Hi dude,

The TED one is a real treet, try this one:

http://www.ted.com/talks/al_seckel_says … wired.html

for the other broken one, I can do nothing more...

one thing, when you post urls in the forum area, it's better to stick them between "urls tags", so that they won't be truncated.

I'll show you in next post

Scalino

WOH! Dudes!
Fucking excellent short documentary on epigenetics!

If anyone doubts the power of input control, check this out right away. Clear, concise, and I only found myself wishing there was a great deal more of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBtApxIk … re=related

...perhaps not intended to be open source, but it is now anyway  :  )

Worth following up wirh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE6lWGzO_7A

watch out for the slight cock-up at the end (you'll spot it).
enjoy,
AR

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  - Potentially Biased results (e.g. SOE, conflict of interests, etc);
  - Single Point of Failure Weakness (1 corporation)

Solution:
  - Decentralized, Peer-to-Peer, Open-Source Network of Indexes

http://yacy.net/en/

00010111
  MM800


PS.: Should this go in the Mainstream watch? I would suppose it would refer to TE BS, but there seem to be good stuff there too (e.g. AI research)? However this here alludes to "homeworld" -- which this post isn't (unless the definition of such is loosened) -- but also got posts not exactly on it (again, depending on definitions). Since here is less crowded, there is lower possibility of disrupting current conversations, ergo here it is. =)

AI & game-programming fans:  This dude is trying to copy the way the brain does things...and he's doing very well  :  )


computing beyond turing/ jeff hawkins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCdbZqI … 2D6FF57787

Numenta software is here: http://www.numenta.com
http://www.numenta.com/archives/software.php

Enjoy  :  )
AR

Hi dude,
Re: alex, do you plan on using HTM for something?

No, but I plan on keeping an eye on Hawkins. He's the closest to cracking AI from all projects that I know of. He goes off on tangents but seems to come back to the point.

The current model for HTM from my pov is one such tangent, but I predict :  ) that he'll use the prediction factor and get more into internal model construction and graphic representation. Basically he just needs to grasp the central position of the imagination process in the same way he's grasped memory, and perception in the way that he's grasped prediction, and he's cracked it.
Him grasping that depends on his own CPU  :  )

Best,
AR

University of California adopts open-access policy for research papers
August 5th, 2013 in Other Sciences / Other

The University of California (UC)—the biggest public research university in the world, has decided to adopt a university wide open-access policy for research papers produced by its faculty. The move marks a major victory for open-access proponents and a blow to professional journals who publish research papers behind a pay wall.

Open access, as described by Creative Commons licensing agreements, essentially provide free access to anyone with an Internet connection. Going forward, all faculty at the university will be encouraged to post their research papers to the university's eScholarship web site. Under the agreement, posters will have to grant the University a non-exclusive license to their papers (per Creative Commons guidelines) and promise that their papers have been peer reviewed. The change doesn't force faculty to post to the university site rather than submit their papers to professional publications such as Nature, or Science, instead it provides a platform for publishing to an open-access site should the authors wish to go that route.

In its announcement, officials with UC indicated that the move to open-access was meant to send a message to the rest of the research community—that open-access to research material is vital to "the future of research."

UC is not the first research organization to institute an open-access policy—various reports suggest that as many as 175 other universities have done so as well, perhaps most famously, MIT. The movement gained momentum after the White House issued a statement earlier this year announcing that all research papers that come about due to federal funds will be made available for free to the public within one year of being published in another journal.

Critics argue that the move to open-access publishing isn't what it would appear at all. They suggest that researchers will still want to publish in well known journals—the wide readership and established reputations make them the gold standard—plus there is the issue of peer review. Professional journals spend a lot of money to ensure papers are thoroughly reviewed before they are published—money they recoup by restricting access to the paper to only those willing to pay for it. Papers that are published on open-access sites, on the other hand, may or may not be as thoroughly reviewed.

