Emperor penguin chicks jumping off a 50-foot cliff by National Geographic

Sometimes you just need one to the lead the way. Amazing video of the Emperor’s penguin chicks jumping off a 50-foot cliff. Some of them are forced, but plenty take the dive by free will. What makes them do it? The importance of a committed leader for some or the audacity of the ones without any consciousness :-) Invest 4 minutes of time and enjoy! https://youtu.be/4PwDFddpo4c?si=Si54asdt2DPbpmCf

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El Problema de Gettier - “Is justified belief true knowledge?”

¿Excelente articulo del País sobre el Problema de Gettier, basado en su paper “Is justified belief true knowledge?”. Gettier demuestra que no es suficiente cumplir con las 3 condiciones del conocimiento enumeradas por Platón (para saber algo tenemos de:(i) creer en ello, (ii) la creencia debe ser cierta y (iii) la creencia debe ser justificada) es necesario un poco más. ¡Recomiendo su lectura! https://fitelson.org/proseminar/gettier.pdf?sma=filosofiainutil_2024.04.30_2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=filosofiainutil_2024.04.30_2 https://m.newsletter.elpais.com/nl/jsp/m.jsp?c=%403GoqW4iJRoVPaeXTRaFfR5rma1Bd6OJhIL%2Fy3NXa6%2FY%3D

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Want to learn probabilities and statistics? Check this website that provides you a visual intro to those topics

Want to learn probabilities and statistics? Go no further and check this website that gives you a visual introduction to those areas of study! Great resource. Enjoy! https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/#secondPage/chapter2

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Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty → Ian Stewart

Starting a new book! Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty → Ian Stewart A celebrated mathematician explores how math helps us make sense of the unpredictable We would like to believe we can know things for certain. We want to be able to figure out who will win an election, if the stock market will crash, or if a suspect definitely committed a crime. But the odds are not in our favor. Life is full of uncertainty --- indeed, scientific advances indicate that the universe might be fundamentally inexact --- and humans are terrible at guessing. When asked to predict the outcome of a chance event, we are almost always wrong. Thankfully, there is hope. As award-winning mathematician Ian Stewart reveals, over the course of history, mathematics has given us some of the tools we need to better manage the uncertainty that pervades our lives. From forecasting, to medical research, to figuring out how to win Let's Make a Deal , Do Dice Play God ? is a surprising and satisfying tour of what we can know, and what we never will.

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PaTS-Wheel: A Passively-Transformable Single-Part Wheel for Mobile Robot Navigation on Unstructured Terrain

Do you need to reinvent the wheel? It seems so and T. Godden*, B. W. Mulvey*, E. Redgrave and T. Nanayakkara just did it :-) PaTS-Wheel: A Passively-Transformable Single-Part Wheel for Mobile Robot Navigation Very interesting concept that you can discover on the video below! Link to paper → https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10502024 Abstract: Most mobile robots use wheels that perform well on even and structured ground, like in factories and warehouses. However, they face challenges traversing unstructured terrain such as stepped obstacles. This paper presents the design and testing of the PaTS-Wheel: a Passively-Transformable Single-part Wheel that can transform to render hooks when presented with obstacles. The passive rendering of this useful morphological feature is guided purely by the geometry of the obstacle. The energy consumption and vibrational profile of the PaTS-Wheel on flat ground is comparable to a standard wheel of the same size. In addition, our novel wheel design was tested traversing different terrains with stepped obstacles of incremental heights. The PaTS-Wheel achieved 100% success rate at traversing stepped obstacles with heights ≈70% its diameter, higher than the results obtained for an equivalent wheel (≈25% its diameter) and an equivalent wheg (≈61% its diameter). This achieves the design objectives of combining the energy efficiency and ride smoothness of wheels with the obstacle traversal capabilities of legged robots, all without requiring any sensors, actuators, or controllers. https://youtu.be/oZbZZlDDEnc?si=6euhl_-C0yGkODi-

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Time it takes a hacker to brute force your password in 2024

How strong is your password and how long does it take a hacker to crack it with the current technology? The below table will make you think when setting-up your new password when prompted to do so! https://substack.com/redirect/159fe36c-4932-4230-ba65-1669855d0515?j=eyJ1IjoiMTNxNWZkIn0.newWUhmjeIWc9Ee8MTizo9k9ZNcz5XkGRRvcN-S3g28

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8 books about the brains and consciousness.

The Economist reads: 8 books about the brains and consciousness. The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramon y Cajal by Larry Swanson The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron by Benjamin Ehrlich. Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience by Matthew Cobb Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind. by Peter Godfrey-Smith. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus. Houghton Mifflin Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks All added to the wish list, happy readings! These books reveal why the brain is the biggest mystery of all https://www.economist.com/the-economist-reads/2024/05/03/these-books-reveal-why-the-brain-is-the-biggest-mystery-of-all from The Economist

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