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[Julia36]

Scientists discover organism that hasn't evolved in more than 2 billion years

 

"An ancient deep-sea mud-inhabiting 1,800-million-year-old sulfur-cycling microbial community from Western Australia is essentially identical both to a fossil community 500 million years older and to modern microbial biotas discovered off the coast of South America in 2007. The fossils are interpreted to document the impact of the mid-Precambrian increase of atmospheric oxygen, a world-changing event that altered the history of life. Although the apparent 2-billion-year-long stasis of such sulfur-cycling ecosystems is consistent with the null hypothesis required of Darwinian evolution—if there is no change in the physical-biological environment of a well-adapted ecosystem, its biotic components should similarly remain unchanged—additional evidence will be needed to establish this aspect of evolutionary theory. "


(Phys.org)—An international team of scientists has discovered the greatest absence of evolution ever reported—a type of deep-sea microorganism that appears not to have evolved over more than 2 billion years. But the researchers say that the organisms' lack of evolution actually supports Charles Darwin's theory of evolution." more>>

http://phys.org/news...lion-years.html

 

[Julia36]

Quantum computer set for release March 2015

[ dunno what to make of this]

 

Quantum computing firm D-Wave Systems has announced that it will be commercially releasing a 1,152 qubit processor for use in quantum computers in March 2015.

The processor will be the most-powerful quantum annealing system to be made commercially available and represents a significant step forward in what some have touted as the next technological revolution.

 

http://www.ibtimes.c...ch-2015-1486184

 

Centuries-long drought from climate change led to doom of Mexican city

 

The abandonment of Cantona, a once-fortified Mexican city, has been traced to a centuries-long period of droughts, resulting most probably from climate change.

The Mesoamerican metropolis dried up about 1,000 years ago following below-average rainfall from about AD 500 to about AD 1150, believed to be part of a period of droughts in modern-day Mexico's highlands that lasted from about 200 BC until AD 1300.

 

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[Julia36]

Hologram prices tumble as new techniques found

 

 

http://www.ibtimes.c...c-waves-1486467

 

"A special type of crystal called lithium niobate (LiNbO3) boasts excellent optical properties and beneath the surface of the crystal, microscopic channels, or "waveguides", are created to confine light passing through.

The researchers discovered that by depositing a metal electrode on to each waveguide, it was possible to produce surface acoustic waves that divide the colour frequencies in such a way, a new type of colour display is possible.

Daniel Smalley, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at BYU, has been working to develop the world's first low-cost holographic video monitor for several years since he was a graduate student at MIT."

 

[Julia36]

Patternation is the basis of the world.  Everything by law, number and order

 

 

Sardiines:

 

 

 

Starlings:

 

chance or physics laws?

 

 

 

http://www.wiley.com...ein_folding.htm

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[Julia36]

Robots to do weeding on farms

 

In a step that will revolutionise farming, Australian engineers have developed robots that can de-weed crops.

The small robot platforms can pull the weed out, laser it, microwave it or spray weed killers, said Dr Robert Fitch, manager of systems planning at the Robotics Center (ACFR)." more>>>

 

http://www.ibtimes.c...farming-1486513

 

 

[Julia36]

Artificially intelligent robot scientist 'Eve' could boost search for new drugs

Eve, an artificially-intelligent 'robot scientist' could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society journal Interface. The team has demonstrated the success of the ...

 

Eve is designed to automate early-stage drug design. First, she systematically tests each member from a large set of compounds in the standard brute-force way of conventional mass screening. The compounds are screened against assays (tests) designed to be automatically engineered, and can be generated much faster and more cheaply than the bespoke assays that are currently standard. This enables more types of assay to be applied, more efficient use of screening facilities to be made, and thereby increases the probability of a discovery within a given budget.

Eve's robotic system is capable of screening over 10,000 compounds per day. However, while simple to automate, mass screening is still relatively slow and wasteful of resources as every compound in the library is tested. It is also unintelligent, as it makes no use of what is learnt during screening."

 

http://phys.org/news...entist-eve.html

 

 

 

2013

 

 

 

[Flying is a lot easier than walking. From my shrt time in human robotics, I know we have all the components to build flying maids: they just haven't been put together yet. Personal assistants can move into robotiocs, acting in the 3D environment. ]

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[Julia36]

Machine learning offers insights into evolution of monkey faces

 

Computers are able to use monkey facial patterns not only to correctly identify species, but also distinguish individuals within species, a team of scientists has found. Their findings, which rely on computer algorithms to identify guenon monkeys, suggest that machine learning can be a tool in studying evolution and help to identify the factors that have led to facial differentiation in monkey evolution....

 University of Hull (UK).

