I certainly agree with the conclusions of this interesting article in the New York Magazine (overviewing a few dozen recent studies on the topic): praising the effort rather than the intelligence or, even better formulated, praise needs to be specific.
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D-Wave’s Orion: The first practical quantum computer
It still doesn’t work properly, but well, it is a start. I am optimistic and I think it’s a matter of 5-10 years (not half a century as some think!) to get it to solve all existing Sudoku puzzles in seconds, for instance (although there are much more important things one could do with a quantum computer than solve Sudoku…).
→ Read more On Larry Page’s address at the AAAS Annual Meeting 2007 and more from that event
Excerpts from Larry Page’s address at the AAAS Annual Meeting of this year are in the third part of this recent Science podcast (in .mp3 format) from the 17th of February (his talk starts from around min 14 in the podcast).
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An interesting material/ interview in The Independent about/with Matthieu Ricard, author of ‘Happiness: A Guide To Developing Life’s Most Important Skill’ and arguably the happiest man alive (at least according to the conclusions of research done by top neuroscientists at the University of Wisconsin).
→ Read more Rubinstein’s “Freak-Freakonomics”
This is an interesting 6-page “review” of Levitt and Dubner’s “Freakonomics”, by Ariel Rubinstein (it is probably the most negative among the reviews of this book, that I’ve read so far).
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