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Posted 08 December 2013 - 07:58 PM

QUANTUM ARCHAEOLOGY.

How Science is trying to resurrect the dead.





"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
George Bernard Shaw
  • Micro Map of the past being created.
  • Quantum computers and new maths to calculate detailed histories and memories of everyone dead.
  • Face and body reconstructions a million years old already achieved: mind reconstructions coming.
  • 106 billion people to be resurrected within 40 years.
MAIN ARTICLE:~~>http://web.archive.o...rchaeologyfile/










http://www.insurance...1/18/311536.htm

Scientists Develop Breakthrough Computer Forecasting Models for Wildfires


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Scientists have developed a new computer modeling technique that offers the promise, for the first time, of producing continually updated daylong predictions of wildfire growth throughout the lifetime of long-lived blazes.
The technique, devised by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Maryland, combines cutting-edge simulations portraying the interaction of weather and fire behavior with newly available satellite observations of active wildfires. Updated with new observations every 12 hours, the computer model forecasts critical details such as the extent of the blaze and changes in behavior."


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Posted 08 December 2013 - 08:11 PM

http://www.theguardi...errestrial-life


US Congress has close encounter over extraterrestrial life

Witnesses from NASA and MIT suggest to House committee that scientists may be on verge of breakthrough in search for aliens

If this happened- assuming they;pre more advanced- it would accelerate Resurrection

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It was not, however, a fruitless outing. In impassioned testimony, witnesses from Nasa, MIT and the Library of Congress described a crossroads in the search for life out there and suggested scientists may be on the verge of a breakthrough.
"This is the first time in human history we have the technological reach to cross the threshold," said Dr Sara Seager, an MIT professor and 2013 MacArthur "genius grant" recipient. Her work focuses on the detection of "biosignature" gases on distant planets, large volumes of which might indicate life, whether intelligent life or single-cell bacteria."


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Only in America. We'd better spot them before they spot us.

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It will push Supercomputing forward and that's good for QA!



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Posted 08 December 2013 - 08:23 PM



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Studying Archaeology | The Council for British Archaeology



www.archaeologyuk.org › EducationArchaeology can be studied in the UK across a broad age range and in both formal and informal education, from a community project based on archaeology ...

A251 - World archaeology - Open University Course



www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/a251.htm‎
The course also introduces you to the archaeological study of human societies. Its focus is not so much upon teaching basic study skills (appropriate to first level) ...






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What is Archaeology? - Society for American Archaeology

www.saa.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=1346&tabid=953‎Introduction. Archaeology is the study of the ancient and recent human past through material remains. It is a subfield of anthropology, the study of all human ...
Introduction - ‎How does archaeology help us ... - ‎Types of Archaeology

The Council on Archaeological Studies at Yale - Yale University



www.yale.edu/archaeology/‎
Council on Archaeological Studies. BA and MA in Archaeological Studies.


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Study Options | Australian Archaeological Association



www.australianarchaeology.com/careers/study-options/‎How do I study to become an archaeologist in Australia? Most archaeologists start ... At this point, after 4 years of training, you can call yourself an archaeologist.
ACT - ‎NSW - ‎NT - ‎QLD

School of Archaeology and Anthropology - Australian National ...



archanth.anu.edu.au/‎Congratulations to the School of Archaeology and Anthropology's Associate ... and the interdisciplinary fields of development studies and heritage and museum ...
Staff - ‎Contact us - ‎Archaeology - ‎Undergraduate programs


Archaeology is the future. Past and Future require the same maths..and the past is easier to map.

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Posted 08 December 2013 - 09:48 PM

"Artificial Intelligence cannot avoid philosophy".


Artificial Intelligence cannot avoid philosophy.
If a computer program is to behave intelligently in the real world, it must be provided with some kind of framework into which to fit particular facts it is told or discovers. This amounts to at least a fragment of some kind of philosophy, however naive.
- John McCarthy
Mathematical Logic in Artificial Intelligence. Daedalus 117(1): 297-310, Winter 1988




John McCarthy coined 'Artificial Intelligence' by 1956.

John McCarthy



By 2027 he should be resurrected with Quantum Archaeology.

A.I. is necessary to achieve resurrection by 2027 because the sums we need to do are too big for men.

But A.I. is only now moving into public commercialisation,separating itself from computer calculation.
When the knee of the curve is reached..A.I. will modify itself at lighting speeds, not requiring human programmers.

That knee of the curve will come in 2022 IMO because of support technologies.


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this is more likely for a few weeks/days:

https://encrypted-tb...UC54VmVj0IZJ0Bg

clearer knee defined:

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When robots (any man made machines that can move and think)
reach the point that they can increase their own intelligence,

they will do it faster and faster.

There is no known maximum intelligence.

When will this happen?

When they we've built them smart enough.

Humanoid robots are expected in 2015, tumbling in price like 3D printers did in under a year ($1000 to $100 see previous pages)

Their brains, which are called A.I.'s or Machine Intelligence,. are being built as stand alone systems, and also to fit into them.

