CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Robert D. Putnam, Blood Vessel, Social Capital
29 Mar 2016
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Why is it important: making the world better. Part of that is reducing problems: cue: http://www. ted. com/talks/richard_dawkins_on_our_queer_universe. html. What are the world"s problems: problems on the decline: How do we fix climate change: reduce carbon emissions, technological solution: come up with an alternate, safe energy source. Fund science and engineering to do it. Get more people to care so our representatives will make it happen. Social solution: convince people to use (much) less oil. Ways ais are better than us: stock trading, arithmetic and statistics, scheduling, search engines and aggregating, many games. Ways we are still better than ais: language, physical movement, creativity (arts, science, etc. , science, social interaction, vision, many games, most everyday tasks, etc, however, ai"s and other programs can make humans more effective, used as tools. Easy to get for unknown proteins: tertiary structure. Pink ribbons are alpha helices, yellow arrows are beta sheets, white strings are turns: overall shape.
