Symmetrical life

Those who worship modern technology, the most capitalist kind, will increasingly struggle to keep up with it; yet they will only consume its dust. One of the most recent “achievements” …

To arms, to arms!!!

The stock market “value” hype of various american “giants” related to so-called AI has just intensified (across most of the planet) enthusiasm for the chinese deepseek, you know. Stock market …

Science; Of whom;

When in 1942, during the Second World War, a good portion of the Western physicists’ elite gathered in the US to transform their until-then theoretical knowledge and ideas into something …

Rewards…

It had a somewhat loose form (it was, after all, a trial…) but a fairly tight grasp: if you behave in an environmentally friendly way, then you will be rewarded. …

Free “punishments”

The amount, 1.4 billion dollars, may seem large. But it is insignificant: just 1/10 of the company’s profits in the second quarter of 2024… Consequently, Meta Platforms (reminder: the parent …

Catastrophic method failure!

Just a few years ago, a study bearing the prestigious signature of Columbia University’s Medical Center revealed that the highly publicized (and Nobel Prize-winning) genetic cut-and-paste method called CRISPR/Cas9 is …

Not everything is for sale!

This “beggar” (or perhaps homeless?) in the photographs (in the Moscow metro) is called Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman. He is probably the greatest living mathematician and geometer – certainly for half, …

“Smart mine”!

Stoas full of sensors. Robotic vehicles and excavators. Sensors on the ground surface. And a “control center”, with dozens of operators in front of screens: the old miners could never …

Is artificial intelligence vulnerable?

This is supported by the well-known company Kaspersky Lab (specialized in searching for malicious interventions in electronic networks). They named “injections” various actions intended to feed the databases behind the …

Smart smartness!

AI models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, are simply insatiable when it comes to their thirst for electrical energy… The more data they collect, the smarter they become, but the more …

Lunar

If you plan to move to the moon (something that seems possible in the coming decades, although initially only for scientists and convicts…), you won’t need to bring water with …