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Comment Re:What's going on? (Score 1) 80

by aftab14 on Thursday April 01, 2010 @05:49PM (#31703224) Attached to: Garage Startup Develops "Personal Computer"

It took me time to realize this is "April Fool's Day." Dear editor, please warn members because it's quite frustrating to realise much later on that it's April Fool's day. Now I do not know which story to believe.

The story has been posted on 'Friday April 02, @01:58AM' on /. and the TFA has been posted on March 22, 2010. So, 'April Fool's day' joke does not apply to this article, IMHO.

Submission + - MIT says 'A unified theory of AI' found 1

Submitted by aftab14 on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @03:18AM

aftab14 writes: From the news source:

“What’s brilliant about this (approach) is that it allows you to build a cognitive model in a fantastically much more straightforward and transparent way than you could do before,” says Nick Chater, a professor of cognitive and decision sciences at University College London. “You can imagine all the things that a human knows, and trying to list those would just be an endless task, and it might even be an infinite task. But the magic trick is saying, ‘No, no, just tell me a few things,’ and then the brain — or in this case the Church system, hopefully somewhat analogous to the way the mind does it — can churn out, using its probabilistic calculation, all the consequences and inferences. And also, when you give the system new information, it can figure out the consequences of that.”

News url: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/ai-unification.html

Comment Re:Less, not more! (Score 1) 197

by aftab14 on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @02:09AM (#31082510) Attached to: Google To Challenge Facebook Again

Presumably there will be an opt out?

One can turn it off if he/she doesn't liket it. You can find the 'turn off buzz' option at the bottom of your Gmail account (between Gmail view options of 'turn off chat' and 'older version').

Patient "Roused From Coma" By a Magnetic Therapy 123

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @01:36PM from the this-is-why-pole-reversal's-a-good-thing dept.

missb writes "Could the gentle currents from a fluctuating magnetic field be used to reverse the effects of traumatic brain injury? New Scientist reports on a patient in the US who was in a coma-like state, but can now speak very simple words after being given transcranial magnetic stimulation. This is the first time TMS has been used as a therapy to try and rouse a patient out of a coma."

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