Showing posts with label On the verge of science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label On the verge of science. Show all posts

25 July, 2019

Artificial Intelligence Speeds Up the Artificial Sun Project — AI Software to Find Holy Grail in Fusion Energy

William Tang is a principal research physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (๐–ฃ๐–ฎ๐–ค) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (๐–ฏ๐–ฏ๐–ฏ๐–ซ), he leads a team of scientists that uses Artificial intelligence to develop clean, virtually limitless fusion energy.

Fusion, which drives the sun and stars, is that generates energy. It is very important to forecast disruptions — the sudden loss of confinement of plasma particles and energy to make commercial fusion energy work.

Disruptions are that can halt fusion reactions and damage the doughnut-shaped tokamaks that house the reactions. Researchers are using Deep Learning techniques for ๐™ฐ๐™ธ to predict disruptions accurately and even preventing disruptions from happening in the first place.
With that level of accuracy and that amount of time, people running the machine would have time to either mitigate the disruption by cooling the plasma or even by finding a way to avoid it entirely
professor Tang said

U.S. Department of Energy - Science - 425 003 001 (9786811206).jpg
Cutaway diagram of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (๐–จ๐–ณ๐–ค๐–ฑ) the largest tokamak in the world, which began construction in 2013 and is projected to begin operation in 2035. It is intended as a demonstration that a practical fusion reactor is possible, and will produce 500 megawatts of power. The blue human figure at the bottom shows the scale.

Image by U.S. Department of Energy from the United States - 425 003 001, Public Domain, Link

14 July, 2019

Waves of Artificial Intelligence Behavior

In April ๐– ๐–จ news diminished the value of Google's DeepMind - it nearly flunked high school math, but a turnover came recently when scientists build incredibly accurate universe simulations with a help of artificial intelligence. The sweet problem for the scientists is not knowing how such an accurate universe simulation is being rendered, they should check up, and "debug" every pixel it produces.

Overall, it's not so sweet seeing ๐– ๐–จ behaving whimsically, and capriciously - but then again it was anticipated that it's so hard to teach artificial intelligence notions like common sense.
The importance of knowing what goals ๐– ๐–จ should have is imperative, whether they are local (small) or global (cumulative set of local goals). For me, it's frustrating, as an artificial intelligence enthusiast, to see challenges like global hunger, diseases, and the Millennium Prize Problems won't go away just now, but maybe sometime soon.

20 May, 2019

My View on the Vertical Farming

Zero Hunger is a part of the Sustainable Development Goals and projections of population growth predict that the human population will reach 9 billion in 2050. Vertical farming should not be considered as a joke and laughing stock anymore, but be careful which farm you’re buying. In order to make your calculation faultless, you should know all the facts. I like vertical farming because there is no use of pesticides, I urge you to enable plants circadian rhythm.

Vertical Farming by Numbers

28 April, 2019

My Example of How Prejudicial Thinking Can Lead to Dangerous Indoctrination

๐–ญ๐– ๐–ฒ๐– 's InSight Mars Lander is equipped with a seismometer to measure all possible marsquakes, but I'm more interested in moonquakes. It's important to say about this particular subject that moonquakes (the lunar equivalents of earthquakes) were heavily studied in the 1970s. A moonquake can shake the ground for hours. Man often says "The first footprints put on the Moon will probably stay as long as the Moon itself lasts", implying the Space Age has started recently, for the first time.

For all we know, considering mankind exists 200,000 years, and the Moon's surface entropy, it's possible we've been there before. Thinking that the Space Age began recently may be wrong thinking, that kind of prejudice can lead to dangerous indoctrination.

I hope my generation will make some positive mark in mankind that will truly be memorable, something more than Moon/Mars landings.

27 March, 2019

Document Freedom Day (DFD)

Today is March 27, 2019 - Document Freedom Day (๐–ฃ๐–ฅ๐–ฃ) - a day when people come together and inform themselves about the ever-growing importance of Open Standards. ๐–ฃ๐–ฅ๐–ฃ is all about compatibility, is more than documents.  During Document Freedom Day people discuss formats and protocols which everybody can use free of charge and restriction.

