January 2010
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Gov't-Funded Machine Learning
Machine learning will probably be one of the most important technological advances that affects the future of humanity and our ability to become more productive. It actually amazes me that I haven’t really heard of a machine learning project that attempts to augment human learning. (I assume such a project is fairly ambitious, but it seems like a worthy goal.) My understanding of machine...
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Thorium Reactors Sound Cool...
Here’s a Google Tech Talk cut down to about 10 minutes, discussing the benefits of using Thorium instead of Uranium or Plutonium in nuclear reactors. Will fusion beat out fission, though, for the future of energy? hmm..
Happy New Year!
Welcome to 2010, folks! Twenty-ten sounds so futuristic — but I guess not anymore… What year sounds more like the distant future now? 2100? 3001? Twenty-fifty doesn’t quite sound very distant to me. I think we’re supposed to run out of oil in 2050 or something… but I doubt it’ll happen. We’ll have biodiesel or nuclear fusion by then (hopefully).