Wiki: The Turing test is a test of a machine‘s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior. A human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which tries to appear human. All participants are separated from one another. If the judge cannot reliably te[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Art’
Flowering of Science, 1687 in Tibet
Seventeenth-century Tibet witnessed a blossoming of medical knowledge, with the construction of a monastic medical college and the penning of several influential medical texts. Tibetan anatomists counted a total of 360 bones in the human body—significantly more than the 206 bones described in West[...]
May 4th, 2011 - 11:37 am § in America
Finely Made Things
…one reason I became a photographer was the love of finely made things. Leicas, Nikons, Schneiders were as wonderful as the work of Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, and Edward Weston. Sadly, the era of the mechanical camera is past .. what is finely made in today’s digital camera is in their e[...]
April 30th, 2011 - 12:02 pm § in Uncategorized
Bill Proposed to Force Sale of University of Iowa’s Pollock Painting
A bill was introduced in February in the Iowa House that would require the University of Iowa to sell Jackson Pollock’s Mural, in order to create funding for scholarships. So let me see, we take out a loan of $200.000,000 to BUY a new Husky stadium and the we could sell something to pay of [[...]
April 27th, 2011 - 12:16 am § in Schools & Colleges
MLA President’s call to action on federal budget plans
from Found in Translation BlogOf course, the languages here at Udub are threatened. Who needs them? As a scientist, I sure don’t. Anywhere I go my colleagues damn well better speak English and write it well .. or no one will be able to talk with them. Funny to watch .. a Chinese and a [...]
April 24th, 2011 - 5:57 pm § in America
TREME … back tonight on HBO …
Ed. BRS and I have not missed an episode. This is GREAT TV! Mr. Gray’s review understates what we feel …… from the PI, by Lester Gray excerpted. TREME: HUMANITY AMONG THE RUINS ….. Then Katrina turned the benighted into the ineffably tragic…… In a dystopian landsc[...]
April 21st, 2011 - 6:29 am § in Uncategorized
HUMOR: $35,000,000 for a coke!
Ed, inflation hits a new high! from Laredo Sun NEW YORK, November 10, 2010 (AFP) – An Andy Warhol painting titled “Large Coca Cola” put the fizz into Sotheby’s New York contemporary art auction Tuesday when it beat expectations and sold for 35.3 million dollars. The black and[...]
April 16th, 2011 - 8:54 am § in Environment, Religion
Frank Lutz: How to Keep NPR Funded!
from the Dianne Rheems show: There are five different types of people for you to reach out to. Rejecters, Disagreeables, Neutrals, Accepters and Embracers. Each one of those terms means something. You need to forget the Rejecters because there’s nothing you can do to influence them. “The[...]
April 16th, 2011 - 8:28 am § in Uncategorized
Cannes Contenders .. 5 trailers
from Huff Post The list of contenders is in for this year’s Palme d’Or- Cannes Film Festival’s top prize. The competition is tight, with movies from famed directors including Pedro Almodóvar, Nicolas Winding Refn and Lars von Trier. The festival runs May 11-22, on the French Rivie[...]
April 14th, 2011 - 11:27 am § in Uncategorized
ART: and science
Nobody ever said that science is easy. Solving the mysteries of science requires hard work. While there may be one “ah-hah” moment—where the true form of the problem is revealed—that moment is always preceded by countless hours of careful research. In the course of my own dis[...]