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Luís F. Simões

Zeitgeist 2012 - Google - 2 views

  • 1.2 trillion searches. 146 languages. What did the world search for in 2012?
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    this is a gold mine :D Portugal, a bankrupt country in crisis where the Most Searched How to... is "Como emagrecer" (how to lose weight?). Netherlands, where the Most Searched How to... is "Hoe overleef ik" (how do I survive?) UK where the most Trending What is... is "What is love?" and Italians... please explain how come the top Trending How to... are 1. Come fare Sesso 2. Come fare un Clistere !?!? Respect for Austria though, where the top trending What is... are: 1. Was ist ACTA 2. Was ist SOPA any other interesting finds?
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    From Ghana "What is...?": What is a Constitution What is Government [edit] Some top Science searches in the US: Hemorrhoid, Pregnancy Syndroms. Any potential for Ariadna? [edit] ... and finally, for the sake of my shield, top search from Poland in the Music category
Wiktor Piotrowski

New Scientist TV: Robot swarm invades from ground and air - 1 views

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    A very interesting (although complicated and time-consuming) way of fetching items.
LeopoldS

China proposes space collaboration with India - The Times of India - 0 views

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    Potentially highly interesting ...
jmlloren

Cheap and easy-to-make perovskite films rival silicon for efficiency. - 11 views

I just wanted to put another paper in this context: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/324/5923/63.short Solar cells based on Oxides, in particular BiFeO3. The key point here, is that while hali...

solar cells technology

started by fichbio on 09 Mar 16 1 follow-up, last by jmlloren on 11 Mar 16
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Dario Izzo

Bold title ..... - 3 views

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    I got a fever. And the only prescription is more cat faces! ...../\_/\ ...(=^_^) ..\\(___) The article sounds quite interesting, though. I think the idea of a "fake" agent that tries to trick the classifier while both co-evolve is nice as it allows the classifier to first cope with the lower order complexity of the problem. As the fake agent mimics the real agent better and better the classifier has time to add complexity to itself instead of trying to do it all at once. It would be interesting if this is later reflected in the neural nets structure, i.e. having core regions that deal with lower order approximation / classification and peripheral regions (added at a later stage) that deal with nuances as they become apparent. Also this approach will develop not just a classifier for agent behavior but at the same time a model of the same. The later may be useful in itself and might in same cases be the actual goal of the "researcher". I suspect, however, that the problem of producing / evolving the "fake agent" model might in most case be at least as hard as producing a working classifier...
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    This paper from 2014 seems discribe something pretty similar (except for not using physical robots, etc...): https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5423-generative-adversarial-nets.pdf
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    Yes, this IS basically adversarial learning. Except the generator part instead of being a neural net is some kind of swarm parametrization. I just love how they rebranded it, though. :))
jaihobah

The Cure For Fear | New Republic - 2 views

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    A long read but very interesting and well written.
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    PS: Does this quote from the article not sound a lot like Inception? 'In any given situation, the brain will retrieve old memories to inform an organism's behavior. If the memory is relevant to the situation, the organism can act on the information; if it is not relevant, then the organism can learn from the situation and create a new memory. With reconsolidation, researchers argued, there seemed to be a brief window in between the retrieval of an old memory and the creation of a new memory in which the old memory is vulnerable to manipulation.'
LeopoldS

Cosmic Log - Could legal 'loophole' lead to land claims on other worlds? - 0 views

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    Interesting Thoughts ...
LeopoldS

Why Are We Drugging Our Soldiers? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Very interesting article on use of neuro drugs in military ...
LeopoldS

Home | International Space Apps Challenge - 0 views

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    Why didn't we come up with this :-(
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    You can still contribute by proposing an interesting challenge, as 90% of those present at the moment revolve around "here in NASA we have tons of data and no clue what to do with it" (booooooriiiiiiiinggg)
LeopoldS

ScienceDirect.com - Neuroscience Letters - Brain stimulation enables the solution of an... - 1 views

