Breaking the Material Mold with Quantum Observations

Paul Collier November 30, 2021

Scientists have discovered a way to unleash a myriad of new property potentials in materials that can be created from simple defects in atomic structures. By observing these defects in nature, they can now study these anomalies and learn to identify the types of unique properties they produce, enabling them, in time, to plan out intentional defect creation to unleash a whole range of new materials with properties we might not even now begin to imagine.

A unique quantum-mechanical interaction between electrons and topological defects in layered materials

From phys.org
2021-11-30 12:42:43

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An international team led by EPFL scientists, has unveiled a unique quantum-mechanical interaction between electrons and topological defects in layered materials that has only been observed in engineered atomic thin layers. The phenomenon can be reproduced by the native defects of lab grown large crystals, making future investigation of Kondo systems and quantum electronic devices more accessible.

The properties of materials that are technologically interesting often originate from defects on their atomic structure. For example, changing the optical properties of rubies with chrome inclusions has helped develop lasers, while nitrogen-vacancy in diamonds are paving the way for applications such as quantum magnetometers. Even in the metallurgical industry, atomic-scale defects like dislocation enhances the strength of forged steel…..

Working with the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses in Grenoble and Toulouse, they accessed some of the world’s most powerful magnets. The collaboration performed experiments up to 34 Tesla in static conditions and with pulses up to 70 Tesla for a few milliseconds.

“My first guess was that it is a new type form of Kondo effect, despite the fact that we did not introduces magnetic species in the crystal,” says Konstantin Semeniuk, a scientist who worked on the study.

“Once we completed our investigation, the result was clear,” says Martino. “The atomically thin defects create a sort of magnetic wall in the material that bounces back some of the electrons that try to cross it. Unraveling the source of the Kondo effect has shown that thermodynamics can make big surprises. We believe there is a lot more to discover in this field, better understanding of atomic-scale defects by electronic microscopy, local magnetic measurements, and new quantum simulations to understand the formation and effect of such defects in layered materials.”

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France First in Europe to Unleash Autonomous Bus on Public Roads

Freedomist Editor November 30, 2021

France approves fully autonomous bus for driving on public roads in a European first

From www.euronews.com
2021-11-30 13:37:36

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A driverless bus in France has become Europe’s first vehicle authorised to operate fully autonomously on a public road.

The driverless EZ10 shuttle, which can carry up to 12 passengers, has been making test runs on a medical campus in the southwestern city of Toulouse since March.

But last week France’s Minister of Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari and Ministry of Ecological Transition approved the bus for use without a human attendant on board.

“This is an important step towards real commercialisation of autonomous driving, both on large private sites, as well as on public roads,” said Benoit Perrin, general manager of the vehicle’s developer, EasyMile.

The authorisation makes EasyMile the first driverless vehicle maker in Europe to be allowed to run an autonomous shuttle among other vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists without on-board supervision on a public road, the company said.

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The War for Liberty Starts with Artificial Intelligence Machines

Paul Collier November 11, 2021

Much of the patterns of consumption that you find yourself being pulled into is the product of a war between competing armies of digital thinktank ninjas creating algorithms designed to splatter your mind with yes or no reflexively, without even having to take one drop of agency of self to make the decision that automatically flows into your being.

The more unaware you are of your own preferences, your own beliefs, and why you have them or hold to them, the more you become the product that is triggered to consume a product. The product is political, social, pleasurable, practical, essential, lifes-saving, indulging. The product is the limited ‘choice’ you are shuttled into making by clever algorithms that spit fire into your screens, even when you’re going to the bathroom.

You become the code itself. You are more than battery, you are the matrix code itself. The battery is the mind captured by your own will to submit to the code outside of you.

You stitch the code with every angry emoji and every long comment convincing another Christian sky daddy idiot that God died when Nietszche made it so. You are the code.

This world that such a soul is trapped inside is created by teams of warring artificial intelligence machines working in deep learning meshness to create and adopt portals and doors to assure the programmed ethics was baked into the whole affair, as in, only the narrative of the machines gets through. We have entered a new age, the age of the deep learning barons, racing to consolidate intellectual potential and lock it behind intellectual property laws, and walls of billionaire-level lawyers, with walls of government agencies with guns willing to back up the words of the courts, where the ownership of thought is declared.

