"Stanford software analyzed a pool of about 50,000 images, slotting each into one of 10 categories, such as “dogs,” “horses,” and “trucks.” It was right about 80 percent of the time. Karpathy took the same test and completely smoked the AI code, scoring 94 percent. Karpathy, himself a graduate student at Stanford, thought humans would beat machines on this type of test for a long time. “[I]t will be hard to go above 80 percent,” he wrote in a blog post, referring to AI algorithms, “but I suspect improvements might be possible up to range of about 85-90 percent.”
Boy, was he wrong.
Last year, a system built by researchers at Google aced another, more complex, image recognition test, called ImageNet, scoring 93.4 percent accuracy (you can see how Google’s software performed on the test here). Again, Karpathy, with some colleagues at Stanford, went head-to-head with the system. But this time, they bombed what was a much more complex test, initially scoring about an 85 percent accuracy rate. Comparing the ImageNet test to the 2011 test software isn’t exactly an apples-to-apples comparison, but here’s the point: Humans were easily beating AI software in 2011; now that’s not the case. Not by a long shot. more>>
"Hundreds of artificial intelligence scientists will be in Austin for an international conference next week.
University of Texas professors and students have a number of gadgets to show off at the conference, including some robots that aren't controlled by humans and can play soccer all by themselves."
"Yes, we have invented a way to unboil a hen egg," said Gregory Weiss, UCI professor of chemistry and molecular biology & biochemistry. "In our paper, we describe a device for pulling apart tangled proteins and allowing them to refold. We start with egg whites boiled for 20 minutes at 90 degrees Celsius and return a key protein in the egg to working order.">>>> more
At some point scientists who hold there are no laws in the universe are going to have to capitulate.
If law --> then prediction - and retrodiction (backwards in time).
NB
Anything capable of existing is capable of being retrieved. That is true for boiled eggs and it is true for dead men.
Information is incapable of destruction (Susskind).
Everything in the cosmos exists by laws, is defined by laws, is predicted and retrodicted by laws.
The dead will be rebuilt by the future, exti9nct species are already being brought back to life. Science is advancing. At some point Man will have enough machine intelligence to describe anyone who has ever lived - than resurrect him.
If this is revolutionary, to argue against it is to reject science.
The psychological difficulty stares into our faces that death does not, has not cannot exist. To expect to die is blind ignorance of the way the universe works. No-one has died.No-one can die. Death is a fallacy. As long as anything exists recovery is possible. This is true for eggs, for men and for universes.
It is the basis of Archaeology, of forensics, of court trials, of memory and of the laws of physics.
We cant yet describe complete reversal processes but accelerating science will have enough skill at some point in the future to achieve resurrection.
The environment - which includes people - can be conveniently described as coordinates of space-time grids. Our lives are zillions of plots on this grid - the Quantum Archaeology Grid (above). With enough knowledge of the laws of science and a very few readings of plots in the present, any dead person will become describable as science advances: then microrobots will reassemble them.
I am arguing from philosophical principles and side-stepping the confused battle ground where classical and quantum physics clash.
The greatest proof is first resurrections, and our present level of complexity allows resurrecting extinct species (prototypes) but not yet specific individuals - which is greater magnitude for calculation.
Thus it is that Resurrection of Dead is a matter of calculation alone.
Sequence Manipulation Suite: Reverse Translate Reverse Translate accepts a protein sequence as input and uses a codon usage table to generate a DNA sequence representing the most likely non-degenerate coding sequence. A consensus sequence derived from all the possible codons for each amino acid is also returned. Use Reverse Translate when designing PCR primers to anneal to an unsequenced coding sequence from a related species.
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One way back is via the tree of life at molecular levels.
This will be synthesised with the environment models and cross- checked for errors.
The errors n resurrecting a living man from 100's of millions of years ago would be too small to be significant to him.
"Imagine that you could tell your phone that you want to drive from your house in Boston to a hotel in upstate New York, that you want to stop for lunch at an Applebee's at about 12:30, and that you don't want the trip to take more than four hours. Then imagine that your phone tells you that you have only a 66 percent chance of meeting those criteria -- but that if you can wait until 1:00 for lunch, or if you're willing to eat at TGI Friday's instead, it can get that probability up to 99 percent."
The AnyScale Learning For All (ALFA) Group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) aims to solve the most challenging big-data problems -- questions that go beyond the scope of typical analytics. ALFA applies the latest machine learning and evolutionary computing concepts to target very complex problems that involve high dimensionality."
Entanglement on a chip: Breakthrough promises faster computers
New research, reported today in The Optical Society's (OSA) new high-impact journal Optica, describes how a team of scientists has developed, for the first time, a microscopic component that is small enough to fit onto a standard silicon chip that can generate a continuous supply of entangled photons.">>
SpaceEngine - a free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
"Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a new procedure that uses modified messenger RNA to quickly and efficiently increase the length of human telomeres, the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes that are associated with aging and disease. Treated cells behave as if they are much younger than untreated cells, multiplying with … more…
"Moore’s law, the prediction in 1965 that there would be a doubling of transistors in a chip every 2 years, has relentlessly marched on. Now, in parallel, there is a doubling every 5 years of the number of mobile devices connected via the Internet, leading to approximately 50 billion in 20201 (Table). This leads to the projection that in the next 5 years there will be almost 7 connected devices per individual." more
Trying to alter and warn of climate change is an ancient impulse in man.
