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Interview with Ray Kurzweil
Posted by: yourdailyintake on: June 4, 2009
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At the age of fifteen Ray wrote his first computer program designed to process statistical data. In high school he programmed his computer in a way that it could analyze the patterns in musical
compositions and then compose a new melody from this analysis. In the 80s he built an electronic piano for Stevie Wonder. Later [...]
Musthave Monday: Topobo
Posted by: yourdailyintake on: February 23, 2009
A long time ago, when I was just a little girl, I used to build robots with Lego Mindstorms. I had great fun building robots with sensors on them so they wouldn’t bump into chairs and stuff! I have a picture somewhere of me with one of my robots, sadly, I have no idea where [...]
Large Hadron Collider, anyone?
Posted by: yourdailyintake on: September 13, 2008
So today I went running – Yes, even when it is cold and it rains, do not ask.. -, I did some reading in my philosophy book – Why does my teacher write in such a ‘floaty’ way? Is it because he is from Belgium or because it ís after all philosophy? Maybe it is [...]
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- hangten: Have a look at an interview with Ray at the Facebook blog, posted Jul
- yourdailyintake: Yes you're totally right that some of his ideas are a bit far-fetched and it's also true that his books have been 'commercialized'. I do think that in
- Adam Mann: While I think some of Kurzweil's ideas are interesting and might come to fruition in a hundred or more years, it is my opinion that his vision of a fu
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