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Mysterious 'Trump' airships appearing in 100-year-old sketchbooks sparks 'time traveler' theories

Daily Mail - Science & tech

The astonishing moment Scott Bessent returns to interview noticeably shaken after'Situation Room' call from Trump Kylie Jenner's total humiliation in Hollywood: Derogatory rumor leaves her boyfriend's peers'laughing at her' behind her back'Awakening' of terrorist sleeper cells sparks World Cup PANIC: Undercover officer reveals'once in 25 year' threat... and America's'Achilles heel' Trump's Iran war death toll climbs to 13 after all crew onboard US refueling plane died in crash Mother reveals awful sight that greeted her when she opened Walmart in-store oven to find daughter, 19, baked to death inside... and denies suggestions it was suicide Recall of cream cheeses upgraded to most serious risk over contamination with deadly bacteria... 'reasonable probability of death' San Francisco's most iconic mansion is bought by ALGERIAN government for $10m Iran-linked cyberattack on US is'first drop of blood' as experts reveal alarming new threat to homeland I've spent 25 years treating patients with autism. This is the truth about the condition that many people don't want to hear: DR MAX PEMBERTON Alexander brothers' alleged HIGH SCHOOL rape video: Classmates speak out on sickening footage... as creepy unseen photos are exposed Airfares have already doubled on key routes and are getting worse - here's when to book to avoid the worst prices I was pregnant when I discovered my husband was cheating with my male doctor. I still let him deliver our baby... our arrangement may shock you Maker of Mounjaro writes scathing letter to warn of dangerous'chemical reactions' in knock-off versions of weight-loss drug Cher's son Chaz Bono weds'love of my life' Shara Blue Mathes in front of famous mom in Hollywood Mysterious'Trump' airships appearing in 100-year-old sketchbooks sparks'time traveler' theories A wild theory claims President Donald Trump may be a time traveler, with clues scattered through art and literature for more than a century. Sketches of futuristic aircraft drawn by artist Charles Dellschau, a Prussian immigrant who came to the US in 1850 and died in 1923, mysteriously contain the word'TRUMP' and even featured the number 47 - the number of presidents the US has had. Before his death, Dellschau created depictions of fantastical flying machines that he called'aeros,' which often resembled a mix of early airships, balloons and primitive airplanes.


You've Never Heard of China's Greatest Sci-Fi Novel

WIRED

You've Never Heard of China's Greatest Sci-Fi Novel Thousands of authors. is barely known outside China--but it contains the secret to the country's modernization and malaise. Ma Qianzhu was unsatisfied with Chinese progress. An engineer at a large state-owned enterprise, he belonged to a generation that grew up believing engineering is destiny, that China's future would be built, bolt by bolt, by people like him. Then Ma discovered something extraordinary: a wormhole to the late Ming Dynasty. With more than 500 peers, he commandeered a ship and traveled back in time 400 years, to a preindustrial China wracked by foreign invasion and internal decay. Their mission: trigger an industrial revolution in the past that would, in the future, make modern China great (again).


The Time Traveler's Guide to Semantic Web Research: Analyzing Fictitious Research Themes in the ESWC "Next 20 Years" Track

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

What will Semantic Web research focus on in 20 years from now? We asked this question to the community and collected their visions in the "Next 20 years" track of ESWC 2023. We challenged the participants to submit "future" research papers, as if they were submitting to the 2043 edition of the conference. The submissions - entirely fictitious - were expected to be full scientific papers, with research questions, state of the art references, experimental results and future work, with the goal to get an idea of the research agenda for the late 2040s and early 2050s. We received ten submissions, eight of which were accepted for presentation at the conference, that mixed serious ideas of potential future research themes and discussion topics with some fun and irony. In this paper, we intend to provide a survey of those "science fiction" papers, considering the emerging research themes and topics, analysing the research methods applied by the authors in these very special submissions, and investigating also the most fictitious parts (e.g., neologisms, fabricated references). Our goal is twofold: on the one hand, we investigate what this special track tells us about the Semantic Web community and, on the other hand, we aim at getting some insights on future research practices and directions.


