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Oct 8 2024 Original Post - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that neural network science pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2024. The two researchers are cited for “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” The Nobel award is a capstone of sorts for two premier researchers in neural networks. This computer technology has gained global attention in recent years as the underpinning engine for large-scale advances in computer vision, language processing, prediction and human-machine interaction. John Hopfield is best known for efforts to re-create interconnect models of the human brain. At the California Institute of Technology in the 1980s, he developed foundational concepts for neural network models. These efforts led to what became known as a Hopfield network architecture. In effect, these are simulations that work as associative memory models that can...

 

  Lina Khan, former FTC Chair AI acceleration has widened the gap between technology and policy. In my view, the first crack in that gap occurred with the 1996 dismantling of the Office of Technology Assessment in favor of corporate self-governance. The OTA used to be a go-to source for good sense -- what the world needs now. This and more is discussed in my Medium post, 'Heading AI Exceptionalism Off at the Pass: Khan at Atlanticpalooza.' And yes, it takes a look into that recent Atlantic podcast with Lina Khan, the tech billionaires' most dreaded regulator and critic. https://jackivaughan.medium.com/heading-ai-exceptionalism-off-at-the-pass-khan-at-atlanticpalooza-0ac0b914155c

  AI generated by Geminini When memory and reality cross-pollinate, you are experiencing a case of cryptomnesia (specifically, source amnesia). Cryptomnesia happens when a memory from your past is stored away without your conscious awareness of where it came from. Years later, that memory resurfaces, but because your brain forgot the original context (such as watching Fantastic Voyage at the golden rondelle - 3 years after theatrical release - introduced by you girl friend in a air stewardess uniform of lime green or seeing a pop-culture still in Life or staring at a Fillmore poster still as a teen), it feels entirely novel. It is a remarkably common phenomenon —like Raquel Welch trapped in a skintight wetsuit being attacked by microscopic antibodies inside a human body. Hollywood, 1966

  President Trump declared on Truth Social this morning that 'The Moon is ours.' The implication is that the Moon is a sovereign territory of the United States of America, which is great news for Elon's lunar data center. pic.twitter.com/SzOIEfResh — Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_) September 6, 2026

Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin had the Jesuits’ questioning stance in great measure. He taught science and sought to reconcile it with religion — not always a favored stance in Vatican City and beyond. He promoted concepts of evolutionary science, which were only slowly accepted by the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. His notions were such that it wasn’t difficult for him to discern trends in scientific discovery that could readily be combined with religious lines of thought. MORE on MEDIUM It's Always Back to the Inverted Cone. AI Generated.

Pure The jeweled maiden squeezing on the giant eagle registration, rendering inked in rivers.   Krishna, Krishna Ever flouting watery maidens saris hanging high in the trees -  vapor skyward. Beaded maid with wavy stare conjures a lemonade. the simplex box says 5 o'clock I'd like to ignite the match factory but instead go home  to dream   https://www.pinterest.com/jackignatius/matchbox-movie/    The original version of this was banned at someone's request in India. This is a fragment reconstruct.    

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  With public health at stake, many Boston hospitals struggle to meet the city’s air pollution goals by Anastasiia Boltkova, Hayes Botnick, Quyen Nguyen and Ying Niu, CommonWealth Beacon July 6, 2026 ON A WEEKDAY MORNING in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area, patients hurry between hospital buildings for appointments. Parents push strollers toward Boston Children’s Hospital. Doctors and nurses rush as ambulances arrive outside the emergency department. At other nearby hospitals, just blocks away, the everyday whir of activity continues: Babies are born, broken bones are mended, and patients with respiratory problems, who are especially vulnerable to the effects of pollution, shuttle to their doctors. Within sight of Boston Children’s Hospital — and many of the other medical facilities — another structure rises above the neighborhood, smoke billowing from its massive chimney. The Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) supplies electricity, steam, and chilled water to Children’s an...