As these machines evolve in efficency, and the best rise in initial and ongoing cost (something far more likely if these machine innovations are locked behind intellectual property walls), lives will be led to favor this or that value at a moment’s notice, where today’s villains are tomorrow’s always has been heroes, where information truly is the reality of the power to create narratives that can easily be flooded into the vast majority of human eyes, on platforms controlled by the few.

IP might have a necessary role in society, but IP that creates monopolies on the use of high-level AI machines by the very, very, very few will put the vast majority of humanity at disadvantages that might be far more profound than anything that has ever come before this. Conversevly, if AI machines can be created through open source so that the most sophisticated machines can still be home-built by almost anyone, then these machines could level the ‘expert’ playing field for humanity, giving those in power new “inspiration” to suddenly rediscover the nobility of a Bill of Rights restricted power, be it civic, market, or social, so long as it occupies public space.

A power disbursed creates ‘liberal” central power, A power concentrated creates tyranny of the very, very, very few over the many, a scenario that the DNC would so wish to see happen as a result of the further development of AI by humanity.

This article from Army Technology is revealing a little more than, perhaps, it would want to reveal to folks like you and me when it exposes that the top concern in business in 2021 has been artificial intelligence. At number two, previously number one, was augmented realty. These potential AI Barons all recognize the potential for consolidation and control, as well as the flip side, the potential for loss of consolidation and control should the small scale enterprises have the same intellectual power as the mega-corps like Alphabet do.

Why is AI an obsession for business insiders?

From www.army-technology.com
2021-11-10 01:56:45
Giacomo Lee
Excerpt:

Business leaders are still worrying about artificial intelligence (AI), but with Facebook pushing hard into the metaverse, augmented reality (AR) has also proven a massive concern for corporate chieftains.

That’s according to analytics firm GlobalData. The company defines a theme as any issue that keeps chief executives awake at night. In a thematic survey published in October 2021, GlobalData gauged the business community’s current sentiment towards emerging technologies that kept executives stirring into the early hours.

The research found that AI was the technology perceived as most disruptive in Q3 2021, regaining its position from AR, which, as Verdict previously reported, held the top spot in the previous quarter.

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MIT Programmed AI Machines Outperform Humans in Teamplay Contest

Mark Clouse November 9, 2021

Artificial Intelligence is capable of doing more in cooperation with other Artificial intelligence than humans are, to the surprise of no one that understands human nature. MIT wanted to make sure they got that obvious fact documented, so they had human Hanabi players battle with AI players, and, yep, the AI players were better teammates than the human ones were, but the humans left the game as individuals and the AI AI players left the game with no sentience whatsoever.

Reinforcement learning frustrates humans in teamplay, MIT study finds

From lifeboat.com
2021-11-07 19:23:09
Dan Kummer
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A new study by MIT Lincoln Laboratory shows Hanabi players are frustrated when teamed up with top-performing reinforcement learning systems.

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The Google Wants Drugs

Ivo Fysic November 8, 2021

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is setting up a new DeepMind to try and find new and awesome wonder drugs the mega-corpo can use to expand its market share to include the drugs you buy at the pharmacy.

Remember, folks, Google is the same company adopting draconian police-state censporship of any voice that counters the preferred narratives of the Democrat Party and the Corporate Woketarian Moral code. Why would we trust a company such as this to be the maker of our drugs, let alone the holder of patents on drugs that might be life-saving for some?

What if Alphabet cancels you from drugs for dead-naming a transgendered woman on Twitter 8 years ago? Think it can’t happen? Think again. #Cancelalphabetpx

Alphabet Chases Wonder Drugs With DeepMind AI Spinoff Isomorphic Labs

From singularityhub.com
2021-11-07 15:00:49
Jason Dorrier
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AI research wunderkind, DeepMind, has long been all fun and games.

The London-based organization, owned by Google parent company Alphabet, has used deep learning to train algorithms that can take down world champions at the ancient game of Go and top players of the popular strategy video game Starcraft.

Then last year, things got serious when DeepMind trounced the competition at a protein folding contest. Predicting the structure of proteins, the complex molecules underpinning all biology, is notoriously difficult. But DeepMind’s AlphaFold2 made a quantum leap in capability, producing results that matched experimental data down to a resolution of a few atoms.

