2019-12-06 Dwight Stirling When police are revealed to have killed an unarmed suspect or used excessive force during arrest, police generally defend those actions. Cops who report wrongdoing are routinely ostracized as “rats” and denied promotions, according to a 1998…
2020-02-02 Raluca Budiu Results showed that light mode won across all dimensions: irrespective of age [of the individual], the positive contrast polarity [light mode] was better for both visual-acuity tasks and for proofreading tasks.
2020-06-08 Chris Lee Hydrogen, in low concentrations in a confined space, burns with a branching network instead of with a wide flame.
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2019-12-16 Elena Renken Scientists are beginning to understand one of the ways in which sleep may benefit the health of the brain: by organizing the flow of fluids that can wash away harmful build-ups of proteins and wastes around neurons.…
2020-05-13 CNRS “The trails that we see are actually casts, corresponding to the base of the sauropods’ feet,” Moreau explains. “It’s as if you were looking at the tracks left by the dinosaurs from below. What happened is that infiltrated…
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…
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…
2020-03-20 Pall Thordarson Alcohol-based disinfectants are also effective, but soap is a highly efficient way of killing the virus when it’s on your skin … Health authorities have been giving us two messages: once you have the virus there are…
2008-10 Paul Graham … investors tend to be less willing to invest in bad times. They shouldn’t be. Everyone knows you’re supposed to buy when times are bad and sell when times are good.