Volgens [http://homepages.cwi.nl/~rdewolf/ Ronald de Wolf] van het CWI in een artikel in de Computable nummer 19 van 11 mei 2007, pagina 30 en 31. En zelfs [http://www.kennislink.nl/web/show?id=162552 lekkende qubits geven toch antwoord]… Benieuwd hoe Ronald aankijkt tegen de kombinatie van spiritualiteit en (kwantum-)wetenschap. En helemaal in de context van de enigzins hyperige [Intention Experiments, Law …
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Luis von Ahn—Smart Games—Smart Software
Article in Automatiseringgids on [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/ Luis von Ahn]’s [http://www.espgame.org/ ESP Game]—a.k.a. the [http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ Google Image Labeler]—to smart tag images by human swarms. Ahn also created the spam-avoiding [http://www.captcha.net/news/ai.html Captcha]. Thank you very much Luis!
Quantum Quackery
Quantum physics is claimed to support the mystical notion that the mind creates reality. However, an objective reality, with no special role for consciousness, human or cosmic, is consistent with all observations. Source: Committee for Skeptical Inquiry » Victor J. Stenger » Quantum Quackery.
Souls of Distortion
In the same email, Eduard Povel also pointed me to Jan Wicherink from [http://www.soulsofdistortion.nl Souls of Distortion]. An interesting man, resonating with “What the Bleep?”, science and spirituality, and even [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satriani Joe Satriani], one of my favourite guitarists as well. I’ll ping him for a jam session.
Car running on water?
I’ve heard about fuel cells that run on the energy release when hydrogen and oxygen bind in to water. And where you still need energy up front to split the water into these two components. But Eduard Povel pointed me to ”'[http://www.byronnewenergy.com/ Byron New Energy]”’, also using water, but ‘cosmic charged water’, delivering [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion perpetual …
Holotropic—moving toward wholeness
From DK Matal: The key findings of Quantum Physics point towards Holistic Quantum Relativity and the Holotropic State, especially: *Dr David Bohm’s work about the universe being made up of an “interconnected unbroken wholeness”; *The Non-Locality phenomena, ie, Bell’s Theorem; and *The ‘Observer Effect’ implying that consciousness underlies all reality. Points 1, 2 and 3—taken …
Linking scientific paradigms
From Slashdot: Here is a giant chart mapping relationships among scientific paradigms, as published in the journal Nature. Interesting to see the void between the soft human/social (red) and hard, materialistic scientific (blue) science scapes being bridged by computer and earth sciences. Wonder what will fill that void and when. Want to see the map …
Me, My Soul, and I
Me, My Soul, and I: “Writer Douglas Hofstadter elaborates on his more mind-bending ideas. By Kevin Kelly from Wired Magazine.” (Via Wired News.)
Distributed Implementations of Adaptive Collective Decision Making
Prof. dr. K.R. (Krzysztof) Apt, CWI over collectieve besluitvorming in de economische wetenschappen onderzoekt realistische, gedistribueerde omgevingen waarin beslissingen echter door de betrokken agenten zelf genomen moeten worden, zonder dat ze daarbij kunnen vertrouwen op een onafhankelijke centrale instantie. http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_6RGD5K http://homepages.cwi.nl/~apt/
Spin—an efficient verification system for distributed software systems
Spin—an efficient verification system for distributed software systems. Spin is a popular open-source software tool, used by thousands of people worldwide, that can be used for the ”’formal verification of distributed software systems”’. The tool was developed at Bell Labs in the original Unix group of the Computing Sciences Research Center, starting in 1980. The …
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