Monthly Archives: November 2007

You know you have almost finished a PhD when…

… you spend two hours trying to understand the correct usage of semi-colons verses colons, when to capitalise following a colon, and then fixing up your text. For those who really must know: go here and then here.

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More work on detailed brain mapping

“But we need to improve 106-fold or more,” says Denk, who estimates that this would shrink the three billion person years it would take to trace a cortical column down to about two years. “I’m confident in the end that … Continue reading

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The singularity has already occurred…. in Europe.

I just got back from the European Futurists conference in Lucerne. It was very educational, but not in the way I had expected. Let me explain. As probably all of you know, there is this concept of a “technological singularity”. … Continue reading

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