"Infinity and the Mind - The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite" - by Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder (1982): http://www.rudyrucker.com/infinityandthemind/ (full book)
What should we learn from past AI forecasts?
https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/what-should-we-learn-past-ai-forecasts #ML
Community-based, human-centered #Design - essay by Don Norman & Eli Spencer:
https://jnd.org/community-based-human-centered-design/
"Brief, daily meditation enhances attention, memory, mood, and emotional regulation in non-experienced meditators": #Mindful
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016643281830322X
Illustration by Maurice Sendak. #Mindful
Happy New Year! A wonderfully joyful, healthy and virtues 2019 to you!
Machine-Learning-Guided Mutagenesis for Directed Evolution of Fluorescent Proteins:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssynbio.8b00155 #Biology #ML
"Building coral reef resilience through assisted evolution": https://www.pnas.org/content/112/8/2307 #Nature #Biology #ALife
Beyond "geo-engineering", there is "life-engineering". While currently a ethical minefield & mostly illegal, climate change change might change that soon.
"Frances H. Arnold has won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 'the directed evolution of enzymes'": http://www.caltech.edu/news/frances-arnold-wins-2018-nobel-prize-chemistry-83926 technique: "directed evolution" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_evolution
"Life needs to be uncertain at times if we are to stay alert and alive to different possibilities and perspectives" - dave snowded
"Yesterdays certainty is todays dogma. Hence a need for continuous cultivation of our belief systems (situated in mind & body of individuals and groups). Maintaining a level of uncertainty is critical for the functioning of any system"
- Samim
Interview with Len Adleman, 2002 ACM Turing Award Recipient:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Adleman #Technology #Politics #Science
"Robot assisted mourning": https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/12/30/0455251/artist-proposes-small-robots-with-3d-printed-faces-of-dead-relatives "Artist Proposes Small Robots with 3D-Printed Faces of Dead Relatives" #ML #Robot
Flowers respond to pollinator sound within minutes by increasing nectar sugar concentration: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/12/28/507319 #FFHCI #Nature