"At the Cara Blanca site in Belize, archaeologists report the discovery of a water temple complex: a small plaza holding the collapsed remnants of a lodge and two smaller structures. The main structure rests beside a deep pool where pilgrims offered sacrifices to the Maya water god
[I dont think we understand climate yet, but we need to get control of it. More people die from the environment than ever have by war.]
"Though the complex models say there is 0.6 °C manmade warming "in the pipeline" even if we stop emitting greenhouse gases, the simple model - confirmed by almost two decades without any significant global warming - shows there is no committed but unrealized manmade warming still to come. There is no scientific justification for the IPCC's extreme RCP 8.5 global warming scenario that predicts up to 12 °C global warming as a result of our industrial emissions of greenhouse gases.
Once errors like these are corrected, the most likely global warming in response to a doubling of CO2 concentration is not 3.3 °C but 1 °C or less. Even if all available fossil fuels were burned, less than 2.2 °C warming would result."
Constructed sometime around 2500 B.C., Loanhead of Daviot is a recumbent stone circle comprised of a large recumbent stone, two stones flanking the recumbent stone, and eight other stones in a circle that is 67 feet in diameter. In the middle of the low Bronze Age cairn within the circle is a rectangular mortuary pit, which some report may be the oldest part of the site. Nearby is a circular cremation cemetery, which was in use about 1500 B.C. Found were a number of cremated remains of adults and infants."
[a difficulty is you want to keep pushing generating more axioms. This leaves people behind and it's frsutrat8ng to have to answer basic questions because you want to keep discovering. In QA this means discovering quicker ways to plot space-time coordinates to raise the dead.
It happens all the time but people think that humans are special cases in physics whereas physics doesn't ever say that.
If you view the whole world as Cause & Effect you can do enough engineering to reconstruct the past.
My quaint view of physics is things are cause & effect when you can observe (measure ) them and you have to use probability when you dint know enough to be able to measure them except in groups. Quantum Theory isn't a complete theory, and as no-one says they understand it, I cant learn it.
Until then resurrecting the dead will be done in classical physics, and I'll bet that the world is describable deterministically in the future , which is bad philosophy. As Edward Witten
says one makes bets based on best theories and the outcomes are unknown. But we're moving rapidly into the age of Artificial Intelligence, where machines not only calculate but calculate innovative, absorb information at unimaginable speeds, inventing shortcuts and doing original research and discovery, also at blinding accelerating speeds.
Q A is correct in my bet:) An amazing testimony is the clarity of Ed Witten's mind: no jumbled learning to confuse & muddle him later on!]
[As a Socratic lead:
1. Do you think Archaeology is being done?
2. Do you accept test have confirmed forensic archaeology can rebuild faces from skulls?
3. Have you see work to build replicas of body and faces from DNA?
4. Have you looked at evolutionary biology of Thomton's lab which has resurrected a 800 million year old extinct proton pump and tested it successfully in yeast?
5. Have you noticed de-extinction progress?
6. Have to seen science advancing? Mathematics advancing?
7. Isn't Artificial Intelligence getting smarter?
8. Cant you see computers advancing?
9. Technology advancing?
10. How can recovery halt then?
My aim isn't to do the work myself but kick it into debate where the truth and techniques will be worked out.
No-one has died.
& I challenge the assumption in our philosophy that death could ever be a final state which is contra science. Information is incapable of destruction (Susskkind)
But we've been taught this like some holy incantation, alongside man is special outside physics because he has free will and consciousness (and other attributes) nothing else does. Animals were said not to have these special gifts, but Darwin showed we are animals.
Death fear is huge and by aged 7 or so we learn to accept it as a final state, although chemical experiments show stuff reversing we were supposed to be so special we were finished on death.
It's pitiful. Pathos. Unhealthy (sic) . So I see religion...which I've side stepped in QA so far..it needs a paper on it...as death worship...but it's utterly false and a hangover from our ape past where we couldn't anticipate the coming power of science and technology.
Death is finished - because it never was. The next quest for philosophy is the abolition of suffering a complete solution not the bits medicine is giving. I think that can be done. ]
"correlation between RNA's that are expressed together within different parts of the Caulerpa cell with those expressed together in the multicellular organs of tomato. Even though the lineage that Caulerpa belongs to probably separated from that giving rise to land plants more than 500 million years ago, in many ways Caulerpa displays patterns of RNA accumulation shared with land plants today."