Their brains are calculation and data feed in, feed back sysetms.

Either replying on human inputs for feed in or in advanced models, getting their own data.

Robots get their own data by data mining in virtual world eg the internet, by calculation, or by doing experiments in the environment like men can do.

Men increase their intelligence by learning and also evolutionarily by breeding smarter people.

We are smarter than our ancestors based on Archaeology finds: we have more complex brains and make more complex tools.

5 million years ago we split fro chimpanzees and have modified over 5 million years to have higher intelligences and better adapted bodies.

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Robots will not take 5 million years to make the same percentage intelligence increase.

At the moment we are modifying them. But we're still closer to chimps than robots.




By 2022 robots are expected to be modifying themselves and

The Age of Machine Intelligence will have dawned.

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Posted 08 December 2013 - 09:59 PM

VERNOR VINGE QUOTES

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The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)
Presented at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, 30–31 March 1993.[1] Also retrievable from the NASA technical reports server as part of NASA CP-10129. A slightly changed version appeared in Whole Earth Review, Winter 1993.
  • Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
  • The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.
  • We can solve many problems thousands of times faster than natural selection. Now, by creating the means to execute those simulations at much higher speeds, we are entering a regime as radically different from our human past as we humans are from the lower animals.
  • I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. And yet ... we are the initiators. Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things. We have the freedom to establish initial conditions, make things happen in ways that are less inimical than others. Of course (as with starting avalanches), it may not be clear what the right guiding nudge really is...
  • The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
All page numbers from the mass market paperback edition published by Tor Books
  • How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
  • Prologue (p. 1; opening words)
  • "Poor humans; they will all die."
    "Poor us; we will not."
  • Prologue (p. 2)
  • The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before.
  • Prologue (p. 4)
  • Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
  • Chapter 2 (p. 18)
  • The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
  • Chapter 5 (p. 51)
  • Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
  • Chapter 7 (p. 68) (motto of the Qeng Ho trading group)
  • He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
  • Chapter 11 (p. 109)
  • Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
  • Chapter 12 (p. 119)
  • I say, let’s learn more and then speculate.
  • Chapter 12 (p. 122)
  • Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and least expensive manipulation of all.
  • Chapter 14 (p. 145)
  • If during the last thousand seconds you have received any High-Beyond-protocol packets from "Arbitration Arts," discard them at once. If they have been processed, then the processing site and all locally netted sites must be physically destroyed at once. We realize that this means the destruction of solar systems, but consider the alternative. You are under Transcendent attack.
  • Chapter 14 (p. 161)
  • Hexapodia as the key insight...
    I haven’t had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
  • Chapter 18 (p. 226)
  • It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
  • Chapter 18 (p. 228)
  • "Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots."
  • Chapter 26 (p. 318)
  • He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind—but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
  • Chapter 31 (p. 373)
  • Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
  • Chapter 32 (p. 397)
  • All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
  • Chapter 33 (p. 428)
  • Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all—no one’s around to write horror stories.
  • Chapter 33 (p. 443)
  • Over the last few weeks, some newsgroups have been full of tales of war and battle fleets, of billions dying in the clash of species. To all such—and those living more peaceably around them—we say look out on the universe. It does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
  • Chapter 35 (pp. 483-484)
  • The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
  • Chapter 37 (p. 519)
  • “I have come to kill you.”
    The death’s heads shrugged. “You have come to try.”
  • Chapter 39 (p. 555)
  • If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
  • Chapter 41 (p. 580)
  • Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years—and not one of them could come near to this!
  • Epilogs (p. 595)
A Deepness in the Sky (1999)
  • So high, so low, so many things to know.
Rainbows End (2006)
  • So much technology, so little talent.
http://transhumanism.meetup.com/

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Posted 08 December 2013 - 10:05 PM

uploading your mind

Interesting to see how predictions are still made instinctively (linearly) ignoring acceleration



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Posted 08 December 2013 - 10:11 PM

14 Robotics Breakthroughs From the Past Decade.

http://mashable.com/...-breakthroughs/


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The next decade will happen in 3 years!

Departments of Defence have in-house projects presumably much more advanced than anything in the public domain.

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Posted 08 December 2013 - 10:17 PM

Sorry, but you have posted more images than you are allowed to

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Posted 08 December 2013 - 11:44 PM

Humaonid robots for sale online @ ebay TODAY!

http://www.ebay.co.u...ff13=80&ff14=83

PLEASE CLICK TO ENLARGE

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Robots not expected with universal functions for general sale until/during 2015 (24 months max)

full description of these 4 for sale

http://www.ebay.co.u...=p2054897.l4275

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Posted 08 December 2013 - 11:54 PM

Phew, The Robots Are Only Going To Take 45 Percent Of All The Jobs

http://www.forbes.co...f-all-the-jobs/

FORBES September 2013


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An interesting little piece of research that shows that the robots are likely to take 45% of all the jobs over the next few decades. Cue the usual worriers insisting that this will mean unemployment rates of over 50%. And I’m afraid I have to tell you that economies just don’t work that way. The little bit that everyone misses is that the economy destroys millions upon millions of jobs every year. So much so that that 45% of all jobs is rather smaller than what we expect to see in entirely normal times.
Here’s something about that report:"

note Forbes talks 'in few decades'. During 2015 humanoid robots will be as affordable as mobile phones IMO

A.I. is still the big one. It will break in 2022.

