I don't really know what the quantum computer is so I choose Shohini Ghose presentation about it. From one hand I see multiple example how this technology could be use (specially in cryptography),but how to program this "computer"? You have to had enormous knowledge about physics to implement anything on it. It's much more complicated than nowadays way of programming. I will be waiting for growth of this technology.
I recommend it to anyone interested: https://www.ted.com/talks/shohini_ghose_quantum_computing_explained_in_10_minutes?language=pl
P.S. Has anyone guessed our chances of playing heads or tails with a quantum computer :D?
I have chosen talk about London Tube. I was in London and I was impressed how big this tube is. When I go sightseeing city I like using the paper map and paper map of subways as well. I do not want to use Google maps if it is not necessary so it is very important that the map should be clear. I remember when I stared at the tube map and thought how somebody designed the plan of tube so when I saw on the website that there is this topic I got it. The man says about the generous of London Tube. The London Tube was started in 1908 when the 8 single trails were connect into one system called tube. The first London Tube Map was very complicated including a lot of useless details like trees and parks which made the map illegible. Harry Beck was an engineer who made the map of London Tube simpler. He deleted useless details like parks and created the rule of creating London Tube map. The lines on the map can be only in three directions: horizontal, vertical or 45 degrees. Additionally the name of the station has the same color which corresponds with the line color. Beck claims that London Tube Map is more similar to diagram than to map. The Beck idea was adopted in 1933 and it became the pattern for other worlds tube system for example: Tokio or Sao Paulo.
Hmm .. interested me - I was always interested in the phenomenon of muscle soreness. That's why I was pleased to watch the presentation "The surprising reason our muscles get tired". (https://www.ted.com/talks/christian_moro_the_surprising_reason_our_muscles_get_tired#t-9870) In this presentation I learned how sodium and potassium affect the condition of our muscles. I also learned how our brain affects their growth or prominence. I recommend to everyone ... a nice curiosity! And ... from the computer keyboard to the gym - because you need to work to make your muscles grow - not necessarily the stomach from beer ;-)
I've seen recently Healthcare the leading cause of bankruptcy: Elizabeth Holmes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBN7esso4wY) after watching the documentary movie: "The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley". I've learned from that movie that very touching stories could cover fraud and being sold for hundreds of millions of dollars :)
I watched TED talk titled "Want to help save the world? Eat more insects" (https://www.ted.com/talks/pat_crowley_farming_insects_to_save_the_world). This topic is very interesting given the progress of climate change. The author is the owner of the first company in the USA that extracts proteins from insects, and he has developed one of the world’s largest zero-waste solar powered insect farms that converts agricultural waste into insect protein and organic bio-fertilizer. In our culture today, eating insects is unthinkable, but given how much protein insects contain and the fact that no greenhouse gases are produced in their production, this could change radically in the future.
Some time ago I saw a TV program about a restaurant that only serves insects. The owners said that this is the best option for obtaining protein, without such an impact on the environment as animal husbandry brings. However, for me, eating a cooked or fried insect makes me shiver, if it could be powdered protein derived from insects, then I would try.
From my experience I can tell you that tasting fried grasshopper is crossing the Rubicon, now I can eat any animal food. There are still some fruits I can't swallow though :-)
I was interested in the problem with cats Cats are cute and judging by 26 billion views of over 2 million YouTube movies, they are very polar. I As you can see on the videos they do strange and stupid behavior. Cats have been both lonely predators and victims of larger animals in the past, so their survival depended on certain instinctive behaviors that are still visible in wild and domestic cats. As predators, cats are opportunists, and they hunt whenever a prey appears. They usually hunt small animals, so in nature they had to eat many times a day to keep them hungry. That's why the cat does it all the time Small prey hide in small hiding places, so the cat loves to look into small hiding places. Wild cats needed sharp claws for hunting and defense. Sharpening on different surfaces kept them ready, allowed to stretch the muscles of the back and paws and reduced stress. This is the reason why cats scratch everything. To this day, cats have preserved many of their instincts that have allowed them to survive in the wilderness for millions of years. This explains some strange behaviour. Our homes are a jungle for them. https://www.ted.com/talks/tony_buffington_why_do_cats_act_so_weird
Recently I watched ted about drugs and drug addicts. It was told that people with drug addiction do not need to be arrested. These people need psychological support. As an example, many of the Vietnam War soldiers used drugs as painkillers, but the percentage of drug addicts was quite low. People resort to drugs because they don’t value their life, they don’t have anyone to live for, and they don’t see the point in their life. When Portugal had almost complete legalization of drugs, the number of drug addicts decreased.
