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Janos Haits

Automated Insights - 0 views

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    Long & short form articles, headlines & summaries written entirely by software, that derive insight from data. Powerful Charts, tables, graphs, dashboards & other visualizations that make data come alive
thinkahol *

Children learn language in moments of insight, not gradually through repeated exposure,... - 2 views

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    ScienceDaily (May 23, 2011) - New research by a team of University of Pennsylvania psychologists is helping to overturn the dominant theory of how children learn their first words, suggesting that it occurs more in moments of insight than gradually through repeated exposure.
Janos Haits

Narrative Science | We Transform Data Into Stories and Insight - 0 views

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    Artificial Intelligence. Human Insight. Real Results There is no shortage of data, in fact just about every company we talk to is drowning in data. As the volume of data continues to rise exponentially, companies need a better way to use, monetize and understand the data they already have. Narrative Science helps companies leverage their data by creating easy to use, consistent narrative reporting - automatically through our proprietary artificial intelligence technology platform.
Janos Haits

TED: Ideas worth spreading - 0 views

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    Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. Facts, insight and humor -- in shareable bites.
Janos Haits

Project Euler - 0 views

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    Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.
Erich Feldmeier

MPG, Michael Czisch: The Seat of Meta-Consciousness in the Brain | Neuroscience News - 0 views

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    "During wakefulness, we are always conscious of ourselves. In sleep, however, we are not. But there are people, known as lucid dreamers, who can become aware of dreaming during sleep. Studies employing magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) have now been able to demonstrate that a specific cortical network consisting of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the frontopolar regions and the precuneus is activated when this lucid consciousness is attained. All of these regions are associated with self-reflective functions. This research into lucid dreaming gives the authors of the latest study insight into the neural basis of human consciousness."
Janos Haits

Casetext - Annotated Legal Research - 0 views

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    Casetext is a free legal research tool that lets you annotate the law. With Casetext you can: search using keywords or citations, read the full text of over one million federal and Delaware cases, and learn insights from the annotations of practicing attorneys, professors, and other experts.
Mark Harding

How to control a herd of humans - science-in-society - 04 February 2009 - New Scientist - 1 views

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    Fresh insights into why we conform to peer pressure could explain how despotic leaders bend people to their will
Skeptical Debunker

Traces of the past: Computer algorithm able to 'read' memories - 0 views

  • To explore how such memories are recorded, the researchers showed ten volunteers three short films and asked them to memorise what they saw. The films were very simple, sharing a number of similar features - all included a woman carrying out an everyday task in a typical urban street, and each film was the same length, seven seconds long. For example, one film showed a woman drinking coffee from a paper cup in the street before discarding the cup in a litter bin; another film showed a (different) woman posting a letter. The volunteers were then asked to recall each of the films in turn whilst inside an fMRI scanner, which records brain activity by measuring changes in blood flow within the brain. A computer algorithm then studied the patterns and had to identify which film the volunteer was recalling purely by looking at the pattern of their brain activity. The results are published in the journal Current Biology. "The algorithm was able to predict correctly which of the three films the volunteer was recalling significantly above what would be expected by chance," explains Martin Chadwick, lead author of the study. "This suggests that our memories are recorded in a regular pattern." Although a whole network of brain areas support memory, the researchers focused their study on the medial temporal lobe, an area deep within the brain believed to be most heavily involved in episodic memory. It includes the hippocampus - an area which Professor Maguire and colleagues have studied extensively in the past. They found that the key areas involved in recording the memories were the hippocampus and its immediate neighbours. However, the computer algorithm performed best when analysing activity in the hippocampus itself, suggesting that this is the most important region for recording episodic memories. In particular, three areas of the hippocampus - the rear right and the front left and front right areas - seemed to be involved consistently across all participants. The rear right area had been implicated in the earlier study, further enforcing the idea that this is where spatial information is recorded. However, it is still not clear what role the front two regions play.
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    Computer programs have been able to predict which of three short films a person is thinking about, just by looking at their brain activity. The research, conducted by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL (University College London), provides further insight into how our memories are recorded.
thinkahol *

Natural brain state is primed to learn - life - 19 August 2011 - New Scientist - 0 views

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    Apply the electrodes... Externally modulating the brain's activity can boost its performance. The easiest way to manipulate the brain is through transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), which involves applying electrodes directly to the head to influence neuron activity with an electric current. Roi Cohen Kadosh's team at the University of Oxford showed last year that targeting tDCS at the brain's right parietal lobe can boost a person's arithmetic ability - the effects were still apparent six months after the tDCS session (newscientist.com/article/dn19679). More recently, Richard Chi and Allan Snyder at the University of Sydney, Australia, demonstrated that tDCS can improve a person's insight. The pair applied tDCS to volunteers' anterior frontal lobes - regions known to play a role in how we perceive the world - and found the participants were three times as likely as normal to complete a problem-solving task (newscientist.com/article/dn20080). Brain stimulation can also boost a person's learning abilities, according to Agnes Flöel's team at the University of Münster in Germany. Twenty minutes of tDCS to a part of the brain called the left perisylvian area was enough to speed up and improve language learning in a group of 19 volunteers (Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20098). Using the same technique to stimulate the brain's motor cortex, meanwhile, can enhance a person's ability to learn a movement-based skill (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805413106).
Intentional Insights

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Janos Haits

Digital Planet - Where Digital Innovation Meets the World - 0 views

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    "Digital Planet is an interdisciplinary research initiative of The Fletcher School's Institute for Business in the Global Context. Dedicated to understanding the impact of digital innovation on the world, Digital Planet provides actionable insights for policymakers, businesses, investors, and innovators."
veera90

AI in Medical Devices - Emerging Future of Pharma Industry | ACL Digital - 0 views

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    Today, the United States is the largest medical device market in the world. It is estimated that by 2023 the growth of medical device industry is expected to touch $208 Billion. Medical devices sector is an integral part of healthcare industry in the United States. The manufacturers of the medical device equipment aim at integrating accuracy with automation. According to a market research report, there is an emerging trend of application of AI in the medical devices sector, and business leaders and professionals are looking for insights on the impact of this technology. https://www.acldigital.com/blogs/ai-medical-devices-emerging-future-pharma-industry
Charles Daney

You can believe your eyes: New insights into memory without conscious awareness - 0 views

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    Scientists may have discovered a way to glean information about stored memories by tracking patterns of eye movements, even when an individual is unable (or perhaps even unwilling) to report what they remember.
futuristspeaker

10 Unanswerable Questions that Neither Science nor Religion can Answer - Futurist Speaker - 2 views

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    A few years ago I was taking a tour of a dome shaped house, and the architect explained to me that domes are an optical illusion. Whenever someone enters a room, their eyes inadvertently glance up at the corners of the room to give them the contextual dimensions of the space they're in.
aleksdgrift98

Exploring Innovative Educational Technologies: A Diigo Group for EdTech Enthusiasts" - 1 views

Exploring Innovative Educational Technologies" - This part highlights the main focus of the Diigo group. The group is centered around discovering and discussing new and cutting-edge technologies in...

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