2012-02-17, 03:00 | Link #461 |
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Pentagon’s Project ‘Avatar’: Same as the Movie, but With Robots Instead of Aliens
"Soldiers practically inhabiting the mechanical bodies of androids, who will take the
humans’ place on the battlefield. Or sophisticated tech that spots a powerful laser ray, then stops it from obliterating its target. If you’ve got Danger Room’s taste in movies, you’ve probably seen both ideas on the big screen. Now Darpa, the Pentagon’s far-out research arm, wants to bring ‘em into the real world. In the agency’s $2.8 billion budget for 2013, unveiled on Monday, they’ve allotted $7 million for a project titled “Avatar.” The project’s ultimate goal, not surprisingly, sounds a lot like the plot of the same-named (but much more expensive) flick. According the agency, “the Avatar program will develop interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bi-pedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier’s surrogate.”" See: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/darpa-sci-fi/ Though using robo-surrogates seems a bit more like *this* movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/ Note: It looks like the Japanese are already ahead in this type of technology: "A Japanese-developed robot that mimics the movements of its human controller is bringing the Hollywood blockbuster "Avatar" one step closer to reality." See: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Ja...robot_999.html Last edited by AnimeFan188; 2012-02-17 at 12:20. |
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Let's uh... wait for those lab-grown cloned meat instead. That's a lot more humane. Quote:
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2012-02-18, 06:05 | Link #468 |
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Its not about being the first, its about being the youngest. The article said that he was directly inspired by David Hahn through the book Radioactive Boy Scout.
The most important difference between the two of them is that he was given all the right support while Hahn didn't. Its very important to let children learn what they want to, support them the right way. Michio Kaku said that all children are born scientists, everyone of us were born curious and seek knowledge. But the education system(in the USA) is killing all the curiosity of the children, memorising things and forcing upon students with stress and exams is not the way to truly educate people. Michio Kaku said the worst moment of his life was when his own daughter asked him why would anyone ever want to be a scientist, after her geography paper. The exam required geography students to memorise all sorts of rocks and minerals flatly, and completely missed the point of actual geography, to study the tectonic plate movements and formations of rock. Question and finding answers is science, but not memorising things and writing down in exams. Education systems need to cater more to what the children is interested instead of forcing them down paths incorrectly. Lots of child prodigies out there, be it science, maths or arts were successful because they had great support for their interests.
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2012-02-18, 06:14 | Link #469 | |
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2012-02-18, 11:08 | Link #470 | |
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I've seen a number of stories about this ("child prodigy does X" or "child prodigy discovers X in research lab"), and having worked with a number of high schoolers doing things like internship projects in a lab, I tend to be a bit skeptical. It's not that the students aren't intelligent, but their base knowledge isn't built up enough to really engage in the research. Their teachers write back to us with glowing praise after seeing a research presentation from them and after reading their reports (and no doubt they're thought of as geniuses), when we were the ones supplying the data, preparing the figures, and occasionally going so far as to write certain things out for them. The students, meanwhile, were either messing around on their phones/computers, or following us around with a somewhat bored expression. I'd generally try to ask them questions about the various steps that we were going through, to at least keep them thinking and engaged... I don't know whether that's the case with this guy. The world seems to desperately cling to the idea of child prodigies, hoping that one genius will come around to save us all and elevate society. Regardless, the benefit of these articles is that hopefully younger children would read it and be inspired. If it makes even a few kids think to themselves that they can engage in science here and now (which they can), and that they don't have to wait until they're in their late 20's to finish school and really get into it, then it's very beneficial.
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2012-02-18, 11:31 | Link #471 | |
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Is a pretty common mantra, so its not surprising that even the smallest of things (not calling this small) would get catchy headlines, hyperboles, and be given a life of its own by media and excited people. (Personally, I don't think it matters how old you are and that the spark of curiosity can come at all different times for people, and while age may to some be a crippling limitation for others it carries a rich background of experience. Unfortunately, the media and/or people will rarely pay attention to or arrest that 30 odd year old man who follows his curiosity towards much the same thing...) I don't know how much an article will do to motivate a kid, and from personal experience I think it falls more on the people you meet and what they tell/show you from their own experience. Words tend to carry more force when presented with emotion than when typed up in a day and age when kids barely have the attention span to read a post as long as this one.
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2012-02-18, 17:58 | Link #472 |
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Google Busted With Hand in Safari-Browser Cookie Jar
"Google intentionally circumvented the default privacy settings of Apple’s Safari
browser, using a backdoor to set cookies on browsers set to reject them, in the latest privacy debacle for the search and advertising giant." See: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...rowser-cookie/ |
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Maybe gassing dyslexic or reading-handicapped children who are diagnosed at birth would allow the more comprehension-capable to be inspired, rather than going through the time and money consuming process of " academic meritocracy" to "socially darwinise" for prodigies. *sarcastic*
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2012-02-18, 22:32 | Link #474 |
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Here's an entertaining bit of informing science about scale
http://htwins.net/scale2/ Definitely safe for work unless your boss is a Flat Earther.
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2012-02-19, 01:53 | Link #475 | |
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2012-02-19, 05:04 | Link #476 | |
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2012-02-19, 07:14 | Link #477 | |
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2012-02-20, 05:21 | Link #478 | |
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2012-02-21, 12:19 | Link #480 | |
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I know this is more science related, instead of technology, but I think it's worth posting.
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