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Brain-Based Learning, Myth versus Reality: Testing Learning Styles and Dual Coding | Science-Based Medicine: Ed. Note: Today

Brain-Based Learning, Myth versus Reality: Testing Learning Styles and Dual Coding | Science-Based Medicine: Ed. Note: Today we present a guest post from Josh Cuevas, a cognitive psychologist and assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of North Georgia. Enjoy! "Since early on...
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org

3D Scene Understanding with TensorFlow 3D

Posted by Alireza Fathi, Research Scientist and Rui Huang, AI Resident, Google Research "The growing ubiquity of 3D sensors (e.g., Lidar, depth sensing cameras and radar) over the last few years has created a need for scene understanding technology that can process the data these devices capture. Such...
Source: googleblog.com

Using whale songs to image beneath the ocean

Using whale songs to image beneath the ocean’s floor: Seismic data generated by whale songs helps build a picture of the ocean's base. "The song of a fin whale is not exactly the sort of thing you'd typically describe as musical. It's generally in the area of 20Hz, which sounds more like a series of...
Source: arstechnica.com

Using Technology to Teach the Complex Science of Climate Change

"The world of education is no stranger to controversy. Every year, you'll find a splashy headline about how different school districts teach different versions of history from very different history textbooks. Or you'll encounter one special interest group or another objecting to teachers covering topics...
Source: emergingedtech.com

Word of the day: deprecated

Geek talk. The tech behind this blog which takes any link that I find interesting and, instead of curating it for LinkedIn / Twitter / Facebook, curates it here on something I have control over broke. I accidentally upgraded the server to PHP8 and an old function in PHP each() no longer worked. Took...

Amazon India launches online academy to coach future engineers: Amazon.com Inc has launched an online academy to train students

Amazon India launches online academy to coach future engineers: Amazon.com Inc has launched an online academy to train students for one of India's most competitive college entrance tests, the e-commerce giant said on Wednesday, as it taps a boom in virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: reuters.com

Introducing Open-AI's DALL-E.

Ever wondered what an armchair in the shape of an avocado might look like? Introducing Open-AI's DALL-E. Does this help with accessibility by explaining things in pictures from written words? Does it risk replacing humans in the creative industry with machines? "DALL·E: Creating Images from...
Source: openai.com

11 TOPS photonic convolutional accelerator for optical neural networks: Convolutional neural networks, inspired by biological

11 TOPS photonic convolutional accelerator for optical neural networks: Convolutional neural networks, inspired by biological visual cortex systems, are a powerful category of artificial neural networks that can extract the hierarchical features of raw data to provide greatly reduced parametric complexity...
Source: nature.com

Asteroid sample arrives in Japan after six-year space odyssey: Samples of an asteroid 300 million km from Earth arrived

Asteroid sample arrives in Japan after six-year space odyssey: Samples of an asteroid 300 million km from Earth arrived in Japan on Tuesday to applause and smiles, the climax of a six-year odyssey by a space probe pursuing the origins of life.
Source: reuters.com

Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders.

Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders: Researchers from the Princeton Environmental Institute find the continued spread of novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is driven by only a small percentage of those who become infected.
Source: princeton.edu

MMR, smoking, and 'in-vitro' models in COVID-19

Good summary of current science news topics for coronavirus in Reuters. Strong responders to MMR II vaccine (since 1979) have less severe disease with COVID-19, cigarette smoke increases risk, and a useful 'in-vivo' model for further study of how SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses might be treated.
Source: reuters.com

Victorian hologram keeps music in touch with lockdown audience

"Victorian hologram keeps music in touch with lockdown audience: Musicians are using an interactive hologram based on Victorian technology to reach fans in the locked down world of the coronavirus pandemic." The two musicians join a pianist who is live on stage. They are made to appear on stage because...
Source: reuters.com

France and Germany thrust into lockdown as second COVID-19 wave sweeps Europe: French President Emmanuel Macron and German

France and Germany thrust into lockdown as second COVID-19 wave sweeps Europe: French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered their countries back into lockdown on Wednesday, as a massive second wave of coronavirus infections threatened to overwhelm Europe before the winter.
Source: reuters.com

5 ways the pandemic may transform medical education: Some innovations put in place for medical students during COVID-19

5 ways the pandemic may transform medical education: Some innovations put in place for medical students during COVID-19 may remain in place well after the pandemic’s end.
Source: ama-assn.org

Why Use Ensemble Learning? - Machine Learning Mastery: What are the Benefits of Ensemble Methods for Machine Learning? Ensembles

Why Use Ensemble Learning? - Machine Learning Mastery: What are the Benefits of Ensemble Methods for Machine Learning? Ensembles are predictive models that combine predictions from two or more other models. Ensemble learning methods are popular and the go-to technique when the best performance on...
Source: machinelearningmastery.com

OntarioMD expanding virtual events, as first virtual conference breaks participation records

OntarioMD expanding virtual events, as first virtual conference breaks participation records
Source: ontariomd.blog

Stripe acquires Nigeria's Paystack for over $200 million to expand its footprint in Africa

Africa is a great opportunity for ecommerce in coming decades and Nigeria's Paystack has been growing fast. "Stripe is a San Francisco-based fintech startup that provides payments infrastructure for businesses. Its software and APIs are used by millions of companies of all sizes to accept payments,...
Source: techstartups.com

Apple iPhone 12: The chip advance set to make smartphones smarter

Apple iPhone 12: The chip advance set to make smartphones smarter: A chip-making process pioneered in the Netherlands will let smartphones take the next leap forward.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Benin innovation hub | Africanews: An innovation centre in Benin is poised to "solve African problems."

Benin innovation hub | Africanews: An innovation centre in Benin is poised to "solve African problems."
Source: africanews.com

Crowds of regular people are as good at moderating fake news on Facebook as professional fact-checkers

Crowds of regular people are as good at moderating fake news on Facebook as professional fact-checkers
Source: niemanlab.org