Category: Science
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Is Ex-Google engineer Blake Lemoine crazy?
I read a lot about LaMDA this year. The Google chatbot, that engineer Blake Lemoine, claimed to be sentient. I have made an article before where I explain why LaMDA was a false alert. You can read the article here . Undeniably, Lemoine received a mock and scepticism for his claims. In June this year,…
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Why stupid people always win-The Math of stupidity.
What makes a person stupid and why do stupid people win over smart ones? An essay. There is a logic behind stupidity, and why it grows so fast. It’s a mathematical function. Before I show the reader the function of stupidity, we might want to clarify how one should define stupidity. This, however, is more complicated…
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The physics Nobel prize this year was an honor to Max Planck
Three men received on the 4th October, 2022 the physics Nobel prize “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. Their names are Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger. Simultaneously, I was at an event to commemorate the 75th date of death of the famous…
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Physics and the question of Consciousness
Physics and the question of consciousness Part I Did Heisenberg answer the question of free will? Free will is a concept discussed by philosophers. But did you know that in physics the question of free will becomes more and more very important too? There is no standardized definition of free will but the closest that…
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A Deep Learning model could detect breast cancer. Why did that make me cry?
Mammography is the usual technique to diagnose a woman with breast cancer. However, this method is very dangerous and a risk. Now I read AI can help us. It moved me to tears. Mammography is a method, using radio waves to diagnose women with breast cancer. Women who turn 40 are often told that they should…
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The black body problem and a new era of physics
A box that absorbs all light that comes into it and generates endless energy? How Max Planck changed our understanding of physics. Imagine a black box with a hollow cavity and with a very tiny hole in it. Into that hole, we shoot light. What will happen? This box is a technical realization of a black…