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Computer Programming for All: A New Standard of Literacy (via courtenaybird)
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Reblogged from expose-the-light
1. No Breakfast
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level.This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.
2. Overreacting
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.
3. Smoking
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.
4. High Sugar consumption
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.
5. Air Pollution
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.
6. Sleep Deprivation
Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain
7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with the head covered, increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.
8. Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.
9. Talking Rarely
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain.
10. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.
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Photographers always talk about perspective. It doesn’t get more perspective than this: first ever photo of the Earth and the Moon in the same frame, 1977. Taken by Voyager 1.
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The brain can unconsciously ‘decide’ to suppress negative information to minimize anxiety or mental discomfort, according to a new study.
Just as psychologists have previously discovered that people who are bilingual and subconsciously access their first language when they are reading in their second language, the latest findings suggest that the brain unconsciously shuts down the same access to a bilingual person’s native language when it encounters a negative word such as war, discomfort, inconvenience and unfortunate.
UK researcher who conducted the study, published Wednesday in the Journal of Neuroscience, believe that a specific unconscious brain reaction that blocks negative language inputs from reaching the part of the brain where primal reactions interact with higher mental processes by shutting down access to certain forms of knowledge.
This study also shows that all libertarians are batshit insane wankers who deserve to die.
Experts say that people exhibit greater reaction to emotional words and phrases in their first language, explaining why some bilingual parents choose to speak to their children in their native tongue despite being fluent in the language of the country where they reside.
Researchers also point out that anger, swearing or discussing intimate feelings has more power in a speaker’s native language, and emotional information processing is less powerful in the second language compared to the first language.
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In the earliest days of computing, the game of chess represented a challenge to the science and research community who sought to explore the calculating capabilities of these machines. Chess, while a very structured and focused game, requires a certain level of intelligence that some humans never master.
IBM took on this challenge and Friday May 11, 2012 marks the 15 year anniversary of Deep Blue, IBM’s chess-playing computer, and its victory to become a world chess champion.
Deep Blue was a highly powerful computer that was programmed to solve the complex, strategic game of chess. But IBM’s goal behind Deep Blue was a much grander challenge - it enabled researchers to discover and understand the limits of massively parallel processing and high performance computing.
Deep Blue’s legacy can be found in the way computer systems are used to automate and help humans with their decision making in tackling tough problems. If Deep Blue could explore up to 200 million possible chess positions per second, then couldn’t this deep computing capability be used to help society handle the kinds of complex calculations required in areas such as drug development, financial risk assessment, and extensive data mining? Deep Blue proved that industry could tackle these issues with smart algorithms and sufficient computational power.
Ultimately, the creation of Deep Blue helped pave the way for new kinds of advanced computers and breakthroughs such as IBM Blue Gene and IBM Watson. IBM Blue Gene, when it was introduced in 2004, demonstrated the next grand challenge in computing and was both the most powerful supercomputer and the most efficient, but it was built to help biologists observe the invisible processes of protein folding and gene development. Deep Blue was also one of the earliest experiments in supercomputing that propelled IBM to become a market leader in this space to this day.
15 years on the world has seen epic growth in the volume and variety of data that is being generated by the planet, so much so that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. Continuing along the trajectory of using science and technology to tackle challenges such as making sense of the trillions of bytes of data in our world and mining it for information and knowledge, IBM developed IBM Watson. IBM Watson can hold the equivalent of about one million books worth of information. Yet its significance was not solely the amount of information it could process, but a new generation of technology that uses algorithms to find answers in unstructured data more effectively than standard search technology, while also understanding natural language. The promise of IBM Watson is being explored by industry today - as an online tool to assist medical professionals in formulating diagnoses and simplifying the banking experience by analyzing customer needs in the context of vast amounts of ever-changing financial, economic, product and client data.
Deep Blue can be thought of as the earliest pioneer in a new era of computing, laying the groundwork for a generation of computers and software that do more than compute – they will be able to sense, learn and predict – what can be termed as the cognitive era of computing. These smart machines and systems will be better equipped to handle the vast amounts of data now pervading our society and make sense of it to solve the latest challenges in our world, whether its predicting outages across the grid, to exploring the origins of the universe etc.
