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  1. Hype for the Future 133E: City of Hinton, West Virginia

    Overview The City of Hinton serves as the county seat of Summers County in the southern portion of the State of West Virginia and is centrally located within the county, along the New River near the mouth of the Greenbrier River. Attractions in the area include the Veterans Memorial Museum, the Hinton Railroad Museum, the Campbell-Flannagan-Murrell House Museum, and the Guest House Inn on Courthouse Square, with scenic areas further into the vicinity also including such features as the […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  2. Hype for the Future 133E: City of Hinton, West Virginia

    Overview The City of Hinton serves as the county seat of Summers County in the southern portion of the State of West Virginia and is centrally located within the county, along the New River near the mouth of the Greenbrier River. Attractions in the area include the Veterans Memorial Museum, the Hinton Railroad Museum, the Campbell-Flannagan-Murrell House Museum, and the Guest House Inn on Courthouse Square, with scenic areas further into the vicinity also including such features as the […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  3. Yapay zekanın babası Geoffrey Hinton'dan kritik uyarı: AI, insanlığı aşabilir ve iş kayıplarına neden olabilir. Teknoloji devlerinin hızı endişe verici. Küresel iş birliği şart! İnsanlığın geleceği için şimdi harekete geçmeliyiz.

    🚩 #YapayZeka #AI #Hinton #Teknoloji #Gelecek

  4. The Only Language the White Settler Speaks: Ohio Police Say Grieving Black Father Avenges Son’s Slaying By Killing One of Theirs

    The killing of Timothy Thomas in 2001 ignited Cincinnati’s long-simmering tensions over police violence. This struggle continues today, forcing a painful question: When justice is denied, does violence become the only language of resistance?

    Wanting cigarettes, 19-year-old Timothy Thomas left the Cincinnati apartment he shared with his girlfriend and infant son around midnight on April 7, 2001. Later that night, two off-duty police officers spotted him emerging from a nightclub called The Warehouse and called dispatch to announce:

     “Ah, we have a suspect, male, Black about 6 feet, red bandanna, last seen eastbound on 13th. He has, ah, about 14 warrants on him.”

    The warrants were all for nonviolent offenses, mostly traffic charges. Nonetheless, Thomas spotted the patrolmen spotting him, and a foot chase ensued through  Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood that was  settled by 19th-century German immigrants but was home to a mostly poor, African American population by 2001.

    Around 2:00 in the morning, a white police officer–who would later acknowledge that the unarmed teenager startled him– fatally shot Thomas once in the chest. 

    Three days later, the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood was on fire.

    Thomas’ death brought to 15 the number of African American men killed by Cincinnati police officers between 1995 and 2001. In the most high-profile of these cases, police mistook Roger Owensby Jr.–a sergeant in the U.S. Army who had no criminal record—for a drug dealer, put him in a chokehold, maced, and beat him. Officers were tried and acquitted.

    Thomas’ killing was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back,  Shouting “no justice, no peace” and “stop the violence” hundreds of protesters assembled outside the Over-the-Rhine police precinct on April 9, hurling cans and rocks at police officers wearing riot gear, and shoving their way into the police precinct.  Cincinnati police officers pelted the crowd with bean bags, rubber bullets, and tear gas, but that did little to deter the rebellion, which mushroomed the following day; hundreds of insurrectionists hurled trash cans at not just police but through the windows of local businesses, setting fire to a farmers’ market, and looting and vandalizing stores. Scotty Johnson, president of a fraternal organization of African American police officers known as the Sentinels said at the time:

     “I think what happened here…was a long time coming. The city council and administration had forewarning for years about the bad climate between Cincinnati police officers and the Black community, but nobody paid attention. Now I think the message has been sent that we need to quit playing games with police officers-community relations and do some concrete things to bring our city back together.”

    And that is exactly what happened. The violence began to dissipate when Cincinnati Mayor Charlie Luken declared a state of emergency, and ordered a four-day curfew. But he emerged from the ordeal singing a different tune: whereas he and other city councilors had mostly ignored African American grievances about police violence, he now acknowledged and pledged to do something about it.

     “There’s a great deal of frustration within the community, which is understandable. We’ve had way too many deaths in our community at the hands of Cincinnati police officers… I’m not asking anyone not to be frustrated but to just realize in the short-term someone could get hurt.”

