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What the Science of Touch Says About Us

Monday, June 27th, 2016

Feel Me by @AdamGopnik
http://www.NewYorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/what-the-science-of-touch-says-about-us It’s easier for AI to win at chess than move pieces on the board – cf http://www.NYTimes.com/1997/05/13/opinion/l-how-smart-can-it-be-084328.html

Sensory Studies
MAY 16, 2016 ISSUE
Feel Me
What the new science of touch says about ourselves.
BY ADAM GOPNIK

QT:{{”
““Haptic intelligence is vital to human intelligence,” she concludes. “It’s not just dexterity. It’s finding your way in the world: it’s embodiment, emotion, attack. Haptic intelligence is human
intelligence. We’re just so smart with it that we don’t know it yet. It’s actually much harder to make a chess piece move correctly—to pick up the piece and move it across the board and put it down
properly—than it is to make the right chess move.” She adds, slyly, “When I took A.I. as a student, I was so dismayed to find that most A.I. is just stupid brute force, just running through the
possibilities a machine can look at quickly. Computer chess looks intelligent, but it’s under-the-hood stupid. Reaching and elegantly picking up the right chess piece fluidly and having it land in the right place in an uncontrolled environment—that’s hard. Haptic intelligence is an almost irreproducible miracle! Because people are so good at that, they don’t appreciate it. Machines are good at finding the next move, but moving in the world still baffles them.”” “}}

The Independent Discovery of TCP/IP, By Ants

Saturday, June 18th, 2016

The Independent Discovery of TCP/IP, By Ants
http://priceonomics.com/the-independent-discovery-of-tcpip-by-ants/ Protocol has similarities to #ant communication; man reinventing nature

A Whole New Ball Game – The New Yorker

Monday, May 23rd, 2016

A Whole New Ball Game
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/sphero-teaches-kids-to-code Describes the lucky confluence of @sphero robots, #STEM education & @Disney entertainment

Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others Fizzled – IEEE Spectrum

Saturday, April 30th, 2016

#Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others [eg Hurd,
BSD’s Net/2] Fizzled
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/linux-at-25-why-it-flourished-while-others-fizzled Licensing, level of completion, leader
nice graphics of linux growth

A simple way to track your everyday exposure to chemicals | April 18, 2016 Issue – Vol. 94 Issue 16 | Chemical & Engineering News

Saturday, April 30th, 2016

Track…everyday exposure to #chemicals
http://CEN.acs.org/articles/94/i16/simple-way-track-everyday-exposure.html Cumulative totals for pesticides, allergens, fragrances &c via Si-wristbands

Helium Dreams – The New Yorker

Sunday, April 24th, 2016

Helium Dreams http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/29/a-new-generation-of-airships-is-born Various engineering tradeoffs as a new generation of #airships tries to displace trucks on some routes

A New Generation of Airships Is Born

The Future of Noise Pollution – The Atlantic

Sunday, April 24th, 2016

Future of Noise Pollution
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-future-will-be-quiet/471489/ Good news to come: targeted sirens, electric cars, stealth planes & noise blocking sensors

Bots, the next frontier | The Economist

Sunday, April 24th, 2016

https://www.assi.st/

https://digit.co/about/how-it-works

http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21696477-market-apps-maturing-now-one-text-based-services-or-chatbots-looks-poised

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2016’s Top Ten Tech Cars – IEEE Spectrum

Saturday, April 23rd, 2016

volvo xc90 makes list

http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/advanced-cars/2016s-top-ten-tech-cars

Make Google Drive Absolutely Awesome with These Tools

Monday, April 18th, 2016

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/make-google-drive-absolutely-awesome-tools