"We sought to test a computer's ability to do something close to what a guenon viewing other guenons' faces would do," adds Allen. "We did so by taking measurements of visual attributes from photographs of guenon faces and asking a computer to try and separate different groups as accurately as possible on the basis of these measurements."

 http://phys.org/news...tion-monkey.htm

 

 

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[Julia36]

Flexible sensor lets humans feel magnetism

 

(it's much smaller than this!]

The sensor is less than two micrometres thick, and only weighs three grams per square metre -- so light they can be laid on a soap bubble without breaking it. They can also withstand extreme bending with radii of less than three micrometres, able to be crumpled like a piece of paper." >>> more

http://www.cnet.com/...-the-magnetism/

 

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[Julia36]

[The forests were cuts down for farming. Eventually no trees meant hostile climate and Dartmoor was abandoned.

If Quantum Archaeology is  correct neolithics will be resurrected in groups]

 

 

 

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[Julia36]

 

[Julia36]

Quantum Archaeology is a prescience of resurrection of the dead using process technologies due in 20-40 years.Organisms extinct for hundreds of millions of years have already been resurrected in evolutionary biology and historical information is now thought incapable of destruction.
It involves building the Quantum Archaeology Grid to plot all knowable events of the past, filling the gaps by cross-referencing heuristically, and deducing by the laws of science.  Specialist grids already exist waiting to be merged, including cosmic ones with trillions of moving evolution points. The result will be a mega-matrix crisp  enough to describe then simulate the past. Quantum computers and super-recursive algorithms, both in their infancy, may allow vast calculation into the quantum world, and artificial intelligence has no known upper limit. Baring catastrophe it is likely science and technology will resurrect the dead.

 

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." Descartes)

'Rule' is ok for maths. But as ideas emerge I like to call them discoveries or axioms, posits or conclusions.
Wayside stones I hammer into the ground of reality (existence), and from which I can draw geometry lines - truths -  to advance and hammer in more.

Eventually I have done enough to solve the problem I started with, and know the ground enough I've covered vast quantities of perspectives.

It's possible Quantum Archaeology can be shot down, but it hasn't been yet: If it is I'll have to accept it!
 

[Julia36]

Fossils:South American monkeys came from Africa

"The oldest fossil records of New World monkeys (monkeys found in South America and Central America) date back 26 million years. The new fossils indicate that monkeys first arrived in South America at least 36 million years ago."

 http://phys.org/news...ence-south.html

 

[Julia36]

Experiences Of Art, Nature And Spirituality May Help Prevent Disease

 

 

"The researchers found a correlation between feelings of awe and lower levels of cytokines, markers that put the immune system on high alert by triggering a defensive reaction known as inflammation. While inflammation is essential to fighting infection and disease when the body is presented with a specific threat, chronically high levels of cytokines have been linked to a number of health problems, including heart disease, Alzheimer's, depression and autoimmune conditions." more>>

 

http://www.huffingto..._hp_ref=science

 

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[Julia36]

Organs on a chip

 

 

"Fraunhofer, a German research organization, for example, recently announced they have developed what they call a "synthetic organism on a miniature chip" to stand in for the human body in the testing of new drugs." more>>

http://singularityhu...-drug-research/

 

 

[moving to fabricating a complete person: likely to need A.I. to get there].

 

[Julia36]

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One pill to rule them all

 

"A daily probiotic pill could cure both types of diabetes scientists at Cornell University in New York hope adter they discovered a specific probiotic, commonly found in the human gut, could lower blood sugar levels in diabetic rats by up to 30 per cent" more>>

http://www.dailymail...ists-claim.html

 

 

[Julia36]

Robots beginning to make Independent Scientific Discoveries

 

 

 

http://www.wired.co....t-scientist-eve

 

"In a study published in the Royal Society Interface, researchers from the University of Cambridge and Manchester University asserted that robot systems like Eve could help identify new drug candidates for malaria and tropical diseases such as African sleeping sickness, and cut the time and costs involved in screening.

This improvement potentially holds the key to improving the lives of millions of people worldwide.

"Every industry benefits from automation and science is no exception," said Professor Ross King, from Institute of Biotechnology at Manchester University.

Robot scientists like Eve would be able to record scientific knowledge as the data is generated. They can develop and test hypotheses to explain observations, amend their hypotheses based on the interpretation of the results, then repeat the experiments." more>>

 

[sthira]

Great stuff as always, stopgam. I love your posts. I wonder when robots will replace Cirque performers and ballet dancers?

[Julia36]

 thanks sthira I see u're interested in new stuff..

 

nearly there IMO depends on entrepreneurs now and much tech is in place/ needs to be brought together. (hard to see acceleration in technology]

 

classic.

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[Julia36]

 

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[Julia36]

Humans are still evolving

 

"Humans changing faster than 100 years ago"

 

 

 

"Falling death rates and a decrease in family size in the western world since the start of the industrial revolution 250 years ago have not prevented Darwinian evolution from exerting its effect on the human gene pool, scientists said.

