Month: May 2016

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Can Tesla Produce 500k Electric Cars in 2018? Elon Musk Sleeps in Factory to Oversee Production

Since Tesla announced the launch of their Model 3 electric car, the number of orders has flooded with almost half a million people who wanted to get their own piece of Tesla technology. Today, Tesla needed to deliver to about 500,000 orders for 2018 release date. Can they manage? Well, Tesla founder Elon Musk is making sure that they will be able to comply with the demand by sleeping at their gigafactory to oversee the production.

Tesla produced electric cars to initiate the shift to sustainable transport instead of using fuel. And because of that, they managed to earn the trust (and money) of a lot of people who wanted to help save the environment inside their Tesla electric vehicle. According to Tesla, because of their sustainable transport initiative, they were able to save 195,000 gallons of fuel and still counting.

“Musk has a sleeping bag in a conference room right next to where the cars are being manufactured” saidNBC Bay Area in a report. It looks like the business tycoon and innovator is hands on when it comes to hitting the target, with his probably expensive and comfortable sleeping bag.

“I’m personally spending an enormous amount of time on the production line” said Elon Musk in an interview. This is after some critics say that Tesla might not be able to comply to the target when the order of the new Tesla cars skyrocketed. But Musk is confident that the orders will be delivered in time.

“My desk is at the end of the production line. I have a sleeping bag in a conference room adjacent to the production line, which I use quite frequently”, Mashable quoted Musk.

Mashable added that “Musk is essentially holding up his sleeping bag to all the doubters.” After all, Musk built a Gigafactory which is powered by renewable energy to meet the demands of his futuristic car.

Musk’s ability to sleep at his business compounds is highly publicized and it’s nothing new for the renewable energy aficionado. According to Ashlee Vance’s Biography of ambitious executive, Musk used to sleep in a beanbag beside his desk at his Zip2 startup office.

“Almost every day, I’d come in at seven thirty or eight A.M., and he’d be asleep right there on that bag…Maybe he showered on the weekends, I don’t know” said one of his former colleagues.

So it wouldn’t be a surprise if in the future, you’ll see Elon Musk sleeping beside his SpaceX rockets for their mission to Mars.

Detractors would want to see Tesla fail, but Elon Musk is optimistic that the cars will be released and delivered right on time. And the Tesla customers are hoping that Musk’s antic will make sure that their cars are finished on time.

 

http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/16/raspberry-pi-zero-camera-module/

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Raspberry Pi Zero gains camera support, keeps the $5 price

Ever thought about building a low-cost security camera?

When the Raspberry Pi Foundation launched the credit-card sized Zero, it stressed that the DIY computing board would not be as capable as the rest of the Pi family. But if there’s one thing we’ve learned about the Raspberry Pi, it’s that there’s always room for improvement. Today, the Zero has received its first major hardware upgrade since its hugely successful launch in November: a camera connector. The new addition works very nicely with the two new Sony imaging modules announced last month and the board retains its $5 (£4) price.

In a blog post, Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton explains that “through dumb luck,” the same camera connector that the Foundation uses for its development kits just happened to fit onto the right side of the Zero. By moving the surface components a little to the left and rotating the activity LEDs, the team was able to close the feature gap between the Zero and bigger Pi boards.

If you’ve already invested in a camera module for an existing project, you will need to invest in a new cable. The CSI connector on the Zero is 3.5mm smaller than the adapter on the Pi 3, meaning it can’t simply be hot-swapped. But if you’re new to Raspberry Pi and are looking for a new DIY project, the addition of a connector may allow you to build a cheap home security system or have some fun making a tiny spy camera.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/moogfest-2016-the-synthesis-of-future-music-technology-and-art

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Moogfest 2016: the synthesis of future music, technology, and art

Themes: Afrofuturism, Art and Artificial Intelligence, Hacking Sound (Systems), Instrument Innovators, Radio & the Radiophonic, Technoshamanism, Transhumanism
May 13, 2016

Moogfest 2016, a four-day, mind-expanding festival on the synthesis of technology, art, and music, will happen this coming week (Thursday, May 19 to Sunday, May 22) near Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, with more than 300 musical performances, workshops, conversations, masterclasses, film screenings, live scores, sound installations, multiple interactive art experiences, and “The Future of Creativity” keynotes by visionary futurist Martine Rothblatt, PhD. and virtual reality pioneer and author Jaron Lanier.