    At a press conference a week after the insurrection, he told reporters:

    We have been a community in crisis. Now that the disturbances have subsided, they must never occur again. We have an opportunity for a new Cincinnati. This city is committed to eliminating all inappropriate police violence. We will not tolerate injustice in any form. We need immediate improvement and strong city and police leadership accountability for these results.”

    The changes were immediate. Within days of Mayor Luken’s address, the Justice Department announced that it would review the Cincinnati Police Department’s practices, and in 2002, city officials and the police union entered into a collaborative agreement with the ACLU and an activist organization, the Black United Front. Designed to improve officer training–encouraging the use of tasers rather than firearms for instance– and strengthen the relationship between police and the African American community, the collaborative agreement was unprecedented, paying the RAND Corporation, as one example, $1 million to survey residents. Iris Roley, project manager for Cincinnati’s Black United Front, said in a 2019 interview:

    “We had paid RAND millions of dollars to come in here and survey us during this process. I can’t find a Black person that was ever surveyed by RAND. Nor has the city ever paid us a million dollars to do a survey, either.”

    The collaborative agreement is widely credited by Roley and others in Cincinnati’s African American community with reducing police violence in their neighborhoods. But it has not altogether eliminated police terror against Blacks as evidenced by the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Ryan Hinton last Thursday. Police say that the African American teenager pointed a gun at police as he fled from a stolen car; his death was the fourth police shooting so far this year in Hamilton County, two of them fatal. Prosecutors have determined that the first three were all justified shootings.

    Hours after seeing video footage of his son’s slaying last Friday, police say that his father, 38-year-old Rodney L. Hinton, drove his car into a Hamilton County sheriff’s deputy, Larry Henderson, killing him. Henderson had no connection to the fatal shooting of Hinton’s son but police say that Hinton plowed randomly into the slain police officer to avenge his son’s death.

    Hinton was charged with aggravated first-degree murder, a capital offense, but city officials are clearly on edge and apprehensive about the fire next time. Prosecutors have appealed for calm in the Black community, urging African American clergy and others to “let the process work.”

    While Hinton’s guilt or innocence has not yet been adjudicated, what is irrefutable is that the act of which he is accused underscores both the permanence of state terror against African Americans and the effectiveness of violence as a tool to combat it. Had the elder Hinton not responded to his son’s killing, it would’ve almost certainly been confined to the local media for a period of a few weeks or a few months at best, similar to the series of police killings of Black men a generation ago if not for the African American community’s violent response.

    As it stands, however, the Hinton family’s ordeal is a national story, and across the country, on social media, in barber shops and beauty salons, African Americans are once again debating what role violence should play in fighting our oppressors. While it remains a point of contention, particularly in light of the October 7, 2023 military assault by the Palestinian resistance against Israel’s illegal occupation, international law recognizes the right of subjugated people to use violence as a means of gaining self-determination. Moreover, the consensus among post-colonial scholars is that violence is the surest way to grab the attention of an indifferent oppressor.

    Paraphrasing the most famous anti-colonial intellectual, the French psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, one African American posted on social media this weekend:

    “Violence is the only language the white man understands.”

    Several others recalled a 2014 address by Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, in which he spoke of the recent killings of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner, reminding students at Baltimore’s historically black institution, Morgan State University, that both the Koran and the Bible invoked a “law of retaliation,” and “a life for a life.”

    “And as long as they kill us and go to Wendy’s and have a burger and go to sleep, they’ll keep killing us. But when we die and they die, then soon we’re going to sit at a table and talk about it! We’re tired! We want some of this earth or we’ll tear this goddamn country up!”

    Continuing, Farrakhan scolded parents for telling their children about “compromising,” and preachers for “being the pacifier for the white man’s tyranny.”

    Violence, or its threat, has long played a role in African liberation movements worldwide.  The anti-lynching activist and muckraking journalist, Ida B. Wells is widely known for her exhortation:  

    “A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.”

    Similarly, Malcolm X’s denunciation of nonviolence as a revolutionary tactic influenced the Black Panthers and others, as did efforts by Robert Williams and the Deacons of Self-Defense to promote gun ownership in the final stages of the civil rights era. Lesser known is the role that violence played in thwarting white mobs out for blood in Atlanta’s 1906 race riot, as well as the Red Summer of 1919, in which Black World War I veterans helped defend Black communities from attack, or formed militias that discouraged white supremacist incursions from alighting on their communities in the first place.

