LANGUAGE + TOOLS = HUMAN?
SEVERAL RECENT ARTICLES got me thinking about human use of language and tools. In particular, AAAS Science, October 9, 2019, had a special section devoted to “Language and the Brain.” … Continue reading
THE QUBIT CAPER
THE NEWS ON October 23, 2019, was fast and furious, its updates and scientific self-corrections occurring within hours. Here are tidbits on quantum supremacy, together with SimanaitisSays comments on this … Continue reading
ICELAND, WPI, AND THE PLAN
I REGRET THAT my undergraduate years at Worcester Polytechnic Institute were before The Plan. My graduation coincided with the 100th anniversary of this solidly traditional engineering school “founded on a … Continue reading
OPTIMIZING RENEWABLE ENERGY
TRUMP ON RENEWABLES: “The wind and the television go off. And your wives and husbands say: ‘Darling, I want to watch Donald Trump on television tonight. But the wind stopped … Continue reading
MACHINE LEARN THE NEW YORKER?
THE HUMAN BRAIN’S neural network has a hundred billion nerve cells with trillions of connections linking them. Human thought is constantly updating these links with the latest input. Artificial Intelligence’s … Continue reading
MATH WORDS PART 2
MUCH OF “THEORETICAL” mathematics finds application in other areas of science, as seen here yesterday in Math Words Part 1. More tidbits gleaned from AAAS Science magazine, September 20, 2019, … Continue reading
MATHEMATICAL WORDS PART 1
“ANOTHER DAY with No Use for Calculus” reads a humorous, if inaccurate, t-shirt slogan. In fact, calculus is the mathematics of analyzing motion. So, in a sense, unless you’re utterly … Continue reading
ON DENISOVANS PART 2
YESTERDAY, THE DISCUSSION was on Neanderthals and Denisovans, branches of human evolution who didn’t quite make it. I also cited a mild preference for Denis as my given name. Today, … Continue reading
ON DENISOVANS PART 1
IF I HAD it to do over, I might spell my given name with one “n.” This is partly to honor the Denisovans, close cousins of the Neanderthals and, thus, … Continue reading
OFFSHORED?—TO COLUMBUS OR ANN ARBOR PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, we examined Princeton Professor Alan S. Blinder’s 2007 paper “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?” Today, in Part 2, we see what has transpired in … Continue reading
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