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Posted 09 December 2013 - 12:10 AM

Documentary which aired Saturday May 4th 2013
Titled Robot Revolution : Will Machines surpass humans

Features Honda Asimov, Hubo, Big Dog from Boston Dynamics, Baxter from Rethink Robotics, Nextage and other Humanoids



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Robot Links
Acroname Robotics
http://www.acroname.com/
Robot parts and information for easier robotics, including kits, and add-ons for Lego robots, Palm Pilot robots, and BrainStem technology. ActivMedia Robotics
http://www.activrobots.com/
Moderately priced, sophisticated mobile robots for education, research, and applications.

Alpha Robotics
http://alpharobotics.freeservers.com/
Designed by a complete robot enthusiast, this site contains robot designs, robot links, robot news, and a whole lot more.

Al's Robotics
http://alsrobotics.botic.com/
Web pages created to show off some of the robot's Al has built. The goal: to hopefully give others ideas, information, and a starting point into the amazing world of robotics.

Android World
http://www.androidworld.com/
A site devoted to androids - a robot that looks like a human. They also have robot links, animatronics links, and research links. Award winning site.

Arrick Robotics
http://www.robotics.com/
They manufacture easy-to-use, PC-based automation products.

Aart Jochem's Amateur Robotics Page
http://www.geocities...j/robo/robo.htm
An amateur robotics site sharing one individual's experiences and findings as a beginning robot amateur.

BotBash
http://www.botbash.com/
Web page for the international robotics combat events. In other words, a place to visit if you'd like to enter your robot into combat.

BotParts.com
http://www.botparts.com/
The one stop online shop for all your robotic combat and hobby needs. Motors, wheels, fasteners, tools, custom batteries, and much more added constantly.

Competition-Robotics
http://www.competition-robotics.com/
A site that contains everything dedicated to competitive robotics. Includes books, hardware, microcontroller kits, robot kits, and much more. Based in the UK.

Dallas Personal Robotics Group
http://www.dprg.org/
The Dallas Personal Robotics Group is one of the oldest special interest groups in the world devoted to personal and hobby robotics.

DonTronics
http://www.dontronics.com/
An online elctronics superstore. Dontronic's carries all types of robot parts and accessories all available through mail order.

Dream Droid
http://www.dreamdroi...oid/default.htm
Dreamdroid is a site dedicated to: androids, cyborgs, humanoids and any other robotics related technology.

Evolution Robotics
http://www.evolution.com
Evolution Robotics makes the ER1 robot designed to carry a notebook PC.

Gecko Systems
http://www.geckosystems.com/
Geckosystems Inc. is a leading robotics company, specializing in developing and using mobile robotic solutions for home and business.

GoRobotics.net
http://www.gorobotics.net/
A premier source for your amateur robotic needs. Includes many pertinent links, as well as lots of news and info on robotics.

Hobbytron.com
http://www.hobbytron.net/main.html
Hobbytron sells everything from remote control cars, to a personal robotics system. Not to mention everything else in between. Great for all your robot- building needs.

Home Robot
http://www.pioneerne...johnc/index.htm
A page designed by a robot enthusiast. Includes articles on how to build a robot, robots available for your home today, as well as many other links and articles.

iRobot
http://www.irobot.com
Home of the Roomba and Create robots.

K-Team
http://www.k-team.com/
K-team develops, manufactures and markets a family of high quality mobile minirobots for use in education and research.

LynxMotion
http://www.lynxmotion.com/
Offers one of the most complete selections of robotics kits on the web. At Lynxmotion, its not what the kits makes, its what you make out of the kit.

MekaTronix
http://www.mekatronix.com/
Mekatronix is a manufacturer of autonomous mobile robots, Robot Kits, microcontroller kits and robot accessories, as well as educational materials related to science and robotics.

Mr. Robot
http://www.mrrobot.com/
A site that sells robots and microcontroller parts online. They try to make it easier on customers by carrying only the best of the parts available with an incredible selection.

Nuts & Volts Magazine
http://www.nutsvolts.com/
Nuts & Volts Magazine is a very unique electronics publication. Designed for the hobbyist, each issue is filled with valuable parts & equipment resources, as well as hard-to-find info on topics of interest to the electronics enthusiast.

OzRobotics
http://www.ozrobotics.com/
A company that designs and develops its own robots, robot accessories, robot components, and autonomous software. Offering electronic accessories and components as well as technical books and other robotics products.

Parallax Inc.
http://www.parallaxinc.com/
Parallax, Inc. makes the BASIC Stamp programmable microcontroller with a language set designed for interfacing to electronic circuits.