    And while South Africa’s iconic liberation hero, Nelson Mandela, is largely remembered as a kindly old man who led a peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy, he founded the African National Congress’ paramilitary wing, uMkhonto weSizwe–or Spear of the Nation–to attack the white-minority government’s military installations. It was the actions of  uMkhonto weSizwe, known as the MK, that led to his arrest and 1961 trial on charges of treason, in which he said defiantly to the court:

    “The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices – submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defense of our people, our future, and our freedom.”

    Years later, when Mandela was imprisoned at the notorious penal colony on Robben Island near Capetown, Chris Hani, the head of South Africa’s Communist Party and commander of uMkhonto weSizwe, urged Mandela to expand the scope of military installations to the white civilian population. When Hani was assassinated in 1993, he was the country’s second most popular politician after Mandela.

    Today, 30 years after South Africans of all races went to the polls for the first time to abolish apartheid, many Blacks lament that they failed to capitalize on what Fanon dubbed the “dragonslayer effect” in which the colonized gains confidence from the act of killing the colonizer. In fact, it is hardly uncommon to hear Black South Africans say even today:

    “We missed an opportunity to push the whites into the sea.”

    Perhaps the starkest comparison to be made, however, is between the elder Hinton and the plot of one of Toni Morrison’s most cherished novels, Song of Solomon. Published in 1977, the novel centers on a young African American who is recruited to join a secret society of Black vigilantes known as the Seven Days that was created in response to the lynching of Emmet Till. The Seven Days avenged racist violence on African Americans by attacking random whites in a similar fashion. Each member of the group is assigned a day of the week so that if an African American is assaulted on a Thursday, the vigilante assigned that day would be responsible for avenging their injury or death.

    Sandra Adell, a recently retired professor of African American studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said that it is difficult to discern Morrison’s inspiration for the Seven Days. On the one hand, she writes sympathetically of the Black men who form the secret society, but on the other hand she implies that the guilt of killing white people at random weighs heavily on each of the members, and hints that it may have driven them insane. Said Adell in an interview with Black Agenda Report:

    “This is what Morrison imagined. How it relates to the grief experienced by the father in Ohio is difficult to say.  If I were still teaching, I would certainly discuss the Seven Days in relation to his revenge killing.”

    Jon Jeter is the author of Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People and the co-author of A Day Late and a Dollar Short: Dark Days and Bright Nights in Obama’s Postracial America.

    abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=

    #blackLiberation #hinton #northAmerica #repression #whiteSupremacy

  5. Elon Musk’s fellowship of the Royal Societyremains intact after a meeting of the scientific body, the Guardian has learned, but questions remain about whether further action will be taken.
    Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO who also owns the social media platform X, was elected a fellow of the UK’s national academy of sciences in 2018, apparently in recognition of his work in the space and electric vehicle industries.

    Calls for the honour to be revoked have grown in recent months, as fellows of the Royal Society and the wider scientific community become increasingly alarmed by Musk’s conduct in relation to the academy’s code.
    Two eminent scientists have resigned their fellowships in protest against the lack of action by the Royal Society, while more than 3,400 members of the wider scientific community have signed an open letter organised by Stephen Curry, an emeritus professor of structural biology at Imperial College London, expressing similar dismay.

    Earlier on Monday, the Nobel laureate and AI pioneer
    #Geoffrey #Hinton – a fellow of the Royal Society – posted on X that he supported Musk’s removal.
    “I think Elon Musk should be expelled from the British Royal Society. Not because he peddles conspiracy theories and makes Nazi salutes, but because of the huge damage he is doing to scientific institutions in the US. Now let’s see if he really believes in free speech,” he wrote.

    theguardian.com/technology/202

  6. Elon Musk’s fellowship of the Royal Societyremains intact after a meeting of the scientific body, the Guardian has learned, but questions remain about whether further action will be taken.
    Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO who also owns the social media platform X, was elected a fellow of the UK’s national academy of sciences in 2018, apparently in recognition of his work in the space and electric vehicle industries.

