...NOTE: This PDF document has a handy set of “bookmarks” for it, which are accessible by pressing the Bookmarks tab on the left side of this window. ***************************************************** We are the last. The last generation to be unaugmented. The last generation to be intellectually alone. The last generation to be limited by our bodies. We are the first. The first generation to be augmented. The first generation to be intellectually together. The first generation to be limited only by our imaginations. We stand both before and after, balancing on the razor edge of the Event Horizon of the Singularity. That this sublime juxtapositional tautology has gone unnoticed until now is itself remarkable. We're so exquisitely privileged to be living in this time, to be born right on the precipice of the greatest paradigm shift in human history, the only thing that approaches the importance of that reality is finding like minds that realize the same, and being able to make some connection with them. If these books have influenced you the same way that they have us, we invite your contact at the email addresses listed below. Enjoy, Michael Beight, piman_314@yahoo.com Steven Reddell, cronyx@gmail.com Here are some new links that we’ve found interesting: KurzweilAI.net News articles, essays, and discussion on the latest topics in technology and accelerating intelligence. SingInst.org The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence: think tank devoted to increasing...
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...Volunteering – The personal benefits Prewriting – For Prewriting this essay, I chose to use brainstorming. I wrote a list of what I felt the benefits of volunteering were as well as different things about volunteering and then used them to create my essay. Draft Are you bored with your life? Do you feel that you want to do something new or more for your community? Volunteering can be a great way for you to meet new people, get involved with your community and feel good. When you volunteer, whether it’s helping others or volunteering on a project or program, what you are doing will benefit an individual person or many people. Volunteering can be a short or long term situation, but whichever you choose, you should make sure that you are able to commit to the time involved. I volunteer at my church. The program that I volunteer in is called Friendship Ministry. With volunteering for the Friendship Ministry, I share God’s love with people who have impairments and help them become an active member of God’s family. Each mentor is assigned a “friend” that they will develop a relationship with. We sit with our friends and have lunch with them and play activities and sing with them while teaching them that we were all made special and are God’s family. We do this the third Sunday of each month. Each mentor interacts with their friends differently, but makes them feel special. I developed a special relationship with my friend Susan. She lives in a group home run by the state...
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...Tanya Leadmon English 111 11/04/13 Singularity When Raymond Kurzweil wrote “The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology” in 2005, he predicted that Singularity would occur in the year 2045. Singularity is defined as when computers become smarter than humans. Kurzweil truly believes that this will happen in the year 2045. While reading my critique of Kurzweil’s theory, decide for yourself if you believe Singularity will occur in 2045, or ever. Kurzweil describes his law of accelerating returns as exponential increase in technologies like computers, genetics, nanotechnology and robotics, and artificial intelligence. Kurzweil also predicts that once Singularity has been reached, machine intelligence will be a quintillion times more powerful than all human intelligence combined. Before Singularity can occur, Kurzweil states that there will be exponential growth in evolutionary progress, computational capacity, how the brain works, and revolutions in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics. Kurzweil believes computational capacity will continue to grow exponentially. He feels that a new paradigm will debut to carry on this growth. According to him, this new paradigm will be nanotubes. He goes on to say that the best way to build machine intelligence is to first understand human intelligence. The first step is to peer inside the brain. Kurzweil predicts that during the 2020’s greater details of the brain will surface because...
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...show neither. f Non-metallic oxides dissolve in water to form acids. f Metallic oxides are basic oxides and dissolve in water to form alkalis. f Acids combine with bases to form salt and water only. f Salts can be formed from the reaction of acids with carbonates, hydrogen-carbonates, alkalis and metals. f The pH of a substance indicates how acidic or basic (alkaline) its aqueous solution is. The pH scale goes from 0 - 14 with a pH less than 7 described as acidic and a pH greater than 7 described as basic or alkaline. One can use pH paper (litmus) or indicator solutions, such as methyl orange and phenolphthalein, to determine whether substances are alkaline or acidic. f Strong acids and weak acids differ in the number of molecules that react or dissociate to form ions. For a strong acid, a vast majority of the molecules form ions, while only a small proportion of ions are formed from a weak acid. f Dibasic and tribasic acids can form both normal and acid salts. f Soluble salts can be prepared from the action of an acid on a metal,...
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...Chem 200 (8/28) * Chapter 1 and 2 homework ( paper) turn in next week (wed) pg 217 in lab manual * Quiz 1 in discussion sections next week * Connect homework is live -chapter 1 and 2 due sept 6 * Know common elements and ions-lab manual/syllabus pages 14-16 * Read Chapters for exams Notes Errors in measurements * Radom error: all measurements have some level of random error they can be either positive( measure more than you actually do ) or negative errors( measure less then you usually do ) * Systematic error: always the same direction (either positive or negative) Precision and Accuracy * Precision : how reproducible each measurement is , how close each measurement is to the other measurements * Accuracy : how close the measured values are to the true value. Temperature Conversions (on the exam) Chemical Language * Elements (Na,Cl)- letters of the language * Chemical Formulas (NaCl)- words of the language Water Vs. Hydrogen Peroxide (on the exam) * The use of Hydrogen peroxide: nuclear, bomb, bleach hair,etc * Molecular formula : water: H2O, Hydrogen Peroxide : H2o2 * Empirical Formula: water HO, Hydrogen peroxide: HO * Structural Formula : water HOH, hydrogen peroxide: HOOH quetion: how many atoms of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen are present in a single molucule of citric acid C3H5O(CO2H)3 Carbon: 6 Hydrogen :8 Oxygen: 7 Chemical Bonding * Bonds form between atoms when they share electrons *...
