Page 13 - Second Law News Today

David shares 50 ideas that changed his life. Read here.

AI has arrived in the public sphere faster than anyone (even its most enthusiasm-drunk proponents) had expected or even hoped. And it took about three seconds for everyone to start saying, wait a minute, just wait a darn minute, let’s think about this first.

Srinath Sridharan - Artificial Intelligence is not a new subject and it has been around for over six decades as a formal discipline that brings together sciences, theories and techniques (including mathematical logic, statistics, probabilities, computational neurobiology and computer science), , Srinath Sridharan

A new poll says less about individual Americans and more about the decay of institutions—and the challenges it poses to the “supreme subjectivity” of the nation.

"It's a race to the biggest machine driven by the biggest assholes, and it's society that will pay for that arrogance."

Vivian Vance aka Ethel Mertz; Jimmy Flemion of The Frogs; Steve Forbert; an evening with Yo La Tengo; Ladysmith Black Mambazo; a visit with the Brewers official scorekeeper and more—This Week in Milwaukee!

Newtons Laws of Motion is one of the reasons that Sir Isaac Newton is often considered the No. 1 scientist of all time.

A physicist explains the four laws of thermodynamics, how they explain things in our universe, and why the most recently discovered one is the zeroth law.

Entropy keeps the arrow of time moving; today is less ordered than yesterday, and this is certain. If we extrapolate this concept backwards, through our scientific narrative to the origins of the universe, then we must postdict a universe that was once ordered only through its lack of movement, which means it was frozen. But even then, as Galileo once said of the Earth, eppur si muove, but it does move. And if it moves, it creates heat, and understanding that creates a more coherent scientific n...

Raging with fever, he’d thrown some groceries into the Fiat Panda, and fled town for the Balkan mountains, so that no one else could see how sick he was. Nikola had camped and coughed for a dismal…