Advanced Concepts Team

HIGHLY suggested read if you are interested in the Anonymous phenomenon.

So, which shall it be? Are we going to increase the production of hydrogen bombs, or can we finally go back to the Moon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Extraterrestrial_supplies) ?

None of these. Either you recycle, or you take it from natural sources on Earth. Although most people don't know - there is plenty of natural He3 on Earth. It's just nonsens to use it for energy production (in fusion reactors) since the energy belance for getting the He3 from these source on Earth is just negative. Or you try to substitute He3.

I don't put too many geeky stuffs here, but that may be a game to have a look at :) not that "The Space Game" wasn't "fun".

Dario - perhaps worth giving a look to be up-to-date... There's even an article "Improving Classical and Decentralized Differential Evolution with New Mutation Operator and Population Topologies". They quote our CEC paper, but not the ParCo.

Isn't it a bit a paper-killing quote?

:) It's in the context of a review of the work that's been done about DE with island model in general, they don't evaluate. Pity they didn't refer to the ParCo article on topologies, as it was a bit more extensive and more focused on the method (as they do in the article) rather than on the problem (as was our CEC paper, if I recall well).

As I now work in the Centre for Robotics *and Neuroscience*, here's a story for you. Some highlights: "It sent the iron straight up into his skull and out of the top of his head, landing some 30 metres away. (...) Phineas was unconscious before getting up and riding an oxcart into town with, 'a big bleedin' hole in his head'. (...) although Phineas survived, he was a changed man. Now he was reportedly unreliable, partial to swearing and often making inappropriate remarks." I guess If I were him I'd be a little partial to swearing too.

Apparently you didn't read it... This is a story about how science is born :)

now I did ... :-) just had read your comment ....

should we buy this to educate behaviour at ACT meetings ... or only for our babies :-) 

The release reports that researcher José Feijó says the " findings, implicating analogous genes in growth processes in both plants and animals, underscores how evolution re-uses successful mechanisms, over and over again."

some -not so crazy- predictions

start of the end of the ESA space defence activities .. ?

Chris Moore is a good guy and one very open minded to new ideas and concepts at NASA; the fact that this was picked up by fox news must be that they could relay this to "gas stations" :-)

one for the IT freaks ... - what will it be in 10 years then?

PaGMO on a stack of iPads? Sounds good...

Francesco you will like this one ...

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."

but it comes from google! :-)

Look at this!!

well, this confirms the standard cosmological model as a coherent model... however who is satisfied with a model where 96% of the content is unknown...?

can we contribute in any way to this - or alternatively benefit from this research already now?

that bad! wow ....

You know me, I'm the bullshitter... You remember Kurzweil and his Singularity-nonsense. In a way this was very similar. Though I think Kurzweil and Markram are very different characters (The Singularity essentially is a religion, I can't see anything like that in Markram's claims) they seem to share an important point: they are both complete nerds that apparently never spent a single thought on the limits of science (in its English meaning) in general nor of their particular research field in specific. One may find this excusable, I don't. But even then, they make claims that the nerdest nerd must know that they are completely unrealistic and thus I just have to assume that they claim their nonsense on purpose. The reason in Markram's case clearly seems to be money. But all this does not mean that these nerds cannot produce valuable results.

This is really cool...

I'll just leave this here... Found them through a recent publication of LeDoux in Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Ah, and if there are no strong objections, from now on every brainstorming session shall commence with this: http://thebeautifulbrain.com/2010/10/ledoux-amygdaloids-brainstorm/2/

Finally some applied research, that is...