Tag Archive | Science
Searching for that elusive exo-Earth
Originally posted on Matthew Wright:
In the nearly 20 years since Michel Mayer and Didier Queloz confirmed the first known exoplanet around 51 Pegasi, the number of known exoplanets has risen to over 1860 – and there are more to come. The Kepler space telescope, before being hobbled by mechanical failure, created a massive database of planet candidates orbiting…
Superintelligence By Nick Bostrom
Originally posted on K Morris – Poet:
Nick Bostrom’s “Superintelligence” sounds as though it will make for interesting and perhaps, at times somewhat heavy reading. The author, an Oxford Professor, looks at the future of artificial intelligence and what will happen when (he thinks that it is inevitable) machines attain greater levels of intelligence than…
When Science Meets Book Reading
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
As you know, I enjoy a long love affair with science. I particularly like scientific discoveries that have some connection to our everyday life, allowing us to extrapolate into other areas. I recently ran into a post on the Daily Mail describing a clever research by a professor of mathematics: he checked which ebook sentences readers…
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