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Complex Systems: Generalists and Specialists

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:39:37 -0400

Personal blog of Dmitriy Samovskiy, focuses on cloud computing, infrastructure as a service, Linux, devops, python, ruby, rabbitmq, Amazon Web Services EC2 (Complex Systems: Generalists and Specialists http://t.co/3DM258hjoI)…

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The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World - , Satish Nambisan - Download Business

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:39:09 -0400

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This is the eBook version of the printed book. All the talk about open innovation DOWNLOAD (The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in…

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Global Brain Refs

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:38:00 -0400

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Pearltrees lets you collect, organize and share everything you like. (Global Brain Refs http://t.co/Y0bQLXapj9)

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Collective Intelligence

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:34:37 -0400

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A brief desription of collective intelligence. (#desription http://t.co/3cLOMliOB0 Collective Intelligence)

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Chaos at fifty | Print Edition - Physics Today

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:52:49 -0400

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Data Dealer Game: Privacy? Screw that. Turn the tables!

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:13:42 -0400

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PLAY NOW! Data Dealer is a brand new Facebook game about collecting and selling personal data. Check it out!

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In the Programmable World, All Our Objects Will Act as One | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:28:16 -0400

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We are surrounded by tiny, intelligent devices that capture data about how we live and what we do. Soon we’ll be able to choreograph them to respond to our needs, solve our problems, and even save our lives.

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Google Introduces new search tools to try to read our minds | KurzweilAI

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:25:44 -0400

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(Credit: Google) Google revealed some new search tools on Wednesday at I/O, its annual developers conference, The New York Times reports. Taken together,

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Google and NASA launch Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab | KurzweilAI

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:23:36 -0400

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The chip at the heart of one of D-Wave’s computers (credit: D-Wave) Google, in partnership with NASA and the Universities Space Research Association

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Steven Poole – On algorithms

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:04:22 -0400

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Computers could take some tough choices out of our hands, if we let them. Is there still a place for human judgement?

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In the long run, we are telepathic androids

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:05:13 -0400

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KEVIN DRUM looks to have set the topic for the day with his article in Mother Jones on the economics of our robotic future. The argument is a good recap of several…

Spaceweaver’s insight:

Very interesting

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Thought Experiment: Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain | Wired Science | Wired.com

Wed, 15 May 2013 07:42:08 -0400

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Neuroscientist Henry Markram says he can build a supercomputer replica of the human brain. Now he has $1.3 billion to prove it.

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Download Connectionism: Theory and Practice (Vancouver Studies ...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:37:44 -0400

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Connectionism: Theory and Practice (Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science) book download Steven Davis Download Connectionism: Theory and Practice (Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science) Connectionism: Theory …

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The Dynamically Extended Mind – A Minimal Modeling Case Study

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:35:20 -0400

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This from Froese, Gershenson, and Rosenblueth. The extended mind hypothesis has stimulated much interest in cognitive science. However, its core claim, i.e.

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The Extended Mind Works!

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:29:43 -0400

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Deep into the morning procrastination ritual – reading two or more blogs and FB instead of the chapter I’m meant to be finishing – I realized that I had forgotten what I had been reading a minute ago.

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Cosmological natural selection and the purpose of the universe

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:25:02 -0400

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The cosmological natural selection (CNS) hypothesis holds that the fundamental constants of nature have been fine-tuned by an evolutionary process in which universes produce daughter universes via the formation of black holes.

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'Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman' Returns To Science ...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:15:01 -0400

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Evolutionary Cyberneticist Francis Heylighen. The highlight of the season opener, for many, will likely be an interview with evolutionary cyberneticist Francis Heylighen. Heylighen is studying how people fire off information to …

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Enaction, Embodiment, Evolutionary Robotics: Simulation Models ...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:04:35 -0400

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The book Enaction, Embodiment, Evolutionary Robotics proposes how a particular kind of simulation model, i.e. Evolutionary Robotics simulations, can help to solve several problems in Cognitive Science.

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How the Science of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer and Predict the Future | Wired Science | Wired.com

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:57:54 -0400

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Thanks to new observation technologies, powerful software, and statistical methods, the mechanics of collectives are being revealed.

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Science of Swarms

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:56:31 -0400

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A survey of swarming, a sub-topic of complexity. No mention of stigmergy though.

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