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.
Franklin Graham reflects on ‘absence of God’ at DNC ahead of DC prayer march
2020-08-21 Caleb Parke this year, the Democratic caucuses are taking God out of the pledge of allegiance. The Black community is a faith community … they’ve got a real problem ahead.
How to be helpful online
2020-09-10 Ned Batchelder
Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years? Probably because the government handed them a blank check in 1993.
2020-09-01 Andrew Ghobrial the federal government pays the universities/colleges up front, and the student then owes the government that money. This represented a large shift in the alignment of incentives. When the loans come from the federal gov, there’s much…
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…
Trump admits he ‘often’ regrets tweets, retweets get him ‘into trouble’, in interview with Barstool Sports founder
2020-07-25 Joseph A. Wulfsohn “Do you sometimes — because I follow you on Twitter and I know I do this… do you ever tweet out and be like — you wake up and, ‘Aw man, I wish I didn’t send…
What We Believe – Black Lives Matter
2020-07-11 Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children…
Behind the dead-water phenomenon
2020-07-06 CNRS What makes ships mysteriously slow down or even stop as they travel, even though their engines are working properly? …In 1904, the Swedish physicist and oceanographer Vagn Walfrid Ekman showed in a laboratory that waves formed under the…
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.”