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News Briefs 28-11-2016

Dreaming of electric sheep…

Thanks Ronnie.

Quote of the Day:

Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups… So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.

Philip K. Dick (1978)

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  1. Science vs. science
    Fake science news is worse in my opinion because people are more inclined to believe it. The political jargon we realize it’s fake when we go to a reliable news source and see it’s not being covered.

    There was an article on Facebook that said the Great Barrier Reef was all dead and gone. That was two days after Nat Geo released an article about scientists making progress on restoring some of the reef. Why would they were their time on something hopeless? Oh that’s because IT’S NOT COMPLETELY DEAD YET!

  2. Google’s DeepMind AI and lip-reading
    So Google’s DeepMind AI can lip-read TV shows better than a pro, it would appear. That aside, what I found more interesting was the part about the team having to sort out the audio and the associated vision – in that the audio could be nearly a second out of sync (25 frames) with the vision!

    What a load of rubbish: if the BBC put out programming with audio out of sync by 3 frames there would be an outcry from the viewing public and to suggest the error was up to 25 frames is beyond belief. The BBC have to meet stringent technical standards and this they do.

    If something as basic as audio and picture sync can be misreported in the article, I do wonder what else they have got wrong? Shame on you “New Scientist”…

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