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...increased during the O. J. Simpson trial. It's now settled back into our normal sense that what's important in life goes on everywhere else but Washington. "Americans care a whole lot more about what's going on at the Piggly Wiggly than in Washington," says pollster Jefrey Pollack of the Global Strategies Group...
Brandeis University professors Jordan Pollack and Hod Lipson recently used "genetic" algorithms to design simple robots, which were then assembled by other robots. General Electric also uses genetic algorithms, in the design of jet engines, and its simulation of evolution produces designs superior to those created by unaided human designers. Microsoft has reportedly evolved some of the software it uses to balance system resources rather than have human programmers explicitly write these codes...
Breakfast the next morning at the Hotel Koryo was a treat. Pickled pollack spawn - a brown spiced salty fishy paste - and other delicacies were laid out on the buffet. The room had a mirrored ceiling, a fluorescent painting, two scary ceramic dancing pigs on the buffet table and very loud, saccharine Korean love songs coming over the PA. Guests sat alone in the middle of the room surrounded by six bow-tied waiters...
...sailors truly were innocents, the loss of an enemy nuclear submarine means that the probability of nuclear holocaust is decreased. And the discussion surrounding the accident perhaps points to some noble aspect of the American character: we see our enemies first as humans and only second as foes. SIMCHA POLLACK New York City...
...their report in Nature, Lipson and Pollack admit their "primitive replicating robot" is far from the mythical medieval humanoid, or golem (after whom they've named their project). For one thing, it doesn't actually replicate--it can't make robots that make new robots--nor does it learn from its environment. But, as Rodney Brooks of the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab points out, it's a "long-awaited and necessary step" to creating machines that are truly lifelike...