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shared by evgeny lavrov on 14 Jun 13 - No Cached

the average desktop computer now has the raw processing power equivalent to all of the human brains on Earth combined
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There is no longer a clear distinction between human and machine intelligence
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Full immersion VR is now a mainstream phenomenon
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Entire new societies have formed in cyberspace
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By the mid-2050s, traditional Western news corporations no longer exist
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News gathering, analysis and distribution has fragmented - shifting to millions of creative individuals, bloggers, citizen journalists and small-scale enterprises.
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Traditional Western TV channels have largely disappeared
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replaced by unique "personalised" web channels, covering practically any subject or combination of subjects imaginable
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Debates are now occurring over "synthetic people" entering the population.
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shared by Maria Gurova on 01 Jul 16 - No Cached

ay you’re a time-starved man with a hankering to dress better. Just sign up on Trunk Club, one of whose style experts will call or email you shortly after to talk about your vision for your wardrobe. A few days later, a bemused FedEx employee shows up at your door bearing a trademark "trunk" (made of cardboard), which contains 10 or so items of clothing.
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Finding someone who knows style is less important than finding someone who understands sales and relationship management
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We have between 40 and 50 now, and 90% are women. They tend to have a background that includes sales, but rarely retail.
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Hey, is it cool if I friend you on Facebook to see what you do, and what you like?" It’s a powerful tool to help us get the right clothes your way
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shared by Maria Gurova on 07 Apr 15 - No Cached

In January, the biotech company Genentech reportedly committed $10 million for access to the DNA of 3,000 Parkinson’s patients and their families. A week later, Pfizer made a similar deal for the genomes of 5,000 people with lupus.
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A trove of data could give scientists the tools they need to develop gene-specific drug therapies for certain diseases. “We are hoping to ultimately develop Parkinson’s medicines, for example, that actually modify the disease as opposed to just treating symptoms,”
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“this has the possibility of not only helping us find new cures, but it also helps us create a genuine health care system as opposed to just a disease care system.”
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Even a small segment of DNA (23andMe looks at 750,000 base pairs out of 3 billion) can reveal a history of illness or predict future risks and be used
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The 2009 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act makes it illegal for employers or health insurance companies to discriminate based on genetic data. The Act doesn’t address who controls data once it’s out there
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shared by Vladimir Antonov on 05 Nov 15 - No Cached

what’s called “deep learning”—a form of artificial intelligence that’s rapidly reinventing a wide range of online services—the company is beefing up its Inbox by Gmail app so that it can analyze the contents of an email and then suggest a few (very brief) responses
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The idea is that you can rapidly respond to someone while on the go—without having to manually tap a fresh message into your smartphone keyboard.
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system learns to generate appropriate replies by analyzing scads of email conversations from across Google’s Gmail service
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neural network—a vast network of machines that approximates the web of neurons in the human brain—and this neural network analyzes the information in order to “learn” a particular task.
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Google’s Smart Reply system doesn’t always get things right. But that’s part of the reason the company provides three potential replies to each email—not just one.
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The system uses what’s called a “long short-term-memory,” or LSTM, neural network. Essentially, this is a neural net that exhibits something akin to human memory. It can “remember” the beginning of an email as it’s parsing the end—and that helps it, on some level, understand this natural language
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