To solve last week’s puzzle: you are told how many heads there are so start by flipping that number of coins.
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The answer to Micro Softy 87 depends on understanding which number a given sequence of the code represents.
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AI “immigrants” like me tend to approach artificial intelligence with a healthy measure of skepticism. AI natives, who grew up with it, should learn this too.
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Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles about every two years. But Moore’s Law must eventually stop at the Planck length.
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To solve last week’s puzzle, look up the definition of “calorie.” Are we using the word to mean the same thing?
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The breakthroughs have come from human creativity. Computers have served as powerful tools for implementing innovations, but they did not invent them.
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To solve Micro Softie 85, ask yourself, when would a slightly smaller caliber bullet than the enemy uses be a definite advantage?
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Why would a military force decide to use a slightly different caliber of bullets from the one used by the enemy force?
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To solve last week’s puzzle, we should picture what must happen when every bug wants to place itself between two other bugs.
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We continue to explore the way simple roles followed by unintelligent agents — even dumb bugs — can yield complex behavior.
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To solve last week’s puzzle, keep in mind that every termite is doing the same thing.
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Swarm intelligence enables the colony to converge on the shortest and most efficient path to food without any individual being especially smart.
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One unusual feature is that driver attention is monitored and inattentive drivers can have the self-driving mode suspended.
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AI displays very impressive horizontal integration (integrating existing concepts) but not vertical integration (entirely new inventions).
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Last week’s puzzle is also easier to solve if we observe some of the patterns that number theory reveals.
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If organoid computing succeeds, the next generation of computers may need both software updates and daily feedings.
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About last week’s MicroSofty: Think of the probability issue as just a distraction…
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Here are a dozen tips for detecting fake and misleading articles about artificial intelligence.
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Last week’s puzzle, like several others, is easy to solve if we use inclusive thinking about relationships.
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I live in McGregor, Texas, where Elon Musk’s Space X has a testing center, and occasionally, the testing of their rocket engines gently rattles the dishes on the shelves in my home.
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