This “brain-on-a-chip, smaller than a piece of confetti” holds the potential to reduce the size of supercomputers to “super-phones”. A new “memory transistor” design allows for more accurate data exchange similar to how a human brain sends and transmits commands to the body. In true geek fashion, the first test conducted was to recreate a gray-scale image of the Captain America shield. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