Phidgets
http://www.phidgets.com/
Phidgets makes a wide assortment of USB sensors and motor controller boards. OS drivers are free and include sample application code.

Robocup
http://www.robocup.org/02.html
RoboCup is an international joint project to promote AI, robotics, and related fields. Robocup chose soccer as a central topic of research, and source of all the fun at the Robocup.

Robologic Inc.
http://www.robologic.co.uk
A UK based retailer of robotics equipment, offering quality products and in- depth tutorials for the robotics community.

Robodyssey
http://www.robodyssey.com/
Develops autonomous robots for use in the classroom. They have developed a robust robotics platform and instructional materials that require minimal mechanical skills.

Robotics Connection
http://www.roboticsconnection.com
Designs and sells higher quality programmable robot kits, components, and hardware. Also offers family of robot kits that are controlled by a low power mini-PC (eBox). Software can be developed using Microsoft's Visual Studio or Robotics Studio.

Robots Life
http://www.robotslife.com
A personal site containing all you need to know about robots. Includes pictures, links and stories about the robotics industry.

Robots.net
http://www.robots.net/
A site dedicated to robot links and robotics news stories. Updates daily.

RobotShop.ca
http://www.robotshop.ca
A site with domestic robots, such as Roomba, and other robot kits and parts.

The Robot Store
http://www.robotstore.com/
A company whose goal is to to search the world and bring you the best in robotics. These folks build, test and play with robots. Then they tell you what they liked, and give options for expansion and modification.

Robot Books
http://www.robotbooks.com/
This site sorts through the many robotics books available today, and select, review, recommend, and sell, just those few that they feel are very best.

RobotCafe.com
http://www.robotcafe.com/
The #1 destination on the web for people interested in building their own robots, sharing ideas with others, and learning all about the world of robotics.

Robotics Online
http://www.roboticsonline.com
A full featured robotics site including: robotics products, robotics links, buyers guides, and a whole lot more.

SolarBotics
http://www.solarbotics.com/
Solarbotics is committed to offering kits, parts and information on the expanding field of BEAM Robotics

The Robot Factory
http://www.robotfactory.com/
The original manufacturer of premium quality robots for advertising, promotion, education and entertainment.

The Robot Room
http://www.robotroom.com/
A personal Web site dedicated to bring you all kinds of robotics information. Offers a beginning robot building book written by the author of the site.

Total Robots
http://www.totalrobots.com/
Sells high quality robot kits and components, and control products and accessories. Offers secure on-line ordering, rapid delivery, and competitive pricing.

Tower Hobbies
http://www.towerhobbies.com
Sells a wide assortment of R/C models, parts, and radios at competitive pricing.

Wehali Engineering
http://www.wehali.com
They manufacture a serial based board to handle up to eight sonar ultrasonic and infrared range finders. Sensors connect to the board with RJ11 cables. They stock the Devantech ultrasonic sensors and the Sharp GP2D02 IR sensor.



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Posted 09 December 2013 - 12:32 AM

Quantum Archaeology:

1. There is no 'final state'.

2. We rise without death for ever...for as long as we can carry resurrection insurance as technology against mishaps.

3. With coming super-calculators, it doesn't mater how big the calculations are. As long as they aren't infinite (and sometimes even if they are) we will be able to calculate them as easily as calculating simple addition.

-If that doesn't happen, quantum computing will have failed, and also Moore's Law will have ended.

4. The transition into Superman is frought with dangers, probably most not comprehended.

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One way of dealing with the danger is sketched in The Hawking Protocol, showing what some in the world are trying to do about the Intelligence explosion...to guide it safely:

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The HAWKING PROTOCOL and Extinction Risks from A.I.

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Posted 09 December 2013 - 01:02 AM

DISEASES TO BE DIGITALISED FREE ONLINE IN 3D
http://barc.sls.brad...itiseddiseases/
on Monday:

In the 2020's we will synthesize all data bases mechanically to form The Quantum Archaeology Grid/

After that microrobots will start resurrections by 2027


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his actual skeleton in 2D
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http://www.pasthoriz...-diseased-bones

"The bones of a young woman who died of syphilis more than 500 years ago, the reassembled jaw of a man whose corpse was sold to surgeons at the London hospital in the 19th century and the contorted bone of an 18th-century man who lived for many years after he was shot through the leg, are among the remains of hundreds of individuals which can now be studied in forensic detail on a new website.
The Digitised Diseases website, to be launched on Monday at the Royal College of Surgeons in London, brings together 1,600 specimens, many from people with excruciating conditions including leprosy and rickets, from stores scattered across various university and medical collections. The original crumbling bones of some specimens now available in 3D scans are too fragile to be handled. The database is intended for professionals, but is also available free to members of the public who may be fascinated by the macabre specimens.

