Neocortex holds the key to real artificial intelligence

Numenta wants to study about how brain works? Future is arguably of machine intelligence. Neocortex  can be the key in developing the artificial intelligence that can be useful. Numenta unlike other communities which are developing artificial intelligence, is focusing to understand the brain so that they can develop a system that can work like human brain, that is not programmed with certain if and else conditions.It's a remarkable approach in history of developing artificial intelligence. How close are we  to witness the sky-net?    

How many hours of sleep do you lose when you have a baby?

Welcome to parenthood, when a child is born a parent is also born. Becoming a parent is a wonderful feeling, in case you have a doubt about this just ask your parents to describe this feeling.
From your happiness to expenditure everything increases , but one and only thing which gets decreased ,and you should care about ,is your sleep.

According to people who studied this subject of sleep, a new parent loses 350 hours of sleep at night over her baby’s first year. How does it matter?
Well, according to some people who studied sleep, an average adult needs to sleep seven to nine hours of sleep every night. You probably knew this already .But what probably you didn’t know is , not getting proper sleep for a long time like 1 year here, can make your health suffer.

But hey it’s your baby, you can do anything that is required to take a good care of your baby. There are some fundamentals of good parenting those are beyond the scope of this post except; Take good care of yourself so that you can take good care of your baby. Keep this line in your minds, and start taking care of your sleep during these days of parenthood. 

We suggest you to take naps. Short nap of 20 minutes can be refreshing. This method has been advised by the same people who have studied sleep as their major.
So next time you meet a new parent, you know what to advise him?

What was google originally going to be called?

GOOGLE MENTIONED ON EACH SEARCH PAGE

 

 

 In 1995, at Stanford University campus, Larry Page met Sergey Brin for the first time. They found each other unpleasant at that time. But soon they would be the founders of Search engine Giant Google. They both were interested in working on a research project  for improving search engines. 

 

They named their research project ”Backrub”. Their research project was a success and created a buzz. To understand what difference their research project made in search engines; consider this example.

 

A query for “Stanford University” on existing search engines showed every link on web where ‘Stanford University’ has been mentioned. Whereas Backrub’s search results showed the homepage of University website in the first result.

The existing search engines could not able to index relevant search results in their top 10 results list. Searching on those search engines would have been awful experience. 

 

The project was a hit but they did not find Backrub cool enough as well as they wanted a name which can represent the work they did. During a brainstorming session to decide the name, Googolplex has been advised, which Larry further shorten to googol. The word googol stands for numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Larry and Sergey considered  it because it was a symbolic reference to the their project work as they also indexed millions of search results in a more relevant orders .While searching for the domain to register it ,it mistakenly got typed google. Both the founders liked the name instantly because it sounded more cooler than googol and concluded it to be the name of their startup.

Which planet has the longest day?

Venus has the longest day of any planet in our solar system. It completes one rotation every 243 Earth days. Its day lasts longer than its orbit. It orbits the Sun every 224.65 Earth days, so a day is nearly 20 Earth days longer than its year.

Are crayfish and crawfish the same thing?

Yes,Crayfish, also known as crawfish, crawdads, freshwater lobsters, or mudbugs, are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are related; taxonomically, they are members of the superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea.

What is the percentage of water in bones?

The human body is more than 60 percent water. Blood is 92 percent water, the brain and muscles are 75 percent water, and bones are about 22 percent water.A human can survive for a month or more without eating food, but only a week or so without drinking water.

What is the sweetener in Diet Coke?

Diet Coke was first introduced in United States on August 9.Diet Coke was introduced as a sugar-free soft drink produced and distributed by The Coca-Cola Company.Diet Coke has a entirely different formula than the Coca-Cola recipe.

Coca-Cola Company used aspartame, an artificial sweetener to sweeten the Diet Coke.To save money,the company  blended it with saccharin.

In 2005, The Coca-Cola Company changed the sweetener from aspartame to Splenda. Sucralose  and acesulfame potassium replaced aspartame in this version.

What does it mean to have an opposable thumb?

Fingers and toes are called digits. The thumb is the shortest, thickest digit on the human hand and moves in a different direction than the other digits. Human thumbs are called opposable thumbs. They are called opposable because the thumb can be moved around to touch the other fingers, which gives people the ability to grasp things.



How Important Is Your Thumb?

Activities to Try Without Your Thumb

1. Write your name with a pencil
2. Put on a sock and shoe
3. Open a door using a knob
4. Brush or comb your hair
5. Button a button
6. Tie a shoelace
7. Blow up a balloon and tie it
8. Seal a plastic bag 
9. Pull up a zipper
10. Pick a coin up off a flat surface 
11. Brush your teeth
12. Open a jar

Can you think of another activity that would be impossible (or really hard) to do without your thumbs?

How much was a gallon of gas in 1971?

Gasoline dropped below 30 cents a gallon for regular gas on Dec. 28, 1971, as an on-again, off-again price war flared in Columbus. In today's money, that bargain-basement price of 29.9 cents a gallon would be equal to $1.70 a gallon, much less than the current price at the pump.

How long is the football in play during a game of NFL?

An average professional (american)football game lasts 3 hours and 12 minutes, but if you tally up the time when the ball is actually in play, the action amounts to a mere 11 minutes.


The 11 minutes of action was famously calculated by the Wall Street Journal.

What US president was never married?

James Buchanan

James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States (1857–1861), serving immediately prior to the American Civil War. He is, to date, the only president from Pennsylvania and the only president to remain a lifelong bachelor.




However Buchanan engaged Anne Caroline Coleman. She was the daughter of the wealthy iron manufacturing pioneer Robert Coleman.They could spend a little time together;Buchanan was extremely busy with his political projects during the Panic of 1819.Caroline broke off the engagement.Ironically she died suddenly soon afterward ,on December 9,1819. According to records of Dr.Chapman who looked after her in her final hours,commented just after her death that it was"the first instance he ever knew of hysteria producing death".


In a letter to her father, Buchanan asked to attend the funeral and wrote that "I feel happiness has fled from me forever".Coleman's father refused permission.
After Coleman's death, Buchanan never seemed to show any emotional or physical interest in another woman.

What would happen if a sheep impregnate Goat?

Sheep and Goats seem similar but they belong to a different genera.Although Sheep and Goats can be mated.A hybrid of a Sheep and a Goat is sometimes called "geep".Sheep belong to the genus Ovis and have 54 chromosomes,while Goats belong to the genus Capra and have 60 chromosomes.In 2000,at Botswana ministry of agriculture , a male Sheep impregnated a female Goat resulting in a hybrid.This hybrid had 57 chromosomes ,intermediate between Sheep and Goats.It had a coarse outer coat,a woolly inner coat,long goat-like legs and a heavy sheep-like body.Till now 6 hybrids have been reported in different locations and all of them were healthy, only the one was infertile.An infertile hybrid can not mate.