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POPSPioneering Research in Neuromorphic Electronics that Function Like the Biological Brain The HRL team's ultimate goal is to build a low-power, compact electronic chip combining a novel analog circuit design and a neuroscience-inspired architecture that can address a wide range of cognitive abilities--perception, planning, decision making, and motor control. In the initial two phases of the SyNAPSE program, the team will translate the neuronal and synaptic functions of the biological cortex into similar microelectronic functions.
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POPSThe Ultimate Asshole's Cafepress Store Assholes create enemies at an exponential rate, and right now, our foreign policy is being determined either by assholes like this, or the fools who PANDER to assholes like this, apparently ignorant of the brutal reality of legitimizing the opinions of Camaro-Driving Assholes. I found the one you see at the top of the story. And that's your GraphicTruth for the day and a succinct summation of WHY civilized nations DO NOT FUCKING TORTURE PEOPLE.
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POPSThe Future is now - Dr. Kurzweil's Predictions Dr. Kurzweil is so confident in these curves that he has made a $10,000 bet with Mitch Kapor, the creator of Lotus software. By 2029, Dr. Kurzweil wagers, a computer will pass the Turing Test by carrying on a conversation that is indistinguishable from a human's.
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POPSVirtuality and reality 'to merge' "In virtual worlds we do real romance, real learning, real business. Virtual reality is real reality." He added: "Games are the cutting edge of what is happening - we are going to spend more of our time in virtual reality environments. "Fully emergent games is really where we want to go. We will do most of our learning through these massively parallel interactions." "Play is how we principally learn and principally create," he said.
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POPSThis article on our food supply is timely Wealthy nations have seen them feel quite unconcerned about the Earth's ability to grow enough food - but that is about to change. It is clear from spiraling prices that food production is entering a critical phase and that increasing numbers will be affected badly. The Third World, in the face of such shortages, appears doomed to even harsher times. We are very poor stewards of our planet!
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POPSCelestia Update 1.5.0 If you have never tried this you really should. Especially if you like space. Increase the time framerate to see really cool motion sequences. Download plugins to see new details and some scifi settings.
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POPS The third rail of world politics The proverbial elephant in the room. The tragic thing is that not only is overpopulation catastrophic for the environment, but it will also be pretty bad for the people who constitute the over population. For more from the brilliant Prof. Bartlett, see my clips ... http://clipmarks.com/clipper/JICWyllie/search/bartlett/
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POPSSave Internet Radio The internet has become a way of letting unknown and little-known performers reach an audience without bowing to the power of the big media conglomerates. The retroactive and punitive royalty decision favors only Big Media and Big Corporations. Like the ruling to raise mailing rates for small publications, this is another way that freedom and creativity are being stifled and regimented under our corporatocracy. Heil Cheney!
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POPSEinstein's Biggest Blunder? Dark Energy May Be Consistent With Cosmological Constant From the article: Then, 12 years later, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is not static -- it is actually expanding. So Einstein scrapped his idea of a cosmological constant and dismissed it as his biggest blunder. In 1998, however, two teams of scientists, one of which Texas A&M researcher Suntzeff co-founded, discovered that the universe is not only expanding, but its expansion is actually accelerating -- going faster and faster. "So there had to be some other force that had overcome the force of gravity and is driving the universe into an exponential acceleration," Suntzeff said. This opposing force is what scientists now call dark energy, and it is believed to constitute roughly 74 percent of the universe. The other constituents of the universe are dark matter, which composes about 22 percent of the universe, and ordinary matter, which is about 4 percent.
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