Four short links: 1 January 2016
Is Caffeine a Cognitive Enhancer? (PDF) — Two general mechanisms may account for most of the observed effects of caffeine on performance: (1) an indirect, non-specific ‘arousal’ or ‘processing...
View ArticleFour short links: 19 January 2016
Spermbots — Researchers from the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences at IFW Dresden in Germany have successfully tested tiny, magnetically-driven power suits for individual sperm that can turn them...
View ArticleFour short links: 21 January 2016
Big Bang Data: Networks of London (YouTube) — guide to the easy-to-miss networks (fibre, CCTV, etc.) around Somerset House, where an amazing exhibition is about to launch. The network guide is the...
View ArticleFour short links: 16 February 2016
Washers and Screws (YouTube) — this chap is making his own clock from scratch, and here he is making his own washers and screws. Sometimes another person’s obsession can be calming. (via Greg...
View ArticleFour short links: 29 February 2016
Learning Models for Robot Decision Making (YouTube) — a talk at the CMU Robotics Institute. Brain Modem — a tiny sensor that travels through blood vessels, lodges in the brain and records neural...
View ArticleFour short links: 2 March 2016
An Adaptive Learning Interface that Adjusts Task Difficulty based on Brain State (PDF) — using blood flow to measure cognitive load, this tool releases new lessons to you when you’re ready for them....
View ArticleFour short links: 10 March 2016
Crossword-Solving Neural Networks — Hill describes recent progress in learning-based AI systems in terms of behaviourism and cognitivism: two movements in psychology that effect how one views learning...
View ArticleFour short links: 21 March 2016
Ten More Years! — my brand spanking new chip card from a UK issuer not only arrived with a 2000s app of a 1990s implementation of a 1980s product (debit) on 1970s chip, it also came with a 1960s...
View ArticleFour short links: 5 April 2016
cello — home page for the Verilogish programming language to design computational circuits in living cells. Internet of Bricked Discontinued Things (BusinessInsider) — Shutting down Revolv does not...
View ArticleFour short links: 15 April 2016
How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time (PDF) — Hal Varian’s article is to economics research what The Manual by the KLF is to pop music. Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? (Scientific...
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