The researchers analysed church records of births, marriages and deaths for 10,000 inhabitants of seven parishes in Finland since the beginning of the 18th Century and concluded that evolution is still occurring despite the dramatic cultural changes over the same period.

“We are still evolving. As long as some individuals have more children and other individuals have fewer children than others, there is potential for evolution to take place,” said Elisabeth Bolund of Uppsala University in Sweden."

 

http://www.independe...s-10026995.html

 

 

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[Julia36]

Robots have moved into home and work.

 

 

New PAL Robot goes on sale

 

http://spectrum.ieee...ile-manipulator

 

 

Robots used in therapy sessions with autistic children.

 

 

China to have most robots in world by 2017

 

(Reuters) - China will have more robots operating in its production plants by 2017 than any other country as it cranks up automation of its car and electronics factories, the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) said on Thursday.

Already the biggest market in the $9.5 billion (6 billion pound) global robot trade -- or $29 billion including associated software, peripherals and systems engineering -- China lags far behind its more industrialised peers in terms of robot density." more>>

 

http://uk.reuters.co...N0L926Y20150205

 

 

http://www.theguardi...-computing-jobs

 

 

 

 

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[Julia36]

Chimp Language barrier broken

 

 

"First evidence that chimps can learn calls relating to specific foods.
Such behaviour was thought to be a defining feature of human language.
It suggests this feature of langauge evolved far longer ago than believed" more>>

http://www.dailymail...sed-groups.html

 

[Julia36]

Buddhists Say Mummified Monk in Mongolia Is Meditating

http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-asia-31125338

 

Time

 

Buddhists are not convinced a recently discovered mummified monk is actually dead. In fact, they say he’s in a deep meditative state known as tukdam and could potentially be the next Buddha."

[Julia36]

No fuel needed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As solar cells near 40% efficiency projects to produce transport takes off.

 

 

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[Julia36]

 

Great intelligence may come from cooperation between machines and men

 

Edited by stopgam, 07 February 2015 - 12:41 AM.

[Julia36]

Ancient protein discovered in fossilized shells

"the shells, once dissolved in dilute acid, released intact thin sheets of shell proteins more than a centimeter across. Chemical analysis including spectroscopy and electron microscopy of these sheets revealed that they are indeed shell proteins that were preserved for up to 15 million years." cited in article
 

 

 "Local scientists have made a discovery that may lead researchers world-wide to examine fossils in a new way.

A colorful species of mollusk collected at Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay contains some of the oldest and best preserved examples of a protein ever found in a fossil shell." more

http://wtop.com/scie...-chesapeake-bay

 

 

 

 

[Julia36]

we are only at the beginning of recovery IMO

 

Extracting DNA from Neanderthal Bones

 

 

http://www.explorato...ncient_dna.html

 

 

 

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[Julia36]

We must attack death on every front, plan against it for the future, dismember it in the present, and revoke it in the past!

 

 

In our hands lie the great tools of science and technology. Behind them, the tested systems of causality and probability by which all known laws in the cosmos exist.

 

Added to these are the vast facts in growing databases like "Tree of Life on the Web" project. Then come the brilliant modern sciences, statistics, mathematics and computing. There are growing innovative techniques and devices and the accelerating discipline of artificial intelligence which began giving men orders in London as exploding traffic lights outside Parliament in 1868, but has improved and is now integral to civilization with no known nor containable limit.

 

At some point in the future the specific ,description of tiniest events  - even thoughts and memories - will be calculated and exposed for all the world to see. Man is not outside the laws of Nature and it is not different science to reconstruct his brain than any other part of him.

 

 

 

 

QUANTUM ARCHAEOLOGY.

How Science is trying to resurrect the dead.


Micro Map of the past being created.

• Quantum computers and new maths to calculate detailed histories and memories of everyone dead.
• Face and body reconstructions a million years old already achieved: mind reconstructions coming.
• 106 billion people to be resurrected within 40 years.

• A Child's Guide to Quantum Archaeology (300 words) <~ start here!!!
• Short version (3,000 words)

• The Quantum Archaeology Grid

• Recursive Civilization

• XYLEM

• Turing Church Workshop Paper

MAIN ARTICLE:~~>(working: Nine pages)
QuantumArchaeology




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Artificial intelligence, also known as A.I., will be significantly more advanced in another five years, says Hinton

 

 

 

 

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Major gains are being made, or are about to be made, in natural language processing, speech recognition, object recognition, computer vision, machine translation and neural networks.

Many of those technologies will be used to build robots that move more fluidly, like humans. They also will help scientists integrate multiple capabilities into one robotic system.

"We've made a lot of deep advances in many focused areas, but we need one big system to pull a lot of these systems together into one machine,""

 

AAAI

http://www.computerw...ng-smarter.html

 

Edited by stopgam, 07 February 2015 - 02:05 PM.