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Unraveling the Mystery of Scalar Waves: A Comprehensive Overview
Unlike conventional EM waves, scalar waves are believed to be non-Hertzian, meaning they do not travel through space in the same way as traditional electromagnetic waves. Scalar waves are often described as standing waves, meaning they do not move through space but exist as stationary patterns of energy.
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Among the many remarkable properties of Life ("intelligence" as reductionists call it) these stand out:
- Self-reproduction
- Open-ended evolution
- Extreme energy efficiency
- Embodiment in the complex ecological web of life.
AI has basically none of these properties.
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Against the flow - By Nick Sousanis
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This piece was prompted by Robert Frost’s “West Running Brook.” In starting to think on it and the connection between entropy and life, I came across Jeremy England’s very recent work at MIT. Readers might also be interested in E.D. Schneider and J.J. Kay’s work concerning thermodynamic evolution, and César Hidalgo’s writing on multiplier effects.
Nick Sousanis is a postdoctoral fellow in Comics Studies at the University of Calgary. His graphic novel “Unflattening” was published in March. Follow him on Twitter @nsousanis.
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We find ourselves in a peculiar predicament: if time travel is theoretically possible tomorrow, it has, in practice, already been happening since yesterday. The implications for linear time technologies, including today's AI, are profoundly comedic.
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What is rarely considered in the context of Kolmogorov complexity is that the shortest possible description of anything is nothing. Silence is bliss.
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Researchers at ETH Zurich develop the fastest possible flow algorithm
Rasmus Kyng has written the near-perfect algorithm. It computes the maximum transport flow at minimum cost for any kind of network – be it rail, road or electricity – at a speed that is, mathematically speaking, impossible to beat.
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The full absurdity of the world we inhabit in one sentence about Landauer's Limit
Is there a physical limit to absurdity?
Landauer's principle is a physical principle pertaining to the lower theoretical limit of energy consumption of computation. It holds that an irreversible change in information stored in a computer dissipates a minimum amount of heat to its surroundings
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In control theory and system dynamics, damped systems are classified based on the behavior of their response to a disturbance or input.
- Overdamped: The system returns to equilibrium without oscillating.
- Critically damped: The system returns to equilibrium as quickly as possible without oscillating.
- Underdamped: The system oscillates (at reduced frequency compared to theundamped case) with the amplitude gradually decreasing to zero.
- Undamped: The system oscillates at its natural resonant frequency (ωo).
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Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise.
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In control theory and system dynamics, damped systems are classified based on the behavior of their response to a disturbance or input.
- Overdamped: The system returns to equilibrium without oscillating.
- Critically damped: The system returns to equilibrium as quickly as possible without oscillating.
- Underdamped: The system oscillates (at reduced frequency compared to theundamped case) with the amplitude gradually decreasing to zero.
- Undamped: The system oscillates at its natural resonant frequency (ωo).
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When you accidentally deleted the master database and there are no backups...
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Gratitude to Prof. Minamoto and his team from the Institute for Advanced Studies at University of Tokyo for the opportunity to participate in a unique research projects the past 10 days. It has profoundly redefined my sense of reality. どうもありがとうございます