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    "inherently difficult problem" is exaggerated but interesting experiment nevertheless; any volunteers to put their brain under voltage ?
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    Solution to the problem looks easy when you see it, but note it requires thinking out of the box (literally), and I guess this is the main reason of its difficulty. What ACT could do is to check if the procedure increases one's average score in the astronaut test.
Luís F. Simões

NASA will send robot drill to Mars in 2016 - The Washington Post - 0 views

  • A German-built drill nicknamed “The Mole” will pound 16 feet into the Martian crust to take the temperature of the planet, while a sensitive French-built seismometer will detect any Marsquakes.
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    slashdot describes the drill as "a self-driving mole developed by the German space agency (DLR)". This seems to be the drill: GEMS - a mole to explore the interior of Mars, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2009.5278132. Interesting news for all the roots people :)
LeopoldS

The Pacific free trade deal that's anything but free | Dean Baker | Comment is free | g... - 0 views

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    Frightening! In reality, the deal has almost nothing to do with trade: actual trade barriers between these countries are already very low. The TPP is an effort to use the holy grail of free trade to impose conditions and override domestic laws in a way that would be almost impossible if the proposed measures had to go through the normal legislative process. The expectation is that by lining up powerful corporate interests, the governments will be able to ram this new "free trade" pact through legislatures on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.
LeopoldS

Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion Undisclosed to Congress - Bloomberg - 2 views

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    Interesting figures ...
LeopoldS

Former Reddit co-owner arrested for excessive JSTOR downloads - 1 views

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    looks like a reasonably and interesting guy !
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    Yeah... He's obviously too clever to go for a blatant copyright infringement, so I'm curious what was he up to. Perhaps all he wanted was just JSTOR's overreaction?
LeopoldS

self archiving open access - 4 views

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    interesting information - was not that clear to me instead of doing this via mendeley, we should go over our act publication page and upload all those pdf that fall into this category ...
LeopoldS

Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food ... - 0 views

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    Interesting article, very practical in the approach ...
LeopoldS

Come On, China, Buy Our Stuff! - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    Interesting article on china us trade inequalities
santecarloni

Artificial Braneworlds Made to Collide In Lab - Technology Review - 4 views

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    Physicists have simulated two universes colliding inside a metamaterial--  Now, this is cool (if it is true...)
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    we... the article is a bit overblown in my view ... except maybe the last paragraphs: "The collision between universe's is a variation on this theme. "The "colliding universe" scenario can be realized as a simple extension of our earlier experiments simulating the spacetime geometry in the vicinity of big bang," he says. He simulates an expanding universe using concetric rings of gold separated by a dielectric. "When the two concentric ring ("universe") patterns touch each other ("collide"), a Minkowski domain wall is created, in which the metallic stripes touch each other at a small angle," he says. Being able to recreate these exotic events in the lab is certainly interesting but it is beginning to lose its novelty. The problem is that this work is not telling us anything we didn't know--the universe behaves the same way inside a metamaterial as it does outside. What Smolyaninov needs is a way of using his exotic materials to do something interesting. In other words, he needs a killer app. Any ideas? "
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    Hm, they use more or less everything I don't especially like. They are nonmagnetic, so the relation materialGR is already rather weak. Usually, experimentalists prefer nonmagnetic media, since they are cheaper and broadband. At least the broadband is no argument here, since the frequency defines the "mass", which I find a rather strange point of view. And finally, they use strong anisotropy as a model of "time", which is rather problematic. Of course, the spatial direction with eps<0 appears in the wave equation with the same sign as time. But this does not mean that it behaves like time. But to teach material physicists that time is more than just a different sign in the wave equation seems to be as hopeless as to teach them that a black hole is more than something that absorbs all light... SIGHHH
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    Luzi I miss you ...
LeopoldS

China opens up military space programme - 2 views

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    Interesting article
LeopoldS

Layer 8: NASA looking at building tractor beams for space - 3 views

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    Three very interesting concepts indeed! Especially the solenoid one...
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    Does anyone know a proper reference?
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