The glory of Saturn. More: http://sci-universe.tumblr.com/post... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Dec 9, 2013
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Alexander Kruel
Transhumanist, atheist, vegetarian who's interested in science fiction, science, philosophy, math, programming, language, consciousness, reality...
Official logo of spy-satellite NROL-39 More: http://marginalrevolution.com/margina... German speaking people use the word 'Datenkrake' (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki...), data kraken, in dicussions related to privacy violations. Similar logos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Dec 7, 2013
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Drug detectives: scientists want to crowdsource the discovery of new antibiotics More: http://www.theverge.com/2013... Along with Mark Opal, a neurobiologist specializing in drug development, Zayner has launched The International Laboratory for the Identification of New Drugs (or "The ILIAD... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Dec 5, 2013
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Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 More: http://www.transparency.org/cpi2013... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Dec 3, 2013
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Before/After Of Pope Announcement Shows Incredible Proliferation Of Mobile In Just 8 Years'' via http://singularityhub.com/2013... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Dec 2, 2013
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Euler spiral Draw a straight line, and then continue it for the same length but deflected by an angle. If you continue doing this you will eventually return to roughly where you started, having drawn out an approximation to a circle. But what happens if you increase the angle of deflection by a fixed amount at each step? The curve will spiral in... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Nov 24, 2013
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Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict Deviations from normal precipitation and mild temperatures systematically increase the risk of conflict, often substantially. This relationship is apparent across spatial scales ranging from a single building to the globe and at temporal scales ranging from an anomalous hour to an anomalous... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Nov 3, 2013
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World map of scientific (excluding peace & literature) Nobel Prizes per capita More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Oct 31, 2013
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Annals of psychometry: adult cognitive skills by country Source: http://infoproc.blogspot.de/2013... "You may have read about the recent OECD study of adult skills, which showed Americans lagging behind most other advanced countries. The outcomes more or less recapitulate the PISA results, which are... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Oct 26, 2013
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Deep Time, Big History, and Existential Risk Link: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/... "In the early history of our species, ignorance of existential risk was bliss. Human beings, their hominid predecessors, and the species that preceded them in turn, were fortunate merely to survive, i.e., to overcome the immediate existential risks posed by... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Oct 5, 2013
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A cat on a fire breathing unicorn with a top hat, cigar and monocle. via http://imgur.com/XBiIO - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Sep 28, 2013
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How many planets? "...keep in mind that Kepler would miss planets who weren’t in the right orientation or orbited dim stars. A few calculation corrections tick that number up to 22,500… Finally, Kepler was only looking at 0.28% of the sky. Expand it to the whole of the Milky Way, and you get something like 15-30 billion possible Earth-like... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Sep 27, 2013
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Probability of a concrete AI risk scenario - http://kruel.co/2013...
Sep 25, 2013
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Probability of unfriendly and friendly AI - http://kruel.co/2013...
Sep 23, 2013
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Machine Intelligence Research Institute: Some Numbers - http://kruel.co/2013...
Sep 22, 2013
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The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) - Some Numbers What are the odds of us being wiped out by badly done AI? "I don’t think the odds of us being wiped out by badly done AI are small. I think they’re easily larger than 10%." — Eliezer Yudkowsky (http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2011...) "...the actual... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Sep 22, 2013
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Intuitive explanation of Roko’s basilisk - http://kruel.co/2013...
Sep 17, 2013
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Roko's basilisk Further reading: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki... http://kruel.co/2013... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Sep 17, 2013
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The first global temperature reconstruction for the last 11,000 years. "Over the last decades, numerous researchers have painstakingly collected, analyzed, dated, and calibrated many data series that allow us to reconstruct climate before the age of direct measurements. Such data come e.g. from sediment drilling in the deep sea, from corals, ice... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Sep 16, 2013
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The shocking truth about Tetris. via https://twitter.com/Harriso... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Sep 15, 2013
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Visualizing category concept dependencies by John D. Cook "Category theory has a high ratio of definitions to theorems, and it can seem like every definition depends on an infinite regress of definitions. But if you graph the definition dependencies, the graph is wide rather than deep." Source:... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Sep 11, 2013
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What are some policies that would improve millions of lives, but people still oppose? Link: http://www.quora.com/Society... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Aug 28, 2013
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Testing GeoGebra (http://www.geogebra.org/), a free mathematics software that allows you to create simple graphics. Perpendicular distance between two parallel lines (1) The distance between two parallel lines is the distance between the points of intersection of a third line that is perpendicular to both these lines. (2) The slopes of two... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Aug 27, 2013
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Eliezer Yudkowsky - When friendly AI fails. - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
Aug 9, 2013
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