(This poem is about the parable “The Scorpion and the Frog” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog) Nature embraces with all her ill, The creatures being by her will, Seduced by the scorpion’s cunning skill, The frog and him were killed. The scorpion’s sting was in his nature, The ultimate cause of the dictator. How humans fight like gladiators For … Continue reading “Not in our nature,” a poem→
For some, mathematics much more than a matter of solving problems. It transcends abstraction and intellectual pursuit into a way of determining meaning from life. For a brother and sister, it can mean a relentless search for truth that reads like a Romantic fable. A history that consists of settings across time and space punctuated … Continue reading The Weil Conjectures: A tale of mathematics, philosophy, and art→
As the gap between humans and computers becomes smaller every day, the startup Neuralink, backed by figures including Elon Musk, Vanessa Tolosa, and other individuals, recently hosted a public conference in which they revealed their efforts create neural interfaces between brains and computers. The futuristic dream of a brain-computer interface for mutual exchange of information … Continue reading Neuralink: the allure of brain-computer interfaces→
How do you trust others? What makes you become suspicious when working with other people? Though we rely on collecting information about others when making decisions, the ways we collect that information may change how others perceive us. People may be less likely to trust others when they inquire about their behavior in a way … Continue reading Appearing suspicious may come at a cost→
Physical tasks the may seem basic to humans can be much more complicated for machines. The sheer number of degrees of freedom and dimensions the brain must use to make something as versatile and complex as hand motions means that the brain must reduce these high-dimensional spaces to achieve these feats of motion. This is … Continue reading How the brain makes things simple→
Modern science can uncover ancient wisdom. While it may seem regressive or pseudoscientific to study concepts from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), they reveal deeper meanings about who we are as humans when subject to scrutiny by the scientific method. The herb formulas, plant-derived nature produces of TCM are still used in disease prevention and treatment … Continue reading A machine learning approach to Traditional Chinese Medicine→
Scientists and philosophers alike have examined and pondered about consciousness, one of the most central problems in our experience of the world. Both approaches may seek different methods, with science being empirical and philosophy, speculative, but they’re both relevant to any discussion on such a complicated phenomena. Understanding how neural correlates of conscious experience correspond … Continue reading The neuroscientific basis of consciousness→
With the ethical concerns raised by issues of gene editing of human embryos, academic ethics research has set the foundation for and discussed the bioethical threats mankind faces.
While humans and computers both have the capacity to recognize faces, pattern recognition problems in computer vision seek to represent data in an appropriate way for the problem to solve.
