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This week John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries in machine learning and neural networks. In 2019, Hopfield helped Nautilus contributing editor George Musser design his own neural network. https://lnkd.in/gwNjvUU7
Build Your Own Artificial Neural Network. It’s Easy!
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Paleotempestology, an esoteric subniche of imprecise weather science, promises to uncover patterns of historical hurricanes—to better predict destructive weather of the future. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gr-fhgA7
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Quit worrying whether time is money. Start appreciating time’s true value. Behavioral scientist Ashley Williams wants you to stop feeling crushed for time. Read more: https://lnkd.in/giFKKDNS
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Why don't we have a hangover cure pill yet? One reason: the exact mechanisms of what causes a hangover still elude scientists. https://lnkd.in/gddwQ3M6
The Painful Wait for a Hangover Pill
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Once there were flowers, there was fruit. Once there was fruit, plants could enlist the help of animals in a kind of trade: sweetness for a lift to a mate, and a new world of warm-blooded mammals came alive. In some poetic sense, flowers invented love.
Flowers and the Birth of Ecology
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“The only way to communicate with a creature that is very different from you, and you can make no assumptions at all about how they encode language or meaning, is just killing them.” Artificial life & intelligence expert Olaf Witkowski thinks the only way to begin that dialogue is to try and kill them. He argues that the only universal basis of communication, the sole feature that all life shares, whatever its form—because it is built into the very definition of life—is that life wants to live. It strives to maintain itself, because if it didn’t, it wouldn’t survive the depredations of the world.
If You Meet ET in Space, Kill Him
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A team of scientists at Cornell University's Organic Robotics Lab recently developed crawling and rolling robots that are powered by mycelia's bioelectrical signaling. Robert Shepherd, one of the authors of a recently published paper about this project, imagines fungal cyborgs could be used to create a kind of circulatory system inside robots, one that would transmit energy from one component to another—“like a venous network…inside a machine.” Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gJps5mia
The March of the Mushroom Robots
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If AI could allow us to understand the vocalizations of whales, and possibly even speak back to them, what should we say? Should we say anything at all? Researchers involved in understanding whale communication stress that it’s still early days. Scientists know some things about whale vocalizations, having recorded their songs, clicks, whistles, and calls for decades. They know that many species, such as humpbacks, differ geographically in their vocalizations—a phenomenon akin to local dialects—sometimes picking up songs from their neighbors. If researchers do manage to get a handle on the meaning of whale vocalizations—with or without using playback experiments—the question remains what we should do with that technology. Read more on Nautilus at the link below.
Speaking With Whales
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In his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about trees, The Overstory, first excerpted in Nautilus, Richard Powers writes, “The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” Well, Richard's back with another good story, this time turning his attention to the ocean. Discover Richard's "3 Greatest Revelations" while writing his latest novel, Playground. https://lnkd.in/eWUP6eu4
Our Magnificent Ocean
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