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I am sure everybody knows the feeling when you get stuck in a traffic jam.  No need to say this is becoming a huge problem.
Why are there traffic jams ?  Is it possible to prevent them ?
What is a traffic jam ?
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Ben Goertzel tweeted the following 3 tweets today :

Option A: you are tortured (with no permanent damage) and then the memory of the torture is erased.
Option B: you are not tortured and then a false memory of torture is programmed into your brain.
Which do you choose, A or B?

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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Google Technology Stack
Make your web data dissapear with vanish
Scientists develop nasal spray that improves memory
where are all the robots ?
computer program sketches faces of criminals
University of Southampton scientists develop computer telepathy(youtube)
Talk of Ben Goertzel on the singularity summit 2009
minimizing complexity in user interfaces
how to demo twitter
did dragons exist ?
did dragons exist (II)

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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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Where is your soul located ?
(my working synonyms of soul : self, consciousness, spirit, identity).
First, and obvious answer : in your head.
According to Douglas Hofstadter in &#8220;I&#8217;m a strange loop&#8221; this is not entirely true.
Explanation :
1. what is my soul : a whole bunch of patterns in my brain (linked, hierarchical &#8220;thoughts&#8221;, patterns representing concepts). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zyxo.wordpress.com&blog=2414738&post=1957&subd=zyxo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data mining and other forms of analytics have one primary goal : making invisible paterns visible.  The information is in the data, but it is invisible for you if you are not a &#8220;Homo analyticus&#8221;.
Some examples :

 the most significant changes in employee’s behavior (a &#8220;hidden&#8221; pattern change) occurred one month prior to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zyxo.wordpress.com&blog=2414738&post=1940&subd=zyxo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human evolution : amazingly fast !</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who said there that humans stopped evolving because their technical means took over the necessity ?

Steve Jones (here)
Eric Bruce (here)
Steven Pinker (here)


Apparently this is not true !
It seems that on the contrary since humans started spreading over the entire world some 50,000 years ago their evolution speed shifted to a higher gear.
Some examples of evolution [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zyxo.wordpress.com&blog=2414738&post=1912&subd=zyxo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web 5.0 : computer telepathy ?</title>
		<link>http://zyxo.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/web-5-0-computer-telepathy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Telepathy on the Horizon: New Interface Allows Brain-to-Brain Communication&#8221;


Is that so ?
I thought not.
First of all, if you did not read about it or saw the video, it is a good time to do it now : (article, video)
What did they do ?
They connected brain A (a person who was thinking &#8216;lift left arm, lift [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zyxo.wordpress.com&blog=2414738&post=1899&subd=zyxo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Link list for september 2009</title>
		<link>http://zyxo.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/link-list-for-september-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is my link list for september 2009.
Enjoy reading (but don&#8217;t forget to take a look at my own writings too  )
Evolution of Darwin&#8217;s &#8220;on the origin of species&#8221;
Eleven carbon removal projects to stop global warming
Sustainable fertilizer : urine and wood ash, to grow big tomatoes.
Cities are organized like human brains
10 Awesome Websites That [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zyxo.wordpress.com&blog=2414738&post=1814&subd=zyxo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Data Mining : What is a good lift ?</title>
		<link>http://zyxo.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/data-mining-what-is-a-good-lift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zyxo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data mining]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; ever modeled the lift of a targeting model ?
In a previous post &#8220;Data mining for marketing campagns : interpretation of lift&#8221; I discussed the  factors that influence de lift of a targeting model.  Apart from the quality of the model, the lift is theoretically also influenced by
-  the natural return = [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zyxo.wordpress.com&blog=2414738&post=1860&subd=zyxo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a good data miner ?</title>
		<link>http://zyxo.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/are-you-a-good-data-miner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zyxo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tough question.  What is a good data miner ?

One way of finding out is to look at the job descriptions, for example this one : Credit Suisse Data Miner Job Description
M.George distinguished five areas of expertise necessary to be a good data miner :

techniques : to be able to do it
analytics : to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zyxo.wordpress.com&blog=2414738&post=1837&subd=zyxo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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