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Applying AI to the California Water Crisis?
Singularity University recently closed its 2015 Impact Challenge Contest, asking for “exponential technologies” to solve the California water crisis. (Winners will be announced in a few days from this writing, October 26th.) We decided to share our thoughts on the “crisis”, and the many solutions that exist. This includes solutions that can apply “exponential technologies” like artificial intelligence and big data approaches to the problem. (We’ve previously discussed the concept of “exponential” technology growth in the context of the superintelligence. As most experts readily admit, exponential technological growth is not actually a new phenomenon.) In particular, there is one tried-and-proven 19th-century technology that today widely employs “exponential” technologies like artificial intelligence. For some reason, California is not (yet) applying this technology to the water “crisis” despite America’s widespread familiarity with it. We found over 16 water conservation technologies (some we just remembered from old textbooks) that have been successfully applied elsewhere in the world, but not in tech-savvy California.… Read the restPhoto: 3-D printed ice igloo wins 3D printed habitat contest
Ice as 3D-printing material NASA recently picked this 3-D printed igloo as winner of their 3D printed habitat contest. We previously discussed (in our earlier blog article here) how 3D printing and 3D printers would be very important in Mars exploration (see our earlier Mars photo overload post here). A 3D printer is a miniature factory, and potentially a self-replicating one at that (provided you can find the raw materials). So you can send one 3D printer over and bootstrap the entire Martian manufacturing complex. Ice is present on Mars, and in most places the temperatures are cold enough to remain in the ice phase permanently, so it makes sense as a 3D printed material. Unfortunately, 3D-printers aren’t quite self-replicating yet, although they are getting close. So, in practice, you’d still need to send over a few parts, particularly some electronics components. Nevertheless, it seems quite possible that ice could be used as a raw 3d-printing manufacturing material on Mars, at least in the early days as infrastructure was being built up.… Read the restSpear: the earliest “superweapon” from the wood age
This is a photo of a spear (from Mesa Verde National Park). New research suggests is the earliest “superweapon” that the ancestors of humans developed (and probably drove evolution not just of our species but the whole genus.) The is is actually a rather advanced-looking model of a spear as it already attaches stone (so Stone Age). It is know that the ancestors of humans (preceeding our species) already using spears 400,000 to 500,000 years ago. Apparently there was a “wood age” that preceded the stone age (Wikipedia) by millions of years, but hasn’t survived much in the archaeological record. However, the latest evidence from just this year shows chimps already use spears in difficult circumstance (or rather sharped or broken sticks as spears, nothing as advanced here). This suggests the ancestors of humans used them 5-7 million years ago (and that early “superweapon” and need to make competent spears probably drove the evolution of our whole genus.… Read the restCollage of recent photo posts
Encore layout collage of some of our recent photo posts. There has bevy of site updates on our blog: Hit article on the super intelligence or why it might be no only already here but 40,000 years old (in response to comments by the inventor of www and celebrity retweets of other super intelligence articles) Ask us anything about data science careers in prep for an upcoming piece on what major publications are calling “the sexiest career of the 21st century” Subscribe to our feed burner feed. And our survey; keep our content relevant. It’s all on our blog. Post and some comments below may be synced from our original Instagram version. Instagram likes: (more…)… Read the restRecent Comments
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