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giovedì 3 ottobre 2024
# gst: extreme events in two-coupled chaotic oscillators.
martedì 18 giugno 2024
# gst: approaching uncertainty among many-body real-time dynamics
sabato 8 giugno 2024
# gst: defects around obstacles, active nematic ratchet in asymmetric arrays
venerdì 7 giugno 2024
# gst: controlled creation of point defects in 3D colloidal crystals
venerdì 10 maggio 2024
# music: masters of noise, Frank Zappa plays bicycles
giovedì 2 maggio 2024
# gst: apropos of uncertainty, notes on uncertainty, information, and classical dynamics.
venerdì 12 agosto 2022
# gst: like steering a marble through a tilting labyrinth, randomness seems to quickly deliver specific outcomes.
mercoledì 18 maggio 2022
# brain: jazzy perceptions inside, there’s more to all the noise; even in the dark, neurons of the visual cortex chat
mercoledì 6 ottobre 2021
# gst: apropos of disorder & fluctuations
lunedì 28 giugno 2021
# gst: synchronous dynamics by uncorrelated noise
lunedì 10 maggio 2021
# brain: learning on the fly (in D. melanogaster and mammals)
lunedì 22 marzo 2021
# gst: weird nature: the generation of complex (frilly, flexible, and functional) wrinkling patterns by 'defects'
venerdì 4 settembre 2020
# gst: the generation of 'fuzzy' signals for fine skeletal muscle control
mercoledì 14 agosto 2019
# game: inject irrationality into a game scenario; when a player will be their own worst enemy
<< in game theory, a game is defined as any type of scenario where there's an interaction between different decision-makers, or players, each of whom has well-defined preferences. >>
<< previous analyses assume the decision-makers always do what is best for them-they are fully rational-which is not always realistic. >>
<< So SFI Professor David Wolpert and economist Justin Grana, a former SFI postdoctoral scholar, wanted to inject some humanity into the players. They analyzed games with players who were subject to error, or "boundedly rational." >>
<< Our analysis shows that in many of these situations, a player will be their own worst enemy; >> David Wolpert.
Jenna Marshall. How much would you pay to change a game before playing it? Santa Fe Institute. Aug13, 2019. https://m.phys.org/news/2019-08-game.html
David Wolpert, Justin Grana. How Much Would You Pay to Change a Game before Playing It? Entropy 2019, 21, 686. doi: 10.3390/ e21070686. July 13, 2019. https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/7/686
mercoledì 27 giugno 2018
# acad: Prometheus vs Pandora interplay
<< Some of the most important rules we need to discover are about how to use technology and, just as importantly, how not to use it. >>
<< The great institutional economist Clarence Ayres wrote about how technology becomes incorporated into our lives in a way that is roughly equivalent to the way tribal societies use totems to interact with each other. >>
<< Every inventor is both a Prometheus stealing fire from the gods, and a Pandora unwittingly releasing a swarm of potential evils on the world. The competition of ideas between hype and doomsaying allows us to discover helpful rules which deal with both. >>
<< Technology doesn't come with a ready-made rulebook for how to use it. We have to discover this in a process of trial, error and argument. And for this the doomsayer is just as vital as the visionary. >>
Brendan Markey-Towler. Doomsaying about new technology helps make it better. Jun 21, 2018.
