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Type 3 civilization (Hoag object ring galaxy photo)
Continuing our earlier Carl Sagan civilization post, today’s photo is Hoag’s object, a non-typical ring galaxy. A type III civilization would, be definition, be able to harness the entire energy of a reference galaxy. We left off earlier on the important wrinkle that Sagan added to the Kardashev scale on civilization advancement (and, by extension, the Leslie White scale on historical civilizations). Both of these scales focus on technology (with Kardashev focused on technology to harness energy), but Sagan also added information processing (data science!) to the scale. He defined a scale from A-Z to represent the amount of information available to a civilization, each letter representing a 10-fold increase, with A representing 10^6 and Z representing access to 10^31 bits of information. Sagan believed no civilization could yet have achieved a Z status, as not enough time had passed in the history of the universe to allow this much exchange of information.… Read the restEbola: Can big data or semantic text help?
“Many problems” in this case Yes it can. We’ll get to to how big data or semantic meaning can help in a moment. First a few observations. As the Prof. Redlener, the NYT’s expert on disaster preparedness put it, “There are many, many problems that have been revealed by this single case.” This is a polite way for saying what at the Dallas hospital was a major screw-up that needlessly put lives in danger and unnecessarily forced additional people into a 21-day quarantine. We can talk about using semantic text technologies to prevent these kinds of hospital errors, or big data to improve traveler screening processes. At the end of the day, however, this is a type of error that the billing department at the Dallas hospital should have been able to catch. EbolaCare(TM) insurance “Where do we send this bill?” “Hmmm, address in Liberia. Looks like he has EbolaCare(TM), the national health plan of Liberia.”… Read the restAmazon macaw parrot photo
These macaw parrots are indigenous to the Amazon Rainforest. This is the Instagram photo post version (and associated comments on the photo). This was the feature photo in our longer blog post on how the Internet of Things can potentially help in the against illegal mining in the Amazon rainforest. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Flickr/Matthew Romack/CC-BY Post and some comments below may be synced from our original Instagram version. Instagram likes: (more…)… Read the restAsk Acculation: fight illegal mining with citizen science IoT crowdsourcing in Amazon rainforest?
Indiegogo campaign to stop illegal mining threatening the Amazon Rainforest We were spammed yesterday with a Twitter question from @DavidRabanus asking if we could add the ability to detect mercury vapor to our app. If so, we could submit it, as an entry in this Indiegogo contest to reduce mercury pollution from illegal gold mining in the Amazon Rainforest (activist hashtag: #ImproveArtisanalMining). (Update: David Rabanus wrote to strongly imply the tweet wasn’t spam.) We’re suckers for a good cause, however, so we’ll answer the question. The question of using Internet of Things technology to allow citizen-science, crowdsourced monitoring of pollution from activities like fracking and mining have repeatedly come up, so it’s worth a blog entry (especially after we previously suggested using fracking to prevent earthquakes.) It’s not clear whether they are looking for a technical, economic, or political solution. The project itself seems open ended — it could be a process, or it could be some sort of technology.… Read the restRecent Posts
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