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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Mike Sanchez's first venture as an entrepreneur was selling Pop-Tarts in high school. It was an easy way to make money and he never had a problem selling them and he always sold out, he said.
"There's always a market for Pop-Tarts, it's a good market," Sanchez said.
Sanchez is the President of the University of New Mexico Entrepreneurs (UNME). He is a senior, graduating this semester with a bachelor's degree in general management. Sanchez plans to continue a career in marketing, sales and entrepreneurship, he said.
President of the University of New Mexico Entrepreneurs, Mike Sanchez updating their Facebook page in Parish Library.
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"We're still in the early stages, but we are going to start managing this business accelerator/incubator called Studio G said Sanchez. "We're going to be co-managing it with Innovation Academy and UNM Business Plan Competition."
"What brings us all together is that we're entrepreneurially minded, so not necessarily entrepreneurs yet or currently entrepreneurs or even want to be entrepreneurs, but we're people that are interested in improving and self-growth and overcoming obstacles," Sanchez said. "The definition of an entrepreneur is not necessarily starting a business but just creating stuff. Being in charge of your life."
Sanchez emphasizes that the response from students and Albuquerque has been extremely supportive.
"Everybody from Innovation Academy, ABQid to FatPipe. Free Range is one of our biggest supporters. Even restaurants have started giving us money and just want to help out. So, I couldn't ask for a better place and community to do this," said Sanchez.
"We haven't received any funds from the student government at all. We get donations in the form of popcorn, pizza and cookies. We have everything we need and we don't even need to get any money from the student government," said Sanchez. "We're living the dream however small it may be."
Sanchez said his advice to entrepreneurs is to, "First, figure out what you love to do and never stop until you figure that out. Keep trying new things, keep exploring, keep troubleshooting until you figure that out and it's going to make everything so much easier."
"Never stop being curious. Never stop asking questions. Questioning the status quo is what entrepreneurs do," he said.
Mike Sanchez, working on business in Parish Library. Photo: Maria Gomez / NM News Port
Before Sanchez graduates, he wants to double the size of UNME to about 40 members.
"I want to continue building this community and this vibrant place where people meet and bounce ideas off each other, and make it even more of a destination for folks," said Sanchez.
Director of Innovation Academy Robert DelCampo said UNME is completely student driven.
"They don't necessarily have a faculty member or staff person telling them, this is what you guys need or this is what you gotta do. They kind of make their own path and do their own thing," said DelCampo.
Sanchez has been very proactive in finding ways for student entrepreneurs to be engaged, DelCampo said.
"He started working with the UNM Business Plan Competition and was able to get them to Facebook livestream their seminars, which is a big change. He's been super interested in being as inclusive as possible. He's real collaborative in terms of providing opportunity for everyone," said DelCampo.
The response to UNME and Innovation Academy has been really strong, DelCampo said. Innovation Academy first started with a goal of about fifteen students per semester. As of Jan. 31, there are 770 students who represent about 85 different majors.
"Students are really interested in this kind of idea and I think it's generational. Millennial's, Generation Z kind of generation want to have options, not only in their career but also moving forward. They don't want to have your typical report to a boss eight to five type of thing," said DelCampo.
DelCampo wants to help entrepreneurs navigate and have more certainty, by providing the tools, he said.
"We're seeing a lot of this stuff come together at the same time like UNME, Innovation Academy and around Albuquerque. We have the Innovative ABQ campus downtown. We have Rainforest; The idea is for students interested in entrepreneurship, to live there. We've got a lab with computers, 3D printers, cameras and different things for students to use," said DelCampo.
"The City is interested in this form of economic development, the State, the University is jumping on board," DelCampo said. "So, I think we're just at the front edge of the explosion of this sort of thing. It's good that UNME is here as well because students need to have their own organization to take ownership of."
UNME and Innovation Academy have plenty of scheduled events this semester that are open to the public these events can be seen on their Facebook page. Furthermore, Innovation Academy and UNME are working together on a Create Your Own Job Fair scheduled for March 27.
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Cork city is the second-largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the population in the city is approx. 220,000. It is situated on the southern coast of Ireland approx. 253km south of Dublin. Cork is the commercial capital of the south of Ireland and has a track record of attracting multinational/foreign direct investment. Cork is home to global market leaders in pharmaceuticals, healthcare, information and communications technology, biotechnology, and professional and international financial services.
Cork city is the second-largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the population in the city is approx. 220,000. It is situated on the southern coast of Ireland approx. 253km south of Dublin. Cork is the commercial capital of the south of Ireland and has a track record of attracting multinational/foreign direct investment. Cork is home to global market leaders in pharmaceuticals, healthcare, information and communications technology, biotechnology, and professional and international financial services. Many of the world's largest corporate occupiers are located in the Cork region, including Apple, Amazon, Dell EMC, IBM, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, McAfee, Lilly, VM Ware, Marriott Group, Johnson & Johnson, Clearstream, Boston Scientific, Stryker, Pepsi, Gilead and Blizzard.
Cork is a vibrant city and is set to become the fastest-growing city in Ireland in the period up to 2040. It is also the strongest growing region for start-up businesses in Ireland and this is a critical factor in attracting corporate investment. It attracts and maintains an international workforce with a broad range of skills and languages. Organizations that support working in Cork are Enterprise Ireland, Cork Chamber, Cork Business Association and IBEC.
Cork offers a wide range of retail areas to include the city centre central business district, Mahon Point Shopping Centre and Retail Park, Douglas Village Shopping Centre, Douglas Court, Wilton Shopping Centre, Blackpool Shopping Centre, Turners Cross Retail Park, Caste West Shopping centre, Eastgate Retail Park, West City Retail Park and many more.
In the Cork residential market, locations such as Blackrock, Douglas, Bishopstown, Montenotte and Rochestown continue to be the prime sought-after locations. The newer expanding suburbs of Ballincollig, Glanmire and Carrigaline are also very attractive, particularly for first-time buyers. As well as being a university city, Cork is very well served when it comes to national and second-level education with a great choice of schools.
Over the last number of years, Cork has developed a number of large parklands around the city with very attractive walkways/greenways, including Blackrock amenity walkway, Tramore Valley Park, Ballincollig Regional Park and the Lee Fields on the banks of the river on the western side of the city and Marina Park in the city's south docklands.
Cork is also noted as a food destination with many exciting cafés and restaurants in the city centre. Cork has a reputation for artisan food production and more recently for craft beers, gin and whiskey, some of which are worldwide names. The vibrant English Market is situated in the heart of the city and offers a wide range of artisan foods and fresh fish. It has become a tourist attraction and has developed an international reputation while maintaining its attractiveness to Corkonians. Kinsale, famous for its harbour and gourmet restaurants, is just a 30-minute drive from the city and the many attractions of beautiful West Cork are also within easy driving distance.
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You love food and everything about it - the smell, the texture, the taste. Heck, even the preparation. But just because you love it doesn't mean you're experiencing it how you'd like.
You lead a busy life and your menus suffer. But it doesn't have to be like that. Get back to the basics with a meal delivery service, where you receive delicious and healthy food to be delivered straight to your door.
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1. Your Palate Will Soar
Difficult-to-pronounce foods are associated with elegance, and these meal delivery services have some dishes that are really chic sounding. Just look at some of the menu items a company such as Blue Apron will send you: Fontina-stuffed pork chops, Chicken under a "brick", seared salmon and lemon Labneh, spinach and fresh mozzarella pizza and the list goes on.
And the food not only tastes good, but the ingredients are farm-fresh and natural. You may even find yourself boasting to your co-workers about your new hobby.
2. You'll Cook (More) Like a Pro
Having ingredients delivered means you get the best of both worlds: simpler choices and home cooked goodness. Sure, you had some help picking out the dishes and gathering the ingredients, but those are just details. You're the one who put it all together.
And notice what happens. You'll learn more about which foods work together. No more will dinner be pancakes and syrup, but you'll whip out the pan-fried cod and potato cakes. Oh, and don't forget the marinated cabbage slaw.
3. You'll Try Exotic Foods
You'll get the curious foods and actually use them.
You're going to try foods like Harissa Chicken Sandwiches and new ingredients like fontina cheese, tinkerbell peppers, freekeh and labneh.
If you're the type of person who wants to try new things but doesn't know where to start, maybe a meal delivery service is the way to go. You might discover your adventurous side.
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Helmut Krieghofer (* 29. November 1951 in Lienz) ist ein ehemaliger österreichischer Politiker (ÖVP) und war von 2012 bis 2018 Landesdirektor des ORF-Landesstudios Tirol. Er war von 1994 bis 2001 Abgeordneter zum Tiroler Landtag.

