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Demonstrators in Morocco rally in support of press freedom
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It hasn't been the best of football seasons for Liberty and Freedom.
Yet, just as is the case in Allentown with Allen and Dieruff and many other area rivalries, the records don't matter. The two Bethlehem public schools get all pumped up for spirit week.
This year, there's a new event to boost those spirits in Bethlehem.
The Liberty and Freedom faculties will do battle in a flag football game at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Bethlehem Area School District Stadium to support the Race For Adam Foundation.
Adam Recke, a freshman student at Freedom, has been battling a rare and deadly disease called Niemann Pick Type C.
The school district is uniting to rally around Recke and create awareness about his disease with what figures to be a special night.
This is reminiscent of last April's Allen-Dieruff alumni powderpuff game at J. Birney Crum Stadium to support the fight against pancreatic cancer.
And just as was the case with the older Canaries and Huskies, the teams involved want to put on a good show for a cause.
Joe Stellato, the Freedom boys basketball coach who helped to establish the popular student section called the "Riot Squad," was asked to coordinate the fundraiser.
"We've got some former athletes like Adam Bednarik and Dan Kremus, who used to play at Northampton, on our Freedom team and Liberty has some athletes on their side as well," Stellato said. "Some of the guys are in pretty good shape and some have been dropping like flies at the practices."
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Veterans who went on the Freedom Honor Flight in September gathered to share their memories on Sunday.
The Freedom Honor Flight organizers hosted the reunion at the La Crosse Center.
About 300 veterans and their friends and family came to the event to see a slideshow of all the pictures from the trip.
Organizers say they also opened the floor to vets to share stories about the flight or their time in the service.
They say it's a special time to see how important the trip is for so many of the veterans.
"This is kind of a closure thing for them, but they'll typically come here a month, month and a half after the flight and they'll say, 'Geez, dad or grandpa or grandma is more engaged now than he or she has been in years,' because they perk right up and suddenly they've got something to talk about and you put the nickle in and they talk for two hours about how they had the honor flight experience," said Freedom Honor Flight President Bill Hoel.
One of the Korean War veterans at the reunion said on the flight he felt appreciated and recognized for his service.
It's a feeling he says he's never had.
"Korea is known as the forgotten war, Vietnam unfortunately was acknowledged in a negative way. Korean War was, "Oh you were gone? Where were you?' There was no recognition, so this serves a very important ending," said Korean War veteran Irvin Yelle.
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LYNCHBURG, Va. Tea party hero Rand Paul warned scientific advancements could lead to eugenics during a visit today at Liberty University, looking to boost the political fortunes of fellow Republican Ken Cuccinelli's bid for governor.
During a visit to the Christian school founded by Jerry Falwell, Paul looked to energize conservative supporters by warning that people who are short, overweight or less intelligent could be eliminated through abortion. With one week remaining, Cuccinelli is hoping the joint appearance with the U.S. senator from Kentucky will encourage the far-right flank of his party to abandon third-party libertarian spoiler Robert Sarvis.
"In your lifetime, much of your potential or lack thereof can be known simply by swabbing the inside of your cheek," Paul said to a packed sporting arena on Liberty's campus. "Are we prepared to select out the imperfect among us?"
Some states ran eugenics programs that sterilized those considered defective in the 1900s, though all were abandoned by the 1970s after scientists discredited the idea.
Meanwhile, former President Bill Clinton joined Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe on the road for a second day in what is shaping up to be a campaign that will be decided by the furthest flanks of both parties.
Cuccinelli, who trails McAuliffe in polls and money, was fighting to reset the race that has slipped from his grasp. A four-day visit from Clinton along with the millions of dollars he has helped raise was set to boost the Democrats in the state. With turnout expected to be 40 percent of registered voters or less, the results were likely to be decided by how effective each candidate could be at turning out strong partisans.
Cuccinelli has turned to conservative base issues such as abortion rights, coal and guns to make sure his allies show up for Nov. 5's election. He has also turned to tea party leaders, such as Paul, to convince Republicans to cast their ballot for him and not for Sarvis.
Sarvis, a former GOP candidate, has the backing of 11 percent of Republicans, according to a Quinnipiac University poll last week. While those voters alone aren't enough to put Cuccinelli in the lead, they signal a discomfort among some Republicans about Cuccinelli's deep conservative beliefs.
The appeal to conservatives was high on Clinton's mind a day earlier as he campaigned with McAuliffe, decrying "political extremism."
"If you can get somebody into a fanatic frame of mind where everyone who doesn't agree with them is their enemy, and everybody who doesn't agree with them is out to get them, and you can turn every news story into something that makes the steam come out of your ears instead of a light come on in your brain ... they will vote," Clinton said in Richmond.
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LYNCHBURG, Va. Tea party hero Rand Paul warned scientific advancements could lead to eugenics during a visit today at Liberty University, looking to boost the political fortunes of fellow Republican Ken Cuccinelli's bid for governor.
During a visit to the Christian school founded by Jerry Falwell, Paul looked to energize conservative supporters by warning that people who are short, overweight or less intelligent could be eliminated through abortion. With one week remaining, Cuccinelli is hoping the joint appearance with the U.S. senator from Kentucky will encourage the far-right flank of his party to abandon third-party libertarian spoiler Robert Sarvis.
"In your lifetime, much of your potential or lack thereof can be known simply by swabbing the inside of your cheek," Paul said to a packed sporting arena on Liberty's campus. "Are we prepared to select out the imperfect among us?"
Some states ran eugenics programs that sterilized those considered defective in the 1900s, though all were abandoned by the 1970s after scientists discredited the idea.
Meanwhile, former President Bill Clinton joined Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe on the road for a second day in what is shaping up to be a campaign that will be decided by the furthest flanks of both parties.
Cuccinelli, who trails McAuliffe in polls and money, was fighting to reset the race that has slipped from his grasp. A four-day visit from Clinton along with the millions of dollars he has helped raise was set to boost the Democrats in the state. With turnout expected to be 40 percent of registered voters or less, the results were likely to be decided by how effective each candidate could be at turning out strong partisans.
Cuccinelli has turned to conservative base issues such as abortion rights, coal and guns to make sure his allies show up for Nov. 5's election. He has also turned to tea party leaders, such as Paul, to convince Republicans to cast their ballot for him and not for Sarvis.
Sarvis, a former GOP candidate, has the backing of 11 percent of Republicans, according to a Quinnipiac University poll last week. While those voters alone aren't enough to put Cuccinelli in the lead, they signal a discomfort among some Republicans about Cuccinelli's deep conservative beliefs.
The appeal to conservatives was high on Clinton's mind a day earlier as he campaigned with McAuliffe, decrying "political extremism."
"If you can get somebody into a fanatic frame of mind where everyone who doesn't agree with them is their enemy, and everybody who doesn't agree with them is out to get them, and you can turn every news story into something that makes the steam come out of your ears instead of a light come on in your brain ... they will vote," Clinton said in Richmond.
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Universe Today Review by Dave Dehetre
Astronomy Photographer of the Year is a large format glossy book that covers the Royal Observatory, Greenwichs annual astrophotography competition. It covers the competition years from 2009 to 2012 and subject categories: Earth and Space, Our Solar System, Deep Space, Young Astronomy Photographer, People and Space, Best Newcomer, and Robotic Scope. It also includes a brief how-to primer on astrophotography which, while fine, seemed perfunctory and tacked on.
The book is organized by years and then by category, with nice double page section breaks and clear detailed info alongside each image. However, within each year, the categories arent delineated, either through typographic means, such as headers or section breaks, or through any indication alongside the images themselves. Usually the category was obvious enough, but it was somewhat confusing at times. Each category contains images by the winner, runner-up, and sometimes one or more highly-commended entrants. Some categories also had other images without any designation of why they were included. This could be a typographic omission of some sort, or it could be that they were just additional entrants worthy of inclusion.
