Friday, July 30, 2010

singularityu Freemium http://ping.fm/9oPKd
singularityu - Daniel Hillis - The long now - http://ping.fm/BrApu
singularityu - Daniel Hillis - Metaweb, bought by Google http://www.metaweb.com/
singularityu Daniel Hillis talking at SU - http://ping.fm/a8snI
singularityu learning about cisco's smart grid. Then off to tesla motors.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Heading to google hq for an awesome morning at google!!!

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

singularityu Marissa Mayer + Tim Brown + Randy K; Google + IDEO + Kleiner Perkins = awesome http://ping.fm/Ifigz
singularityu The story of stuff http://ping.fm/GqBhD
singularityu What If? : The Art of Scenario Thinking for Nonprofits
http://ping.fm/ocuvC
singularityu - GBN - Rockefeller Foundation Report on technology impact on the world http://ping.fm/F9WfL
singularityu - GBN - Global Business Network Reports http://ping.fm/VgDo5
singularityu - GBN - How do people us scenarios? --> To develop and test strategies, To generate new insights and ideas; To improve organizational design; To build clarity and confidence.
singularityu - GBN - REACH - companies are now responsible for the environmental safety of the chemicals they produce http://ping.fm/DsRrA
singularityu - GBN - What's happening to the honey bees? http://ping.fm/FQrjk
singularityu - GBN - Hydrogels
http://ping.fm/KFiCs
singularityu - GBN - Ratooning http://ping.fm/0JRuR
singularityu - GBN - CSA - Community Supported Agriculture http://ping.fm/ZnuCU

http://ping.fm/1Jq5d
singularityu - GBN - Food, Inc. http://ping.fm/mhiv3
singularityu - GBN - STEEP change - Social, Technological, Environmental, Economic, Politics
singularityu - GBN - IBM: 1980s computer forecast estimate 295,000; actual 25,000,000. Precise answer but not at all accurate!

Monday, July 26, 2010

4 Ways to access a conditional probability

Conditional Probabilities:
  1. Sleep on it
  2. Kinesilogy thumb and pinky?  Salim  ---  no it's hard to come apart  yes it's yes to come apart
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_kinesiology
    Yes, no, maybe, I don't know

  3. Men vs women leadership -->  how do you instill this in other people...  ask a woman...  volume of the "Inner voice..."
  4. ?
singularityu Incredible billiards! http://ping.fm/nQp80
singularityu Red ball trick with a thread http://ping.fm/kmvS2
singularityu EG conference http://ping.fm/kpEOm
singularityu Entertainment Gathering http://www.the-eg.com/
singularityu Charity for classrooms in need! http://ping.fm/7KD5c
singularityu Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes--and How to Correct Them: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economics http://ping.fm/KxTOi
singularityu Deep Survival Who Lives Who Dies http://ping.fm/Hw841
singularityu Human Development Index http://ping.fm/Tmxa7
singularityu - John Gage - Hans Rosling http://ping.fm/PKLmN
singularityu - John Gage - Awesome data visualization - trend analyzer: http://ping.fm/XMKfo

http://ping.fm/qyYzA
singularityu - John Gage - Hans Rosling http://ping.fm/QLPeY
singularityu - John Gage - Get statistics open everywhere.
singularityu - John Gage - Assume that something which costs a lot today will be free in the future
singularityu - John Gage - SUN - Stanford University Network, kind of hard as a Berkeley guy
singularityu - Paul Saffo - I'm concerned that there could be a new religion; we are long over due for one, and I believe it could happen in the next 20-30 years http://ping.fm/fzesM
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Global Business Network http://ping.fm/9mOaW

