A lil old news, but certainly very important one... Image a robot which does not need any human supervision, no manual energy needs, can survive in the wild.. Scary thought, huh! Well, cientists at the University of the West of England (UWE) have designe...
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Putting Man on the Moon….
Perhaps the biggest achievement of man ever was putting man on the moon. I am not talking about the event itself but the abstract idea of the ability of a thinking machine (man) to surprise his future (us) to the grandest extent possible.
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Artificial Neural Network to judge beauty?
Hi All,
Artificial Neural Networks have been trained to detect faces. However, is it possible to train a network to pass a judgement on how beautiful a face is? It can rate a face on some scale, say 1-10.
Secondly, can ANNs be trained to di...
Make BioBombs at Home
Here is an interesting article titled [URL=http://paulboutin.weblogger.com/stories/storyReader$1439]"Biowar for dummies"[/URL]. The author claims that with DNA hacking getting easier and cheaper, terrorists can make dangerous-than-nukes bombs without t...
A robot powered by Biology
This is a true example of biohacking and hopefully researches like this will continue to exploit biology for its complexity and flexibility.
Now to actual story. ""The Physarum polycephalum slime, which naturally shies away from light, controls ...
One Gene -> One Polypeptide theory is wrong..
What I believed that one gene codes for just one polypeptide seems to be incorrect. I am reading the book Intelligent Bioinformatics where AI techniques relevant for bioinformatics are discussed. In the preliminary chapters, the author says that the bele...
Explore sourcecode in Python
Ultimately, I have decided to release the code for my algorithm [URL=http://www.paraschopra.com/articles/explore/explore.php]Explore[/URL]. The main objective of this algorithm is to optimize a function or to search for a solution in a finite ‘nââ...
The Paradox of Intelligence
Yesterday, I was thinking that almost all approaches to Artificial Intelligence attempt to silumate parallelization. Be it neural networks, Genetic Algorithms, Searching methods, etc. All attempt to simulate techniques which depend upon parallelization....
Protein Structure Prediction using Neural Networks
Presently, I am coding a neural network for protein secondary structure prediction. Initially, I thought of predicting contact maps..... Presently, I am coding a neural network for protein secondary structure prediction. Initially, I thought of predicti...
An Idea: Spam Detection using DNA
I have an idea of Spam detection using DNA (Hybridization or Sequence Alignment).... I have an idea of Spam detection using DNA (Hybridization or Sequence Alignment). Like represent each english alphabet by a codon. Lets say we represent 'a' by AUG an...