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Escaping the Non-Quantitative Trap

Quantitative modelling and analysis is common in safety engineering, but it is often criticised. Objections include the difficulty in acquiring probabilities (e.g. for human error), the dubious assumptions often needed to manipulate them (e.g. independence of events), and the inherent uncertainty involved in making decisions based on probabilistic predictions. Clearly, poor predictions are of l...

Do not overcharge the system or it will explode!: how mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 maintains endothelial function.

T he electrochemical gradient over the inner mitochon-drial membrane is the driving force for cellular ATP production. For this, electrons, which are derived from suc-cinate and NADH, are passed along the mitochondrial electron transfer chain, and the resulting energy is used to pump protons. The transport of the positively charged protons into the mitochondrial inner membrane space builds up a...

Can Intelligence Explode?

The technological singularity refers to a hypothetical scenario in which technological advances virtually explode. The most popular scenario is the creation of super-intelligent algorithms that recursively create ever higher intelligences. It took many decades for these ideas to spread from science fiction to popular science magazines and finally to attract the attention of serious philosophers...

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Design a clocked synchronous state machine with four inputs, G1–G4, that are connected to pushbuttons. The machine has four outputs, L1–L4, connected to lamps or LEDs located near the like-numbered pushbuttons. There is also an ERR output connected to a red lamp. In normal operation, the L1–L4 outputs display a 1-out-of-4 pattern. At each clock tick, the pattern is rotated by one position; the ...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet