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What comes to your mind when you think of Innovation? Disruptive products like iPhones? Drones? ย Neuralink’s Brain Machine Interfaces? While all of those are fabulous examples indeed, they are just one flavor of innovation – *Evolutionary* innovation. Thinking of Innovation as also being *Incremental* allows us to constantly push boundaries and create better products Can …
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Outer space is not the final frontier, our Brain is. Reverse engineering the human brain may be regarded as the most important project in history. Is the brain complex?ย In his book, Ray Kurzweil introduces the concept of *pattern recognition theory of mind*. (PRTM). He further draws an analogy to the famous Mandelbrot set, an …
Can the post COVID world address income inequality in supercities? There are three trends that the a16z report addresses in this respect – albeit from a US lens #1Supercities and the Workforce โ and how it ties to inequality. Think cities such as San Francisco. Or in India – Bangalore. Think about the impact of …
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๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ค๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ The video opens with the view of a monkey perched high on a stool in front of a screen. He has Neuralink placed on each side of his brain and has learnt to interact with the computer in return for a banana smoothie delivered through a …
What if your body were to be swapped whilst retaining the conscious, will that still be you? ย What makes you you? ย That is a question asked in John Scalzi’s sci-fi thriller, Old Man’s War ย Is it your consciousness that makes you you? ย If so, what exactly is consciousness, and how can …
Have you heard the story of the guy who traded a paper clip to a house? Kyle MacDonald did exactly that He traded up from one red paperclip to a house, in only a year through 14 trades! It’s an unlikely and amazing journey with lots of surprises along the way documented in his blog …
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๐๐ฎ๐ป, ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ปโ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ And that statement is quite relevant in the space of ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐. Humans are the ones who decide what the machine should be maximizing. Are we taking a human-centered approach and understanding the limitations of the data set and model? Have you heard of Nick Bostrom’s famous paperclip …
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“Dare Mighty Things” was the hidden message on NASA’s Mars rover parachute. It was a phrase used first by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26 President of United States. It also is a mantra at Jet Propulsion Lab Systems engineer Ian Clark at JPL used a binary code to spell out โDare Mighty Thingsโ in the orange …
If Aliens existed, how will we find them? ย If you think about it, most sci-fi narratives are thought experiments exploring ‘what if’ we stretched the limits of humankind ย It is my favorite genre. Letโs think specifically about the future of space exploration. Successful missions such as Viking, Cassini, New Horizons, Juno, and Rosetta …
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The Doctor Will Sniff You Now Itโs 2050 and youโre due for your monthly physical exam. Times have changed, so you no longer have to endure an orifices check, a needle in your vein, and a week of waiting for your blood test results.Instead, the nurse welcomes you with, โThe doctor will sniff you now,โ …
What can oneโs odor tell about oneโs health? Read More »