I’ve received today this email (I receive quite often such emails since I am also interested- rather actively, I’d like to think- in Applied Mathematics). I put in bold what is the most interesting thing for my purpose here (I won’t search for the rank or reputation of this journal below etc.
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How to (and how not to) praise (your) kids
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.
→ Read more 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).
→ Read more The happiest man
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).
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