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Tag: technology

Game over for books and movies

Is literature doomed? Are movies doomed? In the future, maybe no one will read or watch a movie, but they will play a game instead. Video games are considered an inferior form of art, but maybe they’re just an emerging form of art. Humanity really craves entertainment. Here you [..]

Do you want to innovate? Make things shorter!

In 1440, Gutenberg invented the printing press. The average length of a printed book is half a million characters, and the book with more prints is the King James Bible, with a staggering amount of  3,116,480 characters. Things didn’t change for many years. When the 20th century was ending, [..]

What Unix can tell you about coronavirus

The spreading of viruses in computer ecosystems can teach us some lessons on how to fight coronavirus. A human virus is radically different than a computer virus, but if we look at them from a certain point of view, there are some similarities. What is that point of view? [..]

The 7 greatest inventions of the (next) decade

  We are facing a change of decade. It’s time to go over the great inventions that change our lives, not always for the better. But, wait, we’re not talking about the past decade, but the next one. Remember 2010? There were no iPads, you could still buy a [..]

Computers of the future – Reversible computing

As Moore’s Law approaches its end, we’re going to need some creativity if we want to keep on moving. Can reversible computers be the answer? In 1965, Gordon Moore, CEO of Intel, noticed that computer science was advancing really fast. The brain of computers are microprocessors and, within those, [..]

How advanced is humanity (Star Trek scale)?

How much has humanity advanced since the first episode of Star Trek? And how far are we from the world depicted in the show? This post tries to answer these questions. 54 years have passed since the first episode of Star Trek aired. Star Trek is set in an advanced [..]

A poor man’s Her

This tale is very closely based on real facts. I have been working recently on a new project based on artificial intelligence and neural networks. Nothing too fancy: just a proof of concept to check how advanced neural networks really are, especially those involved with natural language and human [..]

What is a neural network and how does it work?

In this video you can learn -in less than three minutes- how a neural network works.