Archive for the ‘AI’ Category
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
I just read the first chapter of Marshall Brain's "The Day You Discard Your Body" Like Marshall, I've long been annoyed with sci-fi that doesn't address the idea that we will soon be able to exist separately from our bodies and animate other bodies, both virtually and really. ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
For some, the term "dark web" simply means all the online data that search engine spiders can't reach, crawl, or index, but for the University of Arizona's AI Lab, the "Dark Web" refers to a research project where the social phenomena of terrorism is studied via various techniques including social ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
FriendFeed is a life streaming service, in the form of a social aggregator. You may have heard Mark “complain” about it in the same way Pete used to complain about Twitter, but as the beta testing progresses, folks seem to be adapting to FriendFeed…or maybe FriendFeed is adapting to ...
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
This article describes some various exciting potential applications of TMS, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. It's being used to treat brain disorders including: Already, magnetic stimulation is being used in clinical trials for countless neurological disorders, including "reducing "voices" heard by people with schizophrenia; smoking cessation; obsessive-compulsive disorder; depression; post-traumatic stress ...
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