Machine Intelligence: The Turing Test

When humanity was faced with how it would check or test the intelligence of the machines it created, it developed a way of achieving that by inspiring a certain person known as Alan Turing with a method which became generally accepted and criticized. This test was tagged the Turing test. It is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour. Turing suggested that a human judge should...

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Computer Keyboards: The Chiclet Variant

Recently, one would observe that the type of computer keyboards one see possess an array of keys, with each key looking like a small square with rounded corners. These set of keyboards are known as the chiclet keyboards. The name "chiclet" isb a brand of chewing gum that has the shape of a square with rounded corners. These keyboards, have each key surrounded and held in place by a perforated plate...

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Sleep: The End Result Of Tiredness

Everyday, the human body gets worked up would require some rest, the "rest" is effected by the phenomenon called sleeping. It is in crude terms a time of rest when the body regains it energy. During sleep, the body is totally unconscious, but the mind is not. The mind tries to connect a lot of dots with respect to the activities that occurs while the individual was awake. The mind ponders carefully...

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Perfection: The Unattainable

Life would never be interesting if perfection were a common thin. Perfection would only make things stereotypical because for the existence of humans, there must be the presence of some element of bias. As a matter of fact, human existence hinges on laws which are meant to be obeyed or broken in order for history to be recorded. Perfection is just in front of humans but cannot be achieved by anyone....

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Hyper-threading Technology: Not In Details

Hyper-threading Technology is useful, when it comes to computing, it is a technology that improves the running of multiple tasks at once by making the operating system to address two virtual or logical cores when only one processor is present. It also allows the operating system to share the work load betwen the virtual cores. Hyper-threading is a technology that makes one processor appear to the...

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Primitive Species And The Human Social Life

Interesting it is to observe that a lot of other species on this planet that have been recorded to be relatively primitive to humans experience the lessons life teaches humans, though in a crude way. The amazing part, is that these species seem to either find a way out of life's harshness or live with it without complaint.This is quite typical of ants, this specie work together with more efficiency...

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Change: The Unstoppable

In almost every situation in life, an individual would always want to deny that change is  imminent. Most humans do not always want change, though not in all aspects, but some aspects of their lives. It should be perfectly understood that without constant change, the planet earth would not be in existence, hence we humans. Change made ancient man who once lived in caves and on trees to over time...

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The Ear: A Wonderful Organ

When a careful observation of the human body is carried out, everyone would discover that each organ has it usefulness and that the whole body would not function optimally if a organ is out of place. The ear would be the organ one would reckon with as the organ that detects sound.It is an important organ of the human body that senses audio signals and changes it to nerve impulses for the brain to...

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Curiosity: Pros and Cons

Every human has a strong desire to know or learn about certain things, even though interests are divided, that is each person has his interest in particular things. Humans are a species that crave to know about themselves and their environment. Humans are a curious species and as such are very resourceful in learning of finding out a lot of things and also storing them up in memory. The level of curiosity...

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Touchsreens: A Relevant Encapsulation

Presently, majority of the screen of various mobile devices possess a visual display that can detect the presence and location of touch, which of course is within the display area. Such type of screens are referred to as Touchscreens. Touchscreens enables a user to interact directly with whatever is displayed on the screen. It eliminates the tedious use of a pointer controlled by a mouse or touch...

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Idea: Dangerous Yet So Amazing

Certainly, a very dangerous disease would be one that spreads in a host faster and most importantly wreak havoc in the host within a short period of time.Many reckon that the most dangerous disease is caused by a family of parasites known as plasmodium spp. The disease is generally called malaria, it affects the body, but does the mind take a blow?, the answer is no!. What then is the most dangerous...

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Life And The Electric Circuit: A Brief Comparison

Life can be compared to a lot of things, an interesting one is the electric circuit. An electric circuit is a closed conducting path through which an electric current either flows or is intended to flow. The idea that an electric circuit relates to the fact that life is like a boomerang as any action taken has it consequences. "What goes around, comes around"An electric circuit also has it parameters...

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Loudspeakers: A Wonderful Innovation

One of the wonderful innovations by humans is the (loud)speaker. The (loud)speaker converts electrical signal or energy to the appropriate sound signal after the microphone or any other media has converted the original sound energy to electrical signal.The sound produced by (loud)speakers are a lot louder than the original sound input, this is due to an equipment called the amplifier.The loudspeaker...

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Dreams: Images And Hope

When one sleep, a succession of moving images occur involuntarily in one's mind, most of the time one sees himself in those images. This occur at some certain stages of sleep, and the phenomenon is widely regarded to as dreaming. The human consciousness has no influence on whatever an individual encounter in his dream, as it is the subconscious that tries to connect to the unconscious. Therefore,...

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