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September 20, 2020Can we become immune to the coronavirus? What the evidence says so far | New Scientist
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September 19, 2020The 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