# n-soc: fake news, by slow or/and fast catalysis, everyday, everywhere, in all ages

<< The rise of fake news has dominated the world of politics (..) But fake news is not at all new in the world of science >>

<< Fake news about science has always existed >>

<< What has changed now is social media and the potential to disseminate this kind of news much faster among social networks >>

Dominique Brossard. Communications expert explains  how science should respond to  fake news.  Feb. 18,  2017.

https://scienmag.com/communications-expert-explains-how-science-should-respond-to-fake-news/

False Information Labeled “A Cancer” On Enlightened Democracy. Feb. 18,  2017

https://www.aaas.org/news/false-information-labeled-cancer-enlightened-democracy

# s-brain: reiterating perspectives: the Silhouette Illusion

<< If the foot touching the ground is perceived to be the left foot, the dancer appears to be spinning clockwise (if seen from above); >>

<< if it is taken to be the right foot, then she appears to be spinning counterclockwise >>

<< the way people perceive the Silhouette Illusion , a popular illusion that went viral and has received substantial online attention, has little to do with the viewers' personality, or whether they are left- or right-brained, despite the fact that the illusion is often used to test these attributes in popular e-quizzes >>

<< Niko Troje says that a reported preference for seeing the silhouette spinning clockwise rather than counter-clockwise is dependent upon the angle at which the viewer is seeing the image >>

<< Our visual system, if it has a choice, seems to prefer the view from above >>

New study debunks myth about popular optical illusion (Update). Dec. 21, 2010

https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2010-12-debunks-myth-popular-optical-illusion.html

Nikolaus F Troje, Matthew McAdam. The Viewing-from-Above Bias and the Silhouette Illusion. Jan. 1, 2010

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1068/i0408

also:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=silhouette+illusion

# n-usa: tracing Donald #POTUS: a new US triptych (?)

summary:

(1): accelerating the rise of (AI)  bots in the US

(2): pay attention to (Jay)walk; It could effectively be very dangerous ...

(3): gifts for  US Democrats

more (a): Chen' triptych, the first

2150 - il soffio di Chen. Jan 05, 2008.

http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2008/01/2150-il-soffio-di-chen.html

more (b): 'Donald' in:
http://flashontrack.blogspot.it/

(1) << If President  Trump  really does push companies  to base  more of their production  in the US then those  that specialise in  robotics  and  automation  will probably  be  the  winners >>

Paul Diggle. Why  Donald Trump is inadvertently going to accelerate  the rise of robots. Jan. 25, 2017.

http://www.businessinsider.com/hard-to-trump-robotics-2017-1

(2) << “Donald Trump has effectively created a way to deport individuals who have been accused, charged or convicted of anything from murder to jaywalking,” said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles >>

Janell Ross, Aaron C. Davis & Joel Achenbach. Immigrant community on high alert, fearing Trump’s ‘deportation force’.  Feb. 11, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/immigrant-community-on-high-alert-fearing-trumps-deportation-force/2017/02/11/e5c30d06-f06f-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html

(3) David Weigel, Karen Tumulty. A gift and a challenge for Democrats: A restive, active and aggressive base. Feb. 11, 2017.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/a-gift-and-a-challenge-for-democrats-a-restive-active-and-aggressive-base/2017/02/11/e265dd44-efef-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html

FonT: il prossimo futuro potrebbe essere "facile" da percorrere ...  percio' sara' "difficile"; forse (e si sottolinea forse) nell'ambito di "strane" discipline quali la neuro- farmacologia e la neuro- epi- genetica si trovera' "l'adatta stringa" ...

# n-behav: sometimes, mess is better

<< Sometimes, mess is better than order and precision >>

<< By breaking the rigidity of rules, we expose ourselves to unexpected twists and turns which push us to come up with creative, innovative and improvised ideas and answers >> Tim Harford

Pooja  Singh. The  magic  in  mess.  In this  volatile business world, can a  little messiness help spur creativity? Sun,  Jan  22  2017.  04  15  PM

http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/qo2FKT6SQzkl5onbbtqEML/The-magic-in-mess.html

# s-gst-brain: trigger creativity also by noise in neural forecasting phenomena

<< The theory also posits a role for noise or variability in neural activity to explore different possible interpretations, even when the sensory input and prediction are the same >>

<< This noise-driven process of exploration may be the neural basis of creativity >>

How does the brain make perceptual predictions over time? Feb. 6, 2017

https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2017-02-brain-perceptual.html

David J. Heeger. Theory of cortical function. PNAS. Feb. 3, 2017. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1619788114

http://m.pnas.org/content/early/2017/02/03/1619788114

# 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 ...

more:

<< 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