February 2012
16 posts
Will we ever decode dreams? - http://bit.ly/wtTvaG
It appears to be plausible. Science fiction is full of machines that can peer inside our heads and decipher our thoughts, and science, it seems, is catching up. The news abounds with tales of scientists who have created “mind-reading” machines that can convert our thoughts into images, most of these stories including a throwaway line about one...
It’s Official: #Physics Is Hard http://bit.ly/zyD3Vw
Students and researchers alike have long understood that physics is challenging. But only now have scientists managed to prove it. It turns out that one of the most common goals in physics—finding an equation that describes how a system changes over time—is defined as “hard” by computer theory. That’s bad news for...
Why Don't Americans Elect Scientists? →
canisfamiliaris:
Among the 435 members of the House, for example, there are one physicist, one chemist, one microbiologist, six engineers, and nearly two dozen with medical training, though the case of doctors is telling: Those with medical backgrounds escape the anti-intellectual charge of irrelevance often thrown at those in the hard sciences.
This showing is sparse even with the inclusion...
Hardwired For The Mystical? http://bit.ly/w17pJB
The gap between atheists and the religious seems at times to be an impossible divide, almost as if believers and non-believers come from different species. What separates the secular from the sacred? An “Ask the Brains” question on the Scientific American site recently inquired as to any differences between the brain of an atheist and...
Creatures of Culture http://bit.ly/yVXAfK
La idea de la cultura aplicada a la robótica, la única duda que me pasa por la mente es, Será necesaria?, quiero decir, la razón por la cual la cultura es una gran herramienta para los seres humanos es que podemos obtener conocimiento sin necesidad de experimentar directamente lo necesario para adquirirlo, sólamente escuchando a aquellos que han vivido...
“Que la vida iba en serio
uno lo empieza a comprender más tarde.”
– Fragmento de No volveré a ser joven, Jaime Gil de Biedma. (via janale)
La teoría de juegos y la estrategia del Software Libre - http://bit.ly/y21GEi
Una desripción (quizá no tan acertada, pero los suficientemente descriptiva). También pueden http://biblioweb.sindominio.net/telematica/softlibre/sl.pdf“>descargar el documento en pdf de la http://biblioweb.sindominio.net/telematica/softlibre/sl.html“>fuente.
[ #SL #SoftwareLibre #TeoríaDeJuegos...
“All men are born artists but most of them are quickly mutilated.”
– Charles Bukowski - More Notes of a Dirty Old Man (via templiorientis)
How To Think About Quantum Field Theory - http://bit.ly/x5RHNQ
Over on the Google+, I linked to an informal essay by John Norton, in which he recounts the activities of a workshop on QFT at the Center for the Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh last October. In Norton’s telling, the important conceptual divide was between those who want to study “axiomatic” QFT on the one hand,...
Human Brains Wire Up Slowly but Surely - http://bit.ly/Aj4Q3C
As the father-to-son exchange in the old Cat Stevens song advised, “take your time, think a lot, … think of everything you’ve got.” Turns out the mellow ’70s folkie had stumbled upon what may explain a key feature of our brains that sets us apart from our closest relatives: We unhurriedly make synaptic connections...