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Krieghofer besuchte nach der Volksschule eine Hauptschule und absolvierte bis 1969 die Handelsschule beziehungsweise die Handelsakademie in Lienz. Zudem bildete er sich von 1974 bis 1976 als Radio- und Fernsehjournalist in Wien, Innsbruck und München weiter.

Beruflich war Krieghofer bis 1969 als Redakteursaspirant beim Osttiroler Boten tätig, des Weiteren absolvierte er ein Volontariat bei den Salzburger Nachrichten. Er arbeitete von 1971 bis 1974 als Redakteur des Osttiroler Boten und war Freier Mitarbeiter des ORF-Tirol sowie des ORF-Wien. In der Folge war er zwischen 1975 und 1991 als Radio- und Fernsehredakteur für den ORF Tirol aktiv. 1980 wurde Krieghofer in den Redakteursrat gewählt, zudem wurde er Chef vom Dienst im "Aktuellen Dienst" für Radio und Fernsehen.  Ab 1988 war er mit der Konzeption beziehungsweise Moderation von "Tirol Heute" betraut und präsentierte am 2. Mai 1988 die erste Sendung. Er begrüßte damals die Zuschauer mit den Worten "schaun' Sie sich die Sache einmal an".

Krieghofer war auch Leiter der Fernsehredaktion von ORF Tirol. 1991 wechselte er den Beruf und wurde Hauptgeschäftsführer der Tiroler Volkspartei. Diese Position hatte er bis zum Jahr 2000 inne.

Am 5. April 1994 wurde Krieghofer als Abgeordneter des Tiroler Landtags angelobt und gehörte dem Landtag bis zum 30. September 2001 an. Er zog jeweils über den Wahlkreis Lienz in den Landtag ein. Als Landtagsabgeordneter war er Mitglied im Ausschuss für Föderalismus und Europäische Integration, Mitglied im Ausschuss für Kunst, Kultur, Schule und Sport, Mitglied im Ausschuss für Soziales und Gesundheit, Mitglied im Immunitäts- und Unvereinbarkeitsausschuss, Mitglied im Tourismusausschuss und Mitglied im Notstandsausschuss. Zudem war er zwischen 1994 und 2001 Mediensprecher der Tiroler Volkspartei und von 1996 bis 2001 Bezirksparteiobmann der Tiroler Volkspartei im Bezirk Lienz. Darüber hinaus fungierte Helmut Krieghofer von 2010 bis 2011 als ORF-Stiftungsrat und ist seit 2001 Präsident des Skipool Tirol.

Von Oktober 2001 bis Dezember 2011 war er Landesdirektor der Uniqa-Versicherung. Am 15. September 2011 wurde er mit 1. Jänner 2012 zum Landesdirektor des ORF-Landesstudios Tirol bestellt. 2018 wurde bekannt, dass Krieghofer mit Ende des Jahres den ORF verlassen und in den Ruhestand gehen wird. Als Landesdirektor des ORF Tirol folgte ihm mit 1. Jänner 2019 Robert Unterweger nach.

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 Da isch's Glück dahoam. Das Radio-Tirol-Mundartlesebuch für Tiroler und andere Menschen. Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck 2014. ISBN 978-3-7099-7153-6.
 Tirol persönlich erzählt. Zeitzeugen im Gespräch. Österreichischer Rundfunk, Landesstudio Tirol. Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck 2014. ISBN 978-3-7099-7186-4.

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 Helmut Krieghofer auf den Seiten des ORF-Tirol

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Andrew Kirkpatrick is a British mountaineer, author, motivational speaker and monologist. He is best known as a big wall climber, having scaled Yosemite's El Capitan over 30 times, including five solo ascents, and two one-day ascents, as well as climbing in Patagonia, Alaska, Antarctica and the Alps.  He has also crossed Greenland by ski. In 2014 he guided Alex Jones up Moonlight Buttress, Zion National Park, raising £1.9 million for Sport Relief.

Film, TV and radio
Kirkpatrick has worked in film and TV as a safety advisor and stunt rigger, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as well as in programmes for CBBC, ITN, BBC and BBC Scotland. The BBC programme "The Big Climb" about his ascent of El Capitan with his 13-year-old daughter Ella won multiple awards. In 2014, he guided the TV presenter Alex Jones up the Moonlight Buttress in Zion National Park to raise money for Sports Relief, raising £1.9 million. In 2014, Kirkpatrick gave a fifteen-minute talk on BBC Radio 4 in its Four Thought slot on the subject of the importance of risky play for children. In January 2015, he followed the route of the heroes of telemark on the Hardangervidda by ski with his two children for a BBC film on risky play.

Writing
Kirkpatrick's dyslexia is well documented, and these struggles form part of his first book, Psychovertical.

Kirkpatrick is only the third person to win the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature twice (Paul Pritchard and Jim Perrin being the other authors to win twice). His first win was with his first book, Psychovertical in 2008 and his second with his book, Cold Wars: Climbing the fine line between risk and reality.

Psychovertical has been translated into German (published in 2010 as Psychovertikal by AS Verlag), Polish, Italian and Korean. The Italian version was published in 2011 as Psychovertical by Edizioni Versante Sud and in 2012 won the literary prize Gambrinus "Giuseppe Mazzotti". It is also published in French.

Bibliography
 Down, Akreative, 2020,
 Psychovertical, London: Hutchinson, 2008, ,
 Unknown Pleasures, Vertebrate, 2018,
 Higher Education, Akreative, 2018,
 30 Years of Climbing Magazine, Climbing Magazine, 1999,
 Cold Wars, Vertebrate, 2011,
 Zimne Wojny by Taschenbuch
 Kalte Kriege, AS Verlag, 2012,
 Cold Wars, The Mountaineers, USA,
 1000+ Climbing Tips Akreative
 Nutcraft Akreative ASIN: B00F8CVQ0S
 Hooks Akreative ASIN: B008LZRO0A
 Driven Akreative

See also
Rope solo climbing

References

External links
Radio Interview | National Geographic
"The Tapestry of the Experience" | interview by Alastair Humphreys
Storytelling, Dyslexia, and Antarctica | Interview by The Adventure Journal
 Interview | Vertical Life
The Dark Side of Climbing | Vague Direction interview
The Boss at the bottom of the world | British Mountaineering Council interview
 Official website

Living people
1971 births
People from Kingston upon Hull
British mountain climbers
British rock climbers
Sportspeople from Yorkshire
Boardman Tasker Prize winners
British motivational speakers
English male non-fiction writers
20th-century English male writers
English non-fiction outdoors writers


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Human beings can really change very fast. Not just that time flies, but we change/evolve so quickly.
This photo is Babyboo at the newly opened airport terminal. Our lives revolve very much around the airport, it is almost like a magical portal to all sorts of exotic places and all kinds of experiences. I have chosen to take a darker tone on this photo, because they used to be pretty dark days for him when he was really little. Now, it's a different side of the coin altogether. He told his mom to go to work (overseas), so she can buy toys for him. From very very young, he knew where his mom worked, where she was flying to, but maybe not how long she'd be away (even an hour seemed too long).
Today, I saw all the pre-packed milk in the freezer, and … oh well. A reminder that the cycle is starting again. But the new baby is an independent one, and he's got a bigbro to keep him company so it should all be good.
My cycle started again too. Notifications to check-in just beeped through my phone again. It's a funny thought that I will be getting this notification every other day for the next few months. There are other things to be stressed about, I shall not dwell too much on this.
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Barbie Reveals Its First-Ever Hijab-Wearing Doll & She Is Stunning
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Barbie just unveiled its first ever hijab-wearing doll!
The new doll is the latest addition to the brand's annual Shero program, which honors admirable women and their achievements. Last year, Ashley Graham was Shero's honoree of the year and received the first-ever body positive Barbie. This year's honoree? Ibtihaj Muhammad – the first Muslim American woman to compete in the Olympics while wearing a hijab.
We are so excited to honor @IbtihajMuhammad with a one-of-a-kind #Barbie doll! Ibtihaj continues to inspire women and girls everywhere to break boundaries. 🤺 #Shero #YouCanBeAnything #GlamourWOTY
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"Barbie is celebrating Ibtihaj not only for her accolades as an Olympian, but for embracing what makes her stand out," Sejal Shah Miller, Barbie's vice-president of marketing, said in a statement. "Ibtihaj is an inspiration to countless girls who never saw themselves represented. By honoring her story, we hope this doll reminds them that they can be and do anything."
Ibtihaj unveiled her Barbie during Glamour's Woman of the Year summit in New York. This is the latest of Barbie's boundary-breaking dolls in an effort to become more inclusive in recent years. Muhammad's doll will be available for purchase in 2018. The Olympic fencer, 31, posted about the news on Instagram as well.
"I think its revolutionary for Barbie to take a stand in this moment that we're in – and I would say, as a country, to have a doll wear a hijab and be the first of its kind," Muhammad said to People.
Thank you @Mattel for announcing me as the newest member of the @Barbie Shero family! The Barbie Shero Program recognizes women who break boundaries to inspire the next generation of girls and I am so excited to join this incredible group of women. I'm proud to know that little girls everywhere can now play with a Barbie who chooses to wear hijab! This is a childhood dream come true 😭💘 #shero #ibtihajbarbie
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"There has never been a Barbie doll to wear a hijab before. I'm really excited to have this moment happen in my life and also for all these little girls now who can shop for Barbie doll that may look them, may wear a hijab like they do, or like their mom does, or like a friend does. But also have kids who aren't Muslim, who don't wear a hijab, to also have the opportunity to play with a doll that wears a hijab," she continued.
Prior to Barbie's first-ever hijab-wearing doll, the option of dressing Barbies in hijabs were almost impossible. The company Hello Hijab gained attention for making doll-sized hijabs to get children "accustomed to seeing headscarves in order to help fight stigma."
The Barbie designed after Ibtihaj Muhammad will be available for purchase in 2018. With Ibtihaj's Barbie, we're overjoyed that play time will be a lot more inclusive for the kids – and the rest of us Barbie freaks.
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The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The extraordinary experience of Israel, which has received migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) at the rate of 17 percent of its population, within a short time, is also relevant for the current debate about migration and globalization. The immigration wave was distinctive for its large high skilled cohort, and its quick integration into the domestic labor market. Among various ethnic groups the FSU immigrants ranked at the top of intergenerational upward mobility. Immigration also changed the entire economic landscape: it raised productivity, underpinning technological prowess, and had significant impact on income inequality and the level of redistribution in Israel's welfare state.
"There is a good theoretical argument for why evolution may speed up due to population growth. Given a particular probability distribution for producing beneficial mutations, a large population implies a faster rate of incidence of such mutations. Because reproductive dynamics leads to exponential solutions (i.e., a slight increase in expected number of offspring compounds rapidly), the time required for an advantageous allele to sweep through a population only grows logarithmically with the population, while the rate of incidence grows linearly."
To elaborate on the last point, consider the set of mutations that are sufficiently advantageous that they would sweep through a population of N humans (i.e. reach fixation) in some specified period of time, such as 5000 years. If the probability of such a mutation is p, the rate of occurrence in the population is proportional to pN. Now imagine the population of the group increases to 100N. The rate of mutations is then much higher -- 100pN -- but the time necessary for fixation has only increased by the logarithm of 100 since selective advantage works exponentially: the population fraction with the mutant gene grows as exp( r t ), where r is the reproductive advantage and t is time. This rather obvious point -- that linear beats log -- suggests that the rate of evolution will speed up as population size increases. (A possible loophole is if the probability of mutations as a function of relative advantage is itself an exponential function, and falls off rapidly with increasing advantage.) If the Hawks et al. results are any guide, as many as 7% of all genes have been under intense selection in the last 10-50,000 years. (See here for another summary of the research with a nice illustration of how linkage disequilibrium arises due to favorable mutations.) Importantly, the variants that reached fixation over this period are different in different geographical regions.
Thus civilization, with its consequently larger populations supported by agriculture, enhanced rather than suppressed the rate of human evolution.
A related question is whether selection pressure remained strong after the development of civilization. Perhaps reproductive success became largely decoupled from genetic influences once humans became civilized? Not only is this implausible, but it seems to be directly contradicted by evidence. The graph below, based on English inheritance records, shows that the rich gradually out-reproduced the poor: the wealthy had more than twice as many surviving children as the poor. (Note the range of inheritances in the graph covers the middle class to moderately wealthy; the poor and very rich are not shown.) Thus, in this period of history wealth was a good proxy for reproductive success. Genes which were beneficial for the accrual of wealth (e.g., for intelligence, self-discipline, delayal of gratification, etc.) would have become more prevalent over time. In a simple population model, any lineage that remained consistently poor over a few hundred year period would contribute almost zero to today's population of Britons.
See also my review of Clark's A Farewell to Alms, and this video of a talk by Clark. When Clark wrote the book he wasn't sure whether it was genetic change or cultural change that led to the industrial revolution in England. In the video lecture he comments that he has since become convinced it was largely genetic. That doesn't jibe with the back of the envelope calculation I give below -- even in the optimistic case (largest effect) it would seem to take a thousand years to have a big shift in overall population characteristics.
Here's a very crude back of the envelope calculation: if, in a brutal Malthusian setting, the top 10% in wealth were to out-reproduce the average by 20% per generation, then after only 10 generations or so (say 2-300 years), essentially everyone in the population would trace their heritage in some way to this group. In our population the average IQ of the high income group is about +.5 SD relative to the average. If the heritability of IQ is .5, then in an ideal case we could see a selection-driven increase of +.25 SD every 2-300 years, or +1 SD per millenium. This is highly speculative, of course, and oversimplified, but it shows that there is (plausibly) no shortage of selection pressure to drive noticeable, even dramatic, change. If the estimate is too high by an order of magnitude (the rich group doesn't directly replace the others; there is inevitably a lot of intermarriage between descendants of the rich and non-rich), a change of +1 SD per 10,000 years would still be possible. There's clearly no shortage in genetic variation affecting intelligence: we see 1 SD variations not just within populations but commonly in individual families!
In 2007's A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, Gregory Clark argued that the higher fertility of the rich in pre-industrial England sowed the seeds for the Industrial Revolution. As children resemble their parents, the increased number of prudent, productive people made possible the modern economic era.
Part of the controversy underlying Clark's argument – made stark by Clark in articles and speeches following A Farewell to Alm's publication – was that he considered there may be a genetic basis to the transmitted traits. The higher fertility of the rich and changing character of the population was natural selection at work.
Clark's new book The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility, also makes a new and unique argument. And like A Farewell to Alms, there is a genetic underlay.
Clark's primary argument is that across a range of societies and eras – from pre-Industrial to modern England, from pre- to post-revolution China, and across the centuries in the United States, Sweden and India – social mobility is low. The correlation in social status between one generation and the next is around 0.7 to 0.8, meaning we can find the echoes of high status 10 or more generations later. Status does "regress to the mean", but it does so slowly.
So meritocracy might rule when it comes to who ends up nearer or further from the castle (or then it might again not), but it will never determine who is allowed to come over the drawbridge, in through the gate, and allowed to see the Castle's inside.