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...of the rennin mixture with to each of the 5 beakers. 7. Add the 5 different concentrations of acid to the 5 beakers of milk along with the rennin and start your timers. 8. Note the time it takes for the milk to turn solid. (or there abouts if time does not allow) Changes that occurred during the dissolving of the rennin tablet: • The water turned a milky colour. • It took roughly 6 minutes to dissolve. Results: 1.0 – 8.31 minutes 0.75 – 8.23 minutes 0.5 – 7.58 minutes 0.25 – 8.01 minutes 0.0 – 20+ minutes Discussion: When conducting this experiment some of the results that came back had a surprising outcome, according to the data we collected, the rate that the milk hardens relies on how strong the acid is. Too weak, and it takes too long and too strong and the time also...
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...Human is searching for intelligent machines from a very long time ago. Even at the time when computer was not invented there were machines that were able to do some kind of intelligent work. According to AI concept it is possible for a machine to think. Actually intelligence has different meanings according to different people so let’s skip this talk and come to the point Strong vs Weak AI. Strong AI: According to think tanks of AI a day will come when computer’s computations and calculations will become so strong that a computer will be able to take decisions just like human brain, so that we will be able to call it as intelligent as human brain. In other words a machine will think in the same way as a human brain does. Weak AI: Weak AI is also intelligence in a way because the technology that we are using today as AI can be referred to as weak AI. Because the level of AI that we attain today can’t be placed at the level of human brain, because the most advance machines today we have can’t actually think like human brains. The case of chess master Garry Kasparov vs IBM's Deep Blue program is a good illustration. Although Kasparov had the advantage of human intuition, Deep Blue had the ability to calculate 200 million probabilities per second. Better approach to adopt: According to me it is impossible for a machine to attain a level of intelligence like human brain. But if we consider that it happens so this will be a destruction of the world. Because human brain is equally...
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...Ranking Salt Solutions by pH 6-2: Ranking Salt Solutions by pH In this assignment you will be asked to rank aqueous solutions of acids, bases, and salts in order of increasing pH. This is most easily done by first identifying the strong acids that have the lowest pH, the strong bases that have the highest pH, and the neutral solutions that have a pH near 7. The weak acids will have a pH between 1 and 6 and the weak bases between 8 and 14. The exact order of weak acids and weak bases is determined by comparing the ionization constants (Ka for the weak acids and Kb for the weak bases). After ranking the pH of these solutions, you will then test your predictions in the laboratory. 1. Arrange the following 0.1 M solutions in order of increasing pH and state why you placed each solution in that position: NaCH3COO, HCl, HCN, NaOH, NH3, NaCN, KNO3, H2SO4, NH4Cl, H2SO3, NaHCO3, Na3PO4 and CH3COOH. In order of increasing pH: 1.HCl most powerful acid. 2.H2SO4 a strong acid 3.H2SO3 weak but stronger than 4.HCN from experiments 5.CH3COOH weak acid 6.NH4Cl is an acidic salt 7.KNO3 is Neutral salt 8.NaCH3COO NaCN NaHCO3 Na3PO4 are basic salts. 9.NH3 weak Base 10.NaOH strong Base After doing the experiment this is the order that I got: NH4Cl H2SO4 HCl H2SO3 KNO3 NaHCO3 CH3COOH NH3 HCN NaCH3COO NaCN Na3PO4 NaOH Once you have predicted the nature of each salt solution, you will use Virtual ChemLab to confirm your prediction...
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...become rational and logical, ambitious and aggressive, and at the same time to create an organization that can carry out their ambitious plans. One of the impediments to successfully implementing these changes is the lifetime employment commitment, which held Matsushita back from cutting off unnecessary management staffs. Also, the existing managers are performing poorly because of their old way of doing things. Again, since it cannot lay workers off, it has to cut back on its hiring and this is triggered by the slow growth rate. Implications for Matsushita: (a) If changes are made quickly, the company would have a dynamic workforce that would increase the growth rate. But that would lack the loyalty of its employees, which is still a very strong force to keep the company going. (b) If Matsushita takes too much time, it might fall back and become unable to revolutionize its workforce. If old employees do not make way for new employees, the company will have a slower growth rate with an aging workforce. 5. What does the Matsushita case teach you about the relationship between societal culture and business success? The Matsushita case teaches us that societal culture and business success are very closely related. This is because the culture in the organization is a very important driver of its success and this culture is shaped and determined by the existing culture of the...