22 March, 2019

Amazing 4 Hi-Tech Giants

  1. Microsoft
    Head and shoulders photo of Bill Gates
    Bill Gates - principal founder of Microsoft - Image by United States Department of Health and Human Services - https://www.flickr.com/photos/hhsgov/39912162735/, Public Domain, Link
  2. Apple
    Tim Cook 2009 cropped.jpg
    Tim Cook - Chief Executive Officer of Apple - Image by Tim_Cook_2009.jpg: Kindly granted by Valery Marchive (LeMagIT) derivative work: RanZag (talk) - Tim_Cook_2009.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link
  3. Amazon.com
    Jeff Bezos at Amazon Spheres Grand Opening in Seattle - 2018 (39074799225) (cropped).jpg
    Jeff Bezos - the founder, chairman, CEO, and president of Amazon - Image by Seattle City Council from Seattle - https://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlecitycouncil/39074799225/, CC BY 2.0, Link
  4. Alphabet - Google
    Larry Page in the European Parliament, 17.06.2009 (cropped).jpg
    Larry Page - principal founder of Google - Image by Stansfield PL - Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

Those 4 amazing hi-tech multinationals have an extraordinary market capitalization of around 4 trillion dollars (trillion dollars can be thought of like a million of million), each with a similar value (around a trillion each). They are the biggest public companies listed in the stock market in the world.

17 February, 2019

New Protocols, Standards, File Types

Are you into virtual reality (a gamer)? What is the difference between WebGL, ‎OpenGL, WebVR? Are you into cryptocurrencies? What is the difference between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple?

In my youth internet was becoming more and more popular, for web designers it was all about HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Web developers did programming with PHP, MYSQL, and the help of web designers.

Tomislav Uzelac is the Croatian programmer who created AMP, considered the first successful (real-time) MP3 player. When MP3 got popular it was all about MP3/MP3-VB, AAC, Ogg for people into music processing.

Now I would like to introduce you to Vladimir Vukiฤ‡eviฤ‡ and WebVR from the Mozilla community:
Vladimir Vukiฤ‡eviฤ‡ is a Serbian-born American Software Engineer, known mostly for his work on open-source graphics libraries, including those used in the Mozilla projects. Mozilla came out recently with "Firefox Reality - A new browser for virtual reality".

I hope for reconciliation between the Serbs and the Croatians at all levels.

Good luck to all of you hard-working people!

23 January, 2019

"Crypto Secunday Market Fizzled Out" -Which Cryptocurrency Will Prevail?

18 months of absolutely insane, everybody was trying to do an ICO (Initial Coin Offering), 99% of all of them was some sort of scam ... ... it's a good thing that now crypto secunday market have, in some way, fizzled out

Edith Yeung, 500 Startups Partner
The price of bitcoin could nosedive to zero ... ... if bitcoin is pegged against the gold standard, which is about 7 triliun it would be responsible for 20% CO2 production

Jeff Schumacher, founder of BCG Digital Ventures

Watch video and more on the CNBS website https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/bitcoin-price-going-to-zero-davos-future-of-blockchain-tech-.html

Image by WikimediaImages from Pixabay
Whatever technology prevails it should be eco-friendly! Bitcoin is first and foremost, I would like to believe in technology, hoping bitcoin can be tweaked to be more efficient.





P2P-network.svg
A peer-to-peer (P to P) network in which interconnected nodes ("peers") share resources amongst each other without the use of a centralized administrative system
By User:Mauro Bieg - Own work, Public Domain, Link

By Ripple - https://ripple.com/, Public Domain, Link
Huge market capitalization has XRP | Ripple. The ripple payment protocol is very fast, it delivers transactions in real-time.

03 January, 2019

My View of China's Landing on Unexplored Moon’s Surface

First of all, I would like to congratulate the Chinese on this great success. Moon lander probe will send back important information to all of mankind. The exquisite visit of "Yutu-2" to the moon is yet another highlight of making humans a multi-planetary species. I hope such an act will produce a benevolent effect regarding territorial pretensions on the ground. There is so much space in the Universe, we just have to figure out a way to use it.

Opinion: The best of #SpaceChina & more



24 March, 2018

Earth Hour 2018: How do you Connect2Earth?