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Friday Thinking 30 Sept. 2016
Hello all – Friday Thinking is a humble curation of my foraging in the digital environment. My purpose is to pick interesting pieces, based on my own curiosity (and the curiosity of the many interesting people I follow), about developments in some key domains (work, organization, social-economy, intelligence, domestication of DNA, energy, etc.) that suggest we are in the midst of a change in the conditions of change - a phase-transition. That tomorrow will be radically unlike yesterday.
Musician Marisa Anderson looks for the new in the old
Prosperity By Design
I have found a secret tunnel that runs underneath the phone companies and emerges in paradise
Podcast: How we'll kill all the DRM in the world, forever
Sweden Wants To Fight Our Disposable Culture With Tax Breaks For Repairing Old Stuff
The marketer's dilemma: The new capability agenda for marketers and their partners
Accenture files patent for editable blockchain
Chinese visual tech company launches world's first 3D+VR handset
Germany Just Unveiled a Hydrogen-Powered Passenger Train
World's First Boat Powered by 100% Renewables to Circle Globe
Acidity in atmosphere minimised to preindustrial levels
Boeing unveils game-changing autonomous submarine
Sewbo Robot: A Sewing Robot Can Sew T-Shirt
"Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time & Light" Lecture by Dr. Leonard Shlain
Neurofiction
Mr Shadow: a song composed by Artificial Intelligence
Neo - Official Teaser Trailer
Meet the Winners of This Year's Ig Nobel Prizes
Trump is headed for a win, says professor who has predicted 30 years of presidential outcomes correctly
Why the Creative Common is vital to Creation
Using public domain material freed up the creative side of recording because my responsibility was to arrange and interpret music rather than compose it. I was able to dive deeply into the sonics of the record. This became really important because I was making instrumental versions of songs that contain lyrics and stories that are very familiar to many people. The melodies and chord changes for the songs I chose are simple and repetitious. The major challenge of the record lay in how to make compelling renditions of these simple forms without losing the essential identity of each song. In other words, how was I to convey the emotional impact of the lyrics without singing, and without significant modification of the melody? I was looking for ways to serve the songs and enrich the melodies when I started working with more diffuse and textural sounds to fill out the emotional palette.
Today we are in the early stages of building a new infrastructure for work; think of it as a new operating system for creating value and getting things done. A combination of next-generation networking, distributed computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) is laying the groundwork for this transformation, catalyzing the emergence of a worldwide digital coordination economy. In this economy, algorithms are being deployed to identify and match those in need of something with those who can fulfill their needs, including both human and non-human agents.
The impact of automated production is a big part of this story. We have seen this particularly acutely in manufacturing. …. Automation, however, has increasingly moved from manufacturing to services and knowledge work. Legal analysis is increasingly done by machines, and companies like Narrative Science are building software to automatically convert raw data into stories that are sometimes hard to distinguish from those written by actual journalists.
A second important development, parallel to automation, is the widespread shift toward greater connectivity. As the world becomes more digital, objects, machines, and systems embedded with communication, sensing, and processing power will compete with the human workforce to drive new growth and create new kinds of value.
The implicit potential for using automation to grow prosperity is tremendous. With sufficient demand, automation facilitates the increases in productivity and efficiency that are fundamental to driving economic growth. But it also increases the risk of human dislocation. This is a familiar historical pattern. For example, while the Industrial Revolution greatly increased global prosperity over the long term, it also caused dislocation of rural populations. Design can—and must—make the difference.
While the automation of production and supply has been discussed quite a bit in recent years, the automation of demand may turn out to be an even more important, if much less explored, development. It is possible someday, for example, that self-managing and even self-owning autonomous vehicles may form "corporations" unto themselves. Using "smart" contracts, they may begin to incorporate themselves, seek investors, and pay dividends. If this sounds fantastical, consider that it is estimated that three-fourths of trades on the New York Stock Exchange are now automated, and that a computer recently taught itself to play the game of Go and beat the reigning human champion, something once thought nearly impossible for computers to do. The future is coming fast.
In order for society to thrive in this future, we will need a new design paradigm—a socio-technical framework in which the economic growth and societal benefits of an increasingly coordinated economy can be maximized. Such a paradigm could encompass: the technical design of platforms, regulatory frameworks necessary to both protect against inherent negative externalities and help distribute opportunities on a more equitable basis, efforts to foster the creation of new ecosystems of services, and public policies that support inclusive prosperity. Perhaps most importantly, it tries to create the most human value out of the big technological shifts that are advancing in stride. Let's take a look at these shifts before we tackle the principles of such a design framework.
The emerging digital coordination economy brings with it the seeds of great economic prosperity. However, large swaths of the population may not reap the benefits of such prosperity unless we embark on a large-scale effort to purposefully and thoughtfully design for it. We need to bring to this endeavor the best of technological expertise, but also the best thinking from disciplines such as economics, political science, governance, and others. The stakes are high and the time to start building the socio-technical infrastructure that will ensure equitable prosperity in the digital coordination economy is now.
This is a very short article by Cory Doctorow a Canadian Sci-Fi writer, journalist-blog and Internet activist. This is a MUST READ not because of the particular company - but because of the capability that would be available to all of us - if incumbents were creating artificial scarcity and impeding innovation and Internet access in order to rent-seek.
Calyx is a famous, heroic, radical ISP that has been involved in groundbreaking litigation -- they were the first company to ever get a secret Patriot Act warrant unsealed, fighting for 11 years to overturn the gag order…..
… For $500, Calyx will send you a little wifi hotspot with a Sprint SIM in it that comes with a year's worth unlimited, anonymous, unshaped, unfiltered 4G/LTE bandwidth on Sprint's network. Unlimited as in, I downloaded 60GB with mine and it didn't break a sweat.
Subsequent years are $400 (because you don't get another wifi gadget, just the service).
I've used mine in New York, Washington DC, New Orleans, Reno, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Kansas City, Boston, and Woods Hole, MA. I've had it for a couple months, and I find it lasts for 2-3 days on a single charge. I love being able to just open my laptop and go, without having to login to a hotel or airport wifi's bullshit authentication screen, and I've saved a ton on my phone's bandwidth charges by using the hotspot for network access on it.
I can't remember the last time I was this excited about network access. Every time I download a big file in the back of a cab, or while my flight is stuck on the tarmac, or when the hotel internet is saturated, I feel this delightful frisson like I'm getting away with something.
This is another Cory Doctorow piece - a podcast that clearly explains just how dangerous Digital Rights Management legislation is for us in the emerging digital environment.
