News & Links
Here are a few more links I’ve read the past days. Some of them are really interesting and useful whereas others are just informational or just posted for the lulz.
- Best eBay auction for now
- Iridium + Cosmos collision details (and some cool photos)
- The use of set_head to defeat the wilderness by g463
- Most Bizarre Experiments Of All Time
- Student Arrested For Classroom Texting
- ARM vs x86
- Zelda chick please contact geekologie
- Satellite-hacking boffin sees the unseeable
- Mathematics: The only true universal language
- Non-Compliant By Design
- 5 Brain-Manipulating Technologies That Prove Dollhouse Exists Right Now
- Yes, Virginia, there is a magenta
- Best train ever.
- Vampire vs. Werewolf Chess Set
Enjoy!
Concerning the article about the universal language and how it would be used for possible communication with alien intelligence, I would also recommend this really enlightening paper by Marvin Minsky, who is an authoritative figure at cognitive science: http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/AlienIntelligence.html
ithilgore said this on February 19, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Thank you ithilgore!
This was a really nice article even though it was written on 1985 and nowadays most of its content can be found on hundreds of references. While reading it I was thinking about the evolution we’ve made on this field since 1977 when Voyager launched with the famous Voyager Golden Record in it. Maybe we’re getting closer and closer to successful communication with extraterrestrial life. (let’s hope so) :)
xorl said this on February 19, 2009 at 2:34 pm