http://www.gbn.com/
singularityu The Art of the Long View: http://ping.fm/BEsiM
singularityu Econometrics http://ping.fm/IQUTe
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Futures Wheel http://ping.fm/cUHZl
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Constants - not expected to change; Cycles periodic events or reversals; Trends - continuous change in same direction over long period of time; Plans; Projections; Expected future and Implications
singularityu - Hal Varian papers: http://ping.fm/JFloA
singularityu - Paul Saffo - Google has created a trading desk within their company
singularityu - Paul Saffo - Google economist: Hal Varian paper, great stuff
http://ping.fm/nRgQs
singularityu - Peter Bishop - One of the best ways to avoid group-think is to chose your group very wisely, and asking people who are consistently wrong, they are a great indicator of what likely won't happen.
singularityu - Peter Bishop - The Delphi Method: http://ping.fm/YPqI9
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Dark Fibre http://ping.fm/qcrQb
singularityu - Paul Saffo - Extraordinary Popular Delusions http://ping.fm/FznbC
singularityu - Peter Bishop - This Time Different
http://ping.fm/TDmww
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Limits to growth
http://ping.fm/kk7xI
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Scenario Planning http://ping.fm/gp9DT
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Long bets http://ping.fm/vdIfH
singularityu - Peter Bishop - The risk is to go through creative destruction and just create destruction. The reward to going through creative destruction is to create.
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Authorities aren't necessarily leaders, they generally just manage the present. Leaders change the system, they can see when an S curve is flatting out. Leaders search out the next S curve.
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Leaders are who create the future on purpose.
singularityu - Peter Bishop - It's all about plausible futures, not possible futures...
singularityu - Peter Bishop - In order to create a boom in innovation in the linear world: create a crisis, start a religion
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Diffusion of innovation http://ping.fm/bfKOV
singularityu - Paul Saffo - Creative Destruction http://ping.fm/D7XbW
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Each time you transition from one S curve to another S curve you have a short term flat spot as transition to the new paradigm occurs.
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Disruptive events follow an S-curve, much like innovation.
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Shorter term: Tactical, Day to day: operational, Longer term: strategic change
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Futurology http://ping.fm/AtZPD
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Getting it right isn't what matters most, being prepared for the future is what matters!
singularityu - Peter Bishop - The narrower our expectation for the future the more likely we will be wrong, the wider we make our expectation the more likely we will be right.
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Four reasons there is unpredictable events: chaos theory, complex adaptive systems, critical systems (infrastructures we depend on); They prevent our ability to predict the future
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Surprised of the decade: 9/11, iPhone, Google, Iraq, stock market crash, Y2K damage, Bejing
singularityu - Peter Bishop - Imagination is not accepted as a source of information!!! Case in point: BP Oil Spill

Thursday, July 22, 2010

singularityu The Transparent society http://ping.fm/muiMe
singularityu Orbiting Carbon Observatory http://ping.fm/I4nUe
singularityu The Internet has been nominated for the nobel peace prize! http://ping.fm/wZL4V

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

singularityu Peter D: MIT-based team wins DARPA's Red Balloon Challenge, demonstrates power of social networks (and cold hard cash) http://ping.fm/kBvmT
singularityu So sad, we heard him speak last week even: Stephen Schneider, a leading climate expert, dead at 65
http://ping.fm/wRc66

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

singularityu - Al Seckel -> We all have perceptual maps; just be aware, but not cynical of unduly suspicious for we all have perceptual mapping frameworks.
singularityu - Al Seckel -> Are we going to focus on commonalities or conflict? Clearly we should be focusing on commonalities!
singularityu - Al Seckel -> Perceptual Mapping http://ping.fm/ChbXF
singularityu - Al Seckel -> Proper context is the most important and essential element of information.
singularityu - Al Seckel -> Visual suggestion can make you hear things that aren't there, just as audible suggestion can can make you see things.
singularityu - Al Seckel -> Books:
http://ping.fm/29pub
singularityu - Al Seckel -> Tricking the eye http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe-l'%C5%93il
singularityu - Al Seckel -> Our perceptual system allows us to successfully interact with our world.
singularityu - Al Seckel -> Reality is that which exists independently of your perceptions or beliefs.
singularityu - Al Seckel -> The Nature of Belief Perception is quite different from reality
singularityu - Al Seckel talking at SU: http://ping.fm/B81rF
singularityu www.coolcalifornia.org
singularityu 2,5000 lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry vs 160 lobbyists for renewable energy that's 20 to 1, and quite a challenge.
singularityu NYC has 5.2 billion sq feet of indoor space.
singularityu PlaNYC http://ping.fm/A0lzh
singularityu Capital in the energy markets: Philanthropy $.300T, Government $18T, Private capital $125 Trillion
singularityu - Daniel Kammen We are advocating for a 10x increase in energy spending; it looks like we're getting 6-7x for the short term!
singularityu - Daniel Kammen The Gigaton Throwdown http://ping.fm/lKrNQ
singularityu - Daniel Kammen Alberta "tar sands" are now called "oil sands" as it sounds better
singularityu - Daniel Kammen 2007 most of the warming very likely >90% due to human activity
singularityu - Daniel Kammen June 2010 was the hottest month in human history
singularityu - Daniel Kammen 99.9 of scientists believe in the science, yet only around 50% believe it in the general public
singularityu - Daniel Kammen - Nobel Prize winner speaking at Singularity University this morning http://ping.fm/RYTqC