"In AD 79, the eruption of Vesuvius covered all of Herculaneum with some 30 m of volcanic ash. Its remains were first excavated in the years between 1750 and 1765 by Karl Weber by means of underground tunnels. Its name derives from the discovery of a library in the house containing 1,785 carbonized papyrus scrolls, the "Herculaneum papyri". wiki
"Without unrolling the scrolls, Seales' software will run extremely high-resolution images from the tangled surfaces, making sense of the jumbled letters into words, and words into passages. "The software will combine novel methods for finding the scroll surfaces together with a user-guided interface for correcting mistakes and improving the automatic first-guess,"
"Many scholars believe that additional scrolls may be buried in the Villa of the Papyri, which was only partially excavated in 1752. Since the upper-floor library was found in a state of transition—as if someone was moving the scrolls to safety at the time of the eruption—many scholars believe the house's main library has not yet been found."
last summer the AP partnered with Automated Insights to begin automating quarterly earnings reports using their Wordsmith platform. You wouldn't necessarily know it at first blush. Sure, maybe reading it in the context of this story it's apparent, but otherwise it feels like a pretty standard, if a tad dry, AP news item. The obvious tell doesn't come until the end of an article: "This story was generated by Automated Insights."
"50-foot-long 'dragon' dinosaur species discovered in China
The long-necked Qijianglong lived about 160 million years ago in the Late Jurassic period
Sauropods, a category of dinosaurs that includes the Diplodocus, typically had necks that comprised up to a third of their body size. A new species of dinosaur described in a recent Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology had a neck that could stretch up to 25 feet long, which is half its body length.
The dino has been named Qijianglong (pronounced "CHI-jyang-lon"), which means "dragon of Qijiang." Its bones were discovered near China's Qijiang City by construction workers in 2006. It belongs to a family of sauropods known as mamenchisaurids. Miraculously, when the beast was unearthed, its head was still attached to its vertebrae, something extremely unusual in the paleontology world.
"It is rare to find a head and neck of a long-necked dinosaur together" more>>
"A group of scientists has identified a biological clock that could help predict how long we live, according to a study.
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with researchers in Australia and the US studied chemical changes to DNA to establish an individual's biological age which they compared with their actual age, the Mirror reported Friday.
The results showed that people with biological age greater than their true age were more likely to die sooner than those whose biological and actual ages were the same.
Four independent studies tracked the lives of almost 5,000 older people for up to 14 years.
Each person's biological age was measured from a blood sample at the outset and participants were followed up throughout the study.
Researchers found that the link between having a faster-running biological clock and early death held true -- even after considering factors like smoking, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
"This new research increases our understanding of longevity and healthy ageing," said the study's lead author Ian Deary from the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology.
The researchers measured each person's biological age by studying a chemical modification to DNA, known as methylation, which can affect many genes and occur throughout a person's life. "
HIDDEN IN YOUR GENES-->
[A man's life can be represented in detail as a line on a chart:
Quantum Archaeology Grid (above) proposes to plot people and all events we can as trajectory lines on a mo0vinmg grid
You can run the grid forwards and backwards.
Plot points are related via the laws of physics.
No event is missed, and all are related by coordinates.
Each new event plotted effects ll others, by small amounts close by but by large amounts further off (the butterfly effect). ]
"Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have used new deep-brain imaging techniques to link the activity of individual, genetically similar neurons to particular behaviors of freely moving mice. For the first time ever, scientists watched as one neuron was activated when a mouse searched for food while a nearly identical neuron next to it remained … more…"
Nerve cells use a much larger repertoire of data-processing structures than previously thought. Research at LMU and in Regensburg shows that the so-called spines on the dendritic processes of neurons are able to process stimuli locally.
A recent study by teams of neurobiologists based at LMU and Regensburg addresses the role of the short protrusions called "spines" that form on the dendrites of nerve cells in the mammalian olfactory bulb. Dendrites serve as receptors for signals delivered by the so-called axons of other neurons. As the researchers now report in in the journal Neuron, their findings show that each of the many spines on the dendritic "trees" on these nerve cells is capable of processing incoming signals locally and independently of the activation state of the rest of the cell. In other words, each dendritic spine operates as an independent computational unit." more>>>
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'Alcohol archaeologist' creates authentic ales and wines using 2,000-year-old residues in pots
[there's a serious side to this]
detected traces of various ingredients left by the drinks - including barley, honey, herbs and spices - using a number of methods including liquid chromatography, gas chromatography and mass spectrometry.
The first drink that he recreated is named the Midas Touch, and is based on molecular evidence from residues found inside a Turkish tomb, believed to have belonged to King Midas, dating back to 700 BC.
A variety of alcoholic residues have been found inside important tombs around the world - suggesting that they were drinks used during celebrations or rituals and perhaps even to wish good luck to the dead in the afterlife.
The sweet and dry Midas Touch beer is made using honey, white muscat grapes and saffron.
The oldest beer that Dr McGovern brewed is entitled Chateau Jiahu, the ingredients for which were discovered inside a 9,000-year-old tomb in China." more>>>
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Interesting area of psychology to think about. I dont need it to deconstruct a human being.
