The Prototype (film) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Prototype is an upcoming American science fiction film directed by Andrew Will. It stars Neal McDonough, Joseph Mawle and Anna Anissimova. The film is about how a thesis written by Dr. Maxwell (Joseph Mawle) about how human will evolve into machines became a reality…and Dr. Maxwell himself becoming a machine first…and the first Prototype.
Google Bags (Another) Machine-Learning Startup | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com.
Famously, Google says it’s on mission to organize the world’s information. And Wavii says it’s on a mission to understand the world’s information.
Wavii analyzes blogs, tweets, and other web content and tries to organize it so that it can be readily mined for stuff that you’re interested in. That’s quite a challenge. Some internet is already structured with this sort of thing in mind, but there are so many different ways of structuring it, and most web data is unstructured. The dream of a the “semantic web” — where all web content would conform to standard structures to make it easier for machines to organize information — is still a long way from reality. Wavii attempts to overcome this limitation by using machine learning to understand natural language and automatically structure data.
A team of scientists invents “the Hat”, a brain/computer interface that allows sensations to be recorded from a person’s brain and converted to tape so that others can experience them.
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Snow Crash – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson‘s third novel, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson’s other novels it covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography,memetics, and philosophy.
Stephenson explained the title of the novel in his 1999 essay In the Beginning… was the Command Line as his term for a particular software failure mode on the early Apple Macintosh computer. Stephenson wrote about the Macintosh that “When the computer crashed and wrote gibberish into the bitmap, the result was something that looked vaguely like static on a broken television set—a ‘snow crash’ ”.
The book presents the Sumerian language as the firmware programming language for the brainstem, which is supposedly functioning as the BIOS for the human brain. According to characters in the book, the goddess Asherah is the personification of a linguistic virus, similar to a computer virus. The god Enkicreated a counter-program which he called a nam-shub that caused all of humanity to speak different languages as a protection against Asherah (a re-interpretation of the ancient Near Eastern story of theTower of Babel).
Snow Crash was nominated for both the British Science Fiction Award in 1993,[1] and the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1994.[2]