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Neurobiology online course to attempt world's largest memory experiment
April 23rd, 2014 in Neuroscience

A free, massively open online course (MOOC) on Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life will begin Monday, April 28, and will include what may become the world's largest memory experiment.

The University of Chicago is offering the course through MOOC provider Coursera. UChicago launched its first two MOOCs last fall, on Asset Pricing and Global Warming. The MOOCs being offered are free and not-for-credit.

Peggy Mason, professor of neurobiology, will lead Understanding the Brain. Mason designed the 10-week course for people from all walks of life who are interested in the workings of the brain and the nervous system. In fact, the conductor on her commuter train has signed up for the course.
"If I'm going to get Jeff to watch this course when he gets home, it better be bloody interesting,"

Mason said. "I better have a reason why I talk about what I talk about. It better engage people. It better make a difference to them."

Mason had never heard of a MOOC until she was invited to give one. But after reading about them for one entire night, she became fascinated by the concept's potential to fuel widespread curiosity in how the human mind works.

"Learning is the way forward for the world," Mason said. "It's an amazing thing that we can make learning available to people regardless of geography, regardless of ability to pay, regardless of ability to take some entry test; they just want to learn.

Neuroevangelism
"The MOOC is an amazing platform for me as a neuro-evangelist," Mason said. "When I wake up in the morning, I see neurobiology around me all the time. To be able to take the mystery out of the nervous system for the general public is a major opportunity for me."

Mason is the author of a textbook, Medical Neurobiology (Oxford University Press, 2011), which introduces medical students to the fundamentals of the nervous system as it relates to the practice of medicine and human health. She also writes a blog, The Brain is Sooooo Cool!, in which she explains how the brain operates, and tweets about related matters via @neuroMOOC.

The course primarily will cover neuroanatomy, neural communication and neural systems. Mason will supplement her online lectures with discussions of the underlying neurology of topics that her students select from current events or YouTube videos.

Enrollment for Mason's course has reached 27,000 and climbing. Her MOOC students will be able to participate in the memory experiment, which will begin with the second 5-minute segment of the course.
"I anticipate that we will get it credited as the largest memory experiment ever performed," Mason said, referring to the Guinness Book of World Records. "It's very simple. People just have to listen to one 5-minute segment and then answer an e-mail." No further participation in the course is required. "In that way the students can contribute to human knowledge. We're going to learn something from that experiment."

Understanding the Brain follows two other UChicago MOOCs that got off to a strong start. John Cochrane, the AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at UChicago's Booth School of Business, taught Asset Pricing, which attracted 41,000 enrollees last fall.

The enrollees included employees at financial firms and faculty members at other institutions who wanted to brush up on the topic. "The kind of people who could not normally come and take a class here can get the material this way," Cochrane said.

The digital materials from UChicago's MOOCs are used to enrich on-campus learning. The students of Cochrane's concurrent course in Asset Pricing viewed the weekly lecture videos independently. Class time emphasized engagement.

"You have to interact with the material," Cochrane said. "If the classroom can be one of discussion, working on problems, working around the material, as opposed to just watching equations flow, I think that'll make the learning experience here much better."

Cochrane's students used the provided online forums to organize study groups in Singapore, London, Taipei and New York City. Online, language-specific study groups also formed, highlighting the international consumption of MOOCs.

International MOOCs
"A recent survey across all Coursera courses showed that a majority of MOOC participants are international, so we are excited by the opportunity these courses represent to share University of Chicago scholarship with a global audience," said Ian Solomon, vice president for global engagement.
Global Warming attracted 15,000 enrollees last fall in a market that includes many other online courses offered by other institutions on the same topic. David Archer, professor in geophysical sciences, taught the course. Archer is offering Global Warming again in an eight-week sequence that began March 31, concurrently with his residential course.

Archer, Cochrane and Mason have all penned textbooks that their students use, both in their for-credit courses and for the online offerings. Archer said of online education, "In some senses it's revolutionary, and in another sense it's just a different medium."
More information: www.coursera.org/course/neurobio

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