A couple things changed in the last decade. The first is that the kinds of technologies that have access controls for copyrighted works have gone from these narrow slices (consoles and DVD players) to everything (the car in your driveway). If it has an operating system or a networking stack, it has a copyrighted work in it. Software is copyrightable, and everything has software. Therefore, manufacturers can invoke the DMCA to defend anything they've stuck a thin scrim of DRM around, and that defense includes the ability to prevent people from making parts. All they need to do is add a little integrity check, like the ones that have been in printers for forever, that asks, "Is this part an original manufacturer's part, or is it a third-party part?" Original manufacturer's parts get used; third-party parts get refused. Because that check restricts access to a copyrighted work, bypassing it is potentially a felony. Car manufacturers use it to lock you into buying original parts.
This is a live issue in a lot of domains. It's in insulin pumps, it's in voting machines, it's in tractors. John Deere locks up the farm data that you generate when you drive your tractor around. If you want to use that data to find out about your soil density and automate your seed broadcasting, you have to buy that data back from John Deere in a bundle with seed from big agribusiness consortia like Monsanto, who license the data from Deere. This metastatic growth is another big change. It's become really urgent to act now because, in addition to this consumer rights dimension, your ability to add things to your device, take it for independent service, add features, and reconfigure it are all subject to approval from manufacturers.
Here's an initiative that would support the invalidation of DRM not only to enable us to control our own technology - but also to enable us to repair that technology - including farmers, professionals, consumers and do-it-yourselfers.
"If we want to solve the problems of sustainability and the environment we have to work on consumption," Sweden's finance and consumption minister Per Bolund told The Local. "One area we are really looking at is so-called 'nudging.' That means, through various methods, making it easier for people to do the right thing." Nudging might involve clearer signage to reach the recycling station, for example.
A proposed new law takes aim at wasteful consumerism.
How often have you taken a gadget or a pair of shoes in for repair and found out that fixing it will cost more than buying a new version? Too often, that's how often. And Sweden is trying to fix this, by halving the tax paid on repairs and increasing taxes on unrepairable items.
The new proposals come from the ruling coalition of the Social Democrat and Green parties, and, if successfully enacted, would be accompanied by a publicity campaign to encourage Swedes to repair products instead of replacing them.
The proposed legislation would cut regular tax on repairs of bikes, clothes, and shoes from 25% to 12%. Swedes would also be able to claim half the labor cost of appliance repairs (refrigerators, washing machines and other white goods) from their income tax. Together, these tax cuts are expected to cost the country around $54 million per year. This will be more than paid for by the estimated $233 million brought in by a new "chemical tax," which would tax the resources that go into making new goods and computers.
This is a fascinating longish article - worth the consideration since marketers at least allude to a deep knowledge of consumer culture - having to understand the myths and narratives that move us.
That said marketers are increasingly suffering from hysteria - the digital environment is disrupting all manner of traditional business models and incumbents are struggling to find ways to sustain their mass production, mass-marketing past - how can marketers continue to manufacture consumers that will demand what can be marketed.
On the other hand this hysteria is being used to rationalize ever more intrusive uses of Big Data, choice architectures and nudging-gamification methodologies. And most importantly they are vying to assert ever stronger intellectual property regimes to enact an enclosure of both platform users, consumers and content to prevent the rise of self-governing creative commons to sustain and expand the 'privately owned mall' in the digital environment
Digital video. Social media. Native advertising. Programmatic. In-app advertising. Messenger advertising. These are just a few examples that were not meaningfully present in the modern marketing repertoire just a few years ago. Today's marketer has more options to reach her target audience than ever before. And yet, it has never been more difficult to earn the attention and engagement of that user. We call this conundrum the marketer's dilemma.
Consumers also are becoming less willing to pay attention to traditional advertising messages. A recent Harvard Business School study showed that the percentage of ads getting high attention has decreased dramatically, from 97 percent in the early 1990s to less than 20 percent today.
As marketers seek to develop a rich understanding of who their customers are, how they behave, and what they want and need, big data has emerged as a powerful enabling capability. Indeed, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Winterberry Group call out "cross-device audience recognition" and "sophisticated analytics to target audience members" as the top two areas commanding marketers' attention in 2016.
The media and marketing ecosystem is being reconfigured and transformed by digital developments. Brands find themselves operating in a quickly evolving environment in which new combinations of technology, experiences, and content are rapidly replacing traditional advertising. These developments are creating a major dilemma for the leading marketers, which control more than US$500 billion in advertising budgets. In a world of proliferating choice and supply, where do marketers focus time and resources so they can engage target users most effectively and efficiently? Many marketers are actively formulating answers to this question. They know they need different skills and ways of working to catch up to changes in users' media consumption. They also know they need new partnerships to design the content and distribution methods required to engage them. Given these developments, marketers' chief interlocutors — media (publishers) and marketing service providers (agencies) — will have to evolve substantially to remain relevant. Media companies need to create new advertising products, rethink their content distribution strategies as social media and mobile grow in significance, and use data to slice and dice their audiences in ways that deliver more targeting value for their customers. Finally, marketing service players must shift to focus more on content and intellectual property development, evolve from a services supplier to a strategic business advisor, and accelerate marketers' ability to move from experimentation to scale across as much of their customers' marketing and media mix as is feasible.
... agencies should move from a services-based model toward one that rests on proprietary content and intellectual property. That is to say, they should move toward being either more of a studio or a data mart. Both paths require new capabilities to be built in partner business development, and development and production resources, as well as the monetization and what we call the "productization" of IP.
Agencies can invest in content via IP ownership or licensing. They could aggregate their own creators, redefine "creative" into "content," and monetize proprietary IP. Alternatively, agencies can move into the studio business — building a studio for consumers, for brands, and as a service for creators, à la Maker Studios. As a "minimum viable strategy," agencies should look to build critical relationships with key makers and creators. If financial resources permit, they could make acquisitions or investments in talent firms with existing relationships or create shows and bring advertisers into them.
This is an interesting development - how to domesticate or tame the blockchain or the distributed ledger technology in order to sustain incumbent centralized power structures.
Blockchain technology, which is best known for powering Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, is gaining steam among finance firms because of its potential to streamline processes and increase efficiency. The technology could cut costs by up to $20 billion annually by 2022, according to Santander.
That's because blockchain, which operates as a distributed ledger, has the ability to allow multiple parties to transfer and store sensitive information in a space that's secure, permanent, anonymous, and easily accessible. That could simplify paper-heavy, expensive, or logistically complicated financial systems, like remittances and cross-border transfer, shareholder management and ownership exchange, and securities trading, to name a few. And outside of finance, governments and the music industry are investigating the technology's potential to simplify record-keeping.
