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Why isn't our good old Raymond Kurzweil mentioned? Some of the nonsense written in that page is one-to-one copy/paste from the Signularity bible...

luzi how I miss you!!!!

who in the group will build the first fabber? bets are open ...

yes! very much so!!! is he in Holland? since would also probably be nice to get some first hand experience from him/her ....

but what would we do with it...? any idea ?

All the satellite-related systems (except for the rocket to launch it) are DIY programs -- designed so that regular people may also have the chance of developing and eventually launching their own.

I was saying that mainly because of some flaws - the piggy-pack installation, no dedicated stage, the limited control, ... It is so far very funny, but once he can fill all the gaps, it should be an excellent initiative - although careful about the debris if anyone has its own ;p

his quote: "when art becomes practical, we call it technology; when technology becomes useless, we call it art" ... this is probably the later one ....

"The mind reader is Gerwin Schalk, a 39-year-old biomedical scientist and a leading expert on brain-computer interfaces at the New York State Department of Health's Wads­worth Center at Albany Medical College. The 28Austrian-born Schalk, along with a handful of other researchers, is part of a $6.3 million U.S. Army project to establish the basic science required to build a thought helmet-a device that can detect and transmit the unspoken speech of soldiers, allowing them to communicate with one another silently." ...

This reminds me... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/

For those sceptics about the use of neuroscience: A 20min talk (by a computer scientist!) about brain science and its use to build intelligent technology

so what does he sell? 22' without saying anything? Just "intelligence is prediction" - great but what are you gonna do mate?

I do not think his intention is to sell anything... Just to make people (from a non neuroscience background) aware that brain science will have an impact on technology. Also: I am a firm believer in that "prediction"defines intelligence, as he states, and that making machines that behave in such a way is the way to go :) (the talk is from 2003 btw :p)

a curiosity-cloning alike application ?

Cristina learns aesthetics.

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Great idea! Isn't it at the opposite of the web 2.0, where machine tends to be only clients and all the data centralized in big servers? I like more this approach of each individuals dealing with their own data, you have more control on what you want to share or not!

Instead of taking the real world into virtual reality you can make virtual reality out of the real world...

The end of the world is for this month...

From the alternative computing series...

Big data analytic systems are reputed to be capable of finding a needle in a universe of haystacks without having to know what a needle looks like. The very best ways to sort large databases of unstructured text is to use a technique called Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). Unfortunately, LDA is also inaccurate enough at some tasks that the results of any topic model created with it are essentially meaningless, according to Luis Amaral, a physicist whose specialty is the mathematical analysis of complex systems and networks in the real world and one of the senior researchers on the multidisciplinary team from Northwestern University that wrote the paper. Even for an easy case, big data analysis is proving to be far more complicated than many of the companies selling analysis software want people to believe.

Most of those companies are using outdated algorithms like this LDA and just apply them like retards on those huge datasets. Of course they're going to come out with bad solutions. No amount of data can make up for bad algorithms.

You can find here also the old ACT website from 2003...

Responding to calls from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), a working group of the American Statistical Association has developed a whitepaper detailing how statisticians and computer scientists can contribute to administration research initiatives and priorities. The whitepaper includes a lot of topics central to machine learning and data mining, so please take a look.

I guess Norvig is trumping Chomsky big time if this is the attitude of the NSF :)))