On the human body’s inadequacies

March 5, 2012

One aspect that is often associated with the coming of the Singularity is that it will enable us to live forever (or at least for as long as we want to). This may or may not be desirable, but setting aside the discussion about whether we will want to live forever or even if we can cope with [...]

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Wag that tail, Robot

January 6, 2012
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I know we already had a post this week, and a rather substantial one at that, but this is just cool. And it has robots! So forgive me for over indulging in my link sharing, but here is an article with an excellent video on reptilian-like tailed robots (video at the end of the post).
It is [...]

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While we’re on the topic of learning…

November 22, 2011

This time around I stumbled across a proposed system to learn more about our own learning processes, aimed specifically at optimizing them.
I’ve been delving quite a bit into the area of Machine Learning lately and the idea described in this article struck me as something that is quite obvious in hindsight (but then what isn’t?)
I found it [...]

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