The Eponymous Mr. Ponzi
2019-09-02 Michael Durbin The little known story of an age-old scam.
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Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
2019-08-27 Adam Gaier, Student Researcher and David Ha, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research, Tokyo 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…
Chemists discover water microdroplets spontaneously produce hydrogen peroxide
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…
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How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History
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…
‘Plastic recycling is a myth’: what really happens to your rubbish?
2019-08-17 Oliver Franklin-Wallis ‘Everything you own will one day become property of the £250bn global waste industry.’ Composite: Guardian Design TeamYou sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign…
The Best Probiotics?
2019-08-07 James Hamblin An apple contains about 100 million bacteria—a more diverse range than any dietary supplement.
A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First.
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.
Curious About Consciousness? Ask the Self-Aware Machines
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.
The Most Important Machine Learning Algorithms
2018-03-09 Tobias Pros and cons of the top 11 algorithms every machine learning engineer should know