The Brain as Computer: Bad at Math, Good at Everything Else – IEEE Spectrum
September 14, 2020Slow cycling Numbers Don’t Lie – IEEE Journals & Magazine
September 14, 2020https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7934224
Vaclav Smil
Abstract:
Some technical advances are delayed by either a failure of imagination or a concatenation of obstructive circumstances. I can think of no better example of both of these than the bicycle. . Two centuries ago, on 12 June 1817 in Mannheim, Karl Drais, a forester in Germany’s grand duchy of Baden, demonstrated for the first time his Laufmaschine (“running machine”), later also known as a draisine or hobby-horse. ….
What Intelligent Machines Need to Learn From the Neocortex – IEEE Spectrum
September 14, 2020Machines won’t become intelligent unless they incorporate certain features of the human brain. Here are three of them
By Jeff Hawkins
Pandemics and the Shape of Human History | The New Yorker
September 14, 2020New Yorkers Are Fleeing to the Suburbs: ‘The Demand Is Insane’ – The New York Times
September 14, 2020New Cases Have Reached Record Levels in the Midwest – The New York Times
September 14, 2020Black Rock State Park (Watertown) – 2020 All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (with Photos) – Tripadvisor
September 14, 2020Also Chatfield Hollow State Park
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 12:52 AM Mark Gerstein <mark> wrote:
Excerpt from “Exercised,” by Daniel E. Lieberman | Harvard Magazine
September 14, 2020FEATURES
Active Grandparenting, Costly Repair
A biological anthropologist explains why and how exercise works to combat senescence.
by DANIEL E. LIEBERMAN
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2020
https://harvardmagazine.com/2020/09/features-active-grandparenting
