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Month: December 2011

YouTube Offers 400k Educational Videos for Schools

Introducing YouTube for Schools. A free service that offers over 400,000 education videos to schools while blocking non-educational content and removing comments and related videos. Any bets on how long it takes kids to circumvent the safety features?

Matrix-Style Instant Learning A Real Possibility

I’m all for wanting to believe in stuff like this but I seriously doubt we are going to see “Matrix-style instant learning” any time soon.

Dubbed “Decoded Neurofeedback,” the computer-assisted learning hasn’t taught anyone kung fu (yet), but it has resulted in long-lasting improvement in tasks that rely on visual performance — such as playing a musical instrument or catching/hitting a ball.

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MIT Says Algorithm Can Predict Red Light Runners

No disrespect to our big-brained friends at MIT but who needs an algorithm to predict this? We all know exactly when another car is going to run a red light a smack into you…exactly one day after your insurance lapses.

In a paper that will appear in the journal IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Jonathan How, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, and three of his colleagues say they have come up with an algorithm that can predict whether an oncoming car is about to run a red light one or two seconds before a possible collision.

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