Ghost in the Turk
I recently found out, through one of the referrers of my website, the Amazon Mechanical Turk website. Never shy of a new experience, I register to see by myself what it’s all about. The premise is simple. Some jobs cannot be automated by machines (doesn’t sound too bad to me) and are relatively simple to be done by humans —and we’re not talking of playing chess (the origin of the “turk” moniker.) These simple tasks are given to people to be done for a small fee. I found some...
Read MoreThe Elegant Universe
The following documentary is quite interesting. Although I am not a big fan overall of the string theory which seems to be (to borrow from JP Petit, a French astrophysicist) “science minus the experience, and mathematics without the rigorous approach” it does a good job to present some of the current challenges on our present scientific understanding of the universe. (PBS-Nova — The Elegant Universe) I can’t help to find it ironic as well, that the presentation of the subject is done...
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