The consultancy giant has caused upset in the fintech community by filing a patent for an editable blockchain feature that allows a central administrator to edit or delete information stored in a permissioned blockchain system, the Financial Times reports. A permissioned system is governed by a central administrator using agreed upon rules. This differs from permissionless systems, like those used by blockchain pioneers such as Bitcoin, which have no central authority. A key feature of permissionless systems is that the records they contain cannot be changed. Accenture unveiled a prototype of the blockchain on Tuesday developed jointly by Accenture and Giuseppe Anteniese, a Stevens Institute of Technology professor.
The prototype aims to make blockchain more practical for use in financial services. Accenture's head of financial services said that the prototype will make blockchain more attractive to financial services providers and regulators, and encourage their uptake of blockchain technology. This is because these parties "need a means to quickly correct errors on the blockchain," which is not possible when using a blockchain-based system that creates immutable ledgers. It is only possible to reverse an entry on such a system, and that can be time-consuming. Fast corrections would be especially critical were blockchain to be used in the securities industry, where trades are conducted at high speed, but where errors, such as assigning a trade to the wrong counterparty could have serious financial consequences.
But it goes against one of blockchain technology's key principals — immutability. The move is controversial to many because blockchain was conceived as an immutable, tamper-proof ledger, which eliminated the need for a centralized authority. However, Accenture insists that immutability is not necessary in permissioned systems because everything is overseen by a single governing authority. We think the success of Accenture's feature will depend on whether or not financial services firms intend to use blockchain for use cases that require flexibility.
The speed of evolving mobile and wearable technology - it is entirely plausible that by 2020 everyone on earth will have a smartphone as a 'swiss army knife' of capabilities and as an Internet platform - this however, shows it will be a lot more.
Shenzhen-based technology company SuperD Technology recently hosted a conference in Beijing, announcing the launch of the world's first full display handset -- a smartphone that integrates 2D, 3D and virtual reality (VR) content display in one piece.
Dubbed the SuperD D1, the phone is recognized as the first of its kind to deploy the concept of a full display mobile phone that can seamlessly switch between 2D, 3D and VR modes.
According to the company, the innovation in creating the solution took place when the Super DVR motion-sensing vision chip was added to the preconfigured GPU of a traditional cellphone, which enhanced the rendering speed of the 3D and VR images through the integration of the 3D/VR algorithm. It resolved the issue of the slow calculation that takes place when reproducing complex images, reduced image latency to a minimum and allowed the creation of corresponding body sensation, resulting in clear and precise images.
Moreover, the technology in the SuperD D1 camera goes beyond the rear dual camera technology applied to traditional smartphones, deploying a front dual camera, with one of the cameras recording the images and the other tracking the exact position of the user's eyes. It allows customization and the simultaneous generation of visual images based on the precise position of the eyes, as well as the interpupillary distance (IPD, or precise distance between the centers of the user's two pupils).
This is another signal of the change in energy paradigm.
The company is testing the trains throughout the next year, and plans to start carrying passengers in Germany in late 2017 or early 2018.
Its only emissions are steam and condensed water.
The world's first CO2-emission-free train powered through hydrogen was unveiled this week in Germany. The Coradia iLint, created by French company Alstom, was presented at the Berlin InnoTrans trade show on Tuesday.
The train's energy comes from combining hydrogen stored in tanks on the train with oxygen in the air. The energy is then stored in lithium-ion batteries.
The train's only emissions are steam and condensed water.
The train also has lower noise levels than diesel trains, emitting only the sound of its wheels on the track and any sounds from air resistance at even its highest speed of 140 kilometers per hour (about 87 miles per hour).
The train has the ability to travel up to 800 kilometers (497 miles) and carry up to 300 passengers; it's the world's first hydrogen passenger train that can regularly operate long journeys.
This picture with this article is really a must see - bring the world up-to-date with 1950s futuristic visions of the future of transportation. The title suffers a bit of hyperbole in that is should be the first motorized boat - human have a very long history of marine transportation that is green.
"Hydrogen is not a fuel but a way of storing energy, Instead of batteries, we fill high-pressure hydrogen tanks and the hydrogen can power our fuel cell and generate electricity."
The €4.2m ($4.72 million) vessel—nicknamed the "Solar Impulse of the Seas"—aims to circumnavigate the globe using only clean power, a feat similar to Solar Impulse 2's historic, solar-powered flight around the world that was completed this past July.
The boat will sail for six years around the world as a floating exhibition and clean energy laboratory, with stops in 50 countries and 101 ports of call.
The multi-hulled catamaran, a former racing vessel that won the 1994 Jules Verne Trophy for the fastest circumnavigation of the world, stands at 30 meters in length and 12.80 meters in width. Its green upgrade is currently in full swing at a shipyard in Saint Malo, France where it awaits installation of 130 square meters of solar panels, two vertical axis wind turbines, two reversible electric motors and electrolysis equipment—all to help produce and store hydrogen onboard.
This is some good news - things can change for the better.
"We can see that the acid pollution in the atmosphere from industry has fallen dramatically since manmade acid pollution took off in the 1930s and peaked in the 1960s and 70s. In the 1970s, both Europe and the United States adopted the 'The clean air act amendments', which required filters in factories, thus reducing acid emissions and this is what we can now see the results of. The pollution of acid in the atmosphere is now almost down to the level it was before the pollution really took off in the 1930s, explains Helle Astrid Kjær.
New research shows that human pollution of the atmosphere with acid is now almost back to the level that it was before the pollution started with industrialisation in the 1930s. The results come from studies of the Greenland ice sheet and are published in the scientific journal, Environmental Science and Technology.
The Greenland ice sheet is a unique archive of the climate and atmospheric composition far back in time. The ice sheet is made up of snow that falls and never melts, but rather remains year after year and is gradually compressed into ice. By drilling ice cores down through the kilometre-thick ice sheet, the researchers can analyse every single annual layer, which can tell us about past climate change and concentration of greenhouse gases and pollutants in the atmosphere.
Here's another marine development pushing the frontier of autonomous drones.
... it doesn't need to be launched and retrieved by a surface support vessel. This means it could depart from and return to shore-based facilities, saving the cost of crewing and operating an accompanying ship. If required, it can automatically rise to the surface at regular intervals, where it will raise a folding antenna to transmit data to its users.
When you hear the name "Boeing," chances are you think of aircraft. The fact is, however, the company has also been developing underwater vehicles since the 1960s. Its latest such creation, the Echo Voyager, is designed to operate autonomously for months at a time.
The 51-foot (15.5-m)-long Voyager joins two other Boeing unmanned undersea vehicles, or UUVs: the 32-ft (9.8-m) Echo Seeker and the 18-ft (5.5-m) Echo Ranger.
Like them, it's designed to autonomously gather data underwater for scientific, military or other purposes. Unlike them, though, it's not limited to missions lasting no longer than two to three days. Instead, thanks to what's simply described as a "hybrid rechargeable power system," it can keep going for months if necessary.
This is more important than it may seem - being able to more fully automate the garment industry - is another step toward mass-customization at near zero-marginal cost. Not to mention transforming another industry's employment history.
