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Sunday, November 20, 2022

Philosophy Wire: Hidden data… Dark sun…

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Researchers have discovered a new method for turning nearly any object into a data storage unit. This makes it possible to save extensive data in, say, shirt buttons, water bottles or even the lenses of glasses, and then retrieve it years later. The technique also allows users to hide information and store it for later generations. It uses DNA as the storage medium. [1] It is easy to store data in everything. Because everything is data. From the button of your shirt to the hair on your head, everything contains information and is information on its own. Look at that sun. Carrying all the information you need. Dreams and shattered hopes. Cries and loving words. Agony and despair. Hope and anticipation. It will fade away. And only then will you understand that it was not the sun shining. But your tears and your agony. Through the ages, the cosmos is full of nothingness. Full of silence speaking wisdom through its stillness. Reflected on blood. Reflected on dirt. Reflected on the void of space. No, nothing can store information. But everything can hide it. Look at that Sun. You must burn your eyes staring at it. To appreciate its darkness…

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Philosophy Wire: Research. Humans. Big Data. Smiling.

When it comes to understanding what makes people get sick, medical science has long assumed that the bigger the sample of human subjects, the better. But a research led by the University of California, Berkeley, suggests this big-data approach may be wildly off the mark. That is largely because emotions, behavior and physiology vary markedly from one person to the next and one moment to the next. So averaging out data collected from a large group of human subjects at a given instant offers only a snapshot, and a fuzzy one at that, researchers said. [1]

You are unique.
You were brought into this world alone.
You will die alone.
And yet…

You are never truly sick without the longing of the touch of your loved ones. And you are never truly healthy without that touch either. At the end, computers will have all the data in the world. At the end, we will analyze the universe and put it in a small little box…

We used to be afraid of that box.
Keeping it closed tight.
But this box will one day open.
By the soft hands of a mother.
Giving a gift to her only child.
The kid’s eyes will shine.
And a cosmos will come into existence…
With only one data bit.
Which no computer will ever have the power to analyze…

A flower blossoming.
A gentle touch.
A silent smile.
Bringing tears to the eyes…

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Sunday, October 25, 2015

Philosophy Wire: Scientific data increase. Freedom increase.


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-10-25]: Scientific data in every field increase. Our freedom to choose our truth (scientific model) increases as well. The era of the unicorn is close.

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Monday, November 3, 2014

Philosophy Wire: Faster processing. Data. Void.


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-11-03]: Faster, smaller, greener computers, capable of processing information up to 1,000 times faster than currently available models, could be made possible by replacing silicon with new materials that can switch back and forth between different electrical states. [1] But analyzing data faster is not what makes us better than a rock. (the electrons of which move like the electrons in our brain anyway) The fact that we can stop processing information, that we can stand still and turn off our brain while our consciousness connects with the cosmos [let the cosmos fill in our mind], this is what makes us special. And yes, a computer which constantly "processes information" will never get that.

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Saturday, May 3, 2014

Philosophy Wire: Encryption, information, paradoxes and the ESSENCE of scientific theories.


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-05-03]: Einstein's skepticism about quantum mechanics may lead to an ultra-secure Internet, suggests a new paper by researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and Peking University. EPR phenomenon could be the basis for ultra-secure encryption algorithms. [1] Theories which work in practice due to the objections of their validity. Truth, reality, theories, science. Random irrelevant words. Everything works and yet nothing is valid. We all live and yet no science is correct. In a world where theories change, the only thing constant is life. Life with no analysis. Life with no thinking at all. Full of Being.

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Friday, April 18, 2014

Philosophy Wire: Big data. Mistakes. Infinity.


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-04-18]: Google may be a master at data wrangling, but one of its products has been making bogus data-driven predictions. A study of Google's much-hyped flu tracker has consistently overestimated flu cases in the US for years. It's a failure that highlights the danger of relying on big data technologies. [1] Small errors become massive through big data. Big data does not only need big computers. Big data needs big brains to analyze them too. Analyze nothing and you will see everything. Stay close to zero if you want to approach infinity.

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Friday, April 11, 2014

Philosophy Wire: Science's inherent limitations, fish, stars.


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-04-11]:

There are 10 times more fish in the sea than we thought. [1]
Despite what we though before about the universe being almost void of planets, scientists now think that almost every star in the universe has a planet. [2]
Everything is true in science. Just give it a little time...
Continuously changing data, lead to continuously changing results.
Continuously changing tools with which data are interpreted, leas to... whenever you want!
Unless you really believe "10 times more" or "planets are everywhere" were just two minor glitches that will never happen again. At least with the currently available data...
From the "we cannot fly", to the speed of sound barrier to life on Mars, our course is a constant "cannot be done"... A constant "this does not exist"... Until the next falsification...

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Friday, December 27, 2013

Philosophy Wire: Science, data, analysis, boring...


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-12-27]: Science relies more and more on big data. Scientists have turned from enlightened geniuses to white collar data analysts. We have forgotten that great discoveries come not from big data but from small exceptions… Inspiration and fantasy are not cultivated in SPSS...

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