Some dates are being discussed in a May 18th 2019 Phys-dot-org article: “The Moon is the proving ground for our eventual mission to Mars,” NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said at a conference this week. “The Moon is our path to get to Mars in the fastest, safest way possible. That’s why we go to the […]
AI and hopes for fusion power
A recent news item suggests that AI may help bring fusion power to the table on the long used but challenging Tokamak toroidal reactor architecture. This would be a major positive use of AI technology, if it proves sufficiently reliable: Artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science that is transforming scientific inquiry and industry, […]
Philosopher: The laws of physics don’t rule out free will
George Musser, a science writer reviewing a new book on the subject, thinks it will force free will skeptics to become more sophisticated in their arguments
Robert J. Marks: What do AI and evolution have in common?
Many biologists claimed to have written code to simulate evolution. But the popularization of the No Free Lunch theorems showed that the computer programmer must infuse guiding information into the evolutionary program to make it work. To explain the diversity of creativity, an evolution process must be directed.
NASA says the moon is shaking, shrinking
Moonquakes happen, and they are shaking up lunar geology, Also, SkyNet reveals, “NASA announced earlier this year that it wants to send the first woman, and the next man, to the moon by 2024.” They can call in at the Chinese lunar base for tea… ;
When particle physicists collide, some are transformed into children
My, my. A commenter formed the correct impression and suggests, “Could you please answer the very valid questions raised by Sabine [Hossenfelder] instead of smearing her like this?”
Vids: String Theory and Loop Quantum Gravity
Strings: Loop-Q-G: Food for thought. END
Vids: Explaining the recent black hole image
A TED Talk Second vid on observing a black hole: Apart from a notice, there will be no comments. END
Darwinian conservative has a troubling history re racist links
Every so often, for whatever reason, a US conservative thinkmag steps on Darwin’s rake.
Why it’s hard to come up with a test for AI intelligence
Holloway: Intelligence, like randomness, is mathematically undefinable.
Dawkins’s successor at Oxford claims true AI creativity is coming
He recognizes that present AI displays the creativity of its creators and not that of a machine-based intelligence but why let that get in the way of a promising theory?.
Theoretical physicist reassures public, they’re not just making it up
Just because it’s not clear that the hypothetical particle she studies exists. Okay. But perhaps some physicists will still choose to research particles for whose existence there is actually evidence.
Darwinian Jerry Coyne vents his spleen at Darwin-doubting Yale computer scientist
Gelernter is HOW likely to read Coyne’s diatribe and conclude he must be all wrong? But then Darwinians tend not to notice what others do. Presumably, it’s an adaptation.
So it’s come to this: Turmoil over what genes really do
Well, if genetics isn’t that important, what is heredity? Maybe epigenetics and horizontal gene transfer also shape the lives we live and live among. So then Darwinism is right but unimportant. It explains some things, not most things.
Talk about stasis! Bedbugs are 100 million years old
Well, they will just have to keep looking for that early, really simple bedbug, below which there is nothing but sub-bedbugs.