You needed models to create the intricate network of bonds based on the homeowners’ payments, models to predict prepayment rates, and models to predict defaults. You needed the Internet to sail these bonds back and forth across the world, massaging their content to fit an investor’s needs at a moment’s notice. Add to all this the complacency, greed, entitlement, and callous stupidity that characterized banks in post-2001 America, and you have a recipe for disaster.
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About AISI - 0 views
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African Information Society Initiative
JWS Online Cellular Systems Modelling - 0 views
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A database with biological models that can be downloaded or run in the web-browser!
Emotional Machines, Emotion Oriented Programming, Affective Computing - 0 views
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Emotional Machines
hacker video - historic - 0 views
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nice video how hacking started with telephones ...
Slashdot | Text Compressor 1% Away From AI Threshold - 0 views
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"Alexander Ratushnyak compressed the first 100,000,000 bytes of Wikipedia to a record-small 16,481,655 bytes (including decompression program), thereby not only winning the second payout of The Hutter Prize for Compression of Human Knowledge, but also bri
Computational Social Science -- Lazer et al. 323 (5915): 721 -- Science - 0 views
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What a field! Perfect for the ACT!!!
Probabilistic computing: Sacrificing Accuracy For Speed and Efficiency In Processors - 0 views
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Via slashdot. Is that new? Must be of interest for global optimisation.
This Is a Computer on Your Brain - 0 views
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Curiosity Cloning? This is 2006 but are there any publication related? Can someone track the results of this research?
Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data - 0 views
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Neat idea...
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | In conversation with... a computer program - 0 views
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Should astronauts on long term missions have (chat) bots to talk to in realtime so that they won't go mad with their fellow astronaut buddies...?
Technology Review: TR10: Intelligent Software Assistant - 0 views
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For consideration by the Information Management group...
How online games are solving uncomputable problems - 0 views
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Hmm it seems that we should really push this project forward...
The Clean Energy Project - 0 views
Blue Brain Project - 1 views
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The Blue Brain project is the first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations.
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