2019-09-02 Michael Durbin
The little known story of an age-old scam.
2019-09-02 Michael Durbin
The little known story of an age-old scam.
2019-08-27
When training a neural network to accomplish a given task, be it image classification or reinforcement learning, one typically refines a set of weights associated with each connection within the network. Another approach to creating successful neural networks that has shown substantial progress is neural architecture search, which constructs neural network architectures out of hand-engineered components such as convolutional network components or transformer blocks. It has been shown that neural network architectures built with these components, such as deep convolutional networks, have strong inductive biases for image processing tasks, and can even perform them when their weights are randomly initialized.
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/exploring-weight-agnostic-neural.html
2019-08-26 by Stanford University
Water is everywhere on Earth, but maybe that just gives it more space to hide its secrets. Its latest surprise, Stanford researchers report Aug. 26 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is that microscopic droplets of water spontaneously produce hydrogen peroxide.
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-chemists-microdroplets-spontaneously-hydrogen-peroxide.html
2011-07-11 Kim Zetter
It was January 2010, and investigators with the International Atomic Energy Agency had just completed an inspection at the uranium enrichment plant outside Natanz in central Iran, when they realized that something was off within the cascade rooms where thousands of centrifuges were enriching uranium.
https://www.wired.com/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet/
2019-08-17 Oliver Franklin-Wallis
‘Everything you own will one day become property of the £250bn global waste industry.’ Composite: Guardian Design Team
You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis.
2019-08-07 James Hamblin
An apple contains about 100 million bacteria—a more diverse range than any dietary supplement.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/08/probitoic-foods/595687/
2019-07-28 Ben Casselman
Economists don’t know when the decade-long expansion, now the longest in American history, will end. But here are the indicators they will be watching to figure it out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/business/economy/economy-recession.html
2019-07-11 John Pavlus
Consciousness is a famously hard problem, so Hod Lipson is starting from the basics: with self-aware robots that can help us understand how we think.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/hod-lipson-is-building-self-aware-robots-20190711/
2018-03-09 Tobias
Pros and cons of the top 11 algorithms every machine learning engineer should know
https://semanti.ca/blog/?the-most-important-machine-learning-algorithms