Archives for October 2007
Robots and the Coming Creation
Published on 13 Oct 2007 at 1:43 am.
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Filed under Astrobiology, Astronomy, Computation, Evolution, Exploration, Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Philosophy, Research, Robotics, Space, Technology.
‘Am I already in the shadow of the Coming Race? and will the creatures who are to transcend and finally supersede us be steely organisms, giving out the effluvia of the laboratory, and performing with infallible exactness more than everything that we have performed with a slovenly approximativeness and self-defeating inaccuracy?’
- George Eliot,
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Al Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize
Published on 13 Oct 2007 at 12:37 am.
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Filed under Climate, Green.
Today Al Gore, along with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, won the Nobel Peace Prize. Naturally, conversation has turned to whether he will run for president.
Al Gore has risen far above such a position. His world has become bigger than just America, and his role in the grand scheme of things is now [...]
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Information Physics
Published on 11 Oct 2007 at 12:01 am.
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Filed under Information, Physics, Probability, Research.
Three of us here at the University at Albany are becoming collectively known as the Albany Group: Ariel Caticha, Carlos Rodriguez and myself. We three are exploring some relatively radical ideas about information, probability, geometry and physics, and often we find our ideas converging in unexpected ways.
One convergence that I am particularly interested in is [...]
Intelligence
Published on 10 Oct 2007 at 11:18 pm.
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Filed under Intelligent Systems, Philosophy, Quotations.
A quote from my father’s blog (From the Back of the Room)…
The behaviorist measures the intelligence of a laboratory rat by how quickly it can learn to manuever through the halls of a maze in order to reach some tangible reward for it’s efforts. The reward is meant to provide for it a goal, something [...]
Diamond Road
Published on 7 Oct 2007 at 1:59 am.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Philosophy, Social Justice.
I am watching the Discovery Channel and am seeing the documentary titled Diamond Road for the fourth or fifth time. The diamond entrepreneur Martin Rapaport impresses me every time. He has been inspired to create a fair trade system for diamonds from war-torn Sierra Leone. In one of his talks, he points out that if [...]
