Strategy does not exist, just ideas and execution

[noosphe-re]

Quintessenz transforms 400-year-old Greek ruin with pixel-perfect installation (via Wallpaper)

[ideasandexecution]

#newaesthetic

[noosphe-re]

How architecture feeds the imagination of art

What sorts of ideas do artists like to borrow from architecture, and how do concepts applied to buildings translate into fine art, music or sculpture?

[wolfliving]

Some of this sounds strangely like 1930s “Aerofuturist” painting in Italy.  Interesting line-up of contemporary design fiction, architecture fiction, architects, curators, engineers, robot experts and so on.

[emergentfutures]

Exclusive: Waymo applies for no-driver testing in California

Waymo, the self-driving unit of Google parent Alphabet, this week applied to test cars without drivers on California roads, The Chronicle has learned - even as a pair of recent crashes has heightened fears about the safety of autonomous vehicles. Waymo confirmed Friday that it had submitted an application to the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test cars without a backup driver behind the wheel. So far, only two companies have applied for such permits, and the other company's identity has not been publicly revealed.

[thisiscitylab]

“One day in 1969 while filming a mural across from the Black Panther Party’s Boston office in Roxbury, I was approached by three black youths. The mural depicted an egg cracking open and giving birth to a Black Panther—I thought they were coming to congratulate me for my interest in it.

Instead, a member of the group informed me that they were appropriating the movie camera ‘for the community.’ When I refused to hand it to them I was punched and pushed to the ground. My first encounter with the Panthers only increased my interest in the ghettos in which they were active.”

Photographer Camilo José Vergara has studied the Black Panthers’ street graphics since the 1970s. His reflections on their significance today:

The Black Panther Party’s History of Urban Street Art

[Photos: Camilo José Vergara]

[brucesterling]

*Nobody could manage the Google Moon Shot prize and actually get to the Moon.  It was too expensive and too far away.

[emergentfutures]

Brain Enhancing Drugs Are on the Horizon

This discovery may also help us develop novel drugs for Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, and ADHD.

[emergentfutures]

On balance, computers may make better judges of risk than people.

[underpaid-genius]

Either the engineers must become poets or the poets must become engineers.

Norbert Wiener, 1950 (via underpaid-genius)

[utopiaville]

Nvidia Opens Up The "Black Box" of Its Robocar's Deep Neural Network

“While the technology lets us build systems that learn to do things we can’t manually program, we can still explain how the systems make decisions,” wrote Danny Shapiro, Nvidia’s head of automotive, in a blog post.

The result is a camera image on which the AI’s opinion of what’s significant is highlighted. And, in fact, those parts turn out to be just what a human driver would consider significant—lane markings, road edges, parked vehicles, hedges alongside the route, and so forth.

Read More: http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/nvidia-looks-inside-its-deeplearning-systems-black-box

[privacyandtechnology]

By: Stephan Appt (Out-law.com)

From the article:

Traditionally most vehicle manufacturers have had very limited information about their customers and managing customer data has not been a key priority. This is all going to change with the development of connected vehicles, which depend on the collection and use of a wide range of data. This brings significant new challenges and obligations relating to the collection, use and protection of such data.

Read more: full text

[peterdiamandis]

The FUTURE leaves clues...

The future leaves clues…

Here’s a recent tech article that got me excited.

ENERGY DISRUPTION

This week, California ISO, a California electric company, announced it hit an all-time peak served by renewables of 56.7 percent (electricity).

California is on track to meet its 50 percent clean energy target by 2030 with ease.

What it Means

We’re heading towards a wholesale change in the energy economy over the next 20 years.

From hydrocarbon (oil, gas, coal) to all electric, think massive-solar.

I used to think that gas-guzzling cars would maintain the petrochemical industry for a few more decades, but electric-autonomous “car as a service” will cause us each to park, sell, or junk our internal-combustion cars for something that is 10x cheaper and much better (i.e. autonomous Ubers).

Get ready for oil and gas to go the way of whale oil.

Once useful, eventually laughable.

Remember that energy is not scarce.

We have 8,000 times more energy hitting the Earth’s surface in one day than we consume as an entire species.

That energy, the solar flux, isn’t yet in a easily usable form.

But that is changing… fast.

Given the global, exponential growth in solar and the coming innovations in battery technologies (I get five to 10 introductions to new battery technology companies each month), plus deployments like Tesla’s Gigafactory, I’m firmly convinced we’re heading towards a transition.

Coal is already dead.

Oil and gas may not be far behind.

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[discoverynews]

China's Human-Like Robot Is a Looker, But Not That Bright

With flowing black hair, Jia Jia looks strikingly real, but simple questions frequently stump her.

[emergentfutures]

New AI Mental Health Tools Beat Human Doctors at Assessing Patients

About 20 percent of youth in the United States live with a mental health condition, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. That’s the bad news. The good news is that mental health professionals have smarter tools than ever before, with artificial intelligence-related technology coming to the forefront to help diagnose patients, often with much greater accuracy than humans.

A new study published in the journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, for example, showed that machine learning is up to 93 percent accurate in identifying a suicidal person. The research, led by John Pestian, a professor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, involved 379 teenage patients from three area hospitals.

[stoweboyd]

From the report: 

A study just published in the journal Psychological Bulletin further punctuated the need for better tools to help with suicide prevention. A meta-analysis of 365 studies conducted over the last 50 years found that the ability of mental health experts to predict if someone will attempt suicide is “no better than chance.”

“One of the major reasons for this is that researchers have almost always tried to use a single factor (e.g., a depression diagnosis) to predict these things,” says lead author Joseph Franklin of Harvard University in an email exchange with Singularity Hub.

Franklin says that the complex nature behind such thoughts and behaviors requires consideration of tens if not hundreds of factors to make accurate predictions. He and others argue in a correspondence piece published earlier this year in Psychological Medicine that machine learning and related techniques are an ideal option. A search engine using only one factor would be ineffective at returning results; the same is true of today’s attempts to predict suicidal behavior.

So, human efforts at suicidal prediction is 50/50 while the AI is more 90% effective. Another example where human beings can’t juggle the many factors contributing to the right determination, as in hiring.

[futurismnews]

Students Have Made Martin Shkreli’s $750 Drug in Their Chem Lab for Just $2 https://futurism.com/students-have-made-martin-shkrelis-750-drug-in-their-chem-lab-for-just-2/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=futurismnews&utm_content=Students%20Have%20Made%20Martin%20Shkreli%27s%20%24750%20Drug%20in%20Their%20Chem%20Lab%20for%20Just%20%242

Students Have Made Martin Shkreli’s $750 Drug in Their Chem Lab for Just $2

High school students in Australia have created 3.7 grams of Daraprim’s active ingredient in their chemistry lab for just $20. The anti-parasitic medicine costs $750 a tablet in the U.S. thanks to hedge-fund manager Martin Shkreli.

[emergentfutures]

Blockchain to power remote citizenship

Nasdaq’s Estonian stock market plans to use Blockchain to allow shareholders to vote remotely.

[futuristech-info]

VIDEO: Tiny dust-sized sensor could be the future of brain-machine interfaces - “Neural Dust”