Mind and Machine

The machiine does what the mind tells it to. There are no limitations as to what the mind can do. #foodforthought #soulfood #journeyofasoul #mind&machine

[radiofreederry]

Me when I get caught scamming children out of millions of dollars

[materialsscienceandengineering]

An X-ray step towards superfast nanoelectronics

When a material with magnetic properties, constructed from appropriately selected layers, is illuminated by a pulse from an X-ray laser, it instantly demagnetizes. This phenomenon, so far poorly understood, could in the future be used in nanoelectronics, to build, for example, ultrafast magnetic switches. An important step toward this goal is a new simulation tool developed by a Polish-German-Italian team of scientists as part of a joint research project between the European XFEL and IFJ PAN.

No information-processing device can operate at a speed faster than that at which the physical phenomena underlying its operation occur. That is why physicists continue to seek phenomena that run on increasingly shorter spatial and temporal scales, yet can be controlled relatively easily. One promising research direction seems to be the demagnetization process of ferromagnetic multilayer materials initiated by ultrafast X-ray laser pulses.

A team of physicists from Poland, Germany and Italy, working at the European XFEL facility and at the DESY facility in Hamburg, can now boast a significant achievement in this field: Their study in npj Computational Materials presents the first tool that makes it possible to simulate the progress of X-ray-induced demagnetization. Scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN) in Cracow are an important part of the team.

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[samagotchi-deactivated20160205]

when u accidentally click a link so u dont release the mouse and kind of slowly drag away from the link. threat avoided. citizens safe. for now.

[baaulp]

Holy shit. I dropped my Alexa on the ground and it broke. And a tiny woman crawled out thanking me for her freedom. She said she was going to go return to her forest home.

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Researchers used electrical pulses to watch nickel oxide undergo two responses, habituation and sensitization, bolstering the case for brain-inspired computing.

Scientists used the Advanced Photon Source to watch a nonliving material mimic behavior associated with learning, paving the way for better artificial intelligence.

Scientists looking to create a new generation of supercomputers are looking for inspiration from the most complex and energy-efficient computer ever built: the human brain.

In some of their initial forays into making brain-inspired computers, researchers are looking at different nonbiological materials whose properties could be tailored to show evidence of learning-like behaviors. These materials could form the basis for hardware that could be paired with new software algorithms to enable more potent, useful and energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI).

In a new study led by scientists from Purdue University, researchers have exposed oxygen deficient nickel oxide to brief electrical pulses and elicited two different electrical responses that are similar to learning. The result is an all-electrically-driven system that shows these learning behaviors, said Rutgers University professor Shriram Ramanathan. (Ramanathan was a professor at Purdue University at the time of this work.) The research team used the resources of the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory.

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[pancakeke]

laptop: PLEASE place me on a hard surface that does not obstruct my cooling fan I am begging you

me: shut up we are going to snuggle in bed :)

[thebuildblog]

this.

The “media” is a business that ultimately makes money off of attention. The more attention, the more potential to earn. As information delivery platforms expanded, media became more opinion-based than fact-based, to help fill time and keep generating attention for this reason. Today, it’s said that upwards of over 90% of the media is opinion based. Things like “can,” “could” and “might” are speculation, and never mean "will,” “is,” or “does.” There is no possible way that anyone can ever assure or be sure that what is being published is real, factual, non-opinion, non-biased, and so on, even with “fact checkers.” In fact, studies have shown that many of the fact checking organizations are not independent entities, etc. Media is also a powerful tool of sorts, it can move people and the public to do, believe, think and act, because information and the mind play a role in these things. Of course, it is often slanted all the time. Entities large and small of all kinds push things to drive efforts, ideas, beliefs, initiatives, and so on. It is how the media works today, and good to know while reading or watching it.

[supermariomamafucker]

[mr-deep-downer]

dark science beyond belief

[captain-cargoshorts]

[booksandghosts]

[academicssay]

[thememedaddy]

[pensivelyplayfulme]

I’ve had menus that downloaded to my phone as a pdf. I cannot describe how badly I do not want that

[cenchempics]

A little nudge

All it takes is a few taps on the side of this vial and—like magic—a ring of fluffy white solid suddenly appears inside, seemingly out of nowhere But a closer look reveals a few drops of a clear, colorless liquid, pooled almost invisibly at the bottom of the vial, that rapidly crystallize under when the vial is tapped.

The stuff in the vial is a ligand that Jaime Martin, a postdoc in Cristina Nevado’s group at the University of Zurich, synthesized as part of his research quest to make a library of stable gold(III) complexes and study their properties and reactivity. Gold(III) tends to undergo reduction easily, and a good ligand is essential for keeping the metal happy in the desired oxidation state. Martin says that most of the ligands he makes are liquids after purification, but the higher molecular weight ones can crystallize under the right conditions—given a little nudge. It’s “very very satisfying” to see the solid pop up under vacuum, he says.—Brianna Barbu

Credit: Jaime Martin. Follow him on Twitter @Jaime_Chem.

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[densewentz]

This is an ai “artwork” hate blog now

[densewentz]

like look you have this soulless thing that has anonymously and indiscriminately cannibalized years of hard-earned learning and discipline and struggle and creativity.

and you type in a little thing and it just. spits out some mashed up amalgam of other peoples inspiration, other peoples skills and dedication and livelihoods. and you sit there and smile and tag it “my art” like its not a horrible spit in the face of every artist who made that shitty little program possible. and now you think you have no NEED to pay an artist, you can just make it yourself. as if you’ve made anything??? fuck you and fuck ai “art”

[turnways]

"Ai art makes art more accessible" what internet are yall on where people aren't regularly posting their artwork for free. You are online, you can see a cartoon anime image whenever you want, no fancy auto art button needed

[samuraifuckingfrog]

[leviathan-supersystem]

"ooooh nooooo but a rail strike around the holidays could cripple the economy" damn sounds like their labor is really really important and you should give them what they fucking want

[1-1-s1ay-2-2]

Is there a disease called thinking? I really do think a person can partake in overthinking like a bad habit they can't break or an addiction to nicotine.