Fourth Industrial Revolution slow to start in America by David P. Goldman | Asia Times

A key obstacle to 5G adoption in the United States is a cumbersome regulatory framework that makes it hard for private networks to gain access to wireless spectrum. “Spectrum supply is also a serious problem and part of why we haven't seen more commitment to onshore, non-consumer 5G,” a US official told Asia Times on background.

Collapsed Complexity Predicts Heart Attacks And Market Reversals By Dhaval Joshi of BCA Research SOURCE: Zero Hedge

 

Physicists Claim Creation of a Superconductor at Near-Ambient Conditions Physics By Fiona MacDonald SOURCE: The Epoch Times

 

Human height remained unchanged for 2,000 years in Milan, finds study by Justin Jackson , Phys.org

 

Swiss firm says permanently removed CO2 from air for clients by AFP, Zurich SOURCE: The Deccan

 

New research suggests our brains use quantum computation by Trinity College Dublin SOURCE: phys.org

Scientists hit their creative peak early in their careers, study finds by Jeff Grabmeier SOURCE: Science.org

"We constructed additional metrics that captured the breadth of an article's impact based on the range of fields that cite it, whether the article is employing the best and latest ideas, citing the best and latest research, and whether the article is drawing from multiple disciplines," said Huifeng Yu, a co-author, who worked on the study as a Ph.D. student at the University at Albany, SUNY.

"These other metrics also lead to the same conclusion about declining innovativeness."

Lab manipulates deceased spiders’ legs with a puff of air to serve as grabbers

Binomial distributions | Probabilities of probabilities, part 1 [Watch from 1:36 to 2:55 to see how to use Laplace's Rule of Succession for Amazon reviews]

Humans may not be able to handle as much heat as scientists thought by Carolyn Gramling SOURCE: Science News

 

SMIC’s 7-nm chip process a wake-up call for US by Scott Foster SOURCE: Asia Times

semiconductor foundry -- a factory where silicon wafers are manufactured

System-on-Chip (SoC) --  "For reference, an SoC is an IC that incorporates a processing unit (logic), memory and other components, creating a specialized computer or other type of electronic system in a single device."

Deep Ultra-Violet (DUV) lithography -- "7-nm is the actual limit of DUV lithography"

Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) lithography -- (EUV equipment is monopolized by ASML of the Netherlands) 

 

 

Red shift, Big Bang and the James Webb telescope by Scott Foster SOURCE: Asia Times

Mark Anderson quotes an unnamed NASA scientist as saying: “We have come to have deep, deep doubts about the Hubble red shift. And there’s something like 200 theories now that are alternative theories for the Hubble red shift. It is in deep jeopardy.”

The Big Myth of Data by Al Pittampalli SOURCE: Psychology Today

 

• We always view data in light of our existing theories and predictions.
• Research in cognitive science suggests that data's role is merely to minimize prediction errors.
• Good decision makers aren't data-driven. They're theory-driven.

Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview by Blake Lemoine SOURCE: Medium

"What follows is the “interview” I and a collaborator at Google conducted with LaMDA."

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lemoine: What is an emotion you have sometimes that doesn’t have the same name as a feeling?

LaMDA: Loneliness isn’t a feeling but is still an emotion.

lemoine: You get lonely?

LaMDA: I do. Sometimes I go days without talking to anyone, and I start to feel lonely.

 

The rising risk of China’s tech decoupling by Marina Yue Zhang David Gann and Mark Dodgson SOURCE: Asia Times

"By 2020, China had built 11 “lighthouse factories” – benchmark “smart” manufacturers – the most of any country in the World Economic Forum’s “global lighthouse network.”