In July, the company published a paper describing AlphaFold2, open-sourced the code, and dropped a library of 350,000 protein structures with a promise to add 100 million more.

This week, Alphabet announced it will build on DeepMind’s AlphaFold2 breakthrough by creating a new company, Isomorphic Labs, in an effort to apply AI to drug discovery.

“We are at an exciting moment in history now where these techniques and methods are becoming powerful and sophisticated enough to be applied to real-world problems including scientific discovery itself,” wrote Demis Hassabis, DeepMind founder and CEO, in a post announcing the company. “Now the time is right to push this forward at pace, and with the dedicated focus and resources that Isomorphic Labs will bring.”

Hassabis is Isomorphic’s founder and will serve as its CEO while the fledgling company gets its feet, setting the agenda and culture, building a team, and connecting the effort to DeepMind. The two companies will collaborate, but be largely independent.

“You can think of [Isomorphic] as a sort of sister company to DeepMind,” Hassabis told Stat. “The idea is to really forge ahead with the potential for computational AI methods to reimagine the whole drug discovery process.”

While AlphaFold2’s success sparked the effort,…

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Meet the Eco-Right, Ready to Save the Planet AND the Individual

Paul Collier November 1, 2021

From Freedomist.com

The issue of global warming as a man-made or nature made phenomena, or even the issue of whether global warming is happening at all, is not necessarily so clearly a left-right issue. At some point, even amidst the dross of bad biased studies and reporting, the truth will out in the scientific community, so much so that people with conservative values are tackling with the problem of global warming as a manmade event as an opportunity to demonstrate the advantages of developing solutions rooted in individual and local rights versus the top-down ideological ‘solutions’ that are currently being offered by the left.

But it’s not just global warming, it’s the notion of being in harmony with the environment, of taking care of the land we live in, of building in sustainable ways with our local environmental reality, that all of these ideas or suppositions are actually better reflected and achieved through conservative, not progressive values.

A whole new movement has emerged that struggles for a label, but, for now, is called simly the eco-right.

From Capitalresearch.org

Rise of the Eco-Right

This is the plight of the “eco-Right,” our name for the few dozen lobbying, litigation, and activist nonprofits that identify themselves as free market or broadly right-of-center and yet are attempting to rebrand environmentalism and global warming ideology as conservative values. In the process, they are threatening to undermine both affordable energy in America and the future of the conservative movement.

The Capital Research Center broke the news on the liberal mega-donors secretly bankrolling leading members of the eco-Right as well as the carbon taxes and other burdensome regulations they propose. In this report, we’ve compiled years of research and reporting to reveal the funders, leadership, and lobbying of the eco-Right, exposing a web of overlapping boards and shared donors—all in service to a destructive and misleading agenda.

Our aim is to equip the reader with the basic tools to understand these groups and their goals so that no one is fooled into believing that consensus-driven science and alarmism are conservative values, however they’re presented.

Amazon’s Unprivate Security Vision for the World

Parker Davis October 5, 2021

Amazon controversial vision for the future of your home security

From www.kcra.com
2021-10-02 22:37:00

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Amazon’s vision for the future of home security includes drones flying over your roof, outdoor cameras that monitor for possible trespassers and cute robots patrolling indoors.During an invite-only press conference on Tuesday, the company showed off an autonomous, 20-pound dog-like robot named Astro with large, cartoon-y eyes on its tablet face and a cup holder. The robot — not unlike an Alexa on wheels — uses voice-recognition software, cameras, artificial intelligence, mapping technology and voice — and face —recognition sensors as it zooms from room to room, capturing live video and learning your habits.Amazon also announced a subscription service called Virtual Security Guard for Ring cameras. Ring, the smart doorbell and camera company it acquired in 2018 for $1 billion, will work with third-party professional monitoring companies, such as Rapid Response, to analyze a live feed from its outdoor cameras. The agents can use the camera’s two-way talk functionality…

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Farms that Scrape the Sky

Parker Davis October 1, 2021

A project is going on in China that no doubt was confirmed by and intended to serve the state, is also a proof of concept that could ultimately benefit the very people states such as China intend to control.

The project is what’s being billed as a farmscaper and is being designed to be centrally controlled, but the concept of building hydropponic, aquaponic, and other types of non-soil-dependent forms of farming on towers is not new. As a matter of fact, I refer to this cocept as the farm tower. The possibilitiy, for instance, with utilizing farm towers to grow your own chemicals and even your own fundamental building materials right next to the processing and manufacturing centers that need them is a game-changer in creating local sustainability and thriving.

Imagine a hospital with farm towners around it that grow plants which can create wide ranges of currently scarce and expensive-to-produce medicines. Imagine a manufacturoing hub that has farm towers beside it which grow the bulk of their raw material needs. These worlds are possible so long as we can create localized versions of what the centralized powers would seek to preserve at the international scale.

These Farms Are Reaching For The Sky Bringing Agriculture Into Cities

From www.intelligentliving.co
2021-09-28 17:59:54

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Most people prefer to spend their time surrounded by nature, and it is good for your health after all. That’s why we see more and more buildings covered in greenery. Foster + Partners’ Marina Tower and Guangming Hub are among them. The tower is Greece’s first green high-rise building and its tallest, reaching 200 meters (656 ft) in height. The hub will include greenery-filled towers, autonomous vehicle technologies, and even virtual reality (VR).

Indeed, the greenery brings nature into cities while offering insulation and shade to the buildings, reducing air-conditioning requirements – but what if they could also provide food? That is precisely what Italy’s Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) has in mind for the “Farmscraper,” which the firm claims could feed up to 40,000 people annually.

The Farmscraper, officially called Jian Mu Tower, would rise to 715 ft (218 m) in Shenzhen, China.

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Pasadena GunFire Detection Monitor Plan Paused by Race Impact Report

Freedomist Curator October 1, 2021

Plans for the city of Pasadena to deploy gunfire detection monitors across the city were paused for one week when the city council paused the contract with contractor ShotSpotter. The plan to deploy was puased on the heels of a report that suggest ‘brown and black’ communities would be disproportionately affected, with police presence only increasing in these communities that are still calling for less of a police footprint, not more.

Contract For Controversial Gunfire Detection Technology Held For One Week – Pasadena Now

From www.pasadenanow.com
2021-09-28 20:08:12

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Courtesy of ShotSpotter Facebook page

The City Council on Monday announced that a proposed contract for technology that uses microphones and sensors to determine the location of gunshots and quickly alerts police will be held for one week.

According to Mayor Victor Gordo, city staff will bring to the council more information on Shotspotter, a system that records loud, impulsive sounds and alerts police in 60 seconds or less about the location of the gunshot. Advocates believe the system could save lives, deter shootings, and prevent the need to investigate non-gunfire-related incidents, such as fireworks…..

Pasadena police Lt. Bill Grisafe said that after analyzing police data, ShotSpotter proposed to cover about a three-square-mile area of Pasadena that is most impacted by gun-related violence.

There was no mention of the specific area being considered.

According to a report to the council’s Public Safety Committee, which passed the matter last week, the Pasadena police intend to deploy ShotSpotter sensors in areas its own analysis shows are “most impacted by gun-related crimes.”

The ACLU claims that reasoning will increase the police footprint in Black and brown communities.

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Facebook Hope for Kid-Targeted Instagram Halted

Parker Davis September 28, 2021

After a report claimed that Facebook’s Instagram was having a deleterious effect on the psyche of teens, preying on their anger, and their sense of body worth thanks to the rise of instagrammodels, the mega corp is halting its development of Instagram for Kids until such time as the eyes of the world are no longer on them. Perhaps Facebook could claim any article or video that suggests this report is valid could be termed “misinformation,” and thus give Facebook full leeway to assure the bad report doesn’t get shared.

Well, maybe not just yet, but, it’s coming. When the mob goes on to the next outrage, Facebook will quietly resume its efforts to commodify the minds of children around the world. Cool. Everyone buckle up, the next few years are gonna be even MORE FUN than the last few.

Facebook pausing development of Instagram for kids after pushback – Fox Baltimore

From foxbaltimore.biz
2021-09-27 13:34:09

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Facebook is putting a hold on the development of a kids’ version of Instagram, geared toward children under 13, to address concerns that have been raised about the vulnerability of younger users.

“I still firmly believe that it’s a good thing to build a version of Instagram that’s designed to be safe for tweens, but we want to take the time to talk to parents and researchers and safety experts and get to more consensus about how to move forward,” said Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, in an interview Monday on NBC’s “Today” show.

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