https://theconversation.com/doomsaying-about-new-technology-helps-make-it-better-98623
lunedì 11 settembre 2017
# qubit: the flip-flop quantum processor, the begin
AA << introduce the flip-flop qubit, a combination of the electron-nuclear spin states of a phosphorus donor that can be controlled by microwave electric fields >>
<< to encode quantum information in the electron-nuclear spin states of 31P [phosphorus] donors in silicon, and to realize fast, high-fidelity, electrically driven universal quantum gates >>
<< a credible pathway to the construction of a large-scale quantum processor, where atomic-size spin qubits are integrated with silicon nanoelectronic devices, in a platform that does not require atomic-scale precision in the qubit placement [..] and, with realistic assumptions on noise and imperfections, are predicted to achieve error rates compatible with fault-tolerant quantum error correction >>
Guilherme Tosi, Fahd A. Mohiyaddin, et al. Silicon quantum processor with robust long-distance qubit couplings. Nature Comm 8, 2017; 450 Sept 06, 2017 doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00378-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00378-x
<< a new way to define a 'spin qubit' that uses both the electron and the nucleus of the atom. Crucially, this new qubit can be controlled using electric signals, instead of magnetic ones. Electric signals are significantly easier to distribute and localise within an electronic chip >>
Flip-flop qubits: Radical new quantum computing design invented. Sept 6, 2017
https://scienmag.com/flip-flop-qubits-radical-new-quantum-computing-design-invented/
Fiona MacDonald, Mike McRae. Breaking: An Entirely New Type of Quantum Computing Has Been Invented. "It's amazing no one had thought of it before." Sep 6, 2017
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# ai-bot: 352 predictions of when machines will make humans obsolete. Sep 2, 2017
http://flashontrack.blogspot.it/2017/09/ai-bot-352-predictions-of-when-machines.html
Bill Berry, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Michael Mills (R.E.M.). "Begin The Begin". In: "Lifes Rich Pageant" (1986)
giovedì 10 agosto 2017
# s-gst: they take decisions in a way that is not necessarily uniform (jazzy? funky? fuzzy?)
AA << found that fate decision is not a unique programmed event, but the result of a very dynamic process composed of spontaneous fluctuation and selective stabilisation of alternative cellular states >>
<< The whole process is reminiscent of trial-and-error learning in which each cell explores—at its own rhythm and independently of cell division—different molecular possibilities (i.e. different genes turned on or off) before reaching a stable combination of active genes and the corresponding morphology >>
AA << observed that some cells seem to "hesitate" and change morphology many times before reaching a stable state >>
Which type of cell to become: Decision through indecision.
July 27, 2017
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-07-cell-decision-indecision.html
<< Individual cells take lineage commitment decisions in a way that is not necessarily uniform >>
AA << identifies a new category of cells with fluctuating phenotypic characteristics, demonstrating the complexity of the fate decision process >>
Alice Moussy, Jérémie Cosette, et al. Integrated time-lapse and single-cell transcription studies highlight the variable and dynamic nature of human hematopoietic cell fate commitment. PLoS Biol 15(7): e2001867 doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2001867
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2001867
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in pratica un lancio di dadi, ... quasi.
<< Amico, qualunque cosa suonerai . . . >>
sabato 4 febbraio 2017
# s-ai: handling imperfect information (from scratch), by Libratus
<< As the great Kenny Rogers once said, a good gambler has to know when to hold ’em and know when to fold ’em. At the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh this week, a computer program called Libratus may finally prove that computers can do this better than any human card player >>
<< Libratus was created by Tuomas Sandholm, a professor in the computer science department at CMU, and his graduate student Noam Brown >>
<< Playing poker involves dealing with imperfect information, which makes the game very complex, and more like many real-world situations >>
<< Poker has been one of the hardest games for AI to crack (..) There is no single optimal move, but instead an AI player has to randomize its actions so as to make opponents uncertain when it is bluffing >> Andrew Ng
Will Knight. Why Poker Is a Big Deal for Artificial Intelligence. Jan. 23, 2017
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603385/why-poker-is-a-big-deal-for-artificial-intelligence/
<< Libratus, for one, did not use neural networks. Mainly, it relied on a form of AI known as reinforcement learning , a method of extreme trial-and-error. In essence, it played game after game against itself >>
<< By contrast [GO], Libratus learned from scratch.
Cade Metz. Inside Libratus, the Poker AI That Out-Bluffed the Best Humans. Feb.01, 2017 07:00 am
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/libratus/
more:
NoamBrown, Tuomas Sandholm. Safe and Nested Endgame Solving for Imperfect-Information Games.
mercoledì 25 maggio 2016
# s-acad: medical error in US hospitals
<< Medical error in hospitals is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. after heart disease and cancer - an estimated 210,000 to 400,000 deaths a year >>
Warning: Your hospital may kill you and they won’t report it. May 9, 2016.
http://www.kurzweilai.net/warning-your-hospital-may-kill-you-and-they-wont-report-it
<< Medical error is not included on death certificates or in rankings of cause of death >>
Makary MA, Daniel M. Medical error - the third leading cause of death in the US. BMJ 2016 May 3;353:i2139. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i2139.