2020-10-29 George Musser In a series of breakthrough papers, theoretical physicists have come tantalizingly close to resolving the black hole information paradox that has entranced and bedeviled them for nearly 50 years. Information, they now say with confidence, does escape…
2020-09-02 Raphael Satter (Reuters) – Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the U.S.…
2006-01-10 George A Eby Rhinosinusitis is an inflammation or infection of the nose and air pockets (sinuses) above, below and between the eyes which connect with the back of the nose through tiny openings (ostia). Rhinosinusitis can be caused by…
2020-09-01 Samuel K. Moore It combines resistance, capacitance, and what’s called a Mott memristor all in the same device. Memristors are devices that hold a memory, in the form of resistance, of the current that has flowed through them. Mott…
2020-09-27 Andrey Kurenkov The story of how neural nets evolved from the earliest days of AI to now.
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.
2020-09-10 Ned Batchelder
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…
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…
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…