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Dean Kamen - segway inventor - notes from singularity university

I wanted to share some of this stuff.  I've never been more inspired by a guy than listening to Dean Kamen give a 2 hr lecture, and q/a session.  He received the only standing ovation at SU so far this summer.  The quotes are worth a read

Steve


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July 14th, Dean Kamen, Singularity U, stellar lecture.

This man is legend.

But don't take my word for it, ask Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kamen

Here are some gems from last night's address:

When asked about pursuing an idea: "You need to answer three questions: Is it crazy? (The answer should be yes it's crazy for 50% of the people and a great idea for 50 of the people). How long will it take and how much will it cost? If it works, will it be a really big deal?"

On the state of the world: "Instead of building Weapons of Mass Destruction, we should be building Weapons of Mass Construction."

On the lengthy FDA process to take a medical device to market, referring to dialysis machines: "Essentially, you need to turn indefensible to indispensable." 

On inviting political figures to attend FIRST (Dean Kamen's league for young scientists & technologists, which stands for: For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology; see www.usfirst.org): "Presidents are very unreliable people. They have world events screwing up their affairs...and vice-versa."

On deliberately avoiding marketing/business to concentrate on inventing: "The biggest challenge I have with bringing something to scale is convincing someone else to bring it to scale."

When asked what he has left to invent: "The only thing that I'd like to invent that I haven't invented yet is a time machine."

On failure: "Keep kissing frogs. Sure, you'll get a lot of warts...but once in a while, you'll find your prince or princess."

On choosing to invent and work on multiple projects and give the marketing rights/revenues to other companies: "Take your little bit...and get it from a lot of places."

On his corporate policy: "There is only one: use good judgment." 

On process: "I fight like hell to keep process out of it."

On valuing experience: "Treat people fairly - not equally."

Also - quoted within his talk:

"FIRST is the only sport where everybody has the opportunity to turn pro." - Past CEO of British Aerospace (paraphrased)

"FIRST...like the WWF - for smart people." - George H. Bush, 41st president of the United States

"Education is not filling a pail - it's lighting a fire." - William Butler Yeats

Dean - it was an honor.
singularityu Omega Project - greening the oceans http://ping.fm/EvydP

Friday, July 16, 2010

singularityu: Ralph Merkle --> We receive 10,000 times more power via the sun than we need to sustain world power consumption today. Thus, the potential of solar energy as it becomes more efficient.
singularityu: Ralph Merkle --> a system of orbiting solar power satellites: http://ping.fm/ljYcK
singularityu: Ralph Merkle --> Solar sail http://ping.fm/XUfns
singularityu: Ralph Merkle; Josh Hall http://ping.fm/eejs6
singularityu Ralph Merkle: The space pier --> http://ping.fm/eulRJ
singularityu Ralph Merkle Space elevator conference http://ping.fm/VvKY5
singularityu Ralph Merkle space elevators: http://ping.fm/VQYoN
singularityu Ralph Merkle: Project Orion: nuclear propulsion for space via atom bombs http://ping.fm/K8JB3(nuclear_propulsion)
singularityu Ben Franklin had the curiosity about how this experiment of the USA would work out; Ralph Markle is just as curious about cyronics.
singularityu: The world's leader in cyronics http://www.alcor.org/
singularityu: Cryogenics can only be applied to legally dead people legally in the USA. Medically and legally dead are actually different in the USA today.
singularityu Cryonics is a technique designed to save lives and greatly extend lifespan. http://ping.fm/fujZ0
singularityu Cryonics http://ping.fm/iB6HX

