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Eliminate the impossible

Posted by Richard Coyne ⋅ April 20, 2019 ⋅ 1 Comment

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” said Sherlock Holmes, in The Sign of Four, ch. 6 (1889). One of the ways to eliminate the impossible is to first enumerate everything that can be enumerated — probable or not. René Descartes said something similar. His last rule for … Continue reading →

Neuroscience eclipses AI

Posted by Richard Coyne ⋅ September 24, 2011 ⋅ 9 Comments

… at least in its ambition. The Blue Brain Project is a venture centred at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland in collaboration with IBM to create a synthetic brain in hardware and software. The project name references “Deep Blue,” the IBM chess computer that reputedly “beat” reigning champion Garry Kasparov in 1996. … Continue reading →