    Calls for the honour to be revoked have grown in recent months, as fellows of the Royal Society and the wider scientific community become increasingly alarmed by Musk’s conduct in relation to the academy’s code.
    Two eminent scientists have resigned their fellowships in protest against the lack of action by the Royal Society, while more than 3,400 members of the wider scientific community have signed an open letter organised by Stephen Curry, an emeritus professor of structural biology at Imperial College London, expressing similar dismay.

    Earlier on Monday, the Nobel laureate and AI pioneer
    #Geoffrey #Hinton – a fellow of the Royal Society – posted on X that he supported Musk’s removal.
    “I think Elon Musk should be expelled from the British Royal Society. Not because he peddles conspiracy theories and makes Nazi salutes, but because of the huge damage he is doing to scientific institutions in the US. Now let’s see if he really believes in free speech,” he wrote.

    theguardian.com/technology/202

  7. Pequeños y grandes pasos hacia el imperio de la inteligencia artificial

    Fuente: Open Tech

    Traducción de la infografía:

    • 1943 – McCullock y Pitts publican un artículo titulado Un cálculo lógico de ideas inmanentes en la actividad nerviosa, en el que proponen las bases para las redes neuronales.
    • 1950 – Turing publica Computing Machinery and Intelligence, proponiendo el Test de Turing como forma de medir la capacidad de una máquina.
    • 1951 – Marvin Minsky y Dean Edmonds construyen SNAR, la primera computadora de red neuronal.
    • 1956 – Se celebra la Conferencia de Dartmouth (organizada por McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester y Shannon), que marca el nacimiento de la IA como campo de estudio.
    • 1957 – Rosenblatt desarrolla el Perceptrón: la primera red neuronal artificial capaz de aprender.

    (!!) Test de Turing: donde un evaluador humano entabla una conversación en lenguaje natural con una máquina y un humano.

    • 1965 – Weizenbaum desarrolla ELIZA: un programa de procesamiento del lenguaje natural que simula una conversación.
    • 1967 – Newell y Simon desarrollan el Solucionador General de Problemas (GPS), uno de los primeros programas de IA que demuestra una capacidad de resolución de problemas similar a la humana.
    • 1974 – Comienza el primer invierno de la IA, marcado por una disminución de la financiación y del interés en la investigación en IA debido a expectativas poco realistas y a un progreso limitado.
    • 1980 – Los sistemas expertos ganan popularidad y las empresas los utilizan para realizar previsiones financieras y diagnósticos médicos.
    • 1986 – Hinton, Rumelhart y Williams publican Aprendizaje de representaciones mediante retropropagación de errores, que permite entrenar redes neuronales mucho más profundas.

    (!!) Redes neuronales: modelos de aprendizaje automático que imitan el cerebro y aprenden a reconocer patrones y hacer predicciones a través de conexiones neuronales artificiales.

    • 1997 – Deep Blue de IBM derrota al campeón mundial de ajedrez Kasparov, siendo la primera vez que una computadora vence a un campeón mundial en un juego complejo.
    • 2002 – iRobot presenta Roomba, el primer robot aspirador doméstico producido en serie con un sistema de navegación impulsado por IA.
    • 2011 – Watson de IBM derrota a dos ex campeones de Jeopardy!.
    • 2012 – La startup de inteligencia artificial DeepMind desarrolla una red neuronal profunda que puede reconocer gatos en vídeos de YouTube.
    • 2014 – Facebook crea DeepFace, un sistema de reconocimiento facial que puede reconocer rostros con una precisión casi humana.

    (!!) DeepMind fue adquirida por Google en 2014 por 500 millones de dólares.

    • 2015 – AlphaGo, desarrollado por DeepMind, derrota al campeón mundial Lee Sedol en el juego de Go.
    • 2017 – AlphaZero de Google derrota a los mejores motores de ajedrez y shogi del mundo en una serie de partidas.
    • 2020 – OpenAI lanza GPT-3, lo que marca un avance significativo en el procesamiento del lenguaje natural.

    (!!) Procesamiento del lenguaje natural: enseña a las computadoras a comprender y utilizar el lenguaje humano mediante técnicas como el aprendizaje automático.

    • 2021 – AlphaFold2 de DeepMind resuelve el problema del plegamiento de proteínas, allanando el camino para nuevos descubrimientos de fármacos y avances médicos.
    • 2022 – Google despide al ingeniero Blake Lemoine por sus afirmaciones de que el modelo de lenguaje para aplicaciones de diálogo (LaMDA) de Google era sensible.
    • 2023 – Artistas presentaron una demanda colectiva contra Stability AI, DeviantArt y Mid-journey por usar Stable Diffusion para remezclar las obras protegidas por derechos de autor de millones de artistas.

