RefBan

Referral Banners

Sunday, May 6, 2012

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News


'Game-powered machine learning' opens door to Google for music

Posted: 04 May 2012 10:59 AM PDT

Engineers have shown that a computer can be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans. The researchers report that their solution, "game-powered machine learning," would enable music lovers to search every song on the web.

Synesthesia may explain healers claims of seeing people's 'aura'

Posted: 04 May 2012 08:00 AM PDT

University of Granada researchers affirm that healers present synesthesia, a neuropsychological phenomenon involving a "mingling" of the senses. The results of this study have been published in the prestigious journal Consciousness and Cognition. The authors remark the significant "placebo effect" that healers have on ill people.

No comments: