A Brief History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning
2020-09-27 Andrey Kurenkov The story of how neural nets evolved from the earliest days of AI to now.
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Artificial brains may need sleep too
2020-06-08 James Riordon States that resemble sleep-like cycles in simulated neural networks quell the instability that comes with uninterrupted self-learning in artificial analogs of brains … Watkins and her research team found that the network simulations became unstable after continuous…
Hidden Neutrino Particles May Be a Link to the Dark Sector
2020-07-01 William Charles Louis and Richard G. Van de Water The most likely solution was a new neutrino—a “sterile” neutrino, so called because it would not interact with other matter in any way except through gravity.
Nuclear ‘Power Balls’ May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past
2020-06-30 Daniel Oberhaus “It is physically impossible—as in, against the laws of physics—for triso to melt in a reactor,” says Sell. “And when you start with a reactor that can’t melt, your safety case completely changes.”
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…
Machine Learning Takes On Antibiotic Resistance
2020-03-09 Katherine Harmon Courage In the February 20 issue of Cell, one team of scientists announced that they — and a powerful deep learning algorithm — had found a totally new antibiotic, one with an unconventional mechanism of action that…
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…
Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian
2020-02-06 Jay Holben For decades, green- and bluescreen compositing was the go-to solution for bringing fantastic environments and actors together on the screen. . . . However, when characters are wearing highly reflective costumes, as is the case with Mando…