Cyborg activist Neil Harbisson is the first person in the world with an antenna implanted in his skull, allowing him to hear the frequencies of colors (including infrared and ultraviolet) via bone conduction and receive phone calls. (credit: N. Harbisson)

By day, Moogfest unfolds in venues throughout downtown Durham in spaces that range from intimate galleries and experimental art installations to grand theaters as a platform for geeky exploration and experimentation in sessions and workshops, featuring more than 250 innovators in music, art, and technology, including avant-garde pioneers such as cyborg Neil Harbisson, technoshaman paleo-ecologist/multimedia performer Michael Garfield on “Technoshamanism: A Very Psychedelic Century,” sonifying plants with Data Garden, the Google Magenta (Deep Dream Generator) on training neural networks to generate music, Onyx Ashanti showing how to program music with your mind, Google Doodle’s Ryan Germick, and cyborg artist Moon Ribas, whose cybernetic implants in her arms perceive the movement of real-time earthquakes.

Modular Marketplace 2014 (credit: PatrickPKPR)

Among the fun experimental venues will be the musical Rube Goldberg  workshop, the Global Synthesizer Project (an interactive electronic musical instrument installation where users can synthesize environmental sounds from around the world), THETA (a guided meditation virtual reality spa), WiFi Whisperer (an art installation that visually displays signals around us), the Musical Playground, and Modular Marketplace, an interactive exhibition showcasing the latest and greatest from a lineup of Moog Music and other innovative instrument makers and where the public can engage with new musical devices and their designers; free and open to the public, at the American Tobacco Campus at 318 Blackwell Street from 10am–6pm from May 19–22.


INSTRUMENT 1 from Artiphon will make its public debut at Moogfest 2016. It allows users of any skill or style to strum a guitar, tap a piano, bow a violin, or loop a drum beat — all on a single interface. By connecting to iOS devices, Macs and PCs, this portable musical tool can make any sound imaginable.

In addition, noted MIT Media Lab opera composer/inventor Tod Machover will demonstrate his Hyperinstruments,responsive stage technologies that go beyond multimedia, large-scale collaborative systems and enable entire cities to create symphonies together, and musical tools that promote wellbeing, diagnose disease, and allow for customizing compositions.

Music of the future

By night, Moogfest will present cutting-edge music in venues throughout the city. Performing artists include pioneers in electronic music like Laurie Anderson and legendary synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani, alongside pop and avant-garde experimentalists of today, including Grimes, Explosions in the Sky, Oneohtrix Point Never, Alessandro Cortini, Daniel Lanois, Tim Hecker, Arthur Russell Instrumentals, Rival Consoles, and Dawn of Midi.

Durham’s historic Armory is transformed into a dark and body-thumping dance club to host the best of electronica, house, disco and techno. Godfathers of the genre include The Orb, DJ Harvey, and Robert Hood alongside inspiring new acts such as Bicep (debuting their live show), The Black Madonna and a Ryan Hemsworth curated night including Jlin, Qrion and UVBoi.

“The liberation of LGBTQ+ people is wired into the original components of electronic music culture…” — Artists’ statement here

Local favorite Pinhook features a wide range of experimental sounds: heavy techno from Kyle Hall, Paula Temple and Karen Gwyer, live experimentation from Via App, Patricia, M. Geddes Gengras and Julia Holter, jaggedly rhythmic futurists Rabit and Lotic, and the avante-garde doom metal of The Body.

Moogfest’s largest venue, Motorco Park, is a mix of future-forward electro-pop and R&B with performances by ODESZA, Blood Orange, critically- acclaimed emerging artist DAWN (Dawn Richard) playing her first NC show, he kickoff of Miike Snow’s U.S. Tour, Gary Numan, Silver Apples, Mykki Blanco and newly announced The Range as well as a distinguished hip hop lineup that includes GZA, Skepta, Torey Lanez, Daye Jack, Denzel Curry, Lunice and local artists King Mez, Professor Toon and Well$.

Full Schedule: https://moogfest.sched.org

Robert Moog (credit: Moogarchives.com)

Since 2004, Moogfest has brought together artists, futurist thinkers, inventors, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, scientists, and musicians. Moogfest is a tribute to Dr. Robert “Bob” Moog and the profound influence his inventions have had on how we hear the world. Over the last sixty years, Bob Moog and Moog Music have pioneered the analog synthesizer and other technology tools for artists. He was vice president for new product research at Kurzweil Music Systems from 1984 to 1988.

Topics: Electronics | Entertainment/New Media | Human Enhancement

http://news.ubc.ca/2016/05/16/eyewitnesses-remember-skin-colour-as-darker-when-recalling-suspects-in-black-crimes/

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Eyewitnesses memories affected by type of crime

May 16, 2016

Metro News reported on a UBC study showing that eyewitness accounts are influenced by the types of crime.

“We found that if we expose eyewitnesses to a stereotypically ‘black crime,’ they actually remember the perpetrator of that crime as being more black than they are in reality,” said Paul Davies, UBCO psychology professor and lead author of the study. “The crime that they’re accused of committing, the race of the perpetrator, the race of the witness— they all interact and can impact eyewitness testimony.”

http://news.ubc.ca/2016/05/16/neuroscience-confirms-that-to-be-truly-happy-you-need-something-more/

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To be truly happy, you need something more

May 16, 2016

Evan Thompson, a UBC philosophy professor was quoted in an article in Quartz about how the act of seeking, not attaining is crucial to happiness.

“If you’re an artist there are always new modes of expression, new things to create and communicate. The world isn’t fixed, it’s always changing, so that means you have to create anew in light of the changes,” Thompson said. “I don’t think any good scientist thinks one day science will come to an end. Science is about questioning, new ways of looking at things, new devices. That’s entirely open-ended.”

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/stem-cell-organization-to-scientists-enough-with-the-hype/

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Stem cell organization to scientists: Enough with the hype!

Giving a misleading impression of the state of research is not a good thing.

Pancreatic islet cells that have been produced using human stem cells.
Harvard Stem Cell Institute

As we discussed on Tuesday, a lot of the problems with the public’s view of current research originatelong before journalists get involved. Scientists and the institutions that support the research oftenportray preliminary work as more definitive than it is, or push the findings as supporting ideas that are,at best, premature. So it’s nice to see that one organization of scientists is pushing back against that.

The organization is the International Society for Stem CellResearch (ISSCR), which has just released an updated setof guidelines for stem cell researchers. The majority of thetext is devoted to research ethics and best practices, and itcovers topics like patient data. But the new version includesa section devoted to communications, and it nicelysummarizes some of the problems that the field has facedsince its inception:

Popular coverage and reporting in the medicalliterature are frequently far from ideal. Potentialbenefits are sometimes exaggerated and thechallenges to clinical application and risks are oftenunderstated. Inaccurate or incomplete representationsof this sort can have tangible impacts on theexpectations of the general public, patientcommunities, physicians, and on the setting of healthand science policies. Inaccurate or incompleterepresentations can also be exploited by companiesand individuals marketing stem cells for unprovenclinical uses.

