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.
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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
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So we'll have to build, from the ground up, an easily sharable way of communicating
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. We'd probably start with basic materials, you know, like how instead of sending a vial
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Once we have materials down, we can do clocks – we just tell the aliens that if they take
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, and wait for that photon to oscillate 9,192,631,770 times: that's what we call one second.
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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
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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.
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