 9 views
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As I said ten years ago and psychoanalysts 100 years ago. Luis I am so sorry :) Also ... now that the commission funded the project blue brain is a rather big hit Btw Nicolelis is a rather credited neuro-scientist
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@ Dario: absolutely agree, the reductionist approach is the main mistake. My point: if you take the reductionsit approach, then you will face the initial and boundary value problem. If one tries a non-reductionist approach, this problem may be much weaker. But off the record: there exists a non-reductionist theory of the brain, it's called psychology... @ Johannes: also agree, the only way the reductionist approach could eventually be successful is to actually grow the brain. Start with essentially one neuron and grow the whole complexity. But if you want to do this, bring up a kid! A brain without body might be easier? Why do you expect that a brain detached from its complete input/output system actually still works. I'm pretty sure it does not!
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@Luzi: That was exactly my point :-)
Slashdot Technology Story | Is Cloud Computing the Hotel California of Tech? - 2 views
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the cloud is still largely a one-way road into Web services, with closed data networks making it difficult to impossible to move data into competing services
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also interesting is this article quote: "How big can the cloud get before it starts to rain?" http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/30/0152200/Amazons-Cloud-May-Provision-50000-VMs-a-Day
T-Mobile Sidekick Disaster: Danger's Servers Crashed, And They Don't Have A Backup - 0 views
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The fact that T-Mobile and/or Microsoft Danger don’t have a redundant backup is simply inexcusable, especially given the fact that the Sidekick is totally reliant on the cloud because it doesn’t store its data locally.
IBM Makes Quantum Computing Available on IBM Cloud - 1 views
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IBM for the first time ever is making quantum computing available to the public, providing access to a quantum processor via the cloud. Users can create algorithms and run experiments and get inspired by the possibilities of a quantum computer.
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Looks interesting.. Have you tried it?
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Mathias Troyer from ETH Zurtich gave a talk in Leiden where he showed what he wants to be the replacement to this IBM programming or the best ally of it - program quantum computers with, for instance, python code. Nice developments coming from the quantum coding field, besides the fact we are ages away from a practical quantum computer.
NASA Nebula, Cloud Computing In a Container - 0 views
xkcd: The Cloud - 4 views
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NASA Brings Earth Science 'Big Data' to the Cloud with Amazon Web Services | NASA - 3 views
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NASA answer to the big data hype
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"The service encompasses selected NASA satellite and global change data sets -- including temperature, precipitation, and forest cover -- and data processing tools from the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX)" Very good marketing move for just three types of selected data (MODIS, Landsat products) plus four model runs (past/projection) for the the four greenhouse gas emissions scenarios of the IPCC. It looks as if they are making data available to adress a targeted question (crowdsourcing of science, as Paul mentioned last time, this time climate evolution), not at all the "free scrolling of the user around the database" to pick up what he thinks useful, mode. There is already more rich libraries out there when it comes to climate (http://icdc.zmaw.de/) Maybe simpler approach is the way to go: make available the big data sets categorized by study topic (climate evolution, solar system science, galaxies etc.) and not by instrument or mission, which is more technical, so that the amateur user can identify his point of interest easily.
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They are taking a good leap forward with it, but it definitely requires a lot of post processing of the data. Actually it seems they downsample everything to workable chunks. But I guess the power is really in the availability of the data in combination with Amazon's cloud computing platform. Who knows what will come out of it if hundreds of people start interacting with it.
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OpenStack: An Open Source Cloud Project Emerges - 1 views
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Francesco, check this one out ... seems like coming at the right time for us ... Leopold
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Sure looks interesting, hopefully it will gain some traction. Bonus point it uses Python heavily :) First versions are coming out in Sept/Oct, according to their roadmap, we could start playing with it as soon as it gets out.
Official Google Blog: A new kind of computer: Chromebook - 3 views
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Francesco you will like this one ...
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Nahh... it's cloud com-poo-ting, it's all about taking control from the user into the corporation. To quote Stallman: "It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign [...] Somebody is saying this is inevitable - and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true."
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but it comes from google! :-)
Google Reader Being Retired - 3 views
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Frontier Development Lab (FDL): AI technologies to space science - 3 views
Applications might be of interest to some: https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/blog/2019/3/1/application-deadline-extended-cftt4?fbclid=IwAR0gqMsHJCJx5DeoObv0GSESaP6VGjNKnHCPfmzKuvhFLDpkLSrcaCwmY_c ...
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