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Now I am reading a new book that is pretty interesting, Bursts by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi. It’s about the hidden patterns in life, and how they express themselves in everything that we do. I think that many people feel like we understand ourselves, but I’ll bet that this book sheds light about what happens inside our mind.

I just started reading it, but I already found some pretty and useful information. He talks about the mystery of why pollen moves around randomly when placed in a dish of water. Around 1900 this was a big mystery, because the idea of the atom was just a theory, and people didn’t know what force could move a tiny object suspended in water.

What does this have to do with our lives?

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When I started reading books about trading, I noticed that many authors assumed that the results of their trading would be normally distributed, and form a bell curve. However, none of them explained why. I always thought that it is a very curious assumption to make.

Why does everyone assume that results are going to be normally distributed?

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Genetic Algorithms are a specific area of Artificial Intelligence that has the power to change the world. Why? Because they allow us to solve very difficult problems that have no known solutions. These problems include:

• How do you design a jet engine to optimize efficiency?
• How do you optimize the components and connections in a circuit board or chip?
• How helpful is a movie recommendation from one person for another person?

These perplexing problems have no simple solutions, and often the details of the question are unclear. Genetic Algorithms are flexible enough to give us high quality solutions to these difficult problems.

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Happy New Year. Welcome to 2010.

The next decade promises to be the most revolutionary period in our history.

Researchers and scientists believe that the theory and technology is already there to make technological leaps in energy, medicine, computing and communications. And they should know. They’ve seen behind the screen that separates the laboratory and the marketplace.

The technology and the theory are already in place. The last decade included some of the biggest laboratory breakthroughs ever. These are called transformative technologies.

Once these innovations filter from the labs into the marketplace, they’ll change–if not revolutionize–the economy.

Based on the work of some great bloggers, like Next Big Future, Future Current, Singularity Hub, Kurzweil AI, and Future Pundit, here are some exciting ideas that are poised to make dramatic changes to our world in the next decade.
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New Scientist recently released a list of seven questions that keep physicists up at night.

I’m not a physicist, but one of these questions had me thinking late at night.

What is reality, really?

Pretty heavy, huh?

The magazine asked Anton Zeilinger, professor of physics at the University of Vienna, and it appears that they answer is that reality–all that you see around you (and a lot more)–is far more complex and far simpler than you can imagine.

We’re just scratching the surface.

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As artificial intelligence–or machine intelligence–makes strides to become a powerful tool of the future, it’s interesting to read this article from a Wired blog.

Scientists are using AI as a tool to unlock the mysteries of symbols found in the Indus Valley. This 4,000-year-old script may represent a spoken language. But linguists have found the script so hard to decipher, they weren’t sure if it was just a bunch of pictures.

It wasn’t…

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Shock jocks and pirate broadcasters won’t be the only ones who will twist radio waves. According to a team of Swedish physicists, it may be possible to twist radio waves and embed even more data in the resulting wave.

You can check out an article on this at New Scientist.

According to the article, the radio frequency ranges between 3 kilohertz and 300 gigahertz. It’s a range that’s crowded with wireless computer signals and cellphone traffic and other informational tech and telephonic periphery.

Even satellite signals, like the ones used to beam the Howard Stern show, are affected.

What’s In It For Us?

If more data can be encoded in a radio wave, as these scientists have demonstrated, there may be more spectrum available for use.

The idea isn’t exactly new, according to the researchers.

Physicist Thomas Leyser, one of the physicists conducting the research said:

“Twisted laser beams have been researched since the 1990s, but it has only now become possible to create twisted beams at the much lower radio frequencies,” he says.

But the team has added their own technique to the earlier research that may open up vast new territories in the spectrum.

How Does It Work?

According To Leyser, the signal is twisted by firing antennas in sequence to “describe a circle.” They don’t fire at once like normal radio operations. As a twist on the twist, the team fed all the antennas in the array slightly different current.

And the radio twist was born.

One hurdle remains.

No one is sure how much information this new antenna can send and receive. Technically, the article indicates vast quantities of information could be packaged and broadcast by a twisted radio beam.

But cell phones are outfitted with dipole antennas, which can’t sent twisted radio signals.

We’ll just have to see how these challenges can be overcome.

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Have you ever seen a hologram? One example is the shiny stamp on your credit card that has a three-dimensional appearance, even though it’s flat.

When I was a kid, you might be lucky and find a holographic baseball or football card that, if you tilted it the right way, seemed to make the player move. Pretty cool.

Science fiction has often depicted holographic images as three-D movies that don’t require stupid-looking glasses to view and that can appear anywhere, without a screen to capture the image.

Holographic technology can improve information storage. The information that is used to create a hologram is embedded in the fabric of the film, so that each piece holds all the information.

Now, some German scientists who were looking for gravitational waves say they have found evidence that the whole universe is a hologram. A slight “blur” at the end of their recent search for gravitational waves was predicted by Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab.

The blur, according to Hogan, is actually a representation of the fundamental limit of space time. Reality, it seems, is pixelated.

This may be “the most important discovery in physics for half a century” and offer some clues to the composition of reality. The discovery also correlates with Eastern philosophers who see the three-dimensional universe that we live in and work in as a shadow of a deeper, more fundamental level of reality, another level in this infinitely vast multiverse.

As scientists begin to tie this theory into the vibrational aspects of string theory, maybe the universe is actually just a singing hologram.

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One of the big problems facing the viability of a future world is: what will everybody drink?

Water resources are almost as thin as fuel and air, according to experts. But, this is based on present technology. As technology advances, it can find sources of energy, food, water, and clothing in unexpected ways.

Here’s a perfect example. Scientists at the University of South Australia have discovered a way to uncontaminate drinking water through nontechnology. The process uses silica treated with a nanomaterial.

According to the article, about 6,000 people every day die due to contaminated drinking water, making this invention a life saver and, since it’s relatively cheap and simple solution, the socio-economic effects will be beneficial, especially in poor areas.

This is just another example of how nanotechnology can improve living conditions. As the article points out, this is just the beginning. As we nanotechnology becomes deeper and more widespread, almost every facet of life will be changed.

Will it always be “good change”? Not necessarily, but a lot of that depends on ourselves.

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