HackingTheUniverse

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A part of the MIT Media Lab known as the Fluid Interfaces Group is working on a 3D printing device that can create entire meals by extruding and depositing layers of ingredients from a bank of cartridges.
Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy - [mit.edu]
Cornucopia is a concept design for a personal food factory that brings the versatility of [...]

The historical standard for testing AIs for intelligence has been the Turing Test. But it can be argued that the Turing test only confirms a mimicry of human conversation and is not true intelligence. Other standards for strong (or general AI) include reasoning and learning ability. Like conversation, these factors can be established by supplying [...]

How difficult will it be to translate ethics into logic trees that can be encoded into software for use by AIs? In a simplified ethical decision, there is a starting state, usually at least two possible actions (or an action/inaction pair) to choose between and outcome states to calculate and compare. In order to make an [...]

Jean Babtiste Joseph Fourier (known as Joseph) was born in 1768 in France and was a mathematician who became known for his work on heat transfer and the analysis of periodic functions (wave forms) using combinations of trigonometric series. These are now called Fourier series and the process is called Fourier analysis.
PRECURSOR:
1642 - Newton
1700 - [...]

Quasicrystals seem to exist in a state somewhere between glass (disordered atoms) and crystals (ordered atoms) and show qualities of symmetry that were thought impossible.
Quasicrystals - [bbc.co.uk]
Quasicrystals are interesting quirks of solid-state physics. It used to be thought that the atoms in solid materials1 were either totally ordered (crystalline) or totally disordered (glasses), but those [...]

This intriguing article offers up some quick and short thoughts on visual hacking.

Hacking With Pictures - [quietbabylon.com]
1 - TV hypnotherapy
2 - Images become executable
3 - Retinal scanners
4 - Pokemon seizures
5- Flashbang grenades
6 - 2D bar codes
7 - 2nd Life presentation
8 - Sixth Sense hacking
9 - Forged authentication
10 - Digital sleight of hand
SEE ALSO:
Sixth Sense

Genetic algorithms use the principles found in the evolutionary process to create formulas that can solve problems. Like mutation, small parts of the formulas are changed and then the formula is evaluated to see if the change has improved it.
GENETIC ALGORITHMS - [obitko.com]
Search Space
If we are solving some problem, we are usually looking for some [...]

Commerce in space will be driven by the demands of exchange and the economic factors involved.
Raw Materials:
Air and water are likely to be in high demand and even if they become somewhat abundant, will always remain treasured for their inherent importance. Food will be mostly manufactured locally, assuming you have the raw [...]

A biological neural network is a collection of connected neurons that offer some function as a nervous system or brain. But the term “neural network” usually refers to a software logic array that attempts to mimic some part of the design or function of a biological network. In the biological form, there are neuron cells [...]

Hermann Minkowski was born in Lithuania in 1864 and was a mathematician who also did work in mathematical physics and relativity. “Minkowski Space” is a manifold constructed with three space-like dimensions and one time-like dimension to create the four dimensional spacetime continuum associated with relativity theory. When he taught at a science and [...]