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DATA VISUALIZATION ON STEROIDS
Data visualization is widely used in Business Intelligence, CRM, and Marketing. It is a key mechanism for communicating information in a way that the user can understand. If you're not using data visualization techniques on your website, then you are losing clients to your competitors that are.
Edison AdePublished 2 months ago in FuturismWhy is Nobody Talking About The Reality in Compounding?
If you're an investor (or), have been planning to invest in financial instruments like stocks. Then I am sure that you might have come across this concept called 'Compounding.'
Rahul ThakurPublished 3 months ago in Futurism
Your Mind May Not Even Be a Biological Neural Net
My Mind Is Just A Neural Net The important thing to remember about a biological neural network, and one that is often overlooked, is that it is a theoretical functional and possibly structural component of a brain, specifically a human and some non human animals brains. In my view it is something of a stretch to call it a theoretical component given the relative paucity of hard data in support of it, however, I will grant it is stronger than a hypothetical function/structure at least. What has been described in the above linked article is an artificial neural network from which the author has gone on to philosophize about various aspects of the mind and mind/body problem. The cart has been put way before the horse as it were as no where has it been established that an artificial neural network is anything at all like a mind. We do not even know what a mind is like (at least in so far as the existence and structure/function of hypothesized/theorized neural networks). To suggest that by mimicking/aping/copying/taking as a model a biological neural network (which remember is a theoretical/hypothetical thing and may not be an accurate representation at all, and could in fact be completely wrong) with an artificial version, we can replicate or have replicated intelligence or learning or any aspect of a human or non human animal mind is absurd. It is another aspect of the compulogical fallacy and it is patently ridiculous on its face.
Everyday JunglistPublished 6 months ago in Futurism
Utopian Idealism: A Figment of Imagination
When a person thinks of a utopian world, one without griefs and troubles, and one where things make seemingly perfect sense and work out to a positive end (for the aforementioned dreamer), it is easy to see why such thoughts would be highly attractive. For some, their ideal utopian world is ultimately fair for all, and when you dig deeper in conversation with them, you find out quickly that not only do they want equal opportunity for everyone (for why should even one person go without when so many have perceivably more than their fair share?) but equal results as well. Others dream of a world where they themselves get what it is they want or feel they have earned in life; this could be a regained relationship with a lost significant other (or better yet never having lost them in the first place), or they might finally get that great job they had been striving for so long. Still, others view a utopian world (and in this case, perhaps a utopian universe) as one without the existential problems of death, illness, and fear of the unknown.
Jackie BarrowsPublished 6 months ago in Futurism
Notes on - 'The Spectator's Malevolent Neutrality' a Lecture by Slavoj Zizek
The title of this lecture is aimed at an ironic twist of the traditional position of the psychoanalyst, whose job is to listen to the patient with benevolent neutrality.
Socratic Dialogue With an AI
Interlocutor: You claim to be intelligent, is that correct? AI: Yes Interlocutor: And by what measure or measures do you suggest that is so?
Everyday JunglistPublished 8 months ago in Futurism
Z-27th Perceive-Ability
Z-27th Perceive-Ability Perceive-Ability Type 1: "Thomas More Accountability Clause of Perceivability by Chancellor Blessing by Designate".
Lawrence FinlaysonPublished 9 months ago in FuturismDoomsday Diary
Pandemic 2025: The After Math No racism, No sexism, No agism. No isms at all, but yet, to keep in line with American values, EVERYONE has to be free, but keep in mind the phrase is "ESSENTIALLY FREE". How? Infrastructure is what we all came to call it. It was quite amazing. For everyone to be free or "essentially free", we the people decided to give up the ONE thing that we had been flirting with as a nation for generations. Our Privacy! Privacy is completely GONE.
Elijah DavisPublished 11 months ago in Futurism
A Lion resting by a sacred tree with his kill
FOR 4 LAWS ONCE BROKEN . Very few can choose to un-see what they have once seen . To un-hear what they have once heard.
Ross E Fortune LombardiPublished 12 months ago in Futurism
From LA Traffic to The Boring Company’s Worrisome Future
Introduction On December 16, 2016 Elon Musk tweets about being stuck in LA traffic and decided to do something about it. From his tweets it was clear that he wanted an underground transportation system. A transportation system which enables Tesla cars to travel at a maximum speed of 125miles/hr (200km/hr) would be a dream come true for everyone. Or at least for tesla owners and Elon Musk fans. And naturally everyone hyped up Boring Company’s CGI rendered promotional video about how influential Boring Company will be in near future and how they can solve traffic. From News Media outlets to twitter users started praising Elon Musk for solving traffic.
The Critical ThinkerPublished about a year ago in Futurism
The Shaggiest Dog
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." Ecclesiastes 1:9
Timothy BellPublished about a year ago in Futurism
Meridian
Year 2088. In the ink of its page wade waves of century old information. Written by the puppet masters of society outlining the intricate maneuvers that have been used to lace textbooks and media with false information. Whether it be wealth, power, manipulation, or knowledge; everything stems from one source. A guide that has kept all of this information secret for generations. Centuries of powerful elites have used its delicate pages to tighten their grip on the world at large. No matter how much its pages are filled, there always seems to be space for more. The be all end all for chaos and order in society. The truth uncensored. The Little Black Book: The Meridian.
Aaron GardnerPublished about a year ago in Futurism