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...and given a battalion commander position over a group of infantry regulars. This was something very unnatural. With such a high profile war, to find a unit where every person in it was an actual soldier was like a dream made in heaven. During this time absolute chaos was not unlikely, especially with the poor training of the volunteers. Unlike many, all of Sykes troops were “regulars”. Because of this, nothing but sure success was highly expected. He continued the war with wins in battle until he was faced with the bloodiest battle in history to this day, the battle of Gettysburg. This was an all out event full of madness. Despite the activity, Sykes still held on and did what he had to do. He was called in-support of brigade commander Strong Vincent and the 20th marine Infantry Division. Sykes is best known for his defense on little round top. This conflict with in the battle is...
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...Guilt: Guilt is a strong feeling that arises from one's realization of their own mistakes. When people realize the true value of time, they will feel very guilty for having wasted much of their time in things that were unnecessary. In addition, guilt is a feeling that induces one to fix their mistakes... Verily, guilt is a blessing from Allah SWT as it tells us that our hearts are intended for purity. People act upon guilt because unless they fix their mistakes, the feeling won't go away. Grief: Grief gives one contemporary feelings of sorrow. However, it may come to one's realization that the deceased requires to be prayed for; in order for the people to meet their loved ones once again, they will have to start utilizing their time for the better. Although death allows for a painful feeling, it also allows for an impactful feeling--for which, in the long run, leads to beneficence. As shown in the picture, a woman longs for her deceased loved ones...but it is to her knowledge that she may benefit them and herself by performing worship and dua. Solitude: Solitude is a force that makes one more conscious about one's self and one's environment. In the case of the photograph, strong forces can be felt towards the person as he becomes more conscious about his surroundings and ultimately learns a moral from his loneliness. One may think that living in solitude can be a bad thing...however, it is actually one of the most important moments people will ever get. Perseverance: Perseverance...
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...Nazareth Sec0ndary School 2nd Term Exam In Chemistry Jan – 2013 Science Sections Duration: 90 min Question (I): (4 points) I- A solution (B) of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) was prepared by diluting 100 times solution (A) of PH =2. 1- Calculate the concentration of solution (B) then deduce its new PH. 2- Do you think the given solution is a strong acid? “Justify” 3- What is the effect of dilution on the concentration and PH of the given solution? II- 5 g of HClO4 dissociates completely in water to prepare a solution of volume 2 L. a- Determine the concentration of H3O+ in this solution then deduce the concentration of OH- . b- Calculate its PH and POH. Given: - • M (Cl) = 35.5 g\mol, M (H) = 1 g\mol and M (O) = 16 g\mol. • The ion product of water Kw = 10-14 Question (2): (7 points) Benzoic acid “C6H5COOH” is a white crystalline solid slightly soluble in water. It is used as a preservative in soft drinks. Given: • This study is done at 25 ̊C; the solubility of benzoic acid in water is 2 g.L-1 • Molar mass of benzoic acid is 122 g.mol-1 A mass 305 mg of benzoic acid is introduced into 250 ml volumetric flask, half filled with distilled water. Then, the necessary steps are followed until a solution (S) is obtained. 1-List the materials needed to prepare solution (S) then describe...
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...amusing results. In his poem, Perlutsky writes, “Imagine if your precious nose, were sandwiched in between your toes, that clearly would not be a treat, for you’d be forced to smell your feet.” (5-8) While the poem seems to be simple and straightforward, it has an important message. Be happy with who you are. Perlutsky make this point in his poem with, “Be glad your nose is on your face, not pasted on some other place, for if it were where it was not, you might dislike your nose a lot. … Your nose, instead through thick and thin, remains between your eyes and chin, not pasted on some other place – be glad your nose is on your face!” (1-20) While the poem is lighthearted, childlike, and has delightful imagery, there is strong message. The cause of wanting something different than what you have can only effect you in a negative...
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...Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Defends Little Round Top Case Study Chapter 5 Arooj Javiad Zia March 24, 2013 University of Maryland University College Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was in command of the 20th Maine Regiment of Infantry, under the Maine Volunteer Corps. During the third year of the Civil War, as part of the Union Army, Chamberlain’s troops were ordered by Strong Vincent to anchor of the extreme left of the Union line on Little Round Top. In order to get to the front lines, the leadership skills used by Chamberlain with the mutineers have to be honored for its effective assimilation. The story about the successful leadership is illustrated in The Leadership Moment by the author Micheal Useem. The way Chamberlain defended the Union Army during the day at Little Round Top is unique for being a great example of a great leader. Although a commander leader from Maine in the Union Army, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was not a graduate from Universities like his other colonels; in fact he was a professor of religious studies at Bowdoin College. Even when he decided to become part of the Union Army, his college faculty was not granting him the leave at first since he did not even have any military training experience. Once he was accepted in the Army, his placement consisted of being a commander for 20th Maine Regiment by taking place of the higher officer who was promoted elsewhere. Chamberlain was given the good news that he would have to train troops...
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...POWER SENSE BUSINESS PLAN Years CONTENTS | | |Page | |I |Executive Summary | | | | | | |II |Introduction and Background | | | | | | |III |Project Outline | | | | | | |IV |Ownership, Management and Employment | | | | | | |V |Market and Marketing Strategy | | | | | | |VI |Production | ...
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