Optimization of locomotion on a range of different bipeds with nice visualisation and funny movie (definitely watch at 3:25 !!) Also simulations at lower/higher gravity
This reminds me a 2013 paper on how to perform derivatives, integrals and even time reversal in optical fibres:
http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130403/srep01594/full/srep01594.html
"The manipulation of dynamic Brillouin gratings in optical fibers is demonstrated to be an extremely flexible technique to achieve, with a single experimental setup, several all-optical signal processing functions. In particular, all-optical time differentiation, time integration and true time reversal are theoretically predicted, and then numerically and experimentally demonstrated."
They were able to compare the ticking rates of two optical clocks separated by 2000 km, with the objective of computing sea level based on the effect gravity has on the clock ticking rate. They did the experiment using glass optical fibers, but I wonder if we could one day do the same from orbit, to measure the gravitational field around Earth.
isn't this is effectively what pacome has been doing with his time for the last few years? e.g. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.6766v1.pdf also mentioning the ACES experiment
The 65 year-old iconic Turing Test was passed for the very first time by supercomputer Eugene Goostman during Turing Test 2014 held at the renowned Royal Society in London on Saturday.
Breaking news: humans fail to pass the Turing Test for the very first time! Suprisingly, playing the dumb boy does not only work for humans, but for chatterbots as well.
A Heisenberg's dog is the central unit in a quantum computer that factors prime numbers. We report the outcome of a proof-of-principle Gedankenexperiment in which the number 3 was factored and good agreement was found both with an analytical theoretical prediction and with the results of a quantum Las Vegas calculation. Other future applications of Heisenberg's dog are hinted at. The anonymous reports of the referees and our reply to them are reproduced in appendix A and appendix B respectively.
Built in Silicon technology (Samsung's 28 nm process), its power is measured as one million neurons and 256 million synapses. It contains 5.4 million transistor being the largest IBM chip in these terms. All this said, it consumes less than 100 mW!!
"These systems can efficiently process high-dimensional, noisy sensory data in real time, while consuming orders of magnitude less power than conventional computer architectures." IBM is working with initLabs to integrate the DVS retinal camera with these chips = real time image neuro-like image processing.
In what seems to be a very successful project hugely funded by DARPA, "Our sights are now set high on the ambitious goal of integrating 4,096 chips in a single rack with 4 billion neurons and 1 trillion synapses while consuming ~4kW of power."
wow - this lets you use google docs to compile latex online directly without copying the content to your own computer ... it even can use other google doc files dependent on the main file aparently ...