I wanted to start this article by describing the way it must feel to lose your eyesight slowly, one day…
The Most Beautiful Mathematical Proofs, vol. 1, Maxim Perumal.
Synthetic Biology seeks to use and expand the mechanisms that control biological organisms using…
How can we be in Conversation with the rest of life? What are we Relating to?
Great outline, Jeff! There were obvious issues that cause the tragic death of hundreds of ‘trusting' passengers and pilots. To me, the issue is much bigger and this is just the ‘canary in the coal mine’.
These artificially intelligent systems severely failed due to errors by their creator. Errors in accuracy, errors in…
I once had a discussion with a PhD student in physics regarding potatoes, whether it was a vegetable or not. My opinion was that potatoes aren’t vegetables. I supported my argument through references to the scientific, the nutritional and the culinary definition…
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On March 8th, 2019 approximately 200 high schoolers, myself included, gathered at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to present original scientific research. Four projects would leave WRSEF with the…
Why are we here? Why do we exist?
People live in groups creating local societies. Living together leads to rules of behavior making for a structure of the society which evolves in time .In primitive societies its structure is largely defined by the function of the people in it,eg a hunter,a farmer ,a…
Another well-written piece from ASDeller. Thx.
It’s nice to know that there are exoplanets that we can at least “assume” are habitable even if assumptions are so different from realities.
But we won’t have to worry about exterminating an alien civilization since we won’t have starships for centuries…
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To be pedantic, Snow’s action wasn’t what we’d call science now. He had an unorthodox hypothesis that there was “something” spreading in the water rather than the air, based on a map and some eyeball correlation. No statistics were involved and certainly no there was no believable mechanism. On the contrary.