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Posted 09 December 2013 - 01:19 AM

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"A team of Yale physicists has coaxed an unprecedented number of light particles, or photons, to behave quantum mechanically, or to assume more than one state simultaneously, such as “alive” and “dead.” In this case, the light is in the form of trapped microwave photons. Control over a greater number of photons — more than 100 in this case — raises the possibility that such states of light could play the part of several quantum bits (qubits), the building blocks typically found in a quantum computer. This could potentially minimize the physical scale and cost of building a quantum computer.
The quantum computer, a still embryonic technology, would be a hyper-fast tool with exponentially faster information processing than today’s most sophisticated computers.
“Scientists are constantly trying to overcome the great engineering challenges of creating, controlling, and measuring large quantum mechanical systems,” said Brian Vlastakis, a Yale graduate student and lead author of a paper published Sept. 27 in the journal Science. “Mastering these challenges is necessary for developing a quantum computer. This experiment shows that we can create and control a large quantum mechanical system built on photons. It also suggests we might be able to expand the role of photons in quantum information systems.”
http://yottafire.com...t-may-lead-way/

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Posted 09 December 2013 - 01:25 AM

The MOST Awesome Animation on Quantum Computing

Afraid I disagree with many of the explanations (not the experiments) of quantum computing/theory. However it may irrelevant:

Advances will come from machine intelligence.


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Posted 09 December 2013 - 10:31 AM

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MIT lectures in Quantum Theory

http://ocw.mit.edu/c.../lecture-notes/



I dispute things are either just matter or waves, aprt from that a pretty good intro to the slit experiment:

https://www.youtube....h?v=7u_UQG1La1o



I've looked for someone/place to learn Quantum Theory from from no-one understands it IMO

My own (unpopular) view is that there are properties in the quantum world as yet undiscovered and deciphered which will prove the quantum world is absolutely determined (ie works by cause and effect)

Unfortunately I come from philosophy and not physics.

While I may be correct, until I or others demonstrate this from within physics, it is just an idea and not even a theory.

But I deem it unwise to abandon causality for the unknown.

The quantum world is unknown at the moment and Quantum Mechanics (according to nobel physics laureate Gerardus tHooft - also a 'Superdeterminist' (thanks) is not physics just statistics!).

Common sense should not be abandoned in the quantum scales (Common sense is defined as the balance of the most axioms possible).

On the other hand, we dont know much about anything.

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"The only thing I know is that I know nothing" Socrates

It is not possible to know anything - depending on how one defines 'to know' - but that can be balanced with the will to power a human feels (try holding yourself under water if you think this doesn't exist in you, you will soon feel your body fighting for life despite your mind!).

However the game some of us (me for one) engage in is to describe the world (the universe, the cosmos the multiverse) in terms of physics. That includes describing people too in terms of physics.

This is called 'taking a position' in philosophy, and it is only a temporary perspective.

It can be done, but not when we get to the very small nor the very big.

Quantum theory deals with the very small...under 100 billionths of a meter.

This is presently too small for our measuring equipment so we describe it by statistics.
There is little confirmation from physical reality ( maxims testable by energy observations).

However there are good enough explanations of Quantum Theory that are absolutely causal ( eg Many Worlds Interpretation) and if these are right, then the quantum world too is governed absolutely by Cause and Effect.


see http://www.anthropic...manyworlds.html

Q1 Who believes in many-worlds?
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"Political scientist" L David Raub reports a poll of 72 of the "leading
cosmologists and other quantum field theorists" about the "Many-Worlds
Interpretation" and gives the following response breakdown [T].

1) "Yes, I think MWI is true" 58%
2) "No, I don't accept MWI" 18%
3) "Maybe it's true but I'm not yet convinced" 13%
4) "I have no opinion one way or the other" 11%

Amongst the "Yes, I think MWI is true" crowd listed are Stephen Hawking
and Nobel Laureates Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman. Gell-Mann and
Hawking recorded reservations with the name "many-worlds", but not with
the theory's content. Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg is also mentioned
as a many-worlder, although the suggestion is not when the poll was
conducted, presumably before 1988 (when Feynman died). The only "No,
I don't accept MWI" named is Penrose.

The findings of this poll are in accord with other polls, that many-
worlds is most popular amongst scientists who may rather loosely be
described as string theorists or quantum gravitists/cosmologists. It
is less popular amongst the wider scientific community who mostly remain
in ignorance of it.

More detail on Weinberg's views can be found in _Dreams of a Final
Theory_ or _Life in the Universe_ Scientific American (October 1994),
the latter where Weinberg says about quantum theory:
"The final approach is to take the Schrodinger equation seriously
[..description of the measurement process..] In this way, a
measurement causes the history of the universe for practical
purposes to diverge into different non-interfering tracks, one for
each possible value of the measured quantity. [...] I prefer this
last approach"

In the _The Quark and the Jaguar_ and _Quantum Mechanics in the Light
of Quantum Cosmology_ [10] Gell-Mann describes himself as an adherent
to the (post-)Everett interpretation, although his exact meaning is
sometimes left ambiguous.

Steven Hawking is well known as a many-worlds fan and says, in an
article on quantum gravity [H], that measurement of the gravitational
metric tells you which branch of the wavefunction you're in and
references Everett.

