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Evolution of Evolution Theory

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It was a pretty big revelation for me to find out that Evolution Theory is not something that popped up a few hundred years ago. Darwin's role is much more recent and as the American zoologist and paleontologist George Simpson stated, "Darwin... finally and definitely established evolution as a fact." Before this fact being acknowledged by a modern scientific community, a lot of men of science have written about their observations. This comes only to confirm the saying that all new is well-forgotten old. The detail that old men have managed to reach is amazing. They went as far as recognizing apes as our closest relatives. The first source that came into my sight to support all this is interestingly enough of Arabic origin, The Muqaddimah. Here's an excerpt: This is the case with the simple material elements; it is the case with palms and vines, (which constitute) the last stage of plants, in their relation to snails and shellfish, (which constitute) the (low

Evolution of intelligence

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I just read an interesting article covering a project for artificial neural network created from DNA . What is even more interesting is a slide from the presentation of the research: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgGBZZYEm_Y&t=3m59s It's fascinating that intelligence is "devolved" to simple molecule interactions. This reminds me of how the computer is brought to life by one of nature's tools: the human.

В крак с времето

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Направете си фланелка, PSD и EPS файловете са достъпни тук: http://www.bulblog.com/?p=3410

Nokia 6120 classic with Nokia (Ovi) Maps 3

DISCLAIMER: The information provided in this article is strictly for educational purposes! I cannot guarantee that the described files work for everybody. My Nokia 6120 classic has just regained its smartphone title in my eyes :) After installing iON BatteryTimer FREE v1.05 (which I recommend to everybody) from Ovi Store a month ago, today I managed to update the very limited Nokia Maps 2.0 software to Nokia (Ovi) Maps 3.01 :) The sudden impulse to look again for an update of the Maps software, although several unsuccessful attempts to update it through Nokia Ovi Suite, came after reading the following discussion: http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/t5/Maps-Navigation-and-GPS/Nokia-Maps-2-0-3-0-Install-Error-Nokia-6120-Navigator-DENY/td-p/462375 Someone has managed to update the program by changing the certificate with a self-signed and going around the limitation imposed on Nokia 6120 classic. The first step was to get the .sis file. I didn't want to bother hacking Ovi

Visual perception solved?

" Visual perception is the ability to interpret information and surroundings from the effects of visible light reaching the eye. The resulting perception is also known as eyesight, sight, or vision (adjectival form: visual, optical, or ocular)."  Visual perception , Wikipedia We have had optical character recognition (OCR) for years now. Reading can be perceived as an important ability of our visual perception and we have more or less cracked it. What we don't have is the ability to acquire 3D models from a simple 2D camera, just like our eyes can. Or at least I thought so. An article that I read recently has pushed me to google for such type of software. Interestingly enough just a few weeks ago I was thinking about such a system and its (big) importance to AI development. Google provided an article immediately, and it dated from 2009! Creating 3D models with a simple webcam (w/ Video) described a system just like the one that I envisioned and provided a nice vid

The Transcendent Man finds the real question, again

I just watched the movie Transcendent Man . In general it was a good documentary packing Ray Kurzweil's reflections on the exponential growth of evolution. Apart from talking about scientific predictions, there were a lot of human desires that were portrayed. Like Ray's obsession with  resurrecting some part of his father. At the end of the movie, as a conclusion, Ray was speaking about the explosion of intelligence in the Universe. I stayed for a couple of minutes, reiterating on what I have thought before and synchronizing it with what I saw in the film. I stopped at the idea of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and its relevance to the Universe. All that evolution (or the Universe) has created up until now, we are gradually trying to compact it in our brains so that we can make predictions on what will happen next. We are, to our knowledge, the most flexible form of existence in our Universe. Being a bit limited though, we're looking for help to be able to do our

Graphopedia

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Rendering of the introduction of the Taare Zameen Par 's Wikipedia article as a graph (click to enlarge):

AdsBot BadBot

Recently it was brought to my attention that the user agent string of the mobile version of Google AdsBot caused problems on a .NET site running Sitecore CMS. The exception is:      Stack trace:    at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)    at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)    at System.Web.Configuration.HttpCapabilitiesBase.get_MajorVersion()    at Sitecore.UIUtil.SupportsInlineEditing()    at Sitecore.Sites.SiteContext.SetDisableWebEditEditing(String value)    at Sitecore.Sites.SiteContext.ProcessQueryString()    at Sitecore.Sites.SiteContext..ctor(SiteInfo info, Boolean processQueryString)    at Sitecore.Sites.SiteContextFactory.GetSiteContext(String hostName, String fullPath, Int32 portNumber)    at Sitecore.Pipelines.HttpRequest.SiteResolver.ResolveSiteContext(HttpRequestArgs args)    at Sitecore.Pipelines.HttpRequest.SiteResolv