Technology
- HRP-4C: A Fembot eerily more realistic than Lady Gaga
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The HRP-4C from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan, a descendant of the HRP-4 humanoid robot that sent normal people into uncanny valley creepiness territory last year, can sing now. Clearly catering toward Japane ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 15 2024 - 9:33am
- Battlestar Galactica Online MMORPG Closed Beta Begins
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If you are reading this site, you already know "Battlestar Galactica" is the greatest science-fiction show of all time. Yes, yes, "Farscape" was terrific and "Star Trek" set the standard but Battlestar Galactica as number on ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2024 - 12:35pm
- Carbon — to capture or not to capture
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This came up on 2nd November 2024 (give or take a day), a broadcaster objecting to a carbon capture scheme being pushed by the UK Energy Secretary, who along with a considerable number of our politicians is aiming to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions as so ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Nov 6 2024 - 10:35am
- Nothing like the HP RPN calculators
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There is nothing like these RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) calculators from HP. But there seems to be two kinds of people: those who love RPN and those who just find it confusing. I happen to be in the first category and these are my RPN calculators: ...
Blog Post - Sverre Holm - Nov 7 2024 - 8:46pm
- ChatGPT Is Cheaper In Medicine And Does Better Diagnoses Even Than Doctors Using ChatGPT
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General medicine, routine visits and such, have gradually gone from M.D.s to including Osteopaths and now Physicians Assistants with no decline in quality, and Large Language Models, colloquially called "Artificial Intelligence", like ChatGPT can ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2024 - 1:18pm
- AI And The Poetry Problem
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Artificial Intelligence is artificial, but it is not intelligence. That could change some day but it isn't happening soon, Large Language Models are fine for a few things but limited in most. That is why Ben Affleck can talk in a hurry and assure fell ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 18 2024 - 2:29pm
- Nanopesticides May Be In Our Organic Farming Future
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Friends of the Earth and other litigation groups opposed to science are cheering the closure of AquaBounty's AquAdvantage salmon- the poster-child (decades of regulatory roadblocks) for how the US regulatory system is manipulated by lawyers to hold ba ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2024 - 2:56pm
- My Most Important Column Ever
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This column deals with political opposition, resistance, and the future of the nation. It dissects the Trump-Musk financial bromance and the role of VP Vance. Bear with me to its end, then please comment pro, con, or in between. Shadow action ...
Article - Fred Phillips - Feb 11 2025 - 3:36pm
- Summer Lectures In AI
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Winter is not over yet, but I am already busy fixing the details of some conferences, schools, and lectures I will give around Europe this summer. Here I wish to summarize them, in the hope of arising the interest of some of you in the relevant events I wi ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 4 2025 - 5:12am
- Something Happened In Silicon Valley
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Article - Fred Phillips - Mar 21 2025 - 12:03am