I'm so happy, I quitted smoking, as I promised last year during Earth Hour 2017!!
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11 March, 2018

My Denial of the Flat Earth Society Idea

Maybe people supporting the 'Flat Earth Society' idea just want a tour of the ๐–ญ๐– ๐–ฒ๐–  / ๐–ค๐–ฒ๐–  / SpaceX facilities and some personal insights like 'One Direction' has had. One should do a reality check of this particular matter:

It looks like a 'magic carpet' from some children's fairy tales, but it has nothing to do with reality. The viral nature of the idea reminds me of the vast spread of Scientology in the 20th century.

I don't share any of those ideas: no 'Flat Earth Society' please, no 'Scientology' please, and no 'Family medicine - Fake religion' please. I don't support pharmaceuticals in psychiatry neither, it is too invasive, but rather Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis and talking. In this busy, alienated world I understand there is no time for people in need and I hope that will change.

Many people are now greedy, some would even rob instead of helping a victim lying on the street. You can read more about the bystander effect here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect

Vasnetsov samolet.jpg
The Flying Carpet, a depiction of the hero of Russian folklore, Ivan Tsarevich, from Wikipedia
Image by Viktor Vasnetsov - belygorod.ru, Public Domain, Link

03 March, 2018

112 Year of Knowing Asteroid 589 Croatia

The asteroid was discovered on 3 March 1906, located in the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 88 kilometers in diameter. Named after the independent country of Croatia, then part of Austria-Hungary, discovered by astronomer August Kopff at Heidelberg Observatory. It's so exciting celebrating this amazing anniversary from Zagreb, capital of Croatia, now an ๐–ค๐–ด member. Have a great day!

Graphene – New Wonder Material Based on Nanotechnology

Batteries, Space Elevator, desalination process, ๐–ข๐–ฏ๐–ดs – they could all run on graphene in the near future.



The Graphene Flagship is the ๐–ค๐–ด’s biggest research initiative, with a budget of €1 billion. Good luck!

25 January, 2018

Tokamak vs Stellarator - Candidates for Fusion Power

Tokamak device (left) and Stellarator device (right)

Tokamak fields lg.png
Tokamak magnetic field and current. Shown is the toroidal field and the coils (blue) that produce it, the plasma current (red) and the poloidal field creates by it, and the resulting twisted field when these are overlaid.

By http://www.fusionscience.org/technical/ASslides/ASslides.html, Public Domain, Link




W7X-Spulen Plasma blau gelb.jpg
Example of a stellarator design, as used in the Wendelstein 7-X experiment: A series of magnet coils (blue) surrounds the plasma (yellow). A magnetic field line is highlighted in green on the yellow plasma surface.

By Max-Planck Institut fรผr Plasmaphysik - Max-Planck Institut fรผr Plasmaphysik, CC BY 3.0Link



24 January, 2018

My Intuitive View on Multiverse

I believe in the multiverse as much as I believe in angels. I was talking to many heavy pot users and these are their pipe dreams about a particular subject:
There are so many scientific "yada yada yada" about multiverse. I think String theories are overrated. We need more consistent and provable unified field (forces) theory A.S.A.P.
I created my own multiverse classification based on intuition:
  1. Constant 
  2. Unstable 
  3. Irrational
I hope it will help someone. Please state your name and position and do comment on this breakthrough thinking ๐Ÿ˜ƒ 

    19 January, 2018

    Global Worming Is Very Real

    It takes time for the propagation of awareness regarding global warming, especially among elderly people. Global warming reaches a 1°C increase in the last 100 years. Nevertheless, I believe we should continue to work hard.

    Please listen to authorities and do exactly what they say regarding global warming/climate change.
    Data source: ๐–ญ๐– ๐–ฒ๐–  Goddard Institute for Space Studies (๐–ฆ๐–จ๐–ฒ๐–ฒ). Credit: ๐–ญ๐– ๐–ฒ๐– /๐–ฆ๐–จ๐–ฒ๐–ฒ

    07 January, 2018

    IDN (Internationalized domain name) from my perception

    An internationalized domain name (๐–จ๐–ฃ๐–ญ) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Tamil, Hebrew or the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacritics or ligatures, such as French. 
    IDN-utopia-greek.jpg
    Example of Greek ๐–จ๐–ฃ๐–ญ with a domain name in the non-Latin alphabet: ฮฟฯ…ฯ„ฮฟฯ€ฮฏฮฑ.ฮดฯ€ฮธ.gr
    By Adamantios - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link


    I live in Rudeลก, it's a neighborhood in Zagreb, almost all my life. Back in 2004 when I first started Rudeลก online (www.rudes.info) - web portal about Rudeลก, there were so many critics.