How to combat this? The ISSCR lays the responsibility on the shoulders of researchers and the pressofficers who work with them, advising them in a variety of ways to cut out the hype. “Communicationsabout ongoing studies should explain that clinical efficacy is not established,” the guidelines state, “andthat the results may reveal the intervention to be ineffective or, in some cases, harmful.” Clinical trialsthat focus on establishing safety should not be referred to as treatments. And researchers shouldn’t bein the business of predicting the future of uncertain processes like the movement of a treatment throughclinical trials—any forward-looking statements “must be accurate, circumspect and restrained.”

The guidelines warn against what’s become a common practice in clinical studies: when the focus ofthe work produces a negative result, the researchers go searching for any measure that turns uppositive and shift the focus to that. Researchers are advised to always report the intended measures,even if they fail.

Finally, researchers are advised that their work doesn’t end when the press coverage starts. If anypublic representations of research are inaccurate or misleading—be it a press release or ensuingcoverage—it’s the researchers’ job to get them corrected.

Will this cause all stem cell researchers to immediately take their responsibilities as public communicators seriously? Certainly not. But having clear and strong standards—which these certainly appear to be—provides a strong lever to begin to shift behavior. It’s much easier to convince some one that they’re being irresponsible when an organization of their peers has already clearly described why those actions are irresponsible.

 

http://www.kurzweilai.net/primitive-quantum-computer-outperforms-classical-computers

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‘Primitive’ quantum computer outperforms classical computers

May 13, 2016

A simulation of Brownian motion (random walk) of a dust particle (yellow) that collides with a large set of smaller particles (molecules of a gas) moving with different velocities in different random directions (credit: Lookang et al./CC)

Researchers at the Universities of Bristol and Western Australia have demonstrated a practical use of a “primitive” quantum computer, using an algorithm known as “quantum walk.” They showed that a two-qubit photonics quantum processor can outperform classical computers for this type of algorithm, without requiring more sophisticated quantum computers, such as IBM’s five-qubits cloud-based quantum processor (see IBM makes quantum computing available free on IBM Cloud).

Quantum walk is the quantum-mechanical analog of “random-walk” models such as Brownian motion (for example, the random motion of a dust particle in air). The researchers implemented “continuous-time quantum walk” computations on circulant graphs* in a proof-of-principle experiment.

The probability distribution of quantum walk on an example circulant graph. Sampling this probability distribution is generally hard for a classical computer, but simple on a primitive quantum computer. (credit: University of Bristol)

Jonathan Matthews, PhD., EPSRC Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in the School of Physics and the Centre for Quantum Photonics, explained in an open-access paper in Nature Communications: “An exciting outcome of our work is that we may have found a new example of quantum walk physics that we can observe with a primitive quantum computer, that otherwise a classical computer could not see. These otherwise hidden properties have practical use, perhaps in helping to design more sophisticated quantum computers.”


Microsoft | Quantum Computing 101

* A circulant graph is a graph where every vertex is connected to the same set of relative vertices, as explained in an open-access paper by Salisbury University student Shealyn Tucker, including a practical example of the use of a circulant graph:

Example of a circulent graph depicting how products should be optimally collocated based on which products customers buy at a grocery store (credit: Shealyn Tucker/Salisbury University)

Abstract of Efficient quantum walk on a quantum processor

The random walk formalism is used across a wide range of applications, from modelling share prices to predicting population genetics. Likewise, quantum walks have shown much potential as a framework for developing new quantum algorithms. Here we present explicit efficient quantum circuits for implementing continuous-time quantum walks on the circulant class of graphs. These circuits allow us to sample from the output probability distributions of quantum walks on circulant graphs efficiently. We also show that solving the same sampling problem for arbitrary circulant quantum circuits is intractable for a classical computer, assuming conjectures from computational complexity theory. This is a new link between continuous-time quantum walks and computational complexity theory and it indicates a family of tasks that could ultimately demonstrate quantum supremacy over classical computers. As a proof of principle, we experimentally implement the proposed quantum circuit on an example circulant graph using a two-qubit photonics quantum processor.

