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... to his successor in No 10 Picture Gallery Near miss at sea Child rapist is jailed Wheelchair killers Briton dies in crash Robber ...
2007 - Gale Group | TDA
... grad ϱ. If, on the other hand, the singularity is near the boundary of the body, then no precise information ...
Tópico(s): Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
1998 - American Institute of Physics | Journal of Mathematical Physics
H. Dehnen, В. Д. Иващук, V. N. Melnikov,
... potential is considered. The dynamics of the model near the singularity is reduced to a billiard on the (N-1)- ... shown that for n > 1 the oscillating behaviour near the singularity is absent and solutions have an asymptotical Kasner-like ... are described and oscillating behaviour of scalar fields near the singularity is obtained.
Tópico(s): Advanced Mathematical Theories and Applications
2004 - Springer Science+Business Media | General Relativity and Gravitation
Nikhilesh R. Vaid, Samar M. Adel,
... a reality today. Ray Kurzweil in his book “ The singularity is near”, states that computers will routinely pass the Turing test by 2029.22https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near. accessed on 05/02/23Google Scholar In the same decade, nanobots will be able to practically ...
Tópico(s): Dental Education, Practice, Research
2023 - Elsevier BV | Seminars in Orthodontics
Guizhong Xie, Ke Li, Yudong Zhong, Hao Li, Bing Hao, Wenliao Du, Chunya Sun, Haoqi Wang, Xiaoyu Wen, Liangwen Wang,
... singular integrals) and singularity (for singular integrals only). The near singularity is caused by the location of the singular points or near singular ... also separated independently. Then, a derived sinh method is developed for removal of the near singularities. For the nearly singular integrals, a coordinate transformation at the nearest point is employed to separate the two variables. For each ...
Tópico(s): Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods
2020 - Elsevier BV | Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements
The bestselling author of The Singularity Is Near explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain Ray Kurzweil is arguably todays most influential futurist. In How to Create a ...
Tópico(s): Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
2013 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
... of machine training Raymond Kurzweil and his book The Singularity Is Near (2005). It is shown that the mathematical analysis of the series of events (described by Kurzweil in his famous book), which starts with the emergence of our galaxy and ends with the decoding of the DNA code, is indeed ideally described by an extremely simple mathematical function (not known to Kurzweil himself) with a singularity in the region of 2029. It is also ...
Tópico(s): Global Energy and Sustainability Research
2020 - Springer International Publishing | World-systems evolution and global futures
... of machine training Raymond Kurzweil and his book The Singularity Is Near (2005). It is shown that the mathematical analysis of the series of events (described by Kurzweil in his famous book), which starts with the emergence of our Galaxy and ends with the decoding of the DNA code, is indeed ideally described by an extremely simple mathematical function (not known to Kurzweil himself) with a singularity in the region of 2029. It is also ...
Tópico(s): Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
2018 - | Journal of Big History
... of machine training Raymond Kurzweil and his book The Singularity Is Near (2005).It is shown that the mathematical analysis of the series of events (described by Kurzweil in his famous book), which starts with the emergence of our Galaxy and ends with the decoding of the DNA code, is indeed ideally described by an extremely simple mathematical function (not known to Kurzweil himself) with a singularity in the region of 2029.It is also ...
Tópico(s): Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
2018 - | Journal of Big History
Yuntao Ju, Wenchuan Wu, Boming Zhang, Hongbin Sun,
... is needed in most cases. The Jacobian matrix singularity near the SNB is avoided by the addition of a linear equation, ...
Tópico(s): Power Systems Fault Detection
2014 - Institution of Engineering and Technology | IET Generation Transmission & Distribution
... of machines overtaking human abilities (Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near , Viking Press, 2006) on the basis of the exponential rate of electronic integration--- ...
Tópico(s): Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
2014 - Association for Computing Machinery | Ubiquity
Gang Wu, Yanchun Wang, Xiaoqing Jin,
... are two disadvantages to this algorithm. The first is "near singularity," and the second is "stagnation." In this paper, we first present a modified and shifted GMRES$(m)$ algorithm to deal with the problem of near singularity. In order to overcome the drawback of stagnation ...
Tópico(s): Tensor decomposition and applications
2012 - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
Ying Yang, Zhenliang Hu, Xian‐Fang Li,
... crack-tip singularity. A usual inverse square-root singularity is derived near the crack tips. The influences of surface elasticity on ...
Tópico(s): Fatigue and fracture mechanics
2019 - Elsevier BV | Mechanics of Materials
I. J. R. Aitchison, C. Kacser,
... of a rescattering graph contribute equally near a singularity which is near the physical region.