    As you can see, "Rudeลก" is a non-Latin name because it contains the non-Latin letter "ลก". At that time the Internet, a project of the United States of America (๐–ด๐–ฒ๐– ), had only Latin letters support in assigning domain names to IP addresses.

    It's a completely different story when you use the World Wide Web (abbreviated ๐–ถ๐–ถ๐–ถ or the Web) as an information space for your online content. Ever since the Web non-Latin chars are available for the content.

    Time has passed and now you can use your own, native letters and symbols for a website or email address name. There is little danger of phishing scams due to current technical limitations. Nevertheless, I would always redirect www.buecher.de ⇒ www.bรผcher.de, NOT www.bรผcher.de ⇒ www.buecher.de.

    Nowadays, there are talks about the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (๐–จ๐– ๐–ญ๐– )  and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (๐–จ๐–ข๐– ๐–ญ๐–ญ). There are some ideas that should be governed by the United Nations, but personally, I think ๐–จ๐– ๐–ญ๐–  and ๐–จ๐–ข๐– ๐–ญ๐–ญ should continue doing great work in the current frameset.

    16 December, 2017

    My view of the Atmospheric Incubator (Particles Deflector) as a part of terraforming (reblog 2015., edited)



    Although Atmospheric Incubator is a hypothetical megastructure, it's not as big as a Dyson sphere.



    Links:

    13 December, 2017

    Use or not to use "WWW." in your website URL?

    The World Wide Web (abbreviated ๐–ถ๐–ถ๐–ถ or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (๐–ด๐–ฑ๐–ซs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet.
    I believe you should always promote ๐–ง๐–ณ๐–ฌ๐–ซ (๐–ถ๐–ถ๐–ถ or the Web) technology, preventing it from falling into oblivion. The danger is real because these days ๐– ๐–ฏ๐–ฏ๐–ฒ are up and ๐–ถ๐–ถ๐–ถ is getting lower. Still, it is the cheapest, cross-platform technology for distributing all sorts of content. In some alternate reality world without ๐–ถ๐–ถ๐–ถ, ๐– ๐–ฏ๐–ฏ๐–ฒ would be very lonely, almost impossible for upkeeping, not democratic (meaning very expensive intended for a small group of people). Please be careful and always use "๐–ถ๐–ถ๐–ถ." in front of your brand ๐–ด๐–ฑ๐–ซ.
    I don't know why ๐–ข๐–ค๐–ฑ๐–ญ in Switzerland doesn't use it anymore. It was invented there by their employee for scientific purposes.

    Is it because of the unfavorable meaning of the original "web" word?


    Spider web - Wikipedia

    Webs allow a spider to catch prey without having to expend energy by running it down. Thus it is an efficient method of gathering food. However, constructing the web is in itself an energetically costly process because of the large amount of protein required, in the form of silk.

    Interdigital webbing - Wikipedia

    Interdigital webbing is the presence of membranes of skin between the digits. Normally in mammals, webbing is present in the embryo but resorbed later in development, but in various mammal species it occasionally persists in adulthood. In humans, it can be found in those suffering from ๐–ซ๐–ค๐–ฎ๐–ฏ๐– ๐–ฑ๐–ฃ syndrome and from Aarskog-Scott syndrome.

    Stephen Hawking Thinks AI Could Help Robots Take Over The World

    Artifical intelligence in robots could eventually allow them to replace humans.

    Nevertheless, please be careful while programming and, as Google would say it: "Do the right thing". I believe that including "๐–ถ๐–ถ๐–ถ." in your website ๐–ด๐–ฑ๐–ซ is the right thing, it shouldn't be taken for granted.

    I'm sure that some Internet gurus call ๐–ถ๐–ถ๐–ถ
    veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered๐Ÿ˜ƒ 

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