Archive for the ‘entertainment’ category: Page 90
Mar 28, 2017
Space:1999 — Destination Moonbase Alpha trailer
Posted by Alireza Mokri in categories: entertainment, space
Mar 22, 2017
You Can Watch the First Five Minutes of Ghost in the Shell Right Here
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: entertainment
So, what does everyone think so far?
Whatever else might be true of the live-action Ghost in the Shell movie, it’s also true that the filmmakers have put as much of the budget on the screen as humanly possible. And as you can tell when you watch the film’s opening scene—available here and now for your viewing pleasure—it has paid off, at least in in the visuals department.
Mar 22, 2017
Free The Art: Cryptocurrencies & communities unite with creators
Posted by Tatiana Moroz in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, entertainment, finance, fun, innovation, media & arts, open source, thought controlled
by Tatiana Moroz
The most moving thing to me about music is it’s ability to change. It changes the mood, the atmosphere, and it fills us with emotion. It can unify mankind in the power of good and triumph over evil regimes. What most struck me was when we saw this in the 60’s and 70’s folk songs that became anthems for the civil rights, equality, and antiwar movements. Even as a little girl, I knew that this core drive and expression for freedom was critical to the success of humanity as we marched ever closer to the nightmarish visions painted in 1984 and Brave New World.
This is a heavy and serious purpose, but one I took to heart as I created songs of hope, sadness, life, beauty and love. I noticed that the music industry seemed averse to this type of meaning based songwriting, and the radio waves were filling with more vapid nonsense by the minute. However, I kept my head down and tried to educate myself on the ways we could organize society for the better.
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Mar 19, 2017
Google DeepMind has built an AI machine that could learn as quickly as humans before long
Posted by Simon Waslander in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI
How deepmind’s memory trick helps AI learn faster.
While AI systems can match many human capabilities, they take 10 times longer to learn. Now, by copying the way the brain works, Google DeepMind has built a machine that is closing the gap. “Our experiments show that neural episodic control requires an order of magnitude fewer interactions with the environment,” they say.
Intelligent machines have humans in their sights. Deep-learning machines already have superhuman skills when it comes to tasks such as face recognition, video-game playing, and even the ancient Chinese game of Go. So it’s easy to think that humans are already outgunned.
Mar 15, 2017
Drones — the next generation of entertainment
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: drones, entertainment
Mar 13, 2017
Researchers develop new method to program nanoparticle organization in polymer thin films
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: chemistry, engineering, entertainment, nanotechnology
Controlling the organization of nanoparticles into patterns in ultrathin polymer films can be accomplished with entropy instead of chemistry, according to a discovery by Dr. Alamgir Karim, UA’s Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Professor of Polymer Engineering, and his student Dr. Ren Zhang. Polymer thin films are used in a variety of technological applications, for example paints, lubricants, and adhesives. Karim and Zhang have developed an original method—soft-confinement pattern-induced nanoparticle segregation (SCPINS)—to fabricate polymer nanocomposite thin films with well-controlled nanoparticle organization on a submicron scale. This new method uniquely controls the organization of any kind of nanoparticles into patterns in those films, which may be useful for applications involving sensors, nanowire circuitry or diffraction gratings, with proper subsequent processing steps like thermal or UV sintering, that are likely required but the self-organization into directed patterns.
This work, “Entropy-driven segregation of polymer -grafted nanoparticles under confinement,” has been published in the February 2017 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Intuitively, entropy is associated with disorder of a system. However, for colloidal matter, it has been shown that a system can experience transitions which increase both entropy and visible order. Inspired by this observation, Karim and Zhang investigated the role of entropy in directed organization of polymer-grafted nanoparticles (PGNPs) in polymer thin films. By simply imprinting the blend films into patterned mesa-trench regions, nanoparticles are spontaneously enriched within mesas, forming patterned microdomain structures which coincide with the topographic pattern. This selective segregation of PGNPs is induced by entropic penalty due to the alteration of the grafted chain conformation when confined in ultrathin trench regions.
Mar 3, 2017
Poker-playing AI beats pros using ‘intuition,’ study finds
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI
Computer researchers are betting they can take on the house after designing a new artificial intelligence program that has beat professional poker players.
Researchers from University of Alberta, Czech Technical University and Charles University in Prague developed the “DeepStack” program as a way to build artificial intelligence capable of playing a complex kind of poker. Creating an AI program that can win against a human player in a no-limit poker game has long been a goal of researchers due to the complexity of the game.
Michael Bowling, a professor in the Department of Computing Science in the University of Alberta, explained that computers have been able to win at “perfect” games such as chess or Go, in which all the information is available to both players, but that “imperfect” games like poker have been much harder to program for.
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Mar 3, 2017
Our free interstellar magazine “Principium” N°16 is out now!
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI, space
The cover features an AI interstellar probe, beautifully illustrated by concept artist Efflam Mercier. Here is the download link:
http://i4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Principium_16_Feb_2017.pdf
This issue covers the following topics:
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Feb 13, 2017
A Sci-Fi Short Film HD: “At the End”
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: alien life, entertainment
Enjoy this Sci-Fi short film created by the talented Jason J. Whitmore! Earth’s days are numbered when a nearby star goes supernova. Seizing the opportunity, an alien race has offered humanity a deal: Be our slaves or be left to die. As one couple struggles toward the last escaping ship, they grapple with the cost of sacrificing their freedom for their survival.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2405816/?ref_=nm_flmg_snd_1