Tópico(s): Theoretical and Computational Physics
1968 - American Institute of Physics | Physical Review
Iver Brevik, Shinʼichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov, Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez,
... and Type IV singularities the dynamical entropy bound is violated near the singularity even if quantum effects are taken into account. ...
Tópico(s): Advanced Differential Geometry Research
2010 - Springer Science+Business Media | The European Physical Journal C
... functions is given and a precise asymptotic representation near the singularity is obtained. The approach is based on using the theory of quasiregular mappings to linearize the p-Laplacian by means ...
Tópico(s): Numerical methods in inverse problems
1991 - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
Peijian Chen, Shaohua Chen, Juan Peng, Feng Gao, Hao Liu,
... the thin film is comprehensively studied. The stress singularity near the bonded edges is also focused on. It is found that a ...
Tópico(s): Vibration and Dynamic Analysis
2019 - Elsevier BV | Engineering Fracture Mechanics
An analysis of Ray Kurzweil's recent book The Singularity Is Near is given, along with Drew McDermott's recent critique. The conclusion is that Kurzweil does an excellent job of fleshing out one particular plausible scenario regarding the future of AI, in which human-level AI first arrives via human-brain emulation. McDermott's arguments against the notion of Singularity via iteratively self-improving AI, as described by ...
Tópico(s): Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
2007 - Elsevier BV | Artificial Intelligence
John E. Lloyd, Vincent Hayward,
... using “coordinate pivoting,” in which the path timing near singularities is controlled using the fastest changing joint coordinate. This allows the handling ... along the path, dividing it into intervals, with the knot density increasing near singularities. An appropriate path velocity is then computed at each knot point, and the resulting knot velocity sequence is integrated to yield ...
Tópico(s): Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
2001 - SAGE Publishing | The International Journal of Robotics Research
... elasticity solutions, it is found that no stress singularity is present near the crack tips. The nonlocal elastic solutions yield a ...
Tópico(s): Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization
2005 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Solids and Structures
... is found that no stress and electric displacement singularity is present near the crack tip. The non-local dynamic elastic solutions ...
Tópico(s): Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
2002 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Engineering Science
... his discussion in this journal of Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near, Modis criticizes Kurzweil's loose characterization of the “knee” of a growth curve. Likewise, the “tipping ...
Tópico(s): Economic and Technological Innovation
2007 - Elsevier BV | Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Zhengong Zhou, Biao Wang, Yuguo Sun,
... is found that no stress and electric displacement singularity is present near the crack tip. The non-local elastic solutions yield ...
Tópico(s): Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
2003 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Solids and Structures
... is found that no stress and electric displacement singularity is present near the crack tip.
Tópico(s): Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
2002 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Solids and Structures
Gleb Dyatlov, Dmitry Kushnir, Yuliy Dashevsky,
... Both are topics for further research. Currently, the singularity near the endpoints is treated by simply refining the grid, which deteriorates ...
Tópico(s): Geophysical Methods and Applications
2017 - Society of Exploration Geophysicists | Geophysics
Xu Wang, Zheng Zhong, Fuqiang Wu,
... is observed that the nature of the field singularities near the crack tip is intimately dependent on the crack moving velocity. In the extremely low speed regime, the singularities are δ=−1/2±iε1; in the low ...
Tópico(s): Vibration and Dynamic Analysis
2003 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Solids and Structures
Y.C. Gao, Zhang Xiao-ti, Keh-Chih Hwang,
... crack in steady growth in power hardening media the near-tip singularity is not of the power function type but is logarithmic. By consideration of the inner boundary layer in the neighborhood of the unloading boundary, the asymptotic near-tip solutions for stress and strain fields are ...
Tópico(s): Metallurgy and Material Forming
1983 - Springer Science+Business Media | International Journal of Fracture
... the limiting behaviour of the physical space-time near the singularity is analysed.
Tópico(s): Advanced Differential Geometry Research
2008 - Elsevier BV | Annals of Physics
... Fail or Succeed (Viking, 2004), Ray Kurtweil's The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Viking, 2005), Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable ( ...
Tópico(s): World Systems and Global Transformations
2012 - Penn State University Press | Utopian Studies
A.S.V. Ravi Kanth, Y. N. Reddy,
... the Chebyshev economizition on [0,@d], where @d is near the singularity, we first replace it by a regular problem on some interval [@d,1]. The stable central difference method is then employed to solve the problem over the ...
Tópico(s): Numerical methods for differential equations
2003 - Elsevier BV | Applied Mathematics and Computation