After watching the movie "How frustration can meke us more creative" I learned how it works to introduce a little chaos into our plans (ideas). If something does not work, it is worth adding an element that has nothing to do with the whole. It positively affects us because it stimulates thinking. You can see it perfectly in the examples. I recommend the movie to everyone who is stuck at the point and do not know what to do next.
Interesting concept, I need to test it when I'm stuck writing some code again. Until now I have only tested the rubber duck method. I wrote about my problem to a friend and often before he could answer me I noticed where I got a mistake when I explained the problem to someone else.
Hello everyone. I searched Ted site and choose this video: „Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time”. I like reading or watching films about space so I think this video could be interesting. From this video I lernt that satellites could be a great tool to monitoring conditions of our planet. The grow of technology is very important. Will Marshall presented small satellite but more powerful that big satellites in space. He is a good example of people how change idea to reality. His company can produce many satellites and send them to space. The satellites typically are named after birds. Many satellites can help monitoring our planet in 24h. The data and pictures could help researchers to solve many problems ex. deforestation in our planet.
Hi, I choose TedTalks from keep your brain healthy category: https://www.ted.com/talks/sabine_doebel_how_your_brain_s_executive_function_works_and_how_to_improve_it I like to look up for the ways to keep my brain in shape, lately I found a promising app to do it through improving an executive function. I want to go deeper and learn if that kind of exercise can help my achieving my goal. During the presentation Sabine Doebel pointed out what the executive function are: an ability to consciously control our thoughts, emotions and actions. It's what we use when we need to break away from habit, inhibit our impulses and plan ahead. She also explains why my app will not work for my goal. Brain training won't improve executive function in a broad sense because it involves exercising it in a narrow way, outside of the real-world contexts in which we actually use it. The one tip from her talk is to find a way to engage yourself more in things you are doing, and realize why it is important to you.
I watched TED Talk titled „What’s a smartphone made of”. In last year was around a 2.5 billion smartphones users. I did’t know that typical smartphone is made of 70 or so chemical elements! Two main groups of these elements are rare earth and precious metals. Rare earth are found in many areas across the world in low concentrations. These elements have huge range of magnetic, phosphorescent and conductive properties. So they are crucial in modern smartphones. We can find even 16 of 17 in total rare earth in smartphones! That was a suprise for me, it’s really huge number. But the huge disadventage of this elements is their disturbing environmetal impact. We’re mining them mostly by a method called open pit mining which exposes vast areas of land. This mining method destroys natural habitats and causes air and water pollutions. Other elements used in the smartphones like copper, silver, palladium, gold, aluminium silica also have huge impact on destroying our environment and climate changes. So we shouldn’t buy new phones. We should use our old phones and when they are really unusefull we should recycle or reuse them. I didn’t expect such small things like smartphones had this huge impact on our planet.
Hello! I've picked up a talk "Why it's worth listening to people we disagree with" ... and I agree! The speaker talks about his approach to views he disagree with. The first part was about his own challenges, and it was very heartwarming. But then it got darker, when he describes how his social circles cuts off any discussion with views they oppose. Today, social media makes it easier than before in two ways: interacting only with people we know that agree with us, and orchestrating 'spontanous' backlash against people we disagree with. For me, the worst thing is that while I can almost always understand the point of view of people I disagree with, I rarely can count on them trying to do the same.
Food made from bugs is a very good idea to save the climate. Their breeding does not require as many resources (e.g. water) does not produce as much pollution as in the case of breeding large animals. Their suffering could also be prevented.
As for the taste - the bugs are simply delicious. The aversion to such food has cultural roots. For example, there is no problem with this in Thailand. Freshly fried worms can be bought directly from the pan at the market and are really ok.
The other way is to create artificial meat, about what we can learn from here: https://www.ted.com/talks/andras_forgacs_leather_and_meat_without_killing_animals You must take under consideration that the article is from 2013. In 2016, the cost of production of cultured beef was $ 18,000 per pound ($ 40,000 / kg) As of June 2017 Memphis Meats reduced the cost of production to below $ 2,400 per pound ($ 5,280 / kg) Ultimately, the cost of production would be twice the cost of producing chicken in Europe.
I watched Margaret Mitchell's Talk regarding the concerns about safety of AI. She is a reaserch scientist in Google and works on vision-language generation. Many great minds as Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk or Bill Gates warned than AI could bring more harm than advantages, sometimes it was even said that AI might destroy mankind. The speaker reminds us, that AI is not like a self-driving car. People are the drivers of this technology and could decide if it will be created for evil or good purposes. I strongly agree with Mitchell's opinion in this subject. Humans are responsible for artificial intelligence development and application. It could bring harm, but reasonably oriented could be a great support in many areas.
I don't really know what the quantum computer is so I choose Shohini Ghose presentation about it.
