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We’ve Been Really and Truly **cked (Insert a consonant and vowel of your choice)

We’ve Been Really and Truly **cked (Insert a consonant and vowel of your choice)

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High-Precision Mind-**cking   You already know the main storyline: Cambridge Analytica, Brietbart, Facebook, and possible other players. Trump’s win of the electoral vote by about 40,000 votes through carefully targeting not only certain swing states, but micro-elements within those states. The questions now are (for those of us techie folks): (1) Technically, just how did this happen? (We want more than the few words in the mainstream news), and (2) (That which really interests us:) What are the countermeasures? One…

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Statistical Mechanics, the Future of AI, and Personal Stories

Statistical Mechanics, the Future of AI, and Personal Stories

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Statistical Mechanics and Personal Stories (On the Same Page!)   Yikes! It’s Thursday morning already. I haven’t written to you for three weeks. That’s long enough that I have to pause and search my memory for my username to get into the website. Thanksgiving was lovely. The Thursday after that was grading, all day – and for several days before and after. By now, I (and most of you) have had a few days of recovery, from what has been…

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Third Stage Boost – Part 2: Implications of Neuromorphic Computing

Third Stage Boost – Part 2: Implications of Neuromorphic Computing

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Neuromorphic Computing: Statistical Mechanics & Criticality   Last week, I suggested that we were on the verge of something new, and referenced an article by von Bubnoff: A brain built from atomic switches [that] can learn, together with the follow-on article Brain Built on Switches. The key innovation described in this article was a silver mesh, as shown in the following figure. This mesh is a “network of microscopically thin intersecting silver wires,” grown via a combination of electrochemical and…

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Third Stage Boost: Statistical Mechanics and Neuromorphic Computing – Part 1

Third Stage Boost: Statistical Mechanics and Neuromorphic Computing – Part 1

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Next-Generation Neural Network Architectures: More Brain-Like   Three generations of artificial intelligence.. The third generation is emerging … right about … now. That’s what is shown in this figure, presented in log-time scale. Brief history of AI in log-time scale The first generation of AI, symbolic AI, began conceptually around 1954, and lasted until 1986; 32 years. On the log-time scale shown in the figure above, this entire era takes place under the first curve; the black bell-shaped curve on…

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Future Forecasts: How We’ll Mind-Control Ourselves

Future Forecasts: How We’ll Mind-Control Ourselves

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Tweaking Our Own Mental State: Getting Easier All the Time   This last spring, twelve minutes changed my life forever. I got into a heck of a fistfight. I went into a dark cave, and put on an alternate identity and transformed into the baddest-a** thing around. I had one of the most spiritual, exalted, uplifting experiences that I’ve ever had. And I fell in love. So here’s the story. I was at the NVIDIA GTC (GPU Technology Conference) this…

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Going Beyond Moore’s Law

Going Beyond Moore’s Law

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Super-Exponential Long-Term Trends in Information Technology Interesting read for the day: Super-exponential long-term trends in Information Technology by B. Nagy, J.D. Farmer, J.E. Trancik, & J.P. Gonzales, shows that which Kurzeil suggested in his earlier work on “technology singularities” is true: We are experiencing faster-than-exponential growth within the information technology area. Nagy et al. are careful to point out that their work indicates a “mathematical singularity,” not to be confused with the more broadly-sweeping notion of a “technological singularity” discussed…

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