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Superintelligence might be 40,000 years old?
10,000+ article views since 2015/06/27 Tim Berners-Lee’s corporations not the first forms of superintelligence? A topic that’s been retweeted by celebrity business leaders involves the prospect of a so-called artificial superintelligence on the horizon. This might be a boon to humanity or a terror, depending on who you read. Superintelligent artificial intelligence is related to the futurist and transhumanist concept of singularity. (So called because, as each generation of computers designs the next faster generation, technology and civilization shrinks under Moore’s law until vanishes into something like a black hole. Advancing towards the technological singularity is something of a Malthusian trap; fail and your civilization collapses violently (as we previously explored). It has been suggested that the technological singularity (together with convergent evolution) is the explanation for the Fermi Paradox. Superintelligence has been controversial of late as the topic of a bestselling book and rebuttals to it. Does the Singularity explain the Fermi Paradox?… Read the restGlitched Alice in Wonderland Collage Part 1
Some of our Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass posts were among our most popular and most liked photos. So, of course, we did a encore. Lewis was a professor. His novels are full of puzzles, so of course is dear to us as data scientists. We previously used two of these in our puzzle segment. Post and some comments below may be synced from our original Instagram version. Instagram likes: (more…)… Read the restSelf-replicating 3D printer: von Neumann machines on Mars?
Is this self-replicating 3D printer a von Neumann machine that will someday go to Mars? Yesterday, we experimented with our idea of Instagram to 3D printed jewelry for the more popular monochrome photos in our feed. The technology worked at some level (we have jewelry on Shapeways now, based on a previous IG photo post). But it took too long and too many artistic decisions to get it there. It wasn’t quite blinking lights automatic the way our earlier virtual fashion shoot could be. So this is a good time to step back and explain what 3D printing is or can become, for those we are less familiar with it. This is Mandel, a version of RepRap. RepRap is an open source hardware project to build a fully self-replicating 3D printer. That’s right, a 3D printer that can print a copy of itself. We’ve discussed the concept of self-replicating machines previously in posts on cellular automata.… Read the restNapoleon in Russia: Classic 19th Century Infographic
This is an amazing, classic 1869 French infographic and data visualization on Napoleon’s disastrous 1812-13 Russia campaign. Although it does not entirely fit into an Instagram square (this was originally published on IG), the very thick line in color is the Emperor of France’s army arriving. The extremely thin black lines are the surviving retreating troops staggering back home from Moscow. Frost bite and the bitter Russian winter were a major factor contributing to the heavy losses. (The temperature is shown in the bottom of the chart in Celsius, and you can see the impact of lower temperatures on the thinning black line. Had wind chills been understood in 1869, an even more dramatic correlation might have been possible.) This infographic is successful because it succinctly captures a great deal of information into a single figure. In addition to showing Napoleon’s dwindling troop strengths at various points in the campaign, a rough sense of chronology, geography (town names) and troop movements is given, together with the environmental conditions that contributed to the disaster. … Read the restRecent Posts
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