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

11 March, 2020

Big Artificial Intelligence Enhancement

According to Tesler's Theorem:
AI is whatever hasn't been done yet.
Google has programmed open-source TensorFlow Quantum - bringing together the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing. Xanadu AI now also has the same merge with their own open-source quantum framework.
A quantum computer is a new type of computer that stores and acts on information in its quantum form.
Dave Bacon, Google AI Quantum team

27 February, 2020

Beware – Online Marketplaces Are Dangerous

Most dangerous items:
  • USB chargers
  • Plastic toys
  • Children's clothing
  • Smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms that don't work
  • Teeth whitening products
66% of them fail EU safety laws with possible consequences such as electric shock, fire, or suffocation, the BEUC network says.
Read more about BEUC - The European Consumer Organisation (from the French name Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs, "European Bureau of Consumers' Unions") - official website here.

16 February, 2020

Download Graphene Manufacturing Handbook Funded by the European Union

Graphene is a new wonder material, but producing it was a problem. Problem is now solved - "Graphene Flagship" publishes handbook of graphene manufacturing, you can download it here: http://bit.ly/graphenewhitebook

About Graphene
Batteries, Space Elevator, desalination process, CPUs – they could all run on graphene in the near future.

About Graphene Flagship
With a budget of €1 billion, the Graphene Flagship represents a new form of joint, coordinated research on an unprecedented scale, forming Europe's biggest ever research initiative.
https://graphene-flagship.eu/

2020 Doomsday Clock Closer Than Ever

Picked quotes from around the world:
Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers—nuclear war and climate change—that are compounded by a threat multiplier
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
We'd never seen a temperature this high in Antarctica
Brazilian scientist Carlos Schaefer
The main reason for this (global emergency) declaration (of COVID-19) is not because of what is happening in China, but because of what is happening in other countries. Our (WHO) greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems
Tedros Adhanom, Director-General of the World Health Organization

2020 Doomsday Clock Closer than ever: It is 100 seconds to midnight


My solution

Please stop with all inconsiderate movements.
This article will make you think: Coronavirus or antibiotic resistance: Our appetite for animals (wild and domestic) poses big disease risks by Laura H. Kahn

19 September, 2019

It's Possible to Build a 'Space Elevator' With the Present Day Technology!

A space elevator is a proposed type of planet-to-space transportation system. The main component would be a cable (also called a tether) anchored to the surface and extending into space.
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A new study suggests that humans can actually build a “space elevator” using existing technologies. Rather than building a space elevator up from Earth, build a 'spaceline' down from the Moon, say astrophysicists Zephyr Penoyre from the University of Cambridge in the UK, and Emily Sandford from Columbia University in New York.

Read the older article: https://www.blogger.luka.jagor.info/2017/04/my-view-of-building-space-elevator_27.html

25 August, 2019

Categorizing and Exploring the Universe

1. Solar System
2. Milky Way Galaxy
3. Observable Universe
4. Undefined
5. Multiverse
I hope it will help for better understanding.

All images above are courtesy of the Pixabay - 1 million+ Stunning Free Images to Use Anywhere.

Given enough time and the right technology (and assuming there’s not some serious competition), we might even be able to colonize the entire Milky Way galaxy someday

Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Famous "Gaia" Book Series Author - James Lovelock

Scientist James Lovelock had set up the "Gaia hypothesis" back in 1969. It's "the Earth viewed as a vast self-regulating organism". The hypothesis contributed significantly to our understanding of global warming. I would recommend everyone to read his books about Gaia. James Lovelock is still vital, though at an advanced age.

Happy birthday dear James Lovelock!

23 August, 2019

Vegan Parents Couple Avoid Jail

An Australian couple, who fed their baby daughter a strict vegan diet resulting in severe malnourishment, has avoided jail time. The couple was sentenced to an 18-month jail term to be served as a community order.
There is a huge difference between vegetarian and vegan. Vegetarians don't eat animal products, but vegans don't eat animal products and by-products (e.g. eggs).In my opinion vegan diet isn't good, it is lacking proteins, vitamin B-12, zinc, iron, calcium...

Another example I would like to point out is how vegans supplement milk: they use soy,  rice, or almond milk, but are there any almonds in your almond milk?
I'll remain "Lacto-Ovo vegetarian" - do not eat meat, poultry, or fish, but do eat eggs and dairy products, because improved health is one of the major benefits of a vegetarian diet, and it's good for the environment.

11 August, 2019

Happy World Elephant Day - August 12

Protecting elephants is an important part of fighting climate change. Why? Because every day across Africa and Asia, elephants disperse billions of seeds, some of which will grow into the forests of tomorrow, sequestering and storing carbon, generating rainfall and stabilizing our climate. Save the elephants to save the forests to save the world!
Ian Redmond OBE, Wildlife biologist and Ambassador for the UNEP Convention on Migratory Species
Photo: Pixabay

This important species is facing a crisis.
TAKE ACTION - Donate to help raise awareness of the issues faced by elephants worldwide:
https://worldelephantday.org/take-action

31 July, 2019

5G is Coming to Customers - Update

Wireless can have the same low latency and high reliability as a wireline connection
Durga Malladi - Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
5G technology will revolutionize the industry, but there is a long road to a smart city, or "Internet of Things" reality, in about five years. Also with a help of mixed or augmented reality, you will be able to learn or repair something easier.

Read about another viewpoint, my criticism of mixed reality / electronic contact lens hardware:

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 (𝖣𝖮𝖤) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (𝖯𝖯𝖯𝖫), 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 𝙰𝙸 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 (𝖨𝖳𝖤𝖱) 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 𝖠𝖨 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 𝖠𝖨 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 𝖠𝖨 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

𝖭𝖠𝖲𝖠'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 (𝖣𝖥𝖣) - a day when people come together and inform themselves about the ever-growing importance of Open Standards. 𝖣𝖥𝖣 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 Vukićević and WebVR from the Mozilla community:
Vladimir Vukićević 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



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