Thursday, July 15, 2010

singularityu: Dan Vorhaus --> Contact info available at http://ping.fm/h4VCu
singularityu: Dan Vorhaus --> illumina sequencing http://ping.fm/jHwrI
singularityu: Dan Vorhaus --> Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act http://ping.fm/WGvMZ
singularityu: Dan Vorhaus --> The Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) is a DNA database funded by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It is a computer system that stores DNA profiles http://ping.fm/WYEGo
singularityu: Dan Vorhaus --> Myriad http://www.myriad.com/
singularityu: Dan Vorhaus --> Personal Genomics Open for Research Analysis http://ping.fm/ns47e
singularityu: Dan Vorhaus --> Great book on medical ethics and aging: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks http://ping.fm/ETEy4
singularityu: William Haseltine --> George W. Bush's commitment to help fight AIDS in africa --- PEPFAR - Emergency Plan http://ping.fm/Cyfpk's_Emergency_Plan_for_AIDS_Relief
Interesting news: Darpa̢۪s Crowdsourcer-in-Chief Bolts for Microsoft

http://ping.fm/8Wayv
singularityu: Daniel Kraft --> Four people are going to try to quit smoking this summer at SU with a couple weeks of help via Zyban http://ping.fm/I4Bk6
singularityu: Keith Murphy --> Organovo Develops First Commercial 3D Bio-Printer for Manufacturing Human Tissue and Organs http://ping.fm/5GiXE
singularityu: Keith Murphy --> Cells inside of the body experience much lower oxygen levels, 5-10% vs 21% in ambient air on earth.
singularityu: Keith Murphy --> We are kind of creating a 3 dimensional bio-environment which enables organ growth outside of the body.
singularityu: Keith Murphy --> Regenerative medicine
http://ping.fm/gbfXC
singularityu: Keith Murphy --> Research may pave the way for future research to eventually create entire replacement organs based on the patient's own cells http://ping.fm/7n7ZH
singularityu: Keith Murphy --> Print an organ researcher. . http://ping.fm/PneAn
singularityu: Keith Murphy --> A leader in regenerative medicine. . . http://www.tengion.com/
singularityu: Keith Murphy --> Principles of tissue engineering --> http://ping.fm/CBX9X
singularityu: Keith Murphy --> The idea of biological organ development is decades old http://ping.fm/7Qu4D
singularityu: Andrew Kogelnik: The convergence of databases, genomics, biotechnology and clinical medicine will help diagnose health problems much better in the future.
singularityu: Andrew Kogelnik --> http://ping.fm/9wkAo
singularityu: Andrew Kogelnik --> We didn't start doing basic blood chemistry testing until the 1960's
singularityu: Salim Singularity University connecting with --> http://www.usaid.gov/

Phillip Low - Neuromonitoring Technology, disease and the iBrain

Electroencephalography (EEG) is the recording of electrical activity along the scalp produced by the firing of neurons within the brain.[2] In clinical contexts, EEG refers to the recording of the brain's spontaneous electrical activity over a short period of time, usually 20–40 minutes, as recorded from multiple electrodes placed on the scalp


Wednesday, July 14, 2010

singularityu Dean Kamen: Most companies are very efficient at doing whatever they do, but they aren't effective at creating change. DEKA corporate mantra "Use good judgement"
singularityu Dean Kamen: It's important to know when you need process, and when you need freedom to innovate.
singularityu Dean Kamen: The biggest problem in scaling a new idea is convincing other people to help scale it.
singularityu Dean Kamen: "What I really want is a time machine"
singularityu Dean Kamen: The power and water boxes should cost between $1,000 and $2,000 once tooling and economy of scale occur. They should last around 5 years with zero service required.
singularityu Dean Kamen: The world is in a race right now between catastrophe, and education. Right now catastrophe is winning, we need to change this!!
singularityu Dean Kamen: "Education is not a pail. . . it's lighting a fire" William Yeats
singularityu Dean Kamen: FIRST http://ping.fm/Jvnfz
singularityu Dean Kamen: How can you make kids excited about science and engineering? It's a culture crisis, not a demand crisis.
singularityu Dean Kamen: It's not about supply and demand, but demand and supply.. We create demand...
singularityu Dean Kamen: The Luke Arm http://ping.fm/tD1o0
singularityu Dean Kamen: Grameen Bank financed cell phone development http://ping.fm/cShVq
singularityu Dean Kamen: Water and power should be considered "productivity tools"
singularityu Dean Kamen: DEKA will do the inventing, the fun stuff, and large companies can do the manufacturing, marketing, sales, distribution.
singularityu Dean Kamen: It's possible to recover 98% of the energy so that it requires less energy than a hair dryer!
singularityu Dean Kamen: This box would have no chemicals, no filters, vaporize the water, but that requires a ton of energy...
singularityu Dean Kamen: Villages don't have the skills necessary to make clean water, so we built a box which simply has an input and output hose.
singularityu Dean Kamen: Clean water: desalination, activated carbon/charcoal, clorine. . .
singularityu Dean Kamen: It's best that you turn on the segway... http://ping.fm/Cra3L
singularityu Dean Kamen: Anyone who thinks that iBot is expensive, ought to spend a day disabled. . .
singularityu Dean Kamen: Many inventions take longer to be accepted by the FDA, than it takes to actually develop the product.
singularityu Dean Kamen: Thin Prep Pap test http://ping.fm/OI7vB
singularityu Dean Kamen: Stint developed in an unconventional way --> http://www.cordis.com/
singularityu Dean Kamen: Technology should be used to create a tool of mass construction, not as a weapon of mass destruction!
singularityu Dean Kamen: In spite of expotential technologies quite a bit of the world is going in the other direction, and not really making everything that's possible a reality. . .
singularityu Dean Kamen: On Stephen Colbert. . . http://ping.fm/jBEkG
singularityu Jack Hidary: What business would you go for if you had 100 Trillion KW/h available to the planet? 1 ExaFLOP computer, grow organs, beam powered rockets, water shortage crisis solved?
singularityu Jack Hidary: Believes that 25cents per watt will be possible for solar in the next 4 years / 48 months.
singularityu Jack Hidary: China now has 350 solar energy companies!
singularityu Jack Hidary: First solar can make energy at 80 cents per watt, but sells it for more..
singularityu Jack Hidary: 4,000 GW of total installed capacity globally
singularityu Jack Hidary: 2006 16 TW/hrs of consumption total global electric grid consumption. 2030 we will need 30 TW/hrs
singularityu Jack Hidary: Car sharing. . . Drive Mint --> http://ping.fm/G3zky

Connect by hertz --> http://ping.fm/g01eU
singularityu Jack Hidary: $2,000 to $4,000 per consumer can be made via buying electricity low and selling high according to a few national labs.
singularityu Jack Hidary: Our electric grid is insane, we don't have a "hard drive" there is no storage of electricity on the grid, if it's not used it's WASTED.
singularityu Jack Hidary: Vehicle to grid technology --> http://ping.fm/D2WVh
singularityu Jack Hidary: Miev's on campus
http://ping.fm/dHyy4

