Category Technology

Coffee Run – Blender Open Movie

2020-05-29 Blender Animation Studio Fueled by caffeine, a young woman runs through the bittersweet memories of her past relationship. Get the production files, assets, tutorials and exclusive making-of videos by joining Blender Cloud at   Discovered from

A foolproof way to shrink deep learning models

2020-04-30 Kim Martineau They showed that a deep neural network could perform with only one-tenth the number of connections if the right subnetwork was found early in training.   Train the model, prune its weakest connections, retrain the model at…

Spiking Neural Networks

2020-02-17 Martijn van Wezel The SNNs bio-inspired neural networks are different from conventional neural networks due that the conventional neural networks communicate with numbers. Instead, SNNs communicate through spikes. … Having multiple spikes in a short period can stimulate the…

Sonic’s very fast redesign

2020-02-24 Mike Seymour When the redesign [of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie] was commissioned, Artist Tyson Hesse, who had worked on previous Sonic the Hedgehog media, was brought on to lead the redesign. “But a lot of the work that…

How AlphaStar Became a StarCraft Grandmaster

2020-02-13 Tommy Thompson One of the biggest headlines in AI research for 2019 was the unveiling of AlphaStar – Google DeepMind’s project to create the worlds best player of Blizzard’s real-time strategy game StarCraft II.  After shocking the world in…

How the 1% Scrubs Its Image Online

2019-12-13 Rachael Levy Prominent figures from Jacob Gottlieb to Betsy DeVos got help from a reputation management firm that can bury image-sensitive Google results by placing flattering content on websites that masquerade as news outlets