AskScience AMA Series: I am Jerry Kaplan, Artificial Intelligence expert and author here to answer your questions. Ask me anything! |
- AskScience AMA Series: I am Jerry Kaplan, Artificial Intelligence expert and author here to answer your questions. Ask me anything!
- Can a parabola be translated, scaled and rotated in such a manner that it would perfectly superimpose one half of a hyperbola?
- Why can't we integrate "e^(sin(x)) dx"?
- In l’Hospital’s Rule, Why is the limit of a function the derivative of f(x) divided by the derivative of g(x)? Isn’t that like saying: to determine a person’s location you must know their speed?
- What are the Effects of Climate Change and Oceanic Acidification on Phytoplankton?
- How are babies born with heroin (or any drug) addiction medically treated? And what are their symptoms that lead to the diagnosis?
- Why is Moon full of craters but not the Earth?
- We know that matter is transformed in energy inside stars. Is there anything else on the universe that does the opposite, where energy is converted to matter ?
- If microwaves and routers work at same frequency, can enough routers be used to heat up water?
- Does the brain have a clock, like a CPU?
- Why can humans distinguish between simultaneous instruments in a piece of music but have difficulty following simultaneous conversations?
- Why are avocados and kiwis green on the inside?
- How do the LHC detectors differentiate the particle collisions that occur considering the fact that there are 600,000,000 interactions per second at peak luminosity?
- How often must big cats and other wild predators kill prey in order to survive?
- What happens in "The Monkey and the Hunter" experiment when the monkey wears a parachute?
- Does a thrown object really follow a parabolic arc or does it follow part of an ellipse with an eccentricity of 0.999...?
- Why can't dark matter just be ordinary matter that doesn't happen to be in a star?
- What is the (engineerical) knowledge concerning the longevity of Batteries in relation to their performance?
- Why dogs use their tongue to drink liquids?
- Magnetic containment or inertial containment fusion?
- How does density and buoyancy behave in zero gravity?
- If male seahorses incubate and birth the babies why aren't they just considered female?
- How are earthquake magnitudes revised hours or days later?
| Posted: 22 Nov 2016 05:19 AM PST Jerry Kaplan is a serial entrepreneur, Artificial Intelligence expert, technical innovator, bestselling author, and futurist, and is best known for his key role in defining the tablet computer industry as founder of GO Corporation in 1987. He is the author of Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure. His new book, Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know, is an quick and accessible introduction to the field of Artificial Intelligence. Kaplan holds a BA in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Chicago (1972), and a PhD in Computer and Information Science (specializing in Artificial Intelligence) from the University of Pennsylvania (1979). He is currently a visiting lecturer at Stanford University, teaching a course entitled "History, Philosophy, Ethics, and Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence" in the Computer Science Department, and is a Fellow at The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, of the Stanford Law School. Jerry will be by starting at 3pm PT (6 PM ET, 23 UT) to answer questions! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2016 02:27 AM PST |
| Why can't we integrate "e^(sin(x)) dx"? Posted: 22 Nov 2016 01:36 AM PST We can differentiate all sorts of functions, as far as i know, but why are there limitations in integration? is there a possibility of a "first principle OR Newton's Difference Quotient" in integration too that we haven't stumbled upon yet? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Nov 2016 11:07 PM PST |
| What are the Effects of Climate Change and Oceanic Acidification on Phytoplankton? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 10:38 PM PST |
| Posted: 21 Nov 2016 06:42 PM PST |
| Why is Moon full of craters but not the Earth? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 09:05 PM PST |
| Posted: 21 Nov 2016 04:41 PM PST |
| If microwaves and routers work at same frequency, can enough routers be used to heat up water? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 10:33 PM PST |
| Does the brain have a clock, like a CPU? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 06:41 PM PST A CPU has a centralized clock which in which instruction(s) are executed in each clock cycle. Neural oscillation, or "brain waves" are repetitive neural activities where the firing of the neurons are usually in synchronization with the oscillation. From what I've read, these are the following known waves and frequencies: My question is, how do CPU clocks and brain waves differ? They both synchronize the operations being executed, and they are for the most part, central as well. A brain would better analogous to a GPU than a CPU, since it's massively parallel, but a GPU still runs on a clock. One more question, would "overclocking" a brain (increasing the frequency) necessarily make it faster, like it would for a CPU? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Nov 2016 04:50 PM PST |
| Why are avocados and kiwis green on the inside? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 09:38 AM PST Most fruits are either the same colour on the outside as the inside or a duller, whitish colour on the inside. In my mind I associate green parts of plants with photosynthesis and there isn't any of that going on inside of an avocado [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Nov 2016 12:29 PM PST |
| How often must big cats and other wild predators kill prey in order to survive? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 05:27 PM PST I know this all depends on the animal in question but I am watching Planet Earth (original; I live in the US and can't watch part 2 yet) and witnessed the snow leopard struggle to make a kill. Do predators go days or weeks without eating or must they make a kill every day? Do animal carcasses provide them with food for a week(s)? Some of these predators live in such remote areas where food is scared, I can't imagine food being available every single day. [link] [comments]  |
| What happens in "The Monkey and the Hunter" experiment when the monkey wears a parachute? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 07:04 PM PST |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2016 05:32 AM PST I've always been told that a thrown object will follow a parabolic curve if you ignore air resistance and wind. However, since I've been playing KSP I began to realise that the curve is probably an elliptical path with one focus just below the object and the other focus at approximately the center of the Earth. Is the parabolic explanation just a simplification since a parabola has an eccentricity of 1 and the ellipse I am visualising has an eccentricity extremely close to 1 (0.9999999...)? [link] [comments]  |
| Why can't dark matter just be ordinary matter that doesn't happen to be in a star? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 05:42 PM PST |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2016 04:15 AM PST For example a lithium ion battery (48v / 29 Ah). Does the performance of either 1 kwh, 2 kwh or 3 kwh influence the longevity, if so in which way? [link] [comments]  |
| Why dogs use their tongue to drink liquids? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 06:35 PM PST Humans drink by sucking a liquid and then swallowing it. But I have spotted that dogs bend their tongue and use the tongue as a bag to pick up the liquid. But why dogs use their tongue to perform this kind of action? [link] [comments]  |
| Magnetic containment or inertial containment fusion? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 08:36 AM PST What are the advantages/disadvantages between magnetic containment and inertial containment fusion? It seems to me that magnetic containment is more practical, since you theoretically can run the reactor for a very long period of time. Inertial containment seems simpler but less practical, since it reacts explosively. You would have to pressurise the chamber each time a pellet needs to get reloaded, which doesn't seem effective. Please correct me I'm I'm wrong. It would be great if sources were included in the replies! [link] [comments]  |
| How does density and buoyancy behave in zero gravity? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 05:12 PM PST So recently the new teaser of the movie "Passenger" was published. The teaser is interesting because it's a scene all about fluid dynamics in space. Here you see a pool on a space-ship when the "artifical-gravity" is turned off and Jennifer Lawrence gets trapped in a water bubble. On one side i think the scene is wrong in making the water move so violently, since in space there's no friction or opposite force that makes the water do that, but other than that, my question is about how hard would be to get out from the bubble of water, since i've seen contradictory opinions about the buoyancy of the body in zero gravity. What i saw is that a lot of people think that in this case, when everything hits zero G, Jennifer would lose her buoyancy and gets trapped inside the bubble, only having her swimming force to get her out of the water "blob". What i think, is that buoyancy and the density of the water would take her body to the nearest part of the circumference, because in this case there's no up or down, but there would be a more dense fluid (water) and a less dense fluid (air) all in a 1 atm pressure, so buoyancy and density still are present. I think that would be the case and i think this video of NASA kind of shows it when the bubbles of air tend to the circumference of the water (but there are other forces here too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKs1mXcA_A4 In any case, based on that. my hypothesis would be that in space, if you have a vessel with fluids of different density, after a while and assuming you have the right amount of every fluid (and not to much force moving the whole thing), these would tend to make a sphere with the fluids in different layers of the sphere. What do you think? Is there any experiment about it? because i haven't find any. "Passengers" teaser on entertainment weekly site: http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/17/passengers-jennifer-lawrence-exclusive-clip [link] [comments]  |
| If male seahorses incubate and birth the babies why aren't they just considered female? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 05:58 PM PST |
| How are earthquake magnitudes revised hours or days later? Posted: 21 Nov 2016 04:00 PM PST Often when an earthquake occurs you'll get an initial magnitude. Hours or Days later it might get revised higher or lower. What causes the long delay between initial measurement and the revision? Is there human intervention that cannot be automated? Is there data being taken that far out that the wave just takes so long to get there? [link] [comments]  |
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