http://ping.fm/JQFHQ
singularityu Jack Hidary: The Blueberry mobiles at burning man! http://ping.fm/IFWwQ
singularityu Bob Metcalfe: energy life information is a facotr of production which in abundance will bring ever more economic output, freedom, and prosperity.
singularityu Bob Metcalfe: The best vehicle for innovation isn't corporate research labs, or government labs, but university students.
singularityu Bob Metcalfe: Washington did help the internet: They broke up IBM, ATT, and created standards for packet switching, but most important funded research!
singularityu Bob Metcalfe: Department of Energy was formed in the 1970s under the Carter administration, yet we haven't ended our dependence on foreign oil. . .
singularityu Bob Metcalfe: Speculative bubbles accelerate technological innovation. They have a positive purpose.
singularityu Bob Metcalfe: There will be a "global warming bubble" just as there was an "internet bubble".
singularityu Bob Metcalfe: The average ocean depth is 21,000 feet deep, and 91% of the creatures are underwater...

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

singularityu Chris McKay: Life is the only phenomenon in the universe which we should assign intrinsic value
singularityu Chris McKay: We brought life to mars via bacteria on the pathfinder, we stopped sterilizing exploration equipment after viking
singularityu Chris McKay: A goal for the universe --> "Enhance the richness & diversity of life in the universe"
singularityu Chris McKay: "Your Future is whatever you make it!"
singularityu Startup leadership org. http://ping.fm/kjBBo
singularityu How many organizations does this apply to?
http://ping.fm/HDbP9
singularityu: Pete Worden: Craig Venter "Over the next 20 years synthetic genomics is going to become the standard for making anything"
singularityu: Pete Worden: The last asteroid to hit earth... http://ping.fm/WpLef
singularityu: Pete Worden: Solar electric power as a means to get to mars...
singularityu: Pete Worden: Planning to enable low earth orbit via commercial companies such as Spacex http://www.spacex.com/

Monday, July 12, 2010

singularityu Premature aging... Progeria http://ping.fm/AqTNz
singularityu GRG Gerontology Research Group: Life extension resources -- > http://ping.fm/5At3W
singularityu Supercentenarians: http://ping.fm/WZhP0
singularityu Arthur C. Clarke: "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
singularityu Aubrey de Gray 's book on ending aging http://ping.fm/jApPf

Aubrey de gray: regenerative medicine

singularityu Each neuron has about 10,000 synapses connected to it, and they behave essentially independently.
singularityu William Risk: Human scale computing capability could happen in the next decade, but it will be huge, and consume a bunch of power.
singularityu William Risk: Neurons
http://ping.fm/vYXMY
singularityu William Risk: White Matter --> http://ping.fm/dtZ1V
singularityu William Risk: Gray Matter --> http://ping.fm/2xcWU
singularityu Dan Barry: Prisoner's dilemma -->
http://ping.fm/18lQA's_dilemma
singularityu Dan Barry: Cooperation trumps competition! Even in evolution cells have to cooperate in order to replicate and evolve.
singularityu Adam Cheyer: Robocup 2010 http://ping.fm/PifSM

State of the Art: AI Engines

Google -  A "Search Engine"
Wolfram Alpha  "A Compute Engine"
True Knowledge  "Inference Engine"
IBM's Deep QA   "Entity Retrieval Engine
SIRI Virtual Personal Assistant "Do Engine"  (now owned by apple!)
singularityu Adam Cheyer: IBM's watson to take on humans in the game of Jeopardy! http://ping.fm/sDiNB
singularityu Adam Cheyer: True Knowledge the internet answer engine http://ping.fm/xqgar
singularityu Siri Founder --> Apple Knowledge Navigator http://ping.fm/rHAtx

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Miracle fruit

Makes sour fruit turn sweet!! Lasts almost 30 minutes!!
singularityu Gregg Maryniak "Unlike the internet/info network the power grid doesn't have dark fiber it's capacity is fully utilized
singularityu Gregg Maryniak --> "The smart grid isn't really smart yet."
singularityu Gregg Maryniak --> Antimatter as a power source! http://ping.fm/8f7l8

http://ping.fm/FMZMB
singularityu Gregg Maryniak --> the world’s first commercially produced ‘Electric Aircraft’ http://ping.fm/cRK60
singularityu Gregg Maryniak --> "make ice while the moon shines", similar to "make hay when the sun shines"
singularityu Gregg Maryniak flywheel storage! http://ping.fm/UQfJe
singularityu The worlds fastest computers
Top 500 Graph --> http://ping.fm/wgK9v

