# n-soc: the next step of a "liquid society": Jia Jia, they will love "her" ...

<<  "You are a handsome man," she [Jia Jia] complimented one, but when asked later if she has a boyfriend, replied, "I prefer to stay single." >>

<< The humanoid robot 'Jia Jia' was created by a team of engineers from the University of Science and Technology of China >>

<<  "In 5-10 years there will be a lot of applications for robots in China," Chen [Chen Xiaoping] said >>

<< Jia Jia is not quite there yet, but Chen sees a bright future for her kind in China >>

Chinese humanoid robot turns on the charm in Shanghai. Jan. 9, 2017

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-01-bionic-woman-chinese-robot-charm.html

more about "liquid society": Zygmunt Bauman. "Liquid modernity". Polity Pr (2000).

https://www.amazon.it/Liquid-Modernity-Zygmunt-Bauman/dp/0745624103

FonT: un funambolico ipotetico scenario  potrebbe animarsi nella forma di ipotetica Entita' AI "Jia Jia", attraente, dolce, morbida, flessuosa, sempre presente nel reale, intima assistente personale di ipotetico Donald, a suo tempo gia' compiutamente crackata da un assolutamente ipotetico "Vladimir-lui-senz'altro-sa-come-si-fa" ...

# s-ethno: Bushmen revisited, by @scienmag

<< Change begins at the end of your comfort zone >> @scienmag 8 Gen 2017 18:00

https://mobile.twitter.com/scienmag/status/818276109561331712

# s-ecol: a solitary Chemist against a "Cockroach Inverse Wave" hypothesis

<< La soglia minima per “bocciare” un dipendente è fissata a quota 50 punti, mentre a Genchi (dottor Gioacchino Genchi, chimico) era stata assegnata una valutazione di 58,01: in pratica mancavano i presupposti legali a supporto dell’ incredibile sanzione inibitoria, per il semplice fatto che il dipendente non aveva demeritato neanche nel punteggio che gli era stato assegnato dai suoi superiori. >>

Lino Buscemi. Sicilia, “sull’isola la matematica è relativa: lo strano caso del dottor Genchi”. F. Q. 7 Gen 2017

http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/01/07/sicilia-sullisola-la-matematica-e-relativa-lo-strano-caso-del-dottor-genchi/3299042/

<< percio' e in definitiva se (beninteso, se e solo se) costui evitera' (#1) sara' per svista di dis tratto (#2) e non per altro ... >> Anonymous, XX e.V.

(#1): azzeramento
(#2): burocrate

# e-qubit: quantum algorithm(s) ready to leap out

<< I tell my students that 2017 is the year of braiding. >> Leo Kouwenhoven

Davide Castelvecchi. Quantum computers ready to leap out of the lab in 2017. Nature. Volume: 541,  Pages: 9–10 Date publ.: 05 Jan. 2017 DOI:  doi :10.1038/541009a

http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-computers-ready-to-leap-out-of-the-lab-in-2017-1.21239

FonT: quando "the (qubit) year of braiding" sara' realta', i sistemi di crittografia entreranno in stati di  ampia e risonante fibrillazione, immagino ...

# s-brain: 'silent' macaques

<< the evolution of human speech capabilities required neural changes rather than modifications of vocal anatomy. Macaques have a speech-ready vocal tract but lack a speech-ready brain to control it >>

Macaque monkeys have the anatomy for human speech, so why can’t they speak? Dec. 14, 2016

http://www.kurzweilai.net/macaque-monkeys-have-the-anatomy-for-human-speech-so-why-cant-they-speak

W. Tecumseh Fitch, Bart de Boer, Neil Mathur and Asif A. Ghazanfar. Monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready. Science Advances.  09 Dec 2016: Vol. 2, no. 12, e1600723
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600723

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/12/e1600723

# s-astro: exploring the sea of ‘noise’ to understand intricacies

<< Rather than trying to filter out the signal “noise” from stars around which exoplanets are orbiting, (AA) studied all of the signal information together to understand the intricacies within its structure >>

Jim Shelton. Searching a sea of ‘noise’ to find exoplanets — using only data as a guide.  Dec. 20, 2016

http://news.yale.edu/2016/12/20/searching-sea-noise-find-exoplanets-using-only-data-guide

Sahil Agarwal, Fabio Del Sordo and John S. Wettlaufer. Exoplanetary Detection by  multifractal spectral analysis. Publ. 2016  Dec.  20, 2016. The  Astronomical  Journal, Volume  153, Number  1;  doi 10.3847/1538-3881/153/1/12

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/153/1/12

# s-behav: soon we'll love the way Japan loves ...

<< Japan has a long ongoing love affair with humanoid robots >>

<<  It involves the concept 'The Uncanny Valley' (translated from 'Bukimi no Tani Genshō'), which was coined by Japanese robotics professor Masahiro Mori in 1970. It means that there is a correlation between how human a robot's appearance and actions are and how we view them >>

<< In Buddhism or Animism, everything has a spiritual aspect, including machines >>

Marc Prosser. Soon We'll All Love Robots the Way Japan Loves Robots. Oct 20, 2016.

http://singularityhub.com/2016/10/20/soon-well-all-love-robots-the-way-japan-loves-robots