ReplyDeleteFrom one hand I see multiple example how this technology could be use (specially in cryptography),but how to program this "computer"? You have to had enormous knowledge about physics to implement anything on it. It's much more complicated than nowadays way of programming. I will be waiting for growth of this technology.
I recommend it to anyone interested:
https://www.ted.com/talks/shohini_ghose_quantum_computing_explained_in_10_minutes?language=pl
P.S. Has anyone guessed our chances of playing heads or tails with a quantum computer :D?
I have chosen talk about London Tube. I was in London and I was impressed how big this tube is. When I go sightseeing city I like using the paper map and paper map of subways as well. I do not want to use Google maps if it is not necessary so it is very important that the map should be clear. I remember when I stared at the tube map and thought how somebody designed the plan of tube so when I saw on the website that there is this topic I got it.
ReplyDeleteThe man says about the generous of London Tube. The London Tube was started in 1908 when the 8 single trails were connect into one system called tube. The first London Tube Map was very complicated including a lot of useless details like trees and parks which made the map illegible. Harry Beck was an engineer who made the map of London Tube simpler. He deleted useless details like parks and created the rule of creating London Tube map. The lines on the map can be only in three directions: horizontal, vertical or 45 degrees. Additionally the name of the station has the same color which corresponds with the line color. Beck claims that London Tube Map is more similar to diagram than to map. The Beck idea was adopted in 1933 and it became the pattern for other worlds tube system for example: Tokio or Sao Paulo.
Hmm .. interested me - I was always interested in the phenomenon of muscle soreness. That's why I was pleased to watch the presentation "The surprising reason our muscles get tired". (https://www.ted.com/talks/christian_moro_the_surprising_reason_our_muscles_get_tired#t-9870)
ReplyDeleteIn this presentation I learned how sodium and potassium affect the condition of our muscles. I also learned how our brain affects their growth or prominence.
I recommend to everyone ... a nice curiosity!
And ... from the computer keyboard to the gym - because you need to work to make your muscles grow - not necessarily the stomach from beer ;-)
I've seen recently Healthcare the leading cause of bankruptcy: Elizabeth Holmes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBN7esso4wY) after watching the documentary movie: "The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley". I've learned from that movie that very touching stories could cover fraud and being sold for hundreds of millions of dollars :)
ReplyDeleteI watched TED talk titled "Want to help save the world? Eat more insects" (https://www.ted.com/talks/pat_crowley_farming_insects_to_save_the_world). This topic is very interesting given the progress of climate change. The author is the owner of the first company in the USA that extracts proteins from insects, and he has developed one of the world’s largest zero-waste solar powered insect farms that converts agricultural waste into insect protein and organic bio-fertilizer. In our culture today, eating insects is unthinkable, but given how much protein insects contain and the fact that no greenhouse gases are produced in their production, this could change radically in the future.
ReplyDeleteSome time ago I saw a TV program about a restaurant that only serves insects. The owners said that this is the best option for obtaining protein, without such an impact on the environment as animal husbandry brings. However, for me, eating a cooked or fried insect makes me shiver, if it could be powdered protein derived from insects, then I would try.
DeleteFrom my experience I can tell you that tasting fried grasshopper is crossing the Rubicon, now I can eat any animal food. There are still some fruits I can't swallow though :-)
DeleteI was interested in the problem with cats Cats are cute and judging by 26 billion views of over 2 million YouTube movies, they are very polar. I As you can see on the videos they do strange and stupid behavior. Cats have been both lonely predators and victims of larger animals in the past, so their survival depended on certain instinctive behaviors that are still visible in wild and domestic cats. As predators, cats are opportunists, and they hunt whenever a prey appears. They usually hunt small animals, so in nature they had to eat many times a day to keep them hungry. That's why the cat does it all the time Small prey hide in small hiding places, so the cat loves to look into small hiding places. Wild cats needed sharp claws for hunting and defense. Sharpening on different surfaces kept them ready, allowed to stretch the muscles of the back and paws and reduced stress. This is the reason why cats scratch everything. To this day, cats have preserved many of their instincts that have allowed them to survive in the wilderness for millions of years. This explains some strange behaviour. Our homes are a jungle for them.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ted.com/talks/tony_buffington_why_do_cats_act_so_weird
Recently I watched ted about drugs and drug addicts. It was told that people with drug addiction do not need to be arrested. These people need psychological support. As an example, many of the Vietnam War soldiers used drugs as painkillers, but the percentage of drug addicts was quite low. People resort to drugs because they don’t value their life, they don’t have anyone to live for, and they don’t see the point in their life. When Portugal had almost complete legalization of drugs, the number of drug addicts decreased.
