# n-trade: don't worry Donald #Potus, by Jack

<< Jack Ma, who met US President Donald Trump last month and announced his company Alibaba would help create one million jobs in the United States, added: "The world needs globalisation, it needs trade".  Speaking in Melbourne at the launch of Alibaba's Australia and New Zealand headquarters, he said: "Everybody is concerned about trade wars. If trade stops, war starts >>

Samuel Osborne. 'If  trade stops, war starts' Alibaba founder who visited Donald Trump warns. 'The world needs  globalisation, it needs trade'. 6 Feb. 2017.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/jack-ma-alibaba-donald-trump-trade-war-jobs-a7564021.html

Jack  Ma, il fondatore  del colosso Alibaba, avverte  Donald Trump: “Se si ferma il commercio inizia  la  guerra”. 6 Feb. 2017

http://m.huffpost.com/it/entry/14630688?utm_hp_ref=italy&ir=Italy

FonT: i sistemi "chiusi" sono fragili, deboli, instabili, involuti ...  difficili da realizzare e impossibili da stabilizzare ... vale per i  contesti naturali, vale per le societa' umane .... ormai dovrebbe rendersene conto chiunque ...

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<< Amico, qualunque  cosa suonerai . . . suonerai Jelly Roll >> Jelly Roll Morton (opp. Mouton, alias di Ferdinand La Menthe, opp. La Mothe, New Orleans, 20 ott ~1885 - Los Angeles, 10 luglio 1941, ~56a).  Ref: Alan Lomax. "Mister Jelly Roll". Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York (1950);  cit. in: Arrigo Polillo."JAZZ". Oscar Saggi Mondadori. (1977):315,325.

http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2007/01/2113-soniche-ramulo.html

# 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.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~noamb/papers/17-AAAI-Refinement.pdf

# s-gst: literature with arithmetic inside

AA << graphed the happiness and sadness of words that occurred across the pages of more than 1,300 fiction works to reveal the emotional arcs and discovered relatively few variations >>

<< A different study (..) found that sentence lengths in books frequently form a fractal pattern—a set of objects that repeat on a small and large scale, the way small, triangular leaflets make up larger, triangular leaves that make up a larger, triangular palm frond >>

<< Why analyze the mathematics of literature? >>

Mark  Fischetti. Great  Literature  Is  Surprisingly Arithmetic. Scientific  American.  Feb. 2017.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/great-literature-is-surprisingly-arithmetic/

# s-phys: squeezing hydrogen ... they're looking at something that's never existed before

<< This is the holy grail of high-pressure physics [..] It's the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you're looking at it, you're looking at something that's never existed before >> Isaac F. Silvera

<< To create it [metallic hydrogen], Silvera and Dias squeezed a tiny hydrogen sample at 495 gigapascal, or more than 71.7 million pounds-per-square inch - greater than the pressure at the center of the Earth >>

<< In addition to helping scientists answer fundamental questions about the nature of matter, the material is theorized to have a wide range of applications, including as a room-temperature superconductor >>

Metallic hydrogen, once theory, becomes reality. Jan. 26, 2017

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-01-metallic-hydrogen-theory-reality.html

Ranga P. Dias, Isaac F. Silvera. Observation of the Wigner-Huntington transition to metallic hydrogen. Science  26 Jan 2017. DOI: 10.1126/science.aal1579

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/01/25/science.aal1579

# s-chem: a viscoelastic tongue with reversible saliva (spit and softness) to hang on to the next meal

<< A frog uses its whip-like tongue to snag its prey faster than a human can blink, hitting it with a force five times greater than gravity >>

<< A frog's saliva is thick and sticky during prey capture, then turns thin and watery as prey is removed inside the mouth >>

<< The tongue, which was found to be as soft as brain tissue and 10 times softer than a human's tongue, stretches and stores energy much like a spring >>

<< This combination of spit and softness is so effective that it provides the tongue 50 times greater work of adhesion than synthetic polymer materials such as sticky-hand toys >>

<< There are actually three phases (..) When the tongue first hits the insect, the saliva is almost like water and fills all the bug's crevices. Then, when the tongue snaps back, the saliva changes and becomes more viscous—thicker than honey, actually—gripping the insect for the ride back. The saliva turns watery again when the insect is sheared off inside the mouth >>

Reversible saliva allows frogs to hang on to next meal.  Jan. 31, 2017

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-01-reversible-saliva-frogs-meal.html

Alexis C.Noel, Hao-Yuan Guo, et al. Frogs use a viscoelastic tongue and non-Newtonian saliva to catch prey. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. Publ. 1 February 2017. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0764

http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/127/20160764

# s-food-behav: a case of deranged cannibals that devour their offspring ...

<< The major consumption of corn leads to infanticide among the Great hamster, a rodent threatened in Alsace, according to a recent study highlighting "problems related to monoculture" >>

Marlowe Hood. Corn turning French hamsters into deranged cannibals: research. Jan. 27, 2017

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-01-corn-french-hamsters-deranged-cannibals.html

<< maize-based diets cause high rates of maternal infanticides in the European hamster, a farmland species on the verge of extinction in Western Europe. Vitamin B3 supplementation is shown to effectively restore reproductive success in maize-fed females >>

Mathilde L. Tissier, Yves Handrich, et al. Diets derived from maize monoculture cause maternal infanticides in the endangered European hamster due to a vitamin B3 deficiency. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Publ. 18 Jan. 2017.  DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2168

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1847/20162168

# s-ai: AI perform better than 75% of

<< A Northwestern University team has developed a new visual problem-solving computational model that performs in the 75th percentile for American adults on a standard intelligence test >>

AI system performs better than 75 percent of American adults on standard visual intelligence test.  Could shrink the gap between computer and human cognition.  Jan. 20, 2017

http://www.kurzweilai.net/ai-system-performs-better-than-75-percent-of-american-adults-on-standard-visual-intelligence-test

Andrew Lovett, Kenneth Forbus. Modeling visual problem solving as analogical reasoning. Psychol. Review, 2017; 124 (1): 60 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000039

http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/rev0000039