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Butlerian Jihad: The crusade against AI and hidden tech

Image 1: Mdjourney generated picture using the prompt: "cartoon of human soldiers fighting a small robot. it shows the defeated robot in the middle and human soldiers aiming their rifles at the robot" "We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans!" ' ― Minister-companion of the Jihad. [6] That quote will be recognizable if you have read Dune by Frank Herbert . I found it suitable to bring the novel up during the extreme mixture of excitement and fear among people given the recent advance in artificial intelligence. Even an open letter was signed by many extremely influential people to halt the progress of artificial intelligence research to avoid a situation like in the cartoon above in image 1 (which is ironically AI

Mathematics as an art: Fourier epicycle library

If you are remotely interested in mathematics, you'd probably heard of Fourier, or Joseph Fourier . His name comes to mind whenever a physicist, electronic engineer or any technical person deals with frequencies . I don't need to praise Fourier anymore because there are tons of videos and articles about him all over the internet. In this article, I will be talking about Fourier series and epicycles (Foucycle), seemingly two distinct branches of mathematics if you're unaware of Euler's famous formula . Epicycles are essentially circles within circles, they have been studied extensively by astronomers because it was thought planets' motion was perfectly circular (Not to mention how they were convinced the earth was the centre of the universe) until the inverse-square law of planet motion was introduced by Keppler and Newton . Fourier series is essentially a way to approximate any function as the infinite sum of scaled sins and cosines, simple yet revolutionary.

Communication without noise

Communicating information is perhaps the highlight of the 21st century; the obvious example is the boom in internet and smartphone use in the last 20 years or so; everything is well connected and messages get sent within a fraction of a second. A less obvious example of communicating information is through reading information stored in physical object prone to damage. For example, a CD could be scratched slightly but still, all the relevant information can be recovered properly. How did we arrive at such a resilient communication? Let's take communicating with your partner as an example. Without sounding too much like a family consultant, the key here is to send your message as clearly as possible to avoid misunderstanding. Let's say you are an intelligent being who can formulate a proper and grammatically correct sentence, and you wanted to say "I want pizza". You could say the sentence face to face, and hopefully, your crave for pizza would be communicate

Aggressiveness or defensiveness: The best way to play chess, a computer guide

Different people play chess in different styles, no one knows the best way yet. This guide is perhaps useful to computers more than humans, although feel free to take a piece of life-long advice from this article on human behaviour. Source: https://ar.casact.org/actuaries-versus-artificial-intelligence-what-do-actuaries-do-what-will-they-do/ The participants of this study are merely two chess programs I wrote. With the best of my abilities, I tried to give them some sort of personality that is reflected in their style of play. To understand how to create a "personality" in a program, it is helpful to understand the most common algorithms used in chess. Broadly speaking, designing a chess engine involves two parts: The Risk Assessment part and The Search part. For the latter, there is a pretty standard and efficient algorithm that searches for the best piece to move called the minimax. Thus I won't be altering the search algorithm much. I will, however, alter the risk as

The Intelligent Coffee Roaster

https://www.gocoffeego.com/dbimages/148/roasting@2x.jpg Coffee roasting is widely considered to be an art form among roasters that requires immense dedication to the craftsmanship. It certainly looks like an art considering how many people can't function normally without their morning cup of coffee. Coffee roasting is arguably the key transformable step in the coffee cycle, which usually starts by harvesting coffee cherries, then drying these cherries in numerous different methods, and usually ends up in the morning mugs of office workers (figure 1). Before coffee roasting, the coffee beans hardly resemble our beloved morning coffee in taste, look or smell. As artistic as it sounds, coffee roasting can be quantified to a large degree and can be turned to a scientific and engineering discipline. The motivation behind this article is to explore the usage of mathematical modelling and artificial intelligence to aid commercial coffee roasters to achieve a high level of consistenc