The Evolution And The Origin Of Life On Earth.

Artificial intelligence: don’t fear AI. It’s already on your phone – and useful

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When Joe Weizenbaum found his secretary using a computer program he had created, he was so upset he devoted the rest of his life to warning people not to use its technology. The program was “Eliza”, which gives a passable imitation of a nondirectional psychiatrist; you type sentences such as: “I wonder what I should write,” and it replies :“What answer would please you the most?” (You can try a version at psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych101/Eliza.htm). Weizenbaum’s distress came because he had written Eliza as an experiment, to see whether he could simulate “artificial intelligence” in a question-and-answer system by parsing sentences and throwing relevant bits back at the questioner. But his secretary saw it as real, and asked him not to intrude on “sessions”; Weizenbaum saw this as an omen that we would be too easily fooled into trusting machines.

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I sure could really use a Home_Computer with a 10 or 1,000 Core CPU and at least 8_GBs of Dual_Channel or Quad_Channel Random_Access Memory! 

Asian_American income verses Non-Hispanic White_American income.  

Average Asian-American Income as a % of Average Non-Hispanic White Income.

Related: African-American and Hispanic

Here's Why It's so important to at least try to get about 8 hours of Sleep every single night that You can.  

Here’s what sleep deprivation is doing to your body

Not getting enough sleep? Just one week of sleeping fewer than six hours per night can lead to serious health issues, including the modification of over 700 genes, reports the Huffington Post on a study published in PNAS last year. Other symptoms of chronic sleep deprivation include everything from bloodshot eyes to quadrupled stroke risk. This infographic fromHuffington Post’s Alissa Scheller explains.

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It's not quite Warp Drive, but Researchers are hot on the trail of building Nuclear Fusion Impulse Engines, to complete with Real-Life Dilithium Crystals.

Why Aren't There Any Green Stars? 

(by SpitzerJim)

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I sure can’t wait until Fully Autonomous (Self_Driving) Cars come to be Commonplace Vehicles someday!  

(via Autonomous Technology: Robo-Cars - DBusiness magazine)