Currently, textile industries use specialist machines for clothing manufacture. They sew small sections of garments, weave fabrics and cut material into the right shape. But until now, no machine was able to assemble a clothing item in its entirety. So, Seattle-based web developer Jonathan Zornow have created a sewing robot. This robot is also known as sewbo robot. This sewbo robot can sew together a complete item of clothing. It is also able to use a sewing machine and chemically stiffened pieces of material to create basic clothes. For example, T-shirts.
This sewbo robot is designed to create higher quality material in cheap cost.
Sewbo is consist of Universal Robot arm, a traditional sewing machine, and the reusable thermoplastic solution. It has an ultrasonic welder that sew two panels of material together with a hard texture. A water soluble chemical gives hard texture to clothing. Once the t-shirt put together all the robot needs to do is drop it into some hot water and it loosens up.
After that, Sewbo picks them up as one item and feed it into an industrial sewing machine. Means, it is similar to other industrial robots that work with materials like sheet metal.
McLuhan has noted that a true artist creates 'anti-environment' in order to reveal the generally invisible environment. For example an true artist fish - would create art the presents 'anti-water' in order for the culture of fish to grasp the nature of water - that is inherently an invisible assumption. This is a fascinating 55 min presentation - well worth the view for anyone wanting to explore the way art and science mirror change in human thinking and culture. The text below the video gives a brief and interesting biography of Dr. Shlain.
Making the assumptions inherent in our deeply held - perhaps almost mythic, values if truly a wicked problem.
Zeitgeist - Art Gender and Physics
Leonard Shlain proposes that the visionary artist is the first member of a culture to see the world in a new way. Then, nearly simultaneously, a revolutionary physicist discovers a new way to think about the world. Escorting the reader through the classical, medieval, Renaissance and modern eras, Shlain shows how the artists' images when superimposed on the physicists' concepts create a compelling fit.
Throughout, Shlain juxtaposes the specific art works of famous artists alongside the world-changing ideas of great thinkers. Giotto and Galileo, da Vinci and Newton, Picasso and Einstein, Duchamp and Bohr, Matisse and Heisenberg, and Monet and Minkowski are just a few of the provocative pairings.
For those who found this interesting - Shlain's website has four other videos here
One of my favorite new science fiction writers is Hannu Rajaniemi who's trilogy 'The Quantum Thief'. If William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' (published in 1984) made the genre of 'cyberpunk' famous before the web was even born, and then Neil Stephenson's 'Snow Crash' (published in 1992 just as the web was born) updated it - then 'The Quantum Thief' brings it into the future of quantum physics and entanglement. I highly recommend his trilogy - but be warned - it takes at least half way through the first book to begin to comprehend what's really going on.
Hannu has also published a book of short stories 'Collected Fiction' - wonderful stories, with beautiful writing and concepts. One of the last stories - 'Snow White', is well worth more investigation - he introduces the story - to explain the science he conducted with a mathematician. This is very exciting - especially as the capabilities of Virtual and Mixed Reality begin to mature and spread. This is a must read for anyone interested in the cutting edge of science, technology and art - his research was conducted with current off-the-shelf gaming hardware.
What if a book could read you?
Neurofiction is a new kind of literary experience, created with the support of New Media Scotland. Neurofiction combines:
off-the-shelf hardware
and customised prose.
Together, these enable stories that change themselves in response to the reader's brain activity.
Each reader, each act of reading, is unique: books speak to our individual memories, associations and experiences. Reading is a two-way process, a delicate tango between the reading brain and the text.
In neurofiction, the story's effect on the reader's brain – electrical activity of their neurons – is captured using an electroencephalography headset. Using an algorithm that learns what themes and elements engage each reader, our neurofiction engine turns this data into a unique path through the story. The reader can be guided to one of multiple possible endings or allowed to explore a new region of the story space.
Note that neurofiction is not interactive fiction: the reader experiences the story as linear, calm and immersive, as if reading a book. But by opening themselves to be read, neurofiction readers become subconscious collaborators in the creation of a new narrative.
Our first fully realised neurofiction piece is Snow White is Dead, recently showcased at the Edinburgh Science Festival, with soundtrack by Carina Namih. It is a modern retelling of the classic fairy tale that leaves the fate of the raven-haired princess in the hands - or the brain - of the reader. Is the apple green or red? Is Snow White alive or dead?
We have open-sourced the software behind neurofiction to encourage innovation. Our neurofiction engine plugs in to emokit, and has a Scala story module that will eventually make it easy for neurofiction developers and authors to tell their stories.
This is a MUST LISTEN - 4 min video the title says it all
Scientists at SONY CSL Research Laboratory have created the first-ever entire songs composed by Artificial Intelligence: "Daddy's Car" and "Mister Shadow".
The researchers have developed FlowMachines, a system that learns music styles from a huge database of songs. Exploiting unique combinations of style transfer, optimization and interaction techniques, FlowMachines composes novel songs in many styles.
"Mister Shadow" is composed in the style of American songwriters such as Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and Cole Porter. French composer Benoît Carré arranged and produced the songs, and wrote the lyrics.
The two songs are excerpts of albums composed by Artificial Intelligence to be released in 2017.
And in the same artery here's a 3 min teaser trailer featuring David Brin (who's book Transparent Society is still the best discussion of freedom & privacy in the digital environment that I've ever read). The trailer concerns the next stage of human evolution - evolution that is driven by choice.
For anyone who hasn't heard of the IgNobel prizes - this is worth the read.
Rats in tiny trousers, pseudoscientific bullshit, the personalities of rocks, and Volkswagen's, shall we say, "creative" approach to emissions testing were among the research topics honored by the 2016 Ig Nobel Prizes. The winners were announced last night at a live webcast ceremony held at Harvard University.
For those unfamiliar with the Ig Nobel Prizes, it's an annual celebration of silly science. Or a silly celebration of seemingly dubious science, courtesy of the satirical journal Annals of Improbable Research. The main objective is to honor research that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think. It's all in good fun, and the honorees frequently travel to the ceremony on their own dime to accept their awards.
I generally try to keep Friday Thinking away from overt politics - but this is an interesting piece and the 13 keys developed Professor Allan Lichtman are interesting. The 5 min video is entertaining as well - we are definitely in wild card country (pun intended).
Nobody knows for certain who will win on Nov. 8 — but one man is pretty sure: Professor Allan Lichtman, who has correctly predicted every presidential election since 1984.
When we sat down in May, he explained how he comes to a decision. Lichtman's prediction isn't based on horse-race polls, shifting demographics or his own political opinions. Rather, he uses a system of true/false statements he calls the "Keys to the White House" to determine his predicted winner.
And this year, he says, Donald Trump is the favorite to win.
The keys are 13 true/false questions, where an answer of "true" always favors the reelection of the party holding the White House, in this case the Democrats. And the keys are phrased to reflect the basic theory that elections are primarily judgments on the performance of the party holding the White House. And if six or more of the 13 keys are false — that is, they go against the party in power — they lose. If fewer than six are false, the party in power gets four more years.
Friday Thinking 9 Sept 2016