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Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Quantum

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White House to study benefits and risks of AI, ways to improve government

May 13, 2016

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has announced plans to co-host four public workshops to spur public dialogue on artificial intelligence and machine learning, and to learn more about the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence, according to Ed Felten, a Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer.

These four workshops will be co-hosted by academic and non-profit organizations; two will also be co-hosted by the National Economic Council, with a public report later this year. They will be livestreamed:

A “more effective government”

The Federal Government also is “working to leverage AI for public good and toward a more effective government.” A new National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Subcommittee on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence will monitor state-of-the-art advances and technology milestones in artificial intelligence and machine learning within the Federal Government, in the private sector, and internationally; and help coordinate Federal activity in this space.

The NSTC group also hopes to increase the use of AI and machine learning to improve the delivery of government services, especially in areas related to urban systems and smart cities, mental and physical health, social welfare, criminal justice, and the environment.

Topics: AI/Robotics

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/Some-REM-sleep-can-help-you-hold-on-to-memories/articleshow/52277694.cms

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Some REM sleep can help you hold on to memories

If you want to hold on to yourmemories, then hit the sack for some deep sleep as a new study suggests so.

Researchers at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute (McGill University) and the University of Bern provided evidence that rapid eye movement ( REM ) sleep, the phase where dreams appear, is directly involved in memory formation, at least in mice.

Researcher Sylvain Williams said, “We already knew that newly acquired information is stored into different types of memories, spatial or emotional, before being consolidated or integrated,” adding “How the brain performs this process has remained unclear, until now. We were able to prove for the first time that REM sleep is indeed critical for normal spatial memory formation in mice.”

To test the long-term spatial memory of mice, the scientists trained the rodents to spot a new object placed in a controlled environment where two objects of similar shape and volume stand. Spontaneously, mice spend more time exploring a novel object than a familiar one, showing their use of learning and recall.

When these mice were in REM sleep, however, the researchers used light pulses to turn off their memory-associated neurons to determine if it affects their memory consolidation. The next day, the same rodents did not succeed the spatial memory task learned on the previous day. Compared to the control group, their memory seemed erased, or at least impaired.
“Silencing the same neurons for similar durations outside REM episodes had no effect on memory. This indicates that neuronal activity specifically during REM sleep is required for normal memory consolidation,” said lead author Richard Boyce.
In particular, REM sleep is often significantly perturbed in Alzheimer’s diseases (AD), and results from this study suggest that disruption of REM sleep may contribute directly to memory impairments observed in AD, the researchers noted.
The study is published in Science.

https://www.sudbury.com/automotive/nikola-one-the-electric-semi-296248

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Nikola One: The Electric Semi

If you have been on this website for more than a few months, you know Tesla, the Californian automaker (if you just joined us, welcome!). The manufacturer gets his name from Nikola Tesla, a genius inventor who lived in the last century.

1 / 4 Nikola One Credit Nikola

If you have been on this website for more than a few months, you know Tesla, the Californian automaker (if you just joined us, welcome!). The manufacturer gets his name from Nikola Tesla, a genius inventor who lived in the last century. Among many things, he developed the alternative current (AC), which revolutionized electricity as we know it.

It seems like another manufacturer wants to honour the man; to make sure people won’t confuse them with Elon Musk’ business, they chose to use Tesla’s first name.

The semi you can see in the above pictures is the Nikola One, a hybrid vehicle.

Instead of being propelled by a polluting diesel engine, the One packs a 320 kWh battery. To keep said battery charged, the vehicle is also fitted with a CNG turbine. Overall, the One has the equivalent of 2,000 horsepower –and probably enough torque to shift the Earth on its axis-.

According to the manufacturer, this truck would cost half as much to run as a regular semi.

For now, the One is nothing more than a render; however, Nikola is starting to take orders for it, at a starting price of $375,000 US.

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