Information Theory explicitly ignores meaning. Its focus on messages makes it uninformative about their effects. And limits the usefulness of its way of quantifying information.
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“Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it. Such power has evident value — even though the power may be negated by what one does with it.”
What happens when you let a computer determine each child’s personalized curriculum? Math teachers in several schools across America are seeing results through a growing brand of “blended learning.”
New word tools can sometimes avoid old confusions. Let’s use “praxotype,” “cognotype,” and “technomorphic” to see human nature more accurately. Especially to see that we’re the least genetically constrained species ever.
Our reliance on technology is hurting our memories — we load names, dates, and numbers into our smartphones that we cannot recall on our own. However, this offloading of information allows us to free up cognitive space to learn more.
A scathing critique of antidepressant medication, just written by a psychiatrist in Wales, UK, is making waves across Britain and you can expect ripples to reach the U.S. in the coming days.
Up until the 1980s women made up a large part of the computing industry with 37 percent of women graduating with degrees in Computer Science. So, what happened to all the women? Advertising.
“Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that. That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.”
Players are starting to drop out of eSports — complaining of crippling injuries that have halted their careers, which begs the question if eSports needs to reform to support these veterans.
Giving children a fine-arts education is essential to create the kinds of skills necessary for the modern, creative economy, according to UCLA’s Anderson Forecast School of Management.
Meet the man who’s offering the gateway drug to get everyone on board with Elon Musk’s solar-fueled future.
Forums and their members get a bad rap. It isn’t the outdated, troll-happy online cesspool you think it is. It’s a place to find community and support. You may even walk away feeling like a more productive member of society.
There is no direct evidence about what proceeds human consciousness, but there are stories from people who have been pronounced clinically dead.
Game theorists have cracked Texas Hold’em poker by creating an algorithm that bluffs, learns from previous mistakes, and makes smart decisions despite lacking perfect information.
Where previous iterations of wearable technology have relied on gaudiness, Google’s new smart fabric comes with an understanding that innovation doesn’t always need to be flashy.
By analyzing the books, films, and organizations you’ve Liked on Facebook, computers can create a more accurate picture of your identity than your friends, family, or even your spouse can.
Food-journaling apps are a great way to log your eating habits, but so many people stop using them in the first week. Why? Divided social support and calorie counters that favor fast food over a home-cooked meal.
Silicon Valley should be alarmed by a new report on the NSA’s international spying programs, says The Week’s Ryan Cooper. He calls the NSA “the kind of parasite that eventually kills its host.”
The second most-watched TED Talk of all time has been debunked.
In 2012, a “leap second” crashed sites such as Reddit and Yelp. Linux creator Linus Torvalds tells WIRED that we shouldn’t expect that to happen again this June.
We could lose the ability to interpret digital data as software progresses and leaves old ways of coding data behind.
Can the world’s most fantastic and speculative “theory of everything” candidate shed light on the Universe’s most invisible objects? “I just think too many nice things have happened in string […]
Why do we prefer Mr. or Ms. Okay over Mr. or Ms. Perfect? A deeply rooted evolutionary bias propels us to take the surest route to passing on our genes.
The ability to send an emotion — a feeling — to someone a world away may not be a thing of the future anymore. Researchers have found they can stimulate different emotions by blowing air onto certain parts of your hand.
Various computer science and theology experts have sounded off on how religion will impact (or be impacted by) the rise of smarter-than-human artificial intelligence.
Automation is on the rise in areas previously regarded as beyond the reach of machines.
Online learning has set the stage for the start of democratized education, but some argue that total equality is still a long way off.
As NASA researchers strive to create training programs for future Mars missions, the lessons they learn have implications for other forms of training here on Earth.
Massive data centers in the world require massive amounts of energy, not just for processing power, but also for cooling. While big companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are looking into a variety of ways to make the cooling process greener, one particularly clever solution is coming from a Dutch startup called Nerdalize.
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.”