  ALTERNATIVE TITLE: THE POETICS OF UNSEEN SPACE [Courtesy Google Gemini] It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover and effectually to distinguish the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent, because the parts of that immovable space in which these motions are performed do by no means come under the observations of our senses.-Newton Epitomime for more on this - Cut to the chase: Theory was overthrown by Mach and then Einstein. The above is the result of an August vacation many years ago. THIS IS ALL CONVERSATION WITH GOOGLE GEMINI FROM BELOW AND ABOVE, AS LILLY VON SCHTUPEN WOULD SAY. THE CHASE CONTINUES LABOR DAY 2026 - ONE THING I NEVER GET IS THE BARRIER BETWEEN COSMIC AND MICROSCOPIC. ELECTROMAGNETISM WORKS IN THE LATTER. DARK MATTER IN THE FORMER [THEORY]. IT'S NOT JUST DARK MATTER... Gravity still holds the macro together, but our understanding of what generates that gravity underwent a massive shift. Scientists did not discard gravity; instead, the...

  Lunar landers, assemble. In clean rooms across the country, commercial lunar landers are preparing for upcoming missions in support of @NASAMoonBase . pic.twitter.com/FEr3zr7nhU — NASA (@NASA) August 4, 2026

[July 2026] — A recent critique from Zeynep Tufekci suggests that a clearer view on the AI evolution would emerge, if the public can grasp the technology’s reliance on probability and plausibility. Based on its read of most everything available in the digital world, it can guess pretty well at a complete sentence, and even the chain of an argument. But, beginning in 2022, Generative AI’s aha moment also provided a perfect seedbed for misunderstanding — stirring up levels of fear, uncertainty and doubt surpassing past miracle technologies, many of which stirred equal dismay... this-month-in-neurals-or-the-march-of-plausibilit y - Jack Vaughan's Medium blog

When I was babe..father went to Racine to find apt for us. Walking down 6th st to the lake, he was startled when a stranger said 'Good Morning'..he then told my mother "you will find things different here than in Boston!"

"We may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it." — Claude Shannon Claude the AI greeted me with some American style patter. 'Ready to clock in for the evening shift!' it said at 4pm. Then I responded ...  I used to clock in! Simplex! Hey! I'm not quite sure what you mean by that — could you give me a bit more context? Are you talking about a job you used to have, a game, or something else entirely (like the "Simplex" method in math, a band, a product)? Simplex made time clocks Ah, got it — Simplex Time Recorder Company! They were (and still are, in some form) one of the big names in mechanical time clocks — those punch clocks where you'd insert a card and it would stamp the time. Sounds like you're reminiscing about clocking in on one of their machines. What kind of job was that for? I'm always curious about the mechanics of those old punch clocks too — the ka-chunk sound, the i...

July 20, 1969 - I listened via radio, as always. Surprise at night: The moon walk would be televised. Culmination of great effort. But already wondering where attention should focus. Gil Scott Heron had perspecrtive: Whitey's on the Moon. When that fall at Marquette in Public Speaking class assignment to use a visual aid: I white-frosted a Styrofoam cake container and put my brother's little Astronaut figures on top. The surface of the moon was icing on a cake, inside the cake were the flames of war in Asia and riots in cities and starvation in Bangladesh.  I say it was bag mixed with confusion because there was combined great awe and pride - but there was even greater clarity in the view that Earth was in a Tangle. Same is true today, Funnily enough. .. What would Vonnegut say? 'so it goes.' My 2010s remake of the cake is enhanced here thanks to MS Co-Pilot. https://moontravellerherald.blogspot.com/2019/07/50th-anniversary-of-landing-on-moon.html

  Jim Haas invited me to guest DJ on Jim Haas’s Al Compas Del Mundo 1-hr Internet Radio Show , and I did. How can I call this out? Let’s call it Baroque and Hungry! My hit list is included: List Al compás del mundo 241, 7-9-26 - guest DJ Jack Vaughan   01 Pete Seeger - Living in the Country (USA) 02 Afrocubism - Mali-Cuba (Mali, Cuba)   03 Jordi Savall - The Lancashire Pipes-Pigges of Rumsey-Kate of Bardie (España) 04 Chatham Baroque – Fandango (USA)   05 The Staple Singers - Uncloudy Day (USA) 06 Leroy Carr - (In the Evening) When the Sun Goes Down (USA)   07 The Supremes - Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart (USA) 08 Xavier Cugat - Night Must Fall (Mexico)  09 Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata (Sudafrica) 10 Keith Jarrett - No Moon at All (USA)   11 James Brown - Night Train (USA) 12 The Lilly Brothers - Little Annie (USA)   13 Charlie Parker - A Night ...