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Building SMILY, a Human-Centric, Similar-Image Search Tool for Pathology. Advances in machine learning (ML) have shown great

Building SMILY, a Human-Centric, Similar-Image Search Tool for Pathology. Advances in machine learning (ML) have shown great promise for assisting in the work of healthcare professionals, such as aiding the detection of diabetic eye disease and metastatic breast cancer. Though high-performing algorithms...
Source: googleblog.com

Robust Neural Machine Translation: In recent years, neural machine translation (NMT) using Transformer models has experienced

Robust Neural Machine Translation: In recent years, neural machine translation (NMT) using Transformer models has experienced tremendous success. Based on deep neural networks, NMT models are usually trained end-to-end on very large parallel corpora (input/output text pairs) in an entirely data-driven...
Source: googleblog.com

Joint Speech Recognition and Speaker Diarization via Sequence Transduction: Posted by Laurent El Shafey, Software Engineer

Joint Speech Recognition and Speaker Diarization via Sequence Transduction: Posted by Laurent El Shafey, Software Engineer and Izhak Shafran, Research Scientist, Google Health Being able to recognize “who said what”.
Source: googleblog.com

This book is outstanding - brief, proudly retro, humorous, and genius. A great introduction to the last 60 years of AI.

This book is outstanding - brief, proudly retro, humorous, and genius. A great introduction to the last 60 years of AI. To know a subject so well that you can reduce it to a Ladybird-style book readable by all is a gift. We could all learn from this level of presentation. It is available online...
Source: amazon.co.uk

Global health and wealth in "200 countries ... 200 hundred years and beyond ... 120,000 numbers ... pretty neat." presented

Global health and wealth in "200 countries ... 200 hundred years and beyond ... 120,000 numbers ... pretty neat." presented by the late great Hans Rosling. The beauty of statistics and how lots of data can reveal insights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
Source: youtube.com

Robot car "Stanley" designed by Stanford Racing Team marked the start of the age of driverless cars and an AI milestone.

Robot car "Stanley" designed by Stanford Racing Team marked the start of the age of driverless cars and an AI milestone. "On October 9, 2005, Stanley and the Stanford Racing Team were awarded 2 million dollars for being the first team to complete the 132 mile DARPA Grand Challenge course in California's...
Source: stanford.edu

“In essence Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) is a simple idea: people have limited capacity for processing information; by

“In essence Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) is a simple idea: people have limited capacity for processing information; by designing learning experiences and materials in a way that respects those limitations, we can improve the process. “Though there is nothing fundamentally wrong with this idea,...
Source: aconventional.com

UK Lyme disease cases may be three times higher than estimated: Researchers say tick-borne disease ‘is everywhere’ with

UK Lyme disease cases may be three times higher than estimated: Researchers say tick-borne disease ‘is everywhere’ with 8,000 diagnoses likely in 2019
Source: theguardian.com

New Bill Would Ban Autoplay Videos and Endless Scrolling - Slashdot: A new bill, sponsored by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), targets

New Bill Would Ban Autoplay Videos and Endless Scrolling - Slashdot: A new bill, sponsored by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), targets snapstreaks, YouTube autoplay, and endless scrolling that, the bill alleges, are designed in a way to make services "addictive." Reader Zorro writes: Hawley's Social Media Addiction...
Source: slashdot.org

How a GPS bracelet is saving babies' lives: In rural Kenya, nomadic women can now get the maternal care they need - thanks

How a GPS bracelet is saving babies' lives: In rural Kenya, nomadic women can now get the maternal care they need - thanks to GPS.
Source: bbc.com

There have been more than 1000 cases of measles in the US this year: Measles cases are rising in the US at an alarming rate.

There have been more than 1000 cases of measles in the US this year: Measles cases are rising in the US at an alarming rate. There have now been 1164 this year, which is the highest year on record since 1992
Source: newscientist.com

Great advice. Keep up to date with technology, increase your entrepreneurship and communication skills, and hire women.

Great advice. Keep up to date with technology, increase your entrepreneurship and communication skills, and hire women. "Four Actions Engineers Can Take to Ensure Their Startup Succeeds: Venture advisor Chenyang Xu recommends staying up to date on technology and taking entrepreneurship classes."
Source: ieee.org

Putting a leash on Google and Facebook won’t do much to save the traditional news model: "Social media and search give

Putting a leash on Google and Facebook won’t do much to save the traditional news model: "Social media and search give advertisers better tools to target messages to more precise groups of potential consumers. It is a phenomenally better mousetrap."
Source: niemanlab.org

Induced subgraphs of hypercubes and a proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture: In this paper, we show that every (2^{n-1}+1)-vertex

Induced subgraphs of hypercubes and a proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture: In this paper, we show that every (2^{n-1}+1)-vertex induced subgraph of the n-dimensional cube graph has maximum degree at least sqrt{n}. This result is best possible, and improves a logarithmic lower bound shown by Chung, Füredi,...
Source: arxiv.org

Machine Learning That’s Light Enough for an Arduino: Adafruit’s Limor Fried ported TensorFlow Light to the Arduino ecosystem

Machine Learning That’s Light Enough for an Arduino: Adafruit’s Limor Fried ported TensorFlow Light to the Arduino ecosystem so you can make your own AI-powered projects
Source: ieee.org

A kauri tree stump is kept alive by its neighbours through hydraulic coupling. Forests should be viewed as living organisms.

A kauri tree stump is kept alive by its neighbours through hydraulic coupling. Forests should be viewed as living organisms. "Trees are commonly regarded as distinct entities, but the roots of many species fuse to form natural root grafts allowing the exchange of water, carbon, mineral nutrients, and...
Source: cell.com

Cloudy Sulawesi: The International Space Station was crossing over the equator when an astronaut looked east and took this

Cloudy Sulawesi: The International Space Station was crossing over the equator when an astronaut looked east and took this photo just after a sunrise.
Source: nasa.gov

Training medical students to manage difficult circumstances- a curriculum for resilience and resourcefulness?: In response

Training medical students to manage difficult circumstances- a curriculum for resilience and resourcefulness?: In response to the growing prevalence of physical and emotional burnout amongst medical students and practicing physicians, we sought to find a new methodology to scope a five-year undergraduate...
Source: biomedcentral.com

The AI That Could Help Curb Youth Suicide: For many reasons, parents and teachers may fail to intervene when they spot signs

The AI That Could Help Curb Youth Suicide: For many reasons, parents and teachers may fail to intervene when they spot signs of trouble in LGBT teens. Can Google help?
Source: theatlantic.com

Intel’s Neuromorphic System Hits 8 Million Neurons, 100 Million Coming by 2020: The 64-chip Pohoiki Beach system is used

Intel’s Neuromorphic System Hits 8 Million Neurons, 100 Million Coming by 2020: The 64-chip Pohoiki Beach system is used by researchers to make systems that learn and see the world more like humans. "At the DARPA Electronics Resurgence Initiative Summit today in Detroit, Intel plans to unveil an 8-million-neuron...
Source: ieee.org