Breakpoint Book

What Does Breakpoint Mean?

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With people come networks, and with networks come breakpoints. Whether you’re in social media, business, or just dealing with people, a network forms and eventually hits its limit.

Lucky for you, you can acquaint yourself with these so-called breakpoints before it happens. Author Jeff Stibel reveals that “by learning about [the consistent cycles of networks in biology] you can learn how to build better businesses.”

Quirkily enough, ants are the key to understanding how to deal with a breakpoint. Ants know when they hit their breakpoint. So, instead of producing more and more ants, they take their 10,000 or so ants and become a sophisticated, collective society that sustains itself.

If you want to learn more about the sophistication of ant colonies and how to know a breakpoint when you see one, get your copy of Breakpoint today!

 

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Hold Your IQ Close as Computers Transcend Human Knowledge

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human robotsLast year, Google completed what was then the world’s largest neural network, advancing technology so far as to give computers human capabilities: The robots they created were able to recognize cats in YouTube videos (a slight slap in the face to our intelligence? I do love my cat videos though…).

But today, Stanford announced the completion of a neural network 6.5 times the size of Google’s impressive  network. I’m no neuroscientist, but even I know 11 billion neural connections is a huge advancement. Though robots are still quite a ways from approaching the amount of neural connections in a our brains, their intelligence is increasing rapidly.

For those of us who can’t quite grasp the implications of neural networks, this powerful video of 17-year old Google Science fair winner Brittany Wenger, who created a neural network in her bedroom by watching YouTube videos, is a perfect example. Her completed network, Cloud4Cancer, detects the severity of breast cancer with a success rate of 99.11 percent:

 

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Welcome to The Even-More-Modern Era

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Screen shot 2013-06-13 at 3.28.33 PMRemote controls? Traffic? So yesterday.The Modern Era is becoming even more modern.

We published a post last week about new, unimaginable technology that allows you to control a robot with your brain–a technology with widespread implications in neuroscience, medical, and technology fields alike. The need for a remote control, let alone the ability to  control one, is becoming more and more old fashioned.

And today the world announces its first flying bicycle. Researchers from three Czech firms teamed together to invent the first flying bike, taking flight yesterday for nearly five minutes. With current technology, the batteries of these bikes only last a few minutes but imagine the implications these bikes could have as battery life extends.

Will traffic, a commuter’s worst enemy, finally be defeated? Is traffic soon to be a battle of the past?

 

 

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