I was happy to see the consistently high caliber of work that came out of the competition. There isnt one image in the book that was less than outstanding. Ive spent many a night far out in the countryside doing astrophotography as a hobby, and Ive never come up with an image to compare.
I was also happy to see the competition segmented into subject areas as well as the more expected age/experience categories. This seems to acknowledge that there are different metrics and merit for the broad scope of styles/subjects in astrophotography.
One other point worth mentioning is that I found that many of the astrophotographers presented were people I was already familiar with, some from Flickr, some from Youtube, and some from periodicals like Sky at Night. I knew these people, and not because they produce great images, but because they are some of the people I learned astrophotography from. I think this points out one of the great underlying aspects of astrophotography: that it is collaborative in nature. And I find it heartening that the people who share the most, who help others and communicate, seem to be the ones who do the best work and are the most successful.
Im of two minds about Astronomy Photographer of the Year though. On the one hand, its very well done, beautiful, and stunning. Really everything you could ask for in a book on this subject. But against it, in part it is trying to document something (astrophotography) that is bigger and richer than can be captured in a book.
While the images are flawlessly presented, they lack the backlit brilliance provided by a computer screen, and they arent zoomable to view fine details. Many astrophotography images are available on-line at resolutions equivalent to wall-size if they were printed out.
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A team of seven Ghanaian research scientists, electronic technologists and mechanical engineers, have began training in South Africa on the independent operation and maintenance of radio telescopes on the continent.
This represents the first technical team from Africa to receive training as part of the African Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (AVN) programme.
The project is a collaboration between Ghana Space Sciences and Technology Institute of Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), Ministries of Science and Technology Innovation in Ghana and South Africa, National Science Foundation, and Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
The aim of the programme is to create a network of radio telescopes among the SKA SA African partner countries, namely, Ghana, Botswana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia.
"The training programme marks the start of a programme to strengthen African technical capability and a holistic approach to human capital development for radio astronomy, the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, Michael Masutha said at a launch of the project at MeerKAT Headquarters in Pinelands, Cape Town.
Involving the African partner countries in the AVN training programme is a means of ensuring that Africa is capacitated and ready for hosting the SKA.
Masutha said the training project would establish strong collaborative Africa-Europe network in science and engineering and would deliver practical training and hands-on experiences that would enthuse a new generation of scientists and engineers on the continent.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A technology start-up said on Monday that it had come up with software that works like a human brain in one key way: it can crack CAPTCHAs, the strings of tilted, squiggly letters that websites employ to make users "prove you are human," as Yahoo! and others put it.
San Francisco-based Vicarious developed the algorithm not for any nefarious purpose and not even to sell, said co-founder D. Scott Phoenix.
Instead, he said in a phone interview, "We wanted to show we could take the first step toward a machine that works like a human brain, and that we are the best place in the world to do artificial intelligence research."
The company has not submitted a paper describing its methodology to an academic journal, which makes it difficult for outside experts to evaluate the claim. Vicarious offers a demonstration of its technology at http://vicarious.com, showing its algorithm breaking CAPTCHAs from Google and eBay's PayPal, among others, but at least one expert was not impressed.
"CAPTCHAs have been around since 2000, and since 2003 there have been stories every six months claiming that computers can break them," said computer scientist Luis von Ahn of Carnegie Mellon University, a co-developer of CAPTCHAs and founder of tech start-up reCAPTCHA, which he sold to Google in 2009. "Even if it happens with letters, CAPTCHAs will use something else, like pictures" that only humans can identify against a distorting background.
CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. They are based on the standard set in 1950 by British mathematician Alan Turing in 1950: a machine can be deemed intelligent only if its performance is indistinguishable from a person's.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A technology start-up said on Monday that it had come up with software that works like a human brain in one key way: it can crack CAPTCHAs, the strings of tilted, squiggly letters that websites employ to make users "prove you are human," as Yahoo! and others put it.
San Francisco-based Vicarious developed the algorithm not for any nefarious purpose and not even to sell, said co-founder D. Scott Phoenix.
Instead, he said in a phone interview, "We wanted to show we could take the first step toward a machine that works like a human brain, and that we are the best place in the world to do artificial intelligence research."
The company has not submitted a paper describing its methodology to an academic journal, which makes it difficult for outside experts to evaluate the claim. Vicarious offers a demonstration of its technology at http://vicarious.com, showing its algorithm breaking CAPTCHAs from Google and eBay's PayPal, among others, but at least one expert was not impressed.
"CAPTCHAs have been around since 2000, and since 2003 there have been stories every six months claiming that computers can break them," said computer scientist Luis von Ahn of Carnegie Mellon University, a co-developer of CAPTCHAs and founder of tech start-up reCAPTCHA, which he sold to Google in 2009. "Even if it happens with letters, CAPTCHAs will use something else, like pictures" that only humans can identify against a distorting background.
CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. They are based on the standard set in 1950 by British mathematician Alan Turing in 1950: a machine can be deemed intelligent only if its performance is indistinguishable from a person's.
CAPTCHAs serve that function: in order to sign up for free email, post comments, buy tickets or other online activities, more than 100,000 websites require users to prove they are human by deciphering the squiggly letters, which are often blurred, smeared and cluttered with dots and lines.
In practice, someone trying to break CAPTCHAs in order to do what a site is trying to deter - sign up for umpteen email accounts, for instance - can easily hire someone to accomplish that. "Most CAPTCHAs now are broken by paying people in Bangladesh to do it manually," said computer scientist Greg Mori of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, an expert on machine learning and computer vision. "For 50 cents an hour, you can get someone to break seven per minute."
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Developing software to break CAPTCHAs would in theory speed that up exponentially. Vicarious said its algorithm achieves success rates of 90 to 97 percent, depending on the difficulty of the CAPTCHA; a CAPTCHA scheme is considered broken if a machine can break just 1 percent of the ones it generates.
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Image Caption: The Vicarious Team. From left to right: D. Scott Phoenix, Wolfgang Lehrach, Ken Kansky (top), CC Laan, Dileep George, Bhaskara Marthi. Credit: Adam David Cohen
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There have been movies and books around for quite a while depicting Artificial Intelligence (AI) software and machines that become self aware. Perhaps the most famous was The Terminator movie franchise, but it is by no means the only example. Until today, there seemed to be little hope of that ever happening. Vicarious, a California startup company that develops AI software, has announced that the algorithms used by its software can now reliably solve modern CAPTCHAs, including Googles reCAPTCHA. Googles reCAPTCHA is the worlds most widely used test of a machines ability to act human.
CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) are those little boxes with random phrases or words or numbers at the bottom of a web pages login. Until now,the ability to use them correctly proved you were a human logging in, not a computer set to spam the company, because they are specifically designed to be easy for humans and hard for computer programs.
Modern CAPTCHAs provide a representative snapshot of many of the problems encountered in generic visual perception: large variation among instances of objects, segmentation that requires understanding of the objects, and contextual disambiguation, said Vicarious researchers.
Our strategy is to solve CAPTCHAs using algorithms that are instances of a general framework for solving problems found in human perception and reasoning. This allows us to transfer our learning from solving CAPTCHAs to more general problems, like vision.
If, according to a Stanford University study, an algorithm is able to reach a precision of at least one percent, a CAPTCHA scheme is considered broken by the machine. Vicarious AI uses core insights from machine learning and neuroscience to achieve a success rate of up to 90 percent on modern CAPTCHAs from Google, Yahoo, PayPal, Captcha.com and others, rending text-based CAPTCHAs ineffective as a Turing Test.
