A possible Solution to the Fermi Paradox – part 1
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What is raw water and how it can benefit your health
June 05, 2018Raw water is water taken directly from the stream: non-filtered, non-purified It cannot benefit your health, it might kill you. Don’t be naive – not everything “natural” or “raw” is good for you. If nature had had […]
The Poetry of Science: Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson
June 04, 2018It really is a pleasure to see two people with clear minds and sound logic have a constructive conversation: no logical fallacies, just a normal conversation on important topics – “a kind of mutual tutorial […]
Deep Learning at NVIDIA: AI Reconstructs Photos with Realistic Results (Image Inpainting for Irregular Holes Using Partial Convolutions)
May 24, 2018Researchers from NVIDIA, led by Guilin Liu, introduced a state-of-the-art deep learning method that can edit images or reconstruct a corrupted image, one that has holes or is missing pixels. The method can also be […]
Drop Everything And Read The Ridiculous Terms And Conditions For Elon Musk’s Flamethrower
May 23, 2018The terms and condition for the Boring Company’s new flamethrower – ahem, Not-a-Flamethrower – are anything but. Naturally, the eccentric billionaire (and real-life Bruce Wayne) would come out with ludicrous rules for his already outrageous new […]
Reverse Aging – 2018 Update
April 17, 2018Panellists: Elizabeth Parrish, CEO of BioViva Sciences Inc – known as “patient zero” for two anti-aging therapies that her company is researching. Ilia Stambler, Author of the definitive history of life extensionism, and Outreach Coordinator […]
Folding on Ubuntu 16.04 – Command Line Instructions (all errors solved 2018)
April 15, 2018This guide is for Ubuntu 16.04 Server for x64 platforms. It can also be used for Debian and Mint, but Python Support may be different (just google it, find package and that’s it!) If you’re […]
Your computer can help cure cancer, Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s and many other diseases while you sleep!
April 10, 2018Yes, you read it right: the same dust collector you use to watch kitten videos can help scientists around the world to execute complex calculations in order to understand how proteins fold (which is essential […]
Scientists Construct Bio-computer Made From Living Human Cells
March 27, 2018We would benefit greatly from surpassing the limitations of our monkey brains. If we are to construct such AI, we need to make sure we can understand it, and hopefully moderate it – ahem – […]
Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever? (Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell’s video transcript)
March 25, 2018If you had to choose right now, how long would you want to live? 80 years? 90? 120? Longer? And do you think you’ll change your mind once you reach that age?
Fifty thousand years ago most humans died very young. As we learned how to use the resources around us to treat ourselves, this got better and better.