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Download Jack Kilby Science and Technology Quiz 2007 Archive

A lot of people coming to my over the past few days seem to be interested in the Jack Kilby Science Quiz 2006 Archive (and related Sample Questions). Many of them have been clamoring for the 2007 archives. I couldn’t get a full archive, but thanks to Prateek Vijayavargia we could patch together a sampling of questions from the Delhi round. Click here to download the Jack Kilby Science and Technology Quiz 2007 Delhi round archive (PDF, ~950 KB). Hopefully, this should give participants an idea about the quiz. Best of luck for all of you who made it to the national finals this year.

Another quizzing-related news today: DPS VK Quiz Club’s team of Saurabh Chaudhary, Tushar Krishnan, and Aishwarya Gulati won the Japan Quiz! Conducted by Quizcraft, the Japan Quiz is organized by the Japanese Embassy in Delhi. The winners get to go to Japan for a trip next year. This is one-up from our performance last year, when our team were the runners-up. It’s simply great to see that the foundations of the club which were laid down two years back has finally matured. DPS VK sure is on a winning spree!

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Amazing!

Something amazing has happened today in the world of A.I. the EPFL-Laboratory of Intelligent Systems has developed nay evolved machines through swarm communication that uses lies for a survival advantage! This is phenomenal think about how lying is such a complex social activity and these machines evolved it on their own for their survival benefits! OK to understand the true gravity of this think about how complex it is to create a viable lie you need to know what the other agent will believe what you need to do in order to fabricate the deception so on and so forth, it’s amazingly complex. The robots on the other hand did a rather simple version of it but nonetheless this is revolutionary, think about the potential for this.

The little liars would lie to their swarm that they had found food when they would have actually found poison, this would reduce competition as the other machines would go to their little deaths! This is nature in action in machines. This is something that changes everything; it shows the potential of artificial evolution maybe one day we’ll be able to evolve HAL…

Now, I know which institute I am going to study from in the future, forget MIT this is the place where I want to go.