Technology

HRP-4C: A Fembot eerily more realistic than Lady Gaga

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       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

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