Interesting Links: June 13, 2019
The brain as a collection of map data structures; A rock-paper-scissors robot that wins 100% of games (by cheating); Exploring the link between creativity and ADHD; People can learn to program an inexpensive robotic arm in 15 minutes; A tribute to Venezuelan composer, Augusto Brandt
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- The Brain Is Full of Maps - In this talk for the edge.org Possible Minds series, Freeman Dyson focuses on the contrast between analog and digital calculations. He elaborates on the 1988 idea from W. Daniel Hillis' Intelligence as an Emergent Behavior; or, the Songs of Eden which suggested that the song is the evolutionary target, and the animals are just the phenotypes. Dyson also suggests that the brain is fundamentally an analog device with specialized components or structures that use digital mechanisms. This suggestion is probably not a surprise for anyone who has read Dyson's, Infinite in All Directions. Dyson's short talk is followed by a discussion that involves a number of edge thinkers (including Stephen Wolfram, David Chalmers, and W. Daniel Hillis, among others). In addition to this article, I highly recommend the Hillis essay.
- Rock Paper Scissors robot wins 100% of the time - 3 years ago, Japanese researchers introduced their robot that always wins at "rock-paper-scissors". It wins through a form of high-tech cheating, by watching the human's hand curvature to learn what the human will do, then moving faster to present the winning choice. h/t Bruce Schneier.
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