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.
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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
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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
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 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 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. "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 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 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 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. "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 photo just after a sunrise.
Source: nasa.gov
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 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 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
Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern: WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) a Public Health Emergency of International...
Source: who.int
Gaining insights with Natural Language Processing of Reddit Data to Evaluate Dermatology Patient Experiences and Therapeutics. "There is a lack of research studying patient-generated data on Reddit, one of the world’s most popular forums with active users interested in dermatology. Techniques within...
Source: sciencedirect.com
Virtual worlds can have good as well as negative effects: Psychologist Pete Etchells on his book, Lost in a Good Game. " ... a psychologist at Bath Spa University in England but still an avid gamer, Etchells specializes in understanding the behavioral effects—both positive and negative—of video...
Source: arstechnica.com
Measles is killing more people in the DRC than Ebola—and faster: "Frankly, I am embarrassed to talk only about Ebola," WHO director-general says. Since January 2019, officials have recorded over 100,000 measles cases in the DRC, mostly in children, and nearly 2,000 have died. The figures surpass those...
Source: arstechnica.com
APOD: 2019 July 14 - Eagle Aurora over Norway
Source: nasa.gov