MIAMI (AP) Brian Beard Jr. scored 23 points with seven rebounds and seven assists and Florida International beat Southern Miss 76-70 on Thursday night.
Bears made 7 of 10 free throws and the Golden Panthers (10-13, 4-6 Conference USA) converted 21 of 35 from the line, only 60 percent, but the Golden Eagles (11-12, 4-6) made just 4 of 11, this coming after Southern Miss had been riding a seven-game streak of 80 percent free-throw shooting or better and ranking second in the conference at 77.5 percent.
Michael Douglas added 15 points, Trejon Jacob 11 and Osasumwen Osaghae 10 for FIU.
Tyree Griffin scored 17 points with 11 assists, one shy of his career high, for his fourth career double-double with Cortez Edwards also scoring 17. Dominic MaGee and LaDavius Draine added 11 each.
An 8-0 run gave FIU a 10-point lead with nine minutes left which they rode to the win.


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Wake County High School Student Competes in Junior Olympics
Omar McBride was the only U.S. high jumper representing Americas
By Janice Lewine
Photo courtesy of the McBride family
Charles "Omar" McBride, a senior at Apex High School, was one of seven U.S. athletes and the only U.S. high jumper representing the Americas in October at the American Association of Athletics Federation's Junior Olympics in Buenos Aires, an international competition. McBride finished ninth in the high jump. He is the reigning national outdoor high jump champion with a personal record of jumping 7¼ feet. Only two other high jumpers in North Carolina's history have been able to clear 7 feet. McBride plans to compete in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association's state track and field championship May 10-11 in Greensboro and says participating in the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles is a long-range goal. He recently signed with Campbell University to compete as a member of the school's track and field team.
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