ReplyDeleteAfter watching the movie "How frustration can meke us more creative" I learned how it works to introduce a little chaos into our plans (ideas). If something does not work, it is worth adding an element that has nothing to do with the whole. It positively affects us because it stimulates thinking. You can see it perfectly in the examples. I recommend the movie to everyone who is stuck at the point and do not know what to do next.
ReplyDeleteInteresting concept, I need to test it when I'm stuck writing some code again. Until now I have only tested the rubber duck method. I wrote about my problem to a friend and often before he could answer me I noticed where I got a mistake when I explained the problem to someone else.
DeleteHello everyone. I searched Ted site and choose this video: „Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time”. I like reading or watching films about space so I think this video could be interesting. From this video I lernt that satellites could be a great tool to monitoring conditions of our planet. The grow of technology is very important. Will Marshall presented small satellite but more powerful that big satellites in space. He is a good example of people how change idea to reality. His company can produce many satellites and send them to space. The satellites typically are named after birds. Many satellites can help monitoring our planet in 24h. The data and pictures could help researchers to solve many problems ex. deforestation in our planet.
ReplyDeleteHi, I choose TedTalks from keep your brain healthy category: https://www.ted.com/talks/sabine_doebel_how_your_brain_s_executive_function_works_and_how_to_improve_it
ReplyDeleteI like to look up for the ways to keep my brain in shape, lately I found a promising app to do it through improving an executive function. I want to go deeper and learn if that kind of exercise can help my achieving my goal.
During the presentation Sabine Doebel pointed out what the executive function are: an ability to consciously control our thoughts, emotions and actions. It's what we use when we need to break away from habit, inhibit our impulses and plan ahead. She also explains why my app will not work for my goal. Brain training won't improve executive function in a broad sense because it involves exercising it in a narrow way, outside of the real-world contexts in which we actually use it. The one tip from her talk is to find a way to engage yourself more in things you are doing, and realize why it is important to you.
I watched TED Talk titled „What’s a smartphone made of”. In last year was around a 2.5 billion smartphones users. I did’t know that typical smartphone is made of 70 or so chemical elements! Two main groups of these elements are rare earth and precious metals. Rare earth are found in many areas across the world in low concentrations. These elements have huge range of magnetic, phosphorescent and conductive properties. So they are crucial in modern smartphones. We can find even 16 of 17 in total rare earth in smartphones! That was a suprise for me, it’s really huge number. But the huge disadventage of this elements is their disturbing environmetal impact. We’re mining them mostly by a method called open pit mining which exposes vast areas of land. This mining method destroys natural habitats and causes air and water pollutions. Other elements used in the smartphones like copper, silver, palladium, gold, aluminium silica also have huge impact on destroying our environment and climate changes. So we shouldn’t buy new phones. We should use our old phones and when they are really unusefull we should recycle or reuse them. I didn’t expect such small things like smartphones had this huge impact on our planet.
ReplyDeleteHello!
ReplyDeleteI've picked up a talk "Why it's worth listening to people we disagree with" ... and I agree!
The speaker talks about his approach to views he disagree with. The first part was about his own challenges, and it was very heartwarming. But then it got darker, when he describes how his social circles cuts off any discussion with views they oppose. Today, social media makes it easier than before in two ways: interacting only with people we know that agree with us, and orchestrating 'spontanous' backlash against people we disagree with.
For me, the worst thing is that while I can almost always understand the point of view of people I disagree with, I rarely can count on them trying to do the same.
Food made from bugs is a very good idea to save the climate. Their breeding does not require as many resources (e.g. water) does not produce as much pollution as in the case of breeding large animals. Their suffering could also be prevented.
ReplyDeleteAs for the taste - the bugs are simply delicious. The aversion to such food has cultural roots. For example, there is no problem with this in Thailand. Freshly fried worms can be bought directly from the pan at the market and are really ok.
The other way is to create artificial meat, about what we can learn from here:
https://www.ted.com/talks/andras_forgacs_leather_and_meat_without_killing_animals
You must take under consideration that the article is from 2013. In 2016, the cost of production of cultured beef was $ 18,000 per pound ($ 40,000 / kg) As of June 2017 Memphis Meats reduced the cost of production to below $ 2,400 per pound ($ 5,280 / kg)
Ultimately, the cost of production would be twice the cost of producing chicken in Europe.
I watched Margaret Mitchell's Talk regarding the concerns about safety of AI. She is a reaserch scientist in Google and works on vision-language generation. Many great minds as Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk or Bill Gates warned than AI could bring more harm than advantages, sometimes it was even said that AI might destroy mankind. The speaker reminds us, that AI is not like a self-driving car. People are the drivers of this technology and could decide if it will be created for evil or good purposes. I strongly agree with Mitchell's opinion in this subject. Humans are responsible for artificial intelligence development and application. It could bring harm, but reasonably oriented could be a great support in many areas.
ReplyDelete