    Gráfico: Open Tech / Genuine Impact

    Entradas relacionadas

    #ajedrez #AlphaFold2 #AlphaGo #AlphaZero #aprendizajeAutomático #artículo #artistas #aspirador #BlakeLemoine #ConferenciaDeDartmouth #copyright #DeanEdmonds #DeepBlue #DeepFace #DeepMind #DeviantArt #ELIZA #Facebook #gatos #GenuineImpact #Go #Google #GPS #GPT3 #gráfico #Hinton #IA #IBM #infografía #inteligenciaArtificial #iRobot #Jeopardy_ #Kasparov #LaMDA #LeeSedol #MarvinMinsky #McCarthy #McCullock #MidJourney #modelos #Newell #OpenTech #OpenAI #patrones #Perceptron #Pitts #plegamientoDeProteínas #predicciones #procesamientoDelLenguajeNatural #reconocimientoFacial #redesNeuronales #remezclar #robot #Rochester #Roomba #Rosenblatt #Rumelhart #Shannon #shogi #Simon #sistemaDeNavegación #SNAR #StabilityAI #StableDiffusion #testDeTuring #Turing #vídeos #Watson #Weizenbaum #Williams #YouTube

  8. Der #Nobelpreis für Physik geht in diesem Jahr an John J. #Hopfield und Geoffrey E. #Hinton für ihre wegweisenden Entdeckungen und Entwicklungen, die #MaschinellesLernen mit künstlichen neuronalen Netzen ermöglichen.
    Warum diese Entscheidung unsere Kollegin #EstherTobschall (Fachreferentin für #Physik) doch ziemlich durcheinandergebracht hat, erklärt sie hier im #TIBBlog: blog.tib.eu/2024/12/09/physik-

  9. Der #Nobelpreis für Physik geht in diesem Jahr an John J. #Hopfield und Geoffrey E. #Hinton für ihre wegweisenden Entdeckungen und Entwicklungen, die #MaschinellesLernen mit künstlichen neuronalen Netzen ermöglichen.
    Warum diese Entscheidung unsere Kollegin #EstherTobschall (Fachreferentin für #Physik) doch ziemlich durcheinandergebracht hat, erklärt sie hier im #TIBBlog: blog.tib.eu/2024/12/09/physik-

  10. I've reached a point where I think we should just always do exactly the opposite of what Geoffrey #Hinton tells us. ( UofT 🇨🇦 alum 🧑‍🏫📚)

    It's a shame, I have so much respect for his work he has done.

    x.com/kimmonismus/status/18629

    #AI #AGI

  11. I've reached a point where I think we should just always do exactly the opposite of what Geoffrey #Hinton tells us. ( UofT 🇨🇦 alum 🧑‍🏫📚)

    It's a shame, I have so much respect for his work he has done.

    x.com/kimmonismus/status/18629

    #AI #AGI

  12. Great for #Hinton but bad for everyone else as we’ll soon be firehosed into even more of his #AI Doomerism Crankery by our ad engagement-chasing clickbait media.

    #nobelprize

  13. John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton were awarded the #Nobel #Prize in #Physics on Tuesday
    for discoveries that helped computers learn more in the way the human brain does,
    providing the building blocks for developments in artificial intelligence.

    The award is an acknowledgment of A.I.’s growing significance in the way people live and work.
    With its ability to make sense of vast amounts of data, machine learning that uses artificial neural networks already has a major role in scientific research, the Nobel committee said,
    including in physics, where it is used for the creation of “new materials with specific properties.”

    The breakthroughs of Dr. #Hopfield and Dr. #Hinton “stand on the foundations of physical science,” the committee said on X.

    “They have showed a completely new way for us to use computers to aid and to guide us to tackle many of the challenges our society face.”

    nytimes.com/2024/10/08/science

  14. Exploring Alfred Horsley Hinton's majestic "Landschap met bomen" #Rijksmuseum. The ca. 1898-1903 creation is a fusion of calm & drama. Let's discuss: How would you interpret the merging of serenity and turmoil in this piece?
    #ArtDiscussion #Hinton #ArtL
    rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP