Note to AI experimenters:

A sufficiently intelligent AI program will be able to generate and receive wireless (e.g. WiFi) signals even without any dedicated antenna. Moreover, putting it in a Faraday cage might not help (to see why, put your cellphone in a microwave, close the door, then call it).

"Клин клином вышибают" - "Fight fire with fire"

For a while now, I've been wanting to write about several interesting topics, but I'm not sure when I will get a chance. So I'm just going to list them here as placeholders ( Read more... )

A neuronal activity consists largely of neurons firing, spikes propagating, and synapses forming/changing. Those things can happen either as a result of external (sensory) input coming into the brain, or feedback loops in the brain itself ( Read more... )

When Seymour Cray heard that Steve Jobs bought a Cray supercomputer for $14M to help design the next Mac, he said: "It's funny, I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray".

Game rules: you're standing in front of three closed doors. Behind one of them is a prize. You tell the host which door you think is the prize door (random pick). The host knows where the prize is, and he opens one of the other two doors - the one without a prize. After that, two doors remain, one of them is the prize door. You can choose again - ( Read more... )

Let's say we figured out how to simulate a human brain on a computer. We have build a highly realistic virtual world, where simulated people live ( Read more... )

Some schools in US teach Intelligent Design concept instead of the theory of evolution ( Read more... )

I just did a Google search: "how many stars are there", and Google responded with ( Read more... )

I made some progress understanding how to do feature extraction from text ( Read more... )