Feynman, apart from the evidence of the Raub poll, directly favouring
the Everett interpretation, always emphasized to his lecture students
[F] that the "collapse" process could only be modelled by the
Schrodinger wave equation (Everett's approach).

[F] Jagdish Mehra _The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science
Richard Feynman_
[H] Stephen W Hawking _Black Holes and Thermodynamics_ Physical Review
D Vol 13 #2 191-197 (1976)
[T] Frank J Tipler _The Physics of Immortality_ 170-171




Quantum Computers are being built using Quantum Statistics but this is not 100% accurate (though more accurate than Classical physics statics was).

It seems to me as a complete amateur, that we dont know enough to pronounce on what is happening and its far too soon to dismiss causality, which may just be new & highly complex things.

So I've taken this position.

It is relevant to Quantum Archaeology, but does not impinge on information recovery one way or the other.

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Posted 09 December 2013 - 10:39 AM

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IBM's Jeopardy-Winning Supercomputer Will Power A 'Cognitive, Expert Personal Shopper' App Next Year (IBM)


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IBM Watson Solutions VP Stephen Gold told us that starting in 2014, consumers can look for the first three Watson-powered apps from IBM business partners.
We were most intrigued by the description of one of these apps in particular, Fluid Retail. Here's how Gold described it to us:
"Fluid, which builds online shopping experiences for retail businesses to drive customer engagement and conversion, is developing the Fluid Expert Personal Shopper powered by IBM Watson.
"The app calls upon Watson's ability to understand the nuances of human language and uncover answers from Big Data. Consumers who use Fluid's app will interact with rich media and dialogue with Watson, as their newfound “cognitive, expert personal shopper."

http://www.chron.com...r-A-5046037.php

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While mainstream climate science could be dismissed as fantasy by climate skeptics, they now have a reason to call it fantasy, because a team of researchers has now used a powerful super computer to model the climate of J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional Middle Earth in his Lord of the Rings books."

more>>>http://www.isciencetimes.com/articles/6490/20131207/whats-weather-middle-earth-scientist-maps-climate.htm



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Posted 09 December 2013 - 10:54 AM

More studies suggesting human epigenetics affected by lifestyle.
Gene Expression Changes With Meditation

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"To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that shows rapid alterations in gene expression within subjects associated with mindfulness meditation practice," says study author Richard J. Davidson, founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds and the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
"Most interestingly, the changes were observed in genes that are the current targets of anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs," says Perla Kaliman, first author of the article and a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona, Spain (IIBB-CSIC-IDIBAPS), where the molecular analyses were conducted.
The study was published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology."

http://www.scienceda...31208090343.htm



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Posted 09 December 2013 - 11:02 AM

Posted: Nov 28, 2013

To create a super-intelligent machine, start with an equation


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(Nanowerk News) Intelligence is a very difficult concept and, until recently, no one has succeeded in giving it a satisfactory formal definition. Most researchers have given up grappling with the notion of intelligence in full generality, and instead focus on related but more limited concepts – but I argue that mathematically defining intelligence is not only possible, but crucial to understanding and developing super-intelligent machines. From this, my research group has even successfully developed software that can learn to play Pac-Man from scratch. Let me explain – but first, we need to define “intelligence”. So what is intelligence? I have worked on the question of general rational intelligence for many years. My group has sifted through the psychology, philosophy and artificial intelligence literature and searched for definitions individual researchers and groups came up with. The characterisations are very diverse, but there seems to be a recurrent theme which we have aggregated and distilled into the following definition: Intelligence is an agent’s ability to achieve goals or succeed in a wide range of environments. You may be surprised or sceptical and ask how this, or any other single sentence, can capture the complexity of intelligence. There are two answers to this question:
  • 1) Other aspects of intelligence are implicit in this definition: if I want to succeed in a complex world or achieve difficult goals, I need to acquire new knowledge, learn, reason logically and inductively, generalise, recognise patterns, plan, have conversations, survive, and most other traits usually associated with intelligence.
  • 2)The challenge is to transform this verbal definition consisting of just a couple of words into meaningful equations and analyse them.
This is what I have been working on in the past 15 years. In the words of American mathematician Clifford A. Truesdell: "There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot be put into equations – because it is nonsense." Indeed, I actually first developed the equations and later we converted them into English. Universal artificial intelligence This scientific field is called universal artificial intelligence, with AIXI being the resulting super-intelligent agent. The following equation formalises the informal definition of intelligence, namely an agent’s ability to succeed or achieve goals in a wide range of environments: Posted Image Explaining every single part of the equation would constitute a whole other article (or book!), but the intuition behind it is as follows: AIXI has a planning component and a learning component. Imagine a robot walking around in the environment. Initially it has little or no knowledge about the world, but acquires information from the world from its sensors and constructs an approximate model of how the world works. It does that using very powerful general theories on how to learn a model from data from arbitrarily complex situations. This theory is rooted in algorithmic information theory, where the basic idea is to search for the simplest model which describes your data. The model is not perfect but is continuously updated. New observations allow AIXI to improve its world model, which over time gets better and better. This is the learning component. AIXI now uses this model for approximately predicting the future and bases its decisions on these tentative forecasts. AIXI contemplates possible future behaviour: “If I do this action, followed by that action, etc, this or that will (un)likely happen, which could be good or bad. And if I do this other action sequence, it may be better or worse.” The “only” thing AIXI has to do is to take from among the contemplated future action sequences the best according to the learnt model, where “good/bad/best” refers to the goal-seeking or succeeding part of the definition: AIXI gets occasional rewards, which could come from a (human) teacher, be built in (such as high/low battery level is good/bad, finding water on Mars is good, tumbling over is bad) or from universal goals such as seeking new knowledge. The goal of AIXI is to maximise its reward over its lifetime – that’s the planning part. In summary, every interaction cycle consists of observation, learning, prediction, planning, decision, action and reward, followed by the next cycle. If you’re interested in exploring further, AIXI integrates numerous philosophical, computational and statistical principles: Theory and practice of universal artificial intelligence The above equation rigorously and uniquely defines a super-intelligent agent that learns to act optimally in arbitrary unknown environments. One can prove amazing properties of this agent – in fact, one can prove that in a certain sense AIXI is the most intelligent system possible. Note that this is a rather coarse translation and aggregation of the mathematical theorems into words, but that is the essence. Since AIXI is incomputable, it has to be approximated in practice. In recent years, we have developed various approximations, ranging from provably optimal to practically feasible algorithms. At the moment we are at a toy stage:

