Thursday, February 17, 2011

Sunspot #1158 CME, and me

BRIArN's interface to the hivemind is flaky due to the solar storm caused by a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) from Sunspot #1158. It makes him cranky. He keeps changing the TV to "Tyra".

Now I'm cranky too...

Tweets from

PhysOrg Science News
by oldtimescifi
Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals: NASA
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Double Jeopardy

PhysOrg Science News just reported on the defeat of the two greatest human Jeopardy! champions by a specially designed Artificial Intelligence machine.
The interest here is not that the computer knew the answers, that is a forgone conclusion.  The trick is that it understood the questions (irony, double entendre and all) without help.
And thus half the Sci-fi we will be reading is now plausible in the next 2 years. We are doomed as SKYNET is now upon us!!

On the plus side, maybe the phone bots can correctly route my calls now...

Tweets from

PhysOrg Science News

by oldtimescifi
Computer crushes human 'Jeopardy!' champs
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