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RUSSIA TO BUILD A GIGANTIC 'CRYOGENIC ARK� OF ALL LIVING THINGS BY 2018

Moscow State University to create a modern day Noah�s Ark.

Moscow State University has been granted a billion rubles, the largest ever scientific

grant in Russian history, to collect and store the DNA over every single living and extinct

creature to have ever walked the Earth.

This is planned to be the world�s first database containing such a comprehensive reserve

of biological information about the species of the Earth.

The project has been termed �Noah�s Ark� after the Biblical story by the rector of

Moscow State University, Viktor Sadivnichy.

He has explained to the media that the ambitious project will involve a databank which will

store comprehensive information about every single creature that has ever lived on Earth

and will be accessible to students and to the public in the form of a giant ark, approximately

430 square kilometers in size.

Some of the specimens will be held in cryogenically frozen form, whereas others will have their

DNA extracted and stored in petri-dishes.

There will also be information banks where DNA is not necessarily available, he explains.

The ark, which is expected to be finished in 2018, will be housed in one of the central

campuses at the university.

NOT QUITE THE BIBLICAL NOAH�S ARK, BUT POSSIBLY THE NEXT BEST THING According to the university�s

press office, the database will involve biomaterials collected from various branches of Moscow

State University including the Botanical Garden, the Anthropological Museum, the Zoological

Museum and others.

In addition to involving established academics from various departments of the university,

it will also involve extensive input from the younger generation of scientists affiliated

with Moscow State.

It is also hoped that assistance will be forthcoming for the project from other places across the

world.

This is not the first time that a country has embarked on such an incredibly ambitious

project.

In the United Kingdom, the Frozen Ark project is still ongoing.

The British project involves the preservation of the genetic information of all endangered

life forms on the planet Earth.

This project is referred to as the animal equivalent of the Millennium Seed Bank which

plans to collect a specimen of all of the world�s seeds.

However, this latest project is considered to be the most ambitious of all the biological

data collection enterprises, and the historical significance of the Ark is not lost on the

staff at Moscow State University.

�If it�s realized, this will be a leap in Russian history as the first nation to

create an actual Noah�s Ark of sorts, � the rector said.

For more infomation >> RUSSIA TO BUILD A GIGANTIC 'CRYOGENIC ARK' OF ALL LIVING THINGS - Duration: 3:12.

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How to Build a Teleporter with Aliens - Duration: 3:51.

Suppose we're working with aliens who live near Alpha Centauri to build a wormhole teleporter

so we can go visit them - for dinner, or interstellar diplomacy, or whatever. Of course we'll

need to be able to talk with them about what to make each side of the portal out of, how

big to make the various pieces, and so on. But since we've never been to Alpha Centauri,

and they've never been here, this is tricky – I mean, if you tell me to make you an

arc that's 300 cubits long, and I don't know what a cubit is, you'll probably get

an arc that's not exactly what you were hoping for .

So we'll have to build, from the ground up, an easily sharable way of communicating

about the universe, where distances and such are based on ideas, rather than specific artifacts

. We'd probably start with basic materials, you know, like how instead of sending a vial

with a chunk of lithium in it across interstellar space, we can just say "use the atom that

has 3 protons, 3 neutrons, and 3 electrons." Water would be "the molecule that's a

combination of one atom with 8 protons and two atoms with 1 proton." And so on.

Once we have materials down, we can do clocks – we just tell the aliens that if they take

the atom with 55 protons and 78 neutrons , make it emit a photon of light in a certain way

, and wait for that photon to oscillate 9,192,631,770 times: that's what we call one second.

Once we have clocks, we can do distances: just tell the aliens to see how far light

goes in one 299,792,458th of a second – that's what we call a meter.

But this is when we would run into a massive roadblock – literally. Pretty much the

rest of our communication about the universe requires knowing what mass is, and what we

currently call a kilogram isn't an idea we can just tell distant aliens, the way we

can say "the atom with 3 protons". A kilogram is just a particular lump of metal sitting

in a particular room in a particular place on our planet , and if you want to know how

many kilograms of say, antimatter, you have, you have to take it there and weigh them against

each other . In the very near future, we're going to

settle on a more sensible way of talking about mass, so instead of saying "in order to

build this teleporter you have to come to the part of earth with good cheese so we can

show you our shiny lump of metal," , we'll either be telling the aliens to just get a

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or we'll tell them to weigh how much mass an atom or molecule loses after emitting a

photon of light that oscillates roughly 135.6392534 septillion septillion times each second. One

of these two concepts will be our new kilogram, and even though the pile of atoms option sounds

simpler in principle, it's actually kind of harder and more expensive to do in practice.

Whichever way it is, once we have our new way of communicating about mass as an idea

instead of an object, we'll be able to build our wormhole teleporter with the alpha centaurians

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How to build a smart Facebook Messenger chatbot using AI and NLP ft Inigo Montoya - Duration: 7:58.

My name is Inigo Montoya.

You killed my father.

Prepare to die.

Hey my name is actually Bhaskar Sarma and my father is hale and hearty and this is not

a video about an outlaw about to avenge his father's murder.

It's kind of boring.

it's about building a smart Facebook chatbot.

I know I know.

If you are using a Facebook Chatbot you are gonna love this video because here I want

to show you how I built a chatbot which doesn't just behave like a glorified app or website

or navigation bar, which most chatbots do.

You basically have a specific set of responses that the bot asks and if you follow the response,

for instance the bot asks you to send the email if you type something else the bot gets

all confused and the user experience is kinda shit because the user doesn't feel like they

are chatting with a real person which is the whole point of a bot because it's a sort of a

natural language processing engine. This is built on Google and it's called api.ai. This

service basically uses all the fancy machine learning and AI and it takes the responses

from chatfuel- in this example I am using chatfuel to build my bot. So it takes the

responses that are not expected by the bot. it processes the responses through its NLP

engine and it transfers back the responses to the user in such a way the user understands.

I am not going to show you a lot of things here because I've not really set it up that

much but I have a use case. Suppose you have a restaurant and you have a bot which basically

of

tells people when they can get their pizza.burgers, what have you. tells them the order status,

tells them how long it will take for the order to be sent and there are a specific set of

responses that the bot understands. So you click on a button that says Order Status and

I found a way to

the bot will tell the user that "Hey, your order is dispatched and it's going to be reach

you in 15 minutes". What happens if the user instead of tapping on the button says "Hey,

where's my pizza". So if you have not incorporated some specific responses in chatfuel's native

incorporate artificial intelligence using a natural language

artificial intelligence setting then the bot won't understand that and there are so many

variations of language. We understand that when the customer asks where is my pizza the

customer wants the order status. But the bot is dumb and it doesn't understand the nuances

of the language. And this is where the natural language processing tool comes in. So if your

bot has an NLP engine built in its going to recognize a vast array of responses which

all mean order status and is going to deliver a usable response. So I have a dumb bot right

now which is a lead gen bot. This bot basically introduces you to a series of services. For

instance this bot is built to get people to ask if they want a bot. I know, pretty meta.

So if I click on the Yes here which is what the bot expects then I will get the standard

response which asks me to send my email and then it will ask me to send a Skype ID and

set up an appointment. That's all well and good. But what happens if I type something

like I am bored. You have given users option to type and people do that even if you have

given explicit instructions sometimes people just type something. So there you go. It doesn't

recognize it. People will not really do this but you never know. This is a simple use case.

Now this is a smart bot for a mortgage broker which basically asks people information about

their financial status when they are seeking a home loan. So if I click on this I will

get the normal bot flow. I can show you this later. But what if I type How are you. So

as you can see this might look like a party trick but as I told you before there are a

lot of options you have given that api.ai is compatible with Facebook Messenger which

service

means that you can send photos, clickable links, gifs...everything which Facebook Messenger

basically

can display. So the scope is vast and you can do a lot of things like pulling things

from a database, map locations, what have you. So if this is interesting and I believe

that it will be for you I am going to put the link of the tutorial that I followed in

the comment below . it takes some time and there are some services you have to sign up

for and there's some tech stuff going on- it's more or less copy paste but you still

need to do some groundwork. Do that and if you want a bot of your own give me a ping.

Montoya out.