Read more: http://www.nanowerk....p#ixzz2myTIdjly

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Scientists find gene that spurs on tumours: Thousands offered hope of better treatment after discovery

"The treatment of thousands of cancer patients could be dramatically improved after British scientists identified a gene that fuels almost all types of tumour". more>>>



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Posted 09 December 2013 - 11:23 AM

Aging varies


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"Not all species weaken and become more likely to die as they age. Some species get stronger and less likely to die with age, while others are not affected by age at all. Increasing weakness with age is not a law of nature." more>>>
http://phys.org/news...aled-nature.htm

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Not all species weaken and become more likely to die as they age. Some species get stronger and less likely to die with age, while others are not affected by age at all. Increasing weakness with age is not a law of nature.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news...nature.html#jCp

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Solar updraft tower - Wiki


"The solar updraft tower (SUT) is a renewable-energy power plant for generating electricity from solar power. Sunshine heats the air beneath a very wide greenhouse-like roofed collector structure surrounding the central base of a very tall chimney tower. The resulting convection causes a hot air updraft in the tower by the chimney effect. This airflow drives wind turbines placed in the chimney updraft or around the chimney base to produce electricity."

another attempt is being made on this, with balloons to stop it falling this time.

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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Analects of Confucius
http://classics.mit....s/analects.html

RESURRECTION NEARING.

At some point we are going to abolish death, not on;y for those presently alive, but for those already long dead.

My best guess is before 2027 though perhaps 2022+, and this estimate has neared since this thread stared last year, when i estimated 20-40 years This is partly because of commericalisation of machine intelligence ( in weak ai)
which is ruthlessly driving competition for better sentient mobile apps. and the commitment by Google to opursue robots and set up both a Kurzweil led A,I, dept and also a neural network department led by Geof Hinton.

That will force commercial competition for large scale projects

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Posted 10 December 2013 - 02:41 AM

Facebook hires NYU deep learning expert to run its new AI lab

By Derrick Harris
8 hours ago

Exactly as predicted.

the race for large A.I,.'s is gone commercial.

It will go nova exploding is ways beyond anything in sci-fi during 2022 (or before).

Facebook have massive supercomputer storage facilities near the North pole (if that's not scif9 what it)
to deal with cooling problems in large scale machinery.

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"Facebook has hired deep learning expert Yann Lecun from New York University to head up its new artificial intelligence lab. It’s part of a bigger push along with — and against — companies like Google and Microsoft to advance research while improving their platforms."

more>>>>
http://gigaom.com/20...its-new-ai-lab/

Costs for machinery are PLUMMETING.

Capacity in machinery is SOARING.


Your $10- mobile in 9 years (2022) will be smarter than a million expert humans cooperating, - if there's no accelerating A.I. break through. If there is one, it will be off the scale of intelligence (ability to solve problems
this has meant sentient up to now, in order to cooperate and gather enough data from the environment and do experiments in it like people do).

Before that most illnesses will be obsolete.

Most people will have personal robots that can walk, fly do chores and advise better than any adviser in history.
Their bodies and skins - crude now- will be more human than humans are:

How do we know this?

Trends, published papers, patents, interviews with people building them, and commercial competition.

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WHY DID A.I. take so long to take off?

They thought we were mad???!.

1. The support infrastructure wasn't advanced enough.

2. It wasn't commercially driven.


Man is a being that doesn't die.
Man is a being that has never died.
Man is a being incapable of death.