Wiki -->
http://ping.fm/c9KqL
singularityu IBM Blue Waters, worlds fastest computer --> http://ping.fm/oPdAF
singularityu Dan Whaley --> Geoengineering Presentation http://bit.ly/bXphT2

Friday, July 9, 2010

singularityu - Kevin Marks --> how could we create a standard such that we share with only small groups that we want to share with. Right now we either share with everyone, or a fairly small group.
singularityu - Kevin Marks --> ipv6 enables laptops, desktops to behave like a data center such that you don't necessarily have to have your data on a large corporate server.
singularityu - Kevin Marks --> Open source is much more resilient in that when someone leaves a company they can continue to build on the code, this creates quite a bit of systemic value!
singularityu - Kevin Marks --> Phatic http://ping.fm/XBBzF
singularityu - Kevin Marks --> Pubsubhubbub server-to-server web-hook-based publish/subscribe protocol http://ping.fm/iCFrO
singularityu - Kevin Marks describing Google Open Social initiative to singularity students
singularityu very cool presentation software --> http://prezi.com/
singularityu Raph Merkle --> Nanofactory Website http://ping.fm/W8MYM
Nanofactory Collaboration
http://ping.fm/1MsOh
singularityu Microelectromechanical systems http://ping.fm/YSYgv

Thursday, July 8, 2010

singularityu Microsoft's computational user interface group which is working on Skinput --> http://ping.fm/SHm59
singularityu Electromyography http://ping.fm/FBKd0
singularityu Very cool user interface input: Skinput
http://ping.fm/5BEUq
singularityu illness and wellness are subjective, Homeostasis

http://ping.fm/iQIKv
singularityu The Natural Database -> http://ping.fm/QFGjg
singularityu Melatonin
http://ping.fm/uWs65
singularityu --> How could we incentivize prevention of disease? - Rachel Schneyer
singularityu Polymorphism -->
http://ping.fm/jbSCl(biology)
singularityu The first implant which helps solve macular degeneration http://ping.fm/Iqvbc
singularityu QuestBridge: scholarships for high-achieving low-income students http://ping.fm/y0SsP http://ping.fm/Owf1h
singularityu: Daniel Riskin healthcare IT is kind of a wild wild west. There is a huge opportunity in this area for cloud based IT.
singularityu Daniel Riskin: surgery has changed so much in the past 5-10 years.
singularityu Microsoft is working on commoditizing healthcare software,

http://ping.fm/I3nuX
singularityu learning about electronic medical records: http://ping.fm/negxe
singularityu Robotic surgery!
http://ping.fm/u8bjN
singularityu learning about robotic surgery from Catherine Mohr: http://ping.fm/ktao4
singularityu - David Bolinsky: Awesome videos of life in motion: http://www.xvivo.net/
singularityu - David Bolinsky: Awesome videos of life in motion:
http://ping.fm/xbXlk

The story of data storage for Google at Stanford via IBM

I just talked to someone who told me the story of how Google initially got storage capability for indexing the web at Stanford, and the relationship between Stanford, IBM, and Larry / Sergey in this undertaking.

Buzz aldrin!!

singularityu being motivated and hearing words of wisdom from Buzz Aldrin the second person to set foot on the moon!!

http://ping.fm/CnEqq
singularityu - David Ewing Duncan:

Personalized health project. . . http://ping.fm/91w2y

Personalized medicine:
http://ping.fm/h2ubt
singularityu - David Ewing Duncan: personalized DNA testing: science needs validating, education is needed, orwellian issues are important.

fMRI Scans can determine a level of brain activity for....