My 2019 Sci-Fi Novel Was About a U.S. Where Abortion Is Illegal in 2022. But I Didn't Predict the Future.

Slate

A few months before COVID shut the world down in 2020, I published a book called The Future of Another Timeline. Set in 2022, it's about a group of time travelers who live in an alternate United States where abortion was never legalized. Working in secret, they travel 130 years back to the 19th century to foment protests against the anti-abortion crusader Anthony Comstock. Their goal is to change the course of history. When they return to 2022, abortion is legal in a few states, though it remains illegal in the majority of them.


A Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning

#artificialintelligence

You sit down to watch a movie and ask Netflix for help. Zoolander 2?") The Netflix recommendation algorithm predicts what movie you'd like by mining data on millions of previous movie-watchers using sophisticated machine learning tools. And then the next day you go to work and every one of your agencies will make hiring decisions with little idea of which candidates would be good workers; community college students will be largely left to their own devices to decide which courses are too hard or too easy for them; and your social service system will implement a reactive rather than preventive approach to homelessness because they don't believe it's possible to forecast which families will wind up on the streets. You'd love to move your city's use of predictive analytics into the 21st century, or at least into the 20th century. You just hired a pair of 24-year-old computer programmers to run your data science team. But should they be the ones to decide which problems are amenable to these tools? Or to decide what success looks like? You're also not reassured by the vendors the city interacts with.


A Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning

#artificialintelligence

You sit down to watch a movie and ask Netflix for help. Zoolander 2?") The Netflix recommendation algorithm predicts what movie you'd like by mining data on millions of previous movie-watchers using sophisticated machine learning tools. And then the next day you go to work and every one of your agencies will make hiring decisions with little idea of which candidates would be good workers; community college students will be largely left to their own devices to decide which courses are too hard or too easy for them; and your social service system will implement a reactive rather than preventive approach to homelessness because they don't believe it's possible to forecast which families will wind up on the streets. You'd love to move your city's use of predictive analytics into the 21st century, or at least into the 20th century. You just hired a pair of 24-year-old computer programmers to run your data science team. But should they be the ones to decide which problems are amenable to these tools? Or to decide what success looks like? You're also not reassured by the vendors the city interacts with.


Web development explained to a time traveler from ten years ago

#artificialintelligence

Remember Swing, SWT and the likes of wxWidgets? We had to reinvent them for the browser world. Several new UI programming models emerged, which mostly focused on components. We had to find a way to design, build, and test apps while keeping them responsive (a term we use to describe a website that doesn't look like crap on a mobile phone). We also needed to keep it slim -- not everybody has a fast connection, but everybody has a browser in their pockets.


A Nonlinear History of Time Travel - Issue 40: Learning

Nautilus

I doubt that any phenomenon, real or imagined, has inspired more perplexing, convoluted, and ultimately futile philosophical analysis than time travel has. In his classic textbook, An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis, John Hospers tackles the question: "Is it logically possible to go back in time--say, to 3000 B.C., and help the Egyptians build the pyramids? We must be very careful about this one." It's easy to say--we habitually use the same words to talk about time as we do when talking about space--and it's easy to imagine. "In fact, H. G. Wells did imagine it in The Time Machine (1895), and every reader imagines it with him." Hospers was a bit of a kook, actually, who achieved the unusual distinction for a philosopher of having received one electoral vote for President of the United States. But his textbook, first published in 1953, remained standard through four editions and 40 years. His answer to the rhetorical question is an emphatic no. Time travel à la Wells is not just impossible, it is logically impossible. It is a contradiction in terms. In an argument that runs for four dense pages, Hospers proves this by power of reason. "How can we be in the 20th century A.D. and the 30th century B.C. at the same time? Here already is one contradiction … It is not logically possible to be in one century of time and in another century of time at the same time."