You Can Easily Learn 100 TED Talks Lessons In 5 Minutes Which Most People Need 70 Hours For The other week I watched 70 hours of TED talks; short, 18-minute talks given by inspirational leaders in the fields of Technology,Entertainment, and Design (TED). I watched 296 talks in total, and I recently went through the list of what I watched, weeded out the crappy and boring talks, and created a list of the 100 best things I learned ! This article isn’t entirely about productivity, but I guarantee you’ll learn a thing or two. Here are 100 incredible things I learned watching 70 hours of TED talks last week! Productivity 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Here are three other productivity experiments I’ve done recently: Meditating for 35 hours over 7 days; using my smartphone for only an hour a day for three months; living in total reclusion for 10 days. More TED Talks lessons: Speak like a Pro- 15 lessons learned from watching TED TALKS Becoming a better human 23, 24, 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39. 40, 41. 42.
This Is the First Anti-Drone Weapon Designed for Use in the United States To deal with unwanted drones flying around, several people around the United States have been making do with shotguns. But now there’s a weapon specifically designed to knock drones out of the sky without totally destroying them. The Battelle DroneDefender is a thoroughly dystopian looking gun-type gadget that uses targeted radio pulses to neutralize in-flight drones and force them to land or hover. “The system works by disrupting radio control frequencies between the drone and the pilot,” Dan Stamm, who developed the DroneDefender, told me. Image: Battelle Though other companies have tried to make drone-neutralizing devices before, this is the first device I’ve seen that is able to knock it out of the sky without purposefully damaging it, a capability that police and security guards have wanted for years. Stamm says Battelle developed the device totally in-house and already has several federal agencies lined up to potentially purchase it once it becomes available next year.
'Fear and Loathing…' seen by Google's AI is your nightmare Imagine no more! The video above shows you what it can produce in horrifying detail. Deep Dream feeds images through its artificial neurons, enhancing features as it goes. That leads to highly distorted and morphed visions. The Deep Dream code is publicly available and Roelof Pieters aka Graphific on GitHub has provided instructions on how to apply it to video. You’ll also find a really good repository of information and tips on how to use Deep Dream over at roiling mass of angry complaining and occasionally useful stuff called Reddit. ➤ Deep Dream Video [GitHub via Gizmodo] Read next: Google AI research features a chilling chatbot who hates children
8 math talks to blow your mind Mathematics gets down to work in these talks, breathing life and logic into everyday problems. Prepare for math puzzlers both solved and unsolvable, and even some still waiting for solutions. Ron Eglash: The fractals at the heart of African designs When Ron Eglash first saw an aerial photo of an African village, he couldn’t rest until he knew — were the fractals in the layout of the village a coincidence, or were the forces of mathematics and culture colliding in unexpected ways? Here, he tells of his travels around the continent in search of an answer. How big is infinity? Arthur Benjamin does “Mathemagic” A whole team of calculators is no match for Arthur Benjamin, as he does astounding mental math in the blink of an eye. Scott Rickard: The beautiful math behind the ugliest music What makes a piece of music beautiful? Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness The world is based on roughness, explains legendary mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot.
Des robots qui imitent les muscles Un texte d'Alain Labelle L'équipe du Laboratoire de robotique reconfigurable de l'EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) explique que ses « soft robots » entrent en mouvement par injection d'air et peuvent être produits à grande échelle. Les robots sont composés d'élastomères comme le silicone. Leurs moteurs sont inspirés des muscles et leur corps est composé de plusieurs « ballons ». Matthew Robertson et ses collègues ont même développé un modèle qui permet de prédire et de contrôler précisément le comportement mécanique de ces machines. Outre la réhabilitation des patients, ces robots peuvent aussi servir à : Manipuler des objets fragilesAssister des personnes à mobilité réduite dans leurs tâches Les travaux des chercheurs, publiés dans Nature - Scientific reports, montrent qu'il est possible de prédire précisément les mouvements d'une gamme de modules, dont la structure est faite de compartiments et de chambres placées en sandwich.
Innovation Bots Powered with Artificial Intelligence and Big Data | Oriol Ribera How the Mind Works: 10 Fascinating TED Talks How memory works, what visual illusions reveal, the price of happiness, the power of introverts and more… 1. Peter Doolittle: How “working memory” works “Life comes at us very quickly, and what we need to do is take that amorphous flow of experience and somehow extract meaning from it.” In this funny, enlightening talk, educational psychologist Peter Doolittle details the importance — and limitations — of your “working memory,” that part of the brain that allows us to make sense of what’s happening right now.” 2. “What motivates us to work? Behavioral economist Dan Ariely presents two eye-opening experiments that reveal our unexpected and nuanced attitudes toward meaning in our work.” 3. “Why do people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or hear demonic lyrics in “Stairway to Heaven”? Using video and music, skeptic Michael Shermer shows how we convince ourselves to believe — and overlook the facts.” 4. 5. 6. “Can happiness be bought? 7. 8. 9. 10.
Intelligence artificielle : un bouton de panique contre le syndrome Hal Vous vous souvenez de Hal, cette intelligence artificielle paranoïaque du film de Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey? Vous vous rappelez l’angoisse que cet ordinateur de bord installe à l’intérieur du Discovery One en éradiquant méthodiquement chacun des trois humains qui, après avoir découvert des anomalies dans son système, cherchent à le désactiver pour ne pas mettre en péril la mission? Et bien, même si tout ça relève encore et toujours de la science-fiction, Google travaille activement à empêcher que le «syndrome Hal» ne s’incarne un jour dans le quotidien d’un monde où l’intelligence artificielle est appelée à prendre de plus en plus de place. Comment? Pour les deux hommes, l’avènement d’intelligences artificielles dans la vie quotidienne des humains impose la création d’un «bouton rouge» utilisable uniquement par un agent humain pour prévenir et «interrompre des séquences d’actions néfastes pour la machine tout comme pour son environnement», écrivent-ils sobrement.
Facebook testing ‘Moneypenny’ human-powered digital assistant, reports say | Technology Facebook is testing a service called “Moneypenny” that connects users of its Messenger chat app to real people for product-buying advice, according to reports. Rather than being a virtual assistant similar to Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, Amazon’s Alexa or Google Now, Moneypenny is apparently powered by humans, similar to a concierge system. The service is being tested within Facebook’s Messenger app, which has recently been broken away from the core Facebook social network experience to create a separate messaging system and secondary platform that can be used without a Facebook account. It is likely to form part of the social network’s push to capture users outside its ecosystem, as illustrated by its purchase of WhatsApp and other apps and services, including photo-sharing service Instagram. According to the Information, Facebook is currently testing the system internally, which is designed to aid in the researching and ordering of products.
Introducing the TED All-Stars: 50+ classic speakers TED2014 will bring together more than 70 speakers with fresh thinking on topics as diverse as leadership, genetics and the magic of fireflies. But this is our 30th anniversary conference, and it’s also time to look back at some of the incredible ideas surfaced in the past. At TED2014, we will hold five All-Stars sessions that bring 50+ favorite TED speakers back to the stage. To create this powerhouse speaker lineup, we reached out to the TED community and asked: who do you want to see return to TED2014? Session 1, “Planet Dearth,” hosted by Kathryn Schulz Session 2, “Beauty and the Brain,” hosted by Guy Raz Session 3, “Where are We Now? Session 4, “I Heart Design,” hosted by Chee Pearlman. Session 5, “The Future is Ours,” hosted by Helen Walters Want to hear these speakers live? Starting March 17, follow TED2014 on the TED Blog » Be a part of our next conference, TEDGlobal 2014, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in October »