Humans have been trying to quantify consciousness for at least as long as there have been written records and, likely, this search for understanding predates written records.
This is an area where recent advances in math and AI research starts shedding new light on an old topic. In this TEDx talk, Max Tegmark explores the notion of consciousness as an emergent mathematical pattern.
By now, you have likely heard of the “Yanny vs. Laurel” debate that has gone viral lately.
Here are two videos that explain the science behind the confusion.
Frank’s World TV is back and it’s now available on LinkedIn as well as YouTube.
Watch the video below to get a look at the Azure Data Fest Philly event!
Every year since PDC09, I had dug up some code that I had originally wrote in 2009, patched it to grab the latest developer event, and then forget about it for another year.
A few years ago, I uploaded a CLI based tool to GitHub that would download sessions from the Build 2015 conference. In 2016, I added parameters to make it grab all items on Channel9 with an Event RSS feed. In 2018, I encountered some issues: first with the RSS feed then with some other oddities stemming from the previous approach, which had more or less in place since 2009.
You can grab the code on GitHub and get all the Build 2018 sessions, change the parameters to grab content from other events, and even contribute some code to add features you’d like to see added.
SessionDownloader.exe C:\Downloads\ https://s.ch9.ms/Events/Build/2018/RSS
SessionDownloader.exe C:\Downloads\ https://s.ch9.ms/Events/Build/2017/RSS
SessionDownloader.exe C:\Downloads\Audio\ https://s.ch9.ms/Events/Build/2016/RSS mp3
Ray Kurzweil is an author, computer scientist, inventor, futurist and a director of engineering at Google.
Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology.
In this video, he ponders what the far side of computer science looks like: Computronium
If my previous post had you wondering about how drones can be put to work to help people, then check out this video from BBC Click covering the Drones for Good competition in Dubai.
In this video from DJI, learn how drones can help improve the lives of farmers and find another reason to buy one. 🙂
Frank and Andy are in the same place for the first time in a while and they have a special announcement: the show has reached 50,000 downloads in just under one year.
Thank you for supporting the show.
You rock!
Press the play button below to listen here or visit the show page at DataDriven.tv
Christian Wade joined Adam Saxton to discuss Incremental Refresh with Power BI Premium. You can use Incremental Refresh with Power BI Premium to take your dataset beyond 1GB and avoid failures such as timeouts.
I’ve long been a fan of integrating maps into applications, especially given how easy it is to get started. But there’s a lot more to mapping than just figuring out where the nearest Starbucks is.
Learn about the cartography design process as well as the robust data behind the curtains.
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