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AI: Autonomous Helicopters teach themselves to Fly Stunts
Finally someone has adapted human learning approaches and used them within AI.
Called “apprenticeship learning” and build into AI Algorithms by Stanford University students, they created an autonomous helicopter system that learns to fly stunts by watching human pilots.
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Science: Water on Mars
No this is not a continuation of or “April’s Fools post”, Nasa today “officially released” information that they found water on Mars.
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Space: Gaja calling
f “Contact” with Jodie Foster was your kind of movie then you should have a look at the real-life version of sounds and noises recorded in space.
Watch the video for the sounds Gaja sends out into space that might be heard by other “aliens” on their planets…
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NASA: ISS 360 Virtual tours
If you always wanted to have a look around inside the International Space Station and your uncle is not the new president of a former communist country or a Billionaire - here’s your chance:
The NASA has put up a web site dedicated to the ISS with introduction videos, external and internal 360 tours and much more…
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Pictures of the evolution of space debris
With only 800 of the once launched 6000 satellites still being operational, the pile of space debris is becoming an ever-increasing amount of inactive space hardware orbiting around the Earth.
50% of the mess that besides old satellites also includes broken…
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Time waster: Proximity of Needs
A great way to watch time passing by and how beautiful mathematics can be visualized.
It is an interactive animation where you can change the parameters for the calculations and graphical simulation.
More information on the project page at…
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Science: Time / Space continuum breaks open around the globe
Today, April 1st after various warnings raised by leading scientists during the last months, the selective opening of the Time / Space continuum could be observed at locations around the world.
Renown astronomer Gabriel Sunbreek had alarm bell ringing about 3 months ago when he together with his team for the first time discovered the brief opening of wormholes inside our solar system. Closely to Mars two of these phenomenons had opened up for about 5 to 7 minutes – enough to allow alien matter to enter our galaxy close to earth (in astronomical terms).
Together with colleagues he attributed the selective occurrence of breaks within the Time / Space continuum to global warming and increased pollution. The connection to the newly found wormholes is still being evaluated…
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Melodyne - Direct Note Access
The German company “Celemony” has announced that the new version of their popular audio editing software Melodyne will allow access to individual notes and chords within audio files. This is almost incredible - but if it works as shown in their video they really have made the impossible possible.
We are talking polyphonic audio (wave) recording here and not MIDI input. The abilities of the technology called…
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Data-Visualization: Pi played on the piano
As it will be Pi-Day (14-March) this week we would like to remind you to “Felix Jung’s” great visualization and sonification of the number pi…
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Joseph Weizenbaum is dead
Joseph Weizenbaum died yesterday in Berlin as a result of a stroke at the age of 85.
Throughout his life he has provided many outstanding contributions to computer science and AI. After he created the first banking computer in the world while working for General Electric he took up a position at the MIT as professor for applied and political science. In 1966 he published “ELIZA” - his best know work - and the first computer program demonstrating natural language processing. His academic contributions include the creation of the SLIP (symmetric List Processor) programming language and research on pointers, list structures and garbage collection schemes.
Over the years he also became one of the strongest critics of computer science and a society that blindly believes into technology. His influential book “Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment To Calculation” displayed his grown ambivalence towards computer technology. Many concepts from this book have by now become common understandings like, for example, how programmers are seen by society or his critics of the promises by AI.
In one of his last mails “Joseph Weizenbaum” wrote: (translated from German)
“…our death is the last service we can provide to the world: Would we not go out of the way the following generations would not need to re-create human culture. Culture would become fixed, unchangeable and die. And with the death of culture humanity would also perish…“
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