Impulsiveness
Risk-Taking
Green 
Altruism
Politics
Belief in God
Love 
Memory
singularityu - David Ewing Duncan: large fish have more mercury than small fish..
singularityu - David Ewing Duncan, the chemicals within us: http://ping.fm/0Ols3
singularityu Personal genetic testing companies: http://ping.fm/qpyhh http://ping.fm/AM2ly
http://ping.fm/eVIrK
singularityu - "The experimental man" http://ping.fm/i0Owp
singularityu - Learning about the future of health care and medicine from David Ewing Duncan "The Experimental Man"
singularityu - David Ewing Duncan: The age of personalized health care is about to begin...
http://ping.fm/HMyOj
singularityu - Chris DeCharms: Great book on addictions...

http://ping.fm/SxQxk

Neuroprosthesis & Evolving Neuro-Technologies

WORLDWIDE HUMAN DISEASE BURDEN...  HOW CAN WE SOLVE SOME OF THESE PROBLEMS MEDICALLY...

ADDICTION...
ANXIETY DISORDERS
OBESITY
CHRONIC PAIN
DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS
SLEEP DISORDERS

ECONOMIC BURDEN OF DISEASE...


NEUROPLASTICITY BASED TRAINING - video/games

FAST FORWORD  --> REMEDIATION SOFTWARE
BRAIN AGE -->  GAMES
POSIT SCIENCE --> REVERSAL OF AGING-RELATED DECLINE

fMRI based brain reading today



singularityu - Chris DeCharms: "If you could see inside the brain of your patient what could you learn?"
singularityu - Chris DeCharms: The state of the art of trying to diagnose how much pain you are in is subjective. Measuring pain from 1 to 10 is very subjective, until we can "measure pain" and know quantitatively how much pain someone is in. . .
singularityu - Chris DeCharms: Mind reading technology http://ping.fm/5jGSE
singularityu - Chris DeCharms: Can help treat various neurological conditions:
http://ping.fm/pbMBh
singularityu - Chris DeCharms: Robotic surgery!
http://ping.fm/EjTe7
singularityu - Chris DeCharms: Deep brain stimulation http://ping.fm/DrEny
singularityu - Chris DeCharms: Cochlear implant a "bionic ear" http://ping.fm/J2AUS
singularityu - Chris DeCharms: Non-invasive brain scanning --> FMRI, MEG, Optical dyes
singularityu - Chris DeCharms: "It takes about a billion dollars to develop a new drug..."
singularityu JFK speech --> http://ping.fm/xBmWL
JFK speech --> http://ping.fm/h9MMY
singularityu - Chris DeCharms: JFK space speech, "We chose to goto the moon, not because it's easy, but,because it's hard" --> http://ping.fm/5hp2S

Neuroscience Overview and Brain Scanning Technology

The big questions of the Brain and Nervous system. . .  

CHOICE
CONSCIOUSNESS
LEARNING / MEMORY
PLASTICITY
CARTOGRAPHY
LANGUAGE
PERCEPTION
ACTION
NEURAL FUNCTION
NEURAL CODING
SLEEP
MOTIVATION
PLANNING / EXECUTION CONTROL
BODY AND WORLD
DISEASE


When we control our own minds and brains where will it lead?

LOVE
CHOICE
TRUTH
BRILLIANCE
VISION
PAIN
FEAR
JOY 
FREE WILL...


Brain Training - Potential Applications...
  • ELIMINATE DISEASES
  • ENHANCE PERFORMANCE.

Brain organization.. SPATIALLY ORGANIZED
LANGUAGE PRODUCTION
HEARING
LANGUAGE RECEPTION
HIGHER COGNITION
VISION

CONSCIOUSNESS DOESN'T HAVE A PLACE IN THE BRAIN...
IT IS NOT A LOCALIZED PROCESS IN THE BRAIN...  IT'S VERY COMPLEX...

MEISSNER CORPUSCLES

PACINIAN CORPUSCLES

SENSORY MAPS..

CERVICAL

THORACIC

LUMBAR

SACRA

SLEEP AN 8 HOUR MYSTERY..
AWAKE
STAGE 1
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
STAGE 4
RAPID EYE MOVEMENT (REM) SLEEP SHOWN IN PURPLE