A Turing Test is an assessment of a machines ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equal to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. Alan Turing introduced the idea in a paper titled Computing Machinery and Intelligence published in 1950. The original purpose of the Turing test was to determine whether a computer is able to fool a human interrogator into believing that it is also human, however, a newer standard interpretation is used today. The standard interpretation asks whether a computer is able to imitate a human. That is where Vicarious AI comes in.
Recent AI systems like IBMs Watson and deep neural networks rely on brute force: connecting massive computing power to massive datasets. This is the first time this distinctively human act of perception has been achieved, and it uses relatively minuscule amounts of data and computing power. The Vicarious algorithms achieve a level of effectiveness and efficiency much closer to actual human brains, said Vicarious co-founder D. Scott Phoenix.
The Vicarious RCN is not the first to break CAPTCHAs, but it is the first to do it reliably and with such a high success rate. Early efforts to create CAPTCHAs were poorly designed and easy to solve, using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) or standard machine learning methods. Modern CAPTCHAs, like Googles reCAPTCHA, are designed so well that these approaches have a zero percent accuracy. Single CAPTCHAs have been broken on a rare basis by researchers exploiting bugs or idiosyncrasies in the generation process; however, such simple programs dont attempt to understand the image. The errors they exploit are easily patched by fixing the CAPTCHA generator.
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In an attempt to take the first step towards building a machine that works like a human brain, technology startup Vicarious claims to have created software with an artificial intelligence sophisticated enough to crack the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA).
CAPTCHAs are short strings of text, numbers or symbols that are often used by websites as a means of authentication alongside a username and password. Invented by students at Carnegie Mellon University, it is a basic type of "challenge-response test," designed to determine whether or not the user is real or an automated bot.
Vicarious' co-founder, D. Scott Phoenix, said that the AI wasn't created for any malevolent or financial reasons; the San Francisco-based company wanted to prove to the world that it was possible and that "we are the best place in the world to do artificial intelligence research".
Vicarious providesa demonstration of its method on its website, which boasts cracking the CAPTCHAs of Google, eBay and Paypal, but doesn't go into significant detail as to how this was achieved.
Luis von Ahn, associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the developers of CAPTCHA, was less than impressed. He reminded Vicarious that CAPTCHA has been in use since 2000, and since 2003 there have been stories every six months with similar claims. One website provides 28 examples of apparent CAPTCHA hacks. According to Ahn, whilst text-based CAPTCHAs might be breakable, digitally distorted images can currently only be comprehended by humans.
Nonetheless Vicarious stands by its assertion that by leveraging core insights from machine learning and neuroscience, its AI achieves success rates of cracking up to 90 percent of modern CAPTCHAs. A CAPTCHA scheme is considered broken if an algorithm is able to reach a precision of at least one percent.
Vicarious's proclaims, "Solving CAPTCHA is the first public demonstration of the capabilities of Vicarious' Recursive Cortical Network (RCN) technology. Although still many years away, the commercial applications of RCN will have broad implications for robotics, medical image analysis, image and video search, and many other fields."
Similar AIs are currently in development, such as IBM's Watson. However, unlike Watson -- which uses a brute force approach by connecting massive computing power to massive datasets in an attempt to achieve similar AI goals -- Vicarious uses a "distinctively human act of perception", boasting that its algorithm requires miniscule amounts of data and computing power.
Dileep George, Vicarious' other co-founder, says the AI system is trained by showing it a series of letters and images: "It needs just a few examples of letters to learn about them. Previous work would require in the order 10,000 examples of a letter even to understand minor variations."
The company has many high-profile supporters, such as Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz who said, "We should be careful not to underestimate the significance of Vicarious crossing this milestone," adding, "this is an exciting time for artificial intelligence research, and they are at the forefront of building the first truly intelligent machines." Other supporters and investors (which have helped Vicarious achieve over 9 million in funding) include Jaan Tallinn, founding engineer of Skype and, before that, Kazaa and Adam D'Angelo, co-founder of the online knowledge market Quora.
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