We go back for everyone and gently offer modification with their groups.


There is nothing in science, fiction religion nor Hollywood
that has guessed at the Acceleratig future.

And if this is derided as rapture,
the response is better cheaper and more imaginative technology than before.

If affects the whole world...present AND PAST

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Posted 10 December 2013 - 02:47 AM

!0 COMING INVENTIONS

(all prototyping)

http://www.geniusstu...en-waiting-for/

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To fly around space avoiding the junk we'll need not only A.I. but different bodies.

One way is mind uploading.

Our self is put inside more comfortable living machines, capable of self-repair:

Mind uploading - Wiki


"Whole brain emulation or "mind uploading" (sometimes called "mind copying" or "mind transfer") is the hypothetical process of copying or transferring a conscious mind from a brain to another storage medium by scanning and mapping a biological brain in detail and copying its information and computational state into a computer system or another computational device. The computer would have to run a simulation model so faithful to the original that it would behave in essentially the same way as the original brain, or for all practical purposes, indistinguishably.[1] The simulated mind is assumed to be part of a virtual reality simulated world, supported by an anatomic 3D body simulation model. Alternatively, the simulated mind could be assumed to reside in a computer inside (or connected to) a humanoid robot or a biological body, replacing its brain."


To upload our minds to robots we have either to know ourselves atomically (Human Brain Project 19 videos: slow load


http://www.youtube.c...nProject/videos



Strategic Objectives


"1 - Design, develop and deploy the ICT platforms

The HBP will develop six ICT platforms, dedicated respectively to Neuroinformatics, Brain Simulation, High Performance Computing, Medical Informatics, Neuromorphic Computing and Neurorobotics. In all cases, the platforms will build on existing capabilities, some but not all developed by the HBP partners.
2 - Demonstrate the scientific value of the six ICT platforms

During the ramp-up phase, the HBP will conduct a number of small pilot studies designed to test the capabilities of the platforms. The projects – which will span the three key areas of neuroscience, medicine, and computing – will test how the platforms can work together on specific scientific problems and allow developers to benefit from user feedback on the functionality provided. The pilot studies will cover only a tiny proportion of the full range of scientific questions the platforms will ultimately address. Nonetheless each study will attempt to make significant advances beyond the state of the art.
3 - Research for future versions of the platforms

During the ramp-up phase, the HBP will collect data, develop theoretical frameworks and perform technical development work necessary for the future development of the platforms during the operational phase.
4 - Ethical research and responsible innovation

The HBP Foresight Lab will study the views, attitudes and strategies of key stakeholders with methods from the empirical social sciences involving interviews, focus groups and other assessment methods, while simultaneously using systematic foresight techniques such as modelling, horizon scanning and scenario planning, a strategy which has reached its highest stage of development in the UK (www.bis.gov.uk/foresight) . Studies of the philosophical and conceptual implications of HBP will contribute to on going debates about a broad range of issues ranging from the neural bases of human selfhood and higher mental functions to the concepts of personhood, free will, and consciousness. Attempts to achieve public dialogue and engagement during the development of new technologies have used a range of methods and approaches including consensus conferences, citizen juries, stakeholder workshops, deliberative polling, focus groups and various forms of public dialogue. It is important that the HBP Ethics and Society Programme respects scientists' legitimate desire to inform the public about their research, while avoiding self-conscious attempts to steer public opinion in a particular direction.
5 - Transdisciplinary education

Despite frequent calls to broaden the scope of academic education programs, a lot of undergraduate education and most post-graduate education is highly specialised. As a consequence, it is highly unusual that a life sciences student receives more than a superficial introduction to medicine or computing; similarly medical students learn little about computing and have only a limited training in biology; computer scientists have virtually no training in any discipline outside their own. Very few young scientists receive any training at all on issues related to innovation, i.e. IPR management, legal and organisational solutions for exploiting research results, how to write a business plan, etc. In a situation in which ICT and the life sciences are converging, the specialist nature of current curricula makes it difficult for the HBP and for society to recruit personnel with the transdisciplinary skills they need.
An important goal for the HBP is therefore to design and implement a broad programme of transdisciplinary education that helps to train the young scientists the project requires, while simultaneously meeting broader societal needs. A key role in the programme will be played by MOOCs (Massive Open On-line Courses), involving video documentation of lectures as well as formal on-line examinations with certificates awarded by the affiliated universities. HBP will establish a multi-university certification process. While MOOCs will be targeted toward the estimated 5,000 students over the ten years of the project, MOOCs are additionally open to any student world-wide. MOOCs will also serve as a selection process for new students to be recruited into the HBP.
6 - Develop a framework for collaboration

The European Commission's goal is to turn the FET Flagship Programme into a new model of research funding that optimises collaboration among different sources of funding, reduces administrative overhead and provides effective support for long-term visionary projects such as the HBP. The project's planned European Research Programme's activities will support this goal.
plus others)"

OR build god enough A.I.'s.

BOTH are due in 2022.


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