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05.09: Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
2014-04-16 00:34:59| Powells Books Events Calendar
No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches — revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us. Padgett wasn't born this way. Twelve years ago, he had never made it past pre-algebra, but a violent mugging forever altered the way his brain works. The first documented case of acquired savant syndrome with mathematical synesthesia, Padgett is a medical marvel. Struck by Genius (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is the remarkable story of an ordinary man whose world was transformed when a traumatic brain injury left him with an extraordinary mathematical gift.
Utilities Face Massive Brain Drain
2014-04-14 21:14:00| Transmission & Distribution World
The utility industry is losing legacy brain power at a rapid rate and its not yet in the position to compete with other more exciting and higher paying industries to attract the best and brightest. Content Classification: Influencer The Grid Optimization Blog read more
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Brain Implant Could Help Folks Walk Again
2014-03-28 22:52:19| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Medical technology has grown by leaps and bounds, so much so that a lady recently received a 3D printed skull implant .
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New Zealand's School WiFi Declared Safe, Father of Boy Who Died with Brain Tumour Not Convinced
2014-03-21 07:54:50| Wireless - Topix.net
New Zealand's Ministry of Health released the findings of the study that revealed WiFi in schools are safe.
Facebooks facial recognition software is now as accurate as the human brain but what now?
2014-03-19 18:38:15| Extremetech
Facebook's facial recognition research project, DeepFace (yes really), is now very nearly as accurate as the human brain. DeepFace can look at two photos, and irrespective of lighting or angle, can say with 97.25% accuracy whether the photos contain the same face. Humans can perform the same task with 97.53% accuracy. The end goal of DeepFace we can only guess at, but it's probably tracking your face across the entirety of the web, and in real life, as you move from shop to shop, producing some very lucrative behavioral tracking data indeed.
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