MilkyWay@home
The Turing Test
First published Wed Apr 9, 2003; substantive revision Wed Jan 26, 2011 The phrase “The Turing Test” is most properly used to refer to a proposal made by Turing (1950) as a way of dealing with the question whether machines can think. According to Turing, the question whether machines can think is itself “too meaningless” to deserve discussion (442). However, if we consider the more precise—and somehow related—question whether a digital computer can do well in a certain kind of game that Turing describes (“The Imitation Game”), then—at least in Turing's eyes—we do have a question that admits of precise discussion. The phrase “The Turing Test” is sometimes used more generally to refer to some kinds of behavioural tests for the presence of mind, or thought, or intelligence in putatively minded entities. The subsequent discussion takes up the preceding ideas in the order in which they have been introduced. 1. Turing (1950) describes the following kind of game. 2.
SETI@home
Future proof » Tim’s laptop service manuals
Have you come to this webpage looking for Toshiba laptop service manuals? Please read this. Introduction In the same vein as in my driver guide, I’ve started finding laptop service manuals and hosting them on my site. They generally detail the exact list of parts in each model of laptop – often down to individual screws, if you happen to have lost some and need to know the exact size for a replacement – and describe the procedure for disassembling and reassembling the entire machine, including panels, RAM, wireless cards, keyboards and touchpads and LCD screens, all the way down to the motherboard itself. They’re difficult to find – you have to know where to look in their support site, or come up with the right Google search string, or beg and steal from someone you know in the industry. This page, and indeed my whole site, has no ads. Practical stuff Firstly, I do not claim ownership, authority or copyright of anything here on this page. Organisation Some of these files are quite large.
The Milky Way Project
Galaxy Zoo: Hubble
Astronomie Citoyenne : le Projet Zooniverse
L’Univers est composé de milliards de galaxies chacune abritant des milliards d’étoiles et de planètes. L’exploration du cosmos est l’exemple même d’une tâche fastidieuse. Sur le site de science participative Zooniverse, des chercheurs associent des amateurs au traitement et à l’analyse de leurs données. Ils proposent aux internautes de classifier des galaxies, de détecter de nouvelles exoplanètes ou d’analyser les cratères lunaires et les éruptions solaires. Depuis peu, Zooniverse a été rejoint par des projets d’autres disciplines : Old Weather, WhaleFM, Ancient Lives. Aujourd’hui, vous pouvez choisir de vous joindre aux efforts des scientifiques du climat, des spécialistes de la sociologie des orques ou à la traque de signes de vie extraterrestre. Une galaxie spiralée - Credit : Hubble data : NASA, ESA, and A. Les mouvements des « citizen science » prennent de plus en plus d’ampleur sur Internet. (Left) Barred spiraled galaxy - Credit : P. (right) Elliptical galaxy - Crédit : M.
Zooniverse Project Blogs
L'astronomie citoyenne pour sauver l'humanité - Nouvelles technos
Avec Internet, de plus en plus de programmes de recherche scientifique associent des amateurs éclairés à leurs travaux. Un site propose même à tous les volontaires d'analyser les millions de données fournies par un observatoire d'astronomie. L'objectif : découvrir une autre planète Terre. Et si vous, internautes, pouviez contribuer à découvrir ce que les astronomes du monde entier cherchent depuis des années : une autre « Terre », à savoir une planète potentiellement habitable ? Grâce à un tout nouveau site participatif - www.planethunters -, tous les internautes ont la possibilité d'aider les chercheurs à découvrir de nouvelles planètes extrasolaires. C'est à dire ? Welcome to Planet Hunters from The Zooniverse on Vimeo. Planethunters.org a été créé dans le cadre de du projet zooniverse, un portail de science citoyenne, extension du projet original Galaxy Zoo, qui invitait les internautes à classer les galaxies. C'est à dire ? Welcome to Planet Hunters from The Zooniverse on Vimeo.
Data Release 1 | The Milky Way Project
We submitted the first Milky Way Project paper to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) in December and the referee has been very kind to us so far. We have our fingers crossed for acceptance soon. Thanks to recent media coverage and some awesome buzz at the recent AAS meeting we decided to go ahead and post our paper to the arXiv yesterday. In addition to the paper, which explains how the catalogue was created from all your bubble drawings, we have also made the data available on the MWP site. Data release 1 (DR1) currently consists of a catalogue of large bubbles, a catalogue of small bubbles and a set of ‘heat maps’ (more on that in a moment). We have also nearly finished the process of cresting our ‘heat maps’. Keep Clicking! All of